XF Guy Severs Spine Lifting Heavy Weights

Ooh, a tough guy. It is sad that the guy was injured but you are a moron for making threats on an internet message board. Seriously? A bunch of Xfitters are going to hunt down some message board poster and do what? Make him do kip-ups or whatever they are called until he dies form exhaustion? Maybe you should post your real name. Grow up.

LOL, buddy. No real XF people come to this site for any reason whatsoever. All the XF posters are runners who are trolling to make fun of XF and get a rise out of people who miss the joke. That include you.

It's never funny when somebody seriously injures himself, while trying his best to improve himself physically (unless drugs or other malfeasance are involved).

Assuming he was clean, this is too bad. I do snatch, and it's tough to see exactly what happened, what the cause was of his injury.

That said, a lot of X-fitters are morons, like the guy who posts on this site. They are wanna-be's, unprofessional. Want to learn how to Olympic lift properly? Get into a real Olympic lifting program, with people who are experienced and who care, and who know how to run a facility.

Like #2Guy said, the setup was a joke, even if it wasn't the direct cause of his injury.

Yeah, X-fit is bullshiit.

No way those people should be doing snatch, or any Olympic lifting. Why bother? They are not related to "health" or "fitness", they are an athletic event.

There is a reason that really hard things--Olympic lifting maybe being the hardest, along with things like gymnastics, hammer throw, etc--are highly specialized, and not part of either a multi-event format like decathlon or heptathlon, or strongman or triathlon, and not part of any watered-down similar type of movement, like yoga or powerlifting.

HT is not in the deca or hep

Olympic lifting is in neither powerlifting, nor in strongman.

The Iron Cross, Arabians, double backs, and even the Russian splits as far as I know, are not in yoga.

10m platform diving is not in the triathlon.

serious plyometrics are not in an aerobics or step class.

Give me a break, any idiot who goes out and tries serious olympic lifts without specializing is inviting serious injury, same as all of those other intense and dangerous activities.

X-fit is bullshiit for including them, if they actually do, which I don't know, because I completely ignore the flavor of the day in "fitness".

Here is the dude that got injured. He got injured on a 235# snatch. Here he does 240# for 3 reps like it's a damn joke. His injury was a freak accident. Just like the runner that got killed this week when they were hit by a car.

BTW, I didn't make any threats. I just said, if you're joking about this tragedy, come out from behind your curtain and post your real name. That's not a threat.

I prefer to remain anonymous, because I'm self-admittedly a pvssy. But I'm not the one making fun of someone who's paralyzed.

Letsrun is a fun place, but when people are making fun of people that are paralyzed, it shows how ugly this community can really get.

No one is maliciously making fun of him as a person, just making fun of his decision making and the decision making of his 'sport'.

99% of people consider crossfit the same as weightlifting. 99% of people would also consider hobby joggers the same as elite track athletes, even sprinters.

Obviously, to athletes, who specialize in one thing or another there is a difference.

But seriously, doing a 3xsnatch for time in a poor weightlifting set up is pretty f***in' stupid, just like jogging along roads is.

Thats why we run on tracks and soccer fields, and running trails. What was this xfit guy doing? He was in a gym. So is some of this warranted? No of course not, but is the criticism more than fair? Yes.

In weightlifting you should always have a safe escape, or a spotter, or a safe fail plan in case you fail a lift. This guy's plan was not good and it cost him.

sdlfksjlk wrote:

But seriously, doing a 3xsnatch for time in a poor weightlifting set up is pretty f***in' stupid, just like jogging along roads is.

Seriously? Jogging along roads is stupid and worthy of being laughed at if you get injured or killed? 99% of all runners have run on the side of a road at one time or another. Some have died.

Oly lifting with weights around you...probably 99% of lifters have done this at one time or another. One has broken his back. None have died.

It seems to me that runners are dumber than crossfitters or oly lifters.

So, we should make fun of the runner that got hit by a car this week. It's fugging hilarious. Let's all join in! You're an a55hole.

One thing I can tell you is that the crossfit community has raised several thousands of dollars to help this guy with his medical costs. You don't see that in the running community. A bunch of self-centered, cheap-ass, douchebags. I'm proud to be a crossfitter and ashamed that I was once a runner.

Can optimal physical fitness be achieved while paralyzed?

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

Can optimal physical fitness be achieved while paralyzed?

No. Neither can it be achieved while dead (running along side the road).

What's your real question retard? I can tell you want can be achieved. Paralyzed Kevin Ogar could pummel your face into the ground if you got with in arm's length of him.

adsadfsfas wrote:

Isn't it the lifters responsibility to look around before starting a lift to make sure the area is set up properly?

Yes, it sure is, however that was not the cause of the injury.

The lifter was using terrible form, lifting with his back, instead of his hips and legs, and started from the back of the platform, instead of the middle.

The main thing is that he was putting all the weight on his back, and trying to muscle it up instead of using good form with his hips and legs.

F U C K off. Why are you even on this site?

J.R. wrote:

The lifter was using terrible form, lifting with his back, instead of his hips and legs, and started from the back of the platform, instead of the middle.

The main thing is that he was putting all the weight on his back, and trying to muscle it up instead of using good form with his hips and legs.

Wrong.

I've watched this probably 20 times and I just keep thinking "Man, that's really a glancing blow." I think I agree with the guy here and there are some good points made in the post as well as in the comments.

http://physiodetective.com/2014/01/16/kevin-ogar-snatch-incident-a-freak-accident-not-crossfit-related/

Your doing a terrible job of trying to out do the real xf guy. If anything this sad situation shows Flagpole's idea that there are safe places to do anything is a myopic view that mollycoddling is a viable alternative to awareness of oneself and one's environment.

People do unsafe things all the time and often "pay the price". In every instance it is funny to some disassociated observers and tragic to those in touch with their empathy. Either way, your posturing is neither a help nor a hindrance to the topic and only proves that you need to go back to troll school.

Whether he was careless, who was at fault, whatever. All I have to say is I wish the guy the best of luck. It was a tragic event and it made me shudder to watch the video.

Feel bad for the guy...who wouldn't? This thread shows the true spirit of this forum. Many people outside the running community look at runners as self absorbed, pretentious a**holes. I wonder why?

The weird thing is, all the runners I've met are really nice people. There's the occasional douchebag, but they are the exception. These anonymous forums just seem to bring out the worst in people.

And from the outside, CF looks like a bunch of douchebags too. They look like a bunch of meatheads, but go to a gym and work out with them. I've found they have no egos, are really encouraging, and surprisingly down to earth.

Thank you for a thoughtful response. Anonymous forums clearly bring out the worst in many people. By the way xfit haters, their forum doesn't allow anonymous posting. You man up and own your comments. We could all learn a thing or two from their forum.

The guy who wrote that analysis is a crossfitter and will default to a posture of "it was a fluke, coulda happened to anyone, anywhere in any sport".

Read a ways down in the comments, and it becomes clear that this lift was at the end of a demanding weekend of WODs. Putting a technical and risky Olympic lift at the end of an exhausting series is exactly the WRONG way to work out, and the WRONG way to structure a competition, unless you don't care about provoking injuries. The possibility of a spinal stress-fracture highlights the probability of overuse combined with misuse, just as running all out sprints on cement at the end of a hard 20-mile run would be asking for lower extremity SFs.

Basically the situation highlights the poorly conceived and even ignorant and abusive application of exercise that X-Fit is becoming increasingly known for.