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Not sure if it is fake or not there are some seriously jacked folks who swear by it.

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Not sure if it is fake or not there are some seriously jacked folks who swear by it.

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http://youtu.be/FKcnpJSAsbo

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My best friend is a physical therapist, according to them a significantly large portion of people who come through the clinic come because of crossfit injuries.
Apparently, it's one of the worst things you can do to your body (work out wise) long term and they suggest no one should do it.

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My best friend is a physical therapist, according to them a significantly large portion of people who come through the clinic come because of crossfit injuries.
Apparently, it's one of the worst things you can do to your body (work out wise) long term and they suggest no one should do it.

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What exactly is a crossfit injury? 95% of a crossfit workout is some type of squat or lifting something over your head.

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It just seems like a bunch of exercises thrown together like a crazy workout obstacle course or something.
go.

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I've been doing it for a couple years.  I am not a Kool-Aid drinker, but I will say that I appreciate what I've gotten out of it:

- As has been mentioned, the team-building/tribe mentality helps sometimes.  There is some peer pressure to show up every day, when the people you work out with/compete with ask where you were when you skip a day.  I found it motivating to find someone who was a little better than me and try to beat them.  Not everyone feeds off of that, but if you like a little friendly rivalry, it works.

- Working out 4-5 days per week if you aren't already will definitely increase your fitness.  I cannot speak to other gyms, but the ones I've been to have scaled versions of workouts so that if you cannot safely do the standard version (maybe sets of 10 deadlifts at 225) then you can scale it down to what you can do and that is challenging (maybe you can do 200, or 150, or whatever).  I've seen fairly out of shape people join and really improve their fitness.  They aren't going to be greek gods, but they are healthier.

- One thing I don't like about it, but kind of goes with the program, is that you never train often enough on any particular lift to get really good at it.  For instance, one might do snatches one day, and might not be required to do them again for a week or two.  That does not really promote sound technique.  Once you get to a certain level of fitness, you kind of plateau if you only do the standard workouts.  I've moved on to working more during the open gym times and focusing more on deadlifts, bench, overhead press, and back squats.  I try to work those lifts 2-3 times per week so that I can get better at them.  I wouldn't be as good as I am in those lifts if I only did them when the workouts called for them.  I still do the workouts, but not as often and if it's something bordering on unsafe for me (stepping up on a box with a weighted barbell didn't appeal to me) I just don't do it, or scale it to something I can do safely.  

I had my ACL reconstructed about 15 months ago, and am lifting more than I ever have.  I have mobility and strength back in my knee, and am not concerned about it anymore.  I rehabbed doing crossfit.  Box jumps scaled down to jumping on plates and slowly building up.  lifting lighter weights until I felt I could trust my knee.  Running, lunges, squats, burpees, etc.  All that stuff helped me build confidence in my knee, so that I was no longer afraid of reinjuring it.  Can you do the same stuff elsewhere?  Sure.  Crossfit isn't the be-all end-all of workouts.  But I also don't think it's such a bad thing as some might say it is.

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What exactly is a crossfit injury? 95% of a crossfit workout is some type of squat or lifting something over your head.

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Not sure if it is fake or not there are some seriously jacked folks who swear by it.

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My best friend is a physical therapist, according to them a significantly large portion of people who come through the clinic come because of crossfit injuries.
Apparently, it's one of the worst things you can do to your body (work out wise) long term and they suggest no one should do it.

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This is like an "explain old man strength to me" thread.  This is usually asked by some cross fitter that just had their ass handed to them by some old man they fucked with at a bar.  

The old man roofed his house, his second house, poured his patio and driveway, dug, leveled, jack hammered, and built a 100 foot long, 8 foot high retaining wall, with 90  pound bricks. Then he remodeled the interior with heavy boxes of porcelain tile, using heavy bags of grout and mortar.  This guy may also build cars for a hobby.  

I would have hired some cross fitters to do the work for me, but I didn't have an air conditioned work environment and the neighbors didn't like all the grunting.  I did have some tires to stack, but once they are stacked, no need to do it again.  

Maybe I should have charged them a membership fee...........................

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Not sure if it is fake or not there are some seriously jacked folks who swear by it.

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http://youtu.be/FKcnpJSAsbo

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I watched this, googled Camille LeBlanc Bazinet and basically have no liquid left in my body. What next?  

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Scaling is something people don't take as seriously as they should. Today's workout at my local crossfit gym - three levels - 21 -15 - 9 of row and thrusters makes me hate life.

MONDAY CROSSFIT CLASSES
RX: 21-15-9 Calorie row and Thrusters (30/40). Rest 3 min. 21-15-9 Toes To Bar and Handstand Push Ups. 13min cap including rest
Gold:  21-15-9 Calorie row and Thrusters (30/40). Rest 5 min. 21-15-9 Toes to Bar and Handstand Push Ups
Silver: 21-15-9 Calorie row and Thrusters (bar). Rest 5 min. 21-15-9 V-Ups or Toes Above Hips and Push Ups

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Another key difference between normal people and crossfitters. Normal people use porn to jerk off, crossfitters use videos of some roided out chick doing overly complicated exercises.

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Why? If I enjoy kipping pullups as an explosive exercise and they work for that purpose, what is wrong with doing them?

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Why? If I enjoy kipping pullups as an explosive exercise and they work for that purpose, what is wrong with doing them?

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I'm not saying you're not allowed to do them. But don't do them and then tell people that you did a pullup, because you didn't. You used momentum to get your chin over a bar, you sure didn't use the muscles intended when God designed the pullup. By doing them, you are also failing to demonstrate whether you are strong, in shape, or anything else. You crossfitters should be forced to use quotation marks and asterisks whenever you discuss an exercise.

You:
'I went to the box today and did 40x3 "pullups", totally best by all time record.*'



* Disclaimer
This exercise report is strictly for private and entertainment purposes. Reports of repetitions and weight are the sole claim of the individual reporting them and in no way reflect any factual representation of exercises actually accomplished. These exercises were not to any known standard and do not actually confirm to any human notion of strength or endurance.

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I'm not saying you're not allowed to do them. But don't do them and then tell people that you did a pullup, because you didn't. You used momentum to get your chin over a bar, you sure didn't use the muscles intended when God designed the pullup. By doing them, you are also failing to demonstrate whether you are strong, in shape, or anything else. You crossfitters should be forced to use quotation marks and asterisks whenever you discuss an exercise.

You:
'I went to the box today and did 40x3 "pullups", totally best by all time record.*'



* Disclaimer
This exercise report is strictly for private and entertainment purposes. Reports of repetitions and weight are the sole claim of the individual reporting them and in no way reflect any factual representation of exercises actually accomplished. These exercises were not to any known standard and do not actually confirm to any human notion of strength or endurance.

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I'm not saying you're not allowed to do them. But don't do them and then tell people that you did a pullup, because you didn't. You used momentum to get your chin over a bar, you sure didn't use the muscles intended when God designed the pullup. By doing them, you are also failing to demonstrate whether you are strong, in shape, or anything else. You crossfitters should be forced to use quotation marks and asterisks whenever you discuss an exercise.

You:
'I went to the box today and did 40x3 "pullups", totally best by all time record.*'



* Disclaimer
This exercise report is strictly for private and entertainment purposes. Reports of repetitions and weight are the sole claim of the individual reporting them and in no way reflect any factual representation of exercises actually accomplished. These exercises were not to any known standard and do not actually confirm to any human notion of strength or endurance.

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OR I could just qualify with "kipping"

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No, they aren't equal. Kipping pullups were developed as a way of doing more pullups, Marines had been doing them since before you were born likely. Its about doing more of them. The point of doing a pullup is to get a stronger back and arms. If you want to get stronger "explosive" core muscles, do a different explosive exercise. If you want to cheat a pull up to tell people "I can do 50 pull ups no problem" then kipping is what you are wanting. Or else you want 20 pullups to get a promotion at work. But if you're actually going for strength, dead hangs is the only way to do it. You're taking a cheating exercise and trying to still find usefulness in it, and you're doing this because you're a cultist.

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Another key difference between normal people and crossfitters. Normal people use porn to jerk off, crossfitters use videos of some roided out chick doing overly complicated exercises.

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My best friend is a physical therapist, according to them a significantly large portion of people who come through the clinic come because of crossfit injuries.
Apparently, it's one of the worst things you can do to your body (work out wise) long term and they suggest no one should do it.

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If you enjoy them then great but dont  fool yourself into thinking that using momentum to get more reps will increase explosive power.

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http://crossfit-games.edgesuite.net/sites/default/files/2014_CamilleLeblancBazinet_floater3.jpg

Look at those traps and shoulders...are we positive there isn't a weiner under those short shorts?

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People like it and that's all that matters.  I do wish that they would lay off some of the Olympic lifts though.  The stuff that i've seen is pretty scary.  You can hurt yourself pretty bad without the proper training and not a whole lot of people know how to do it properly.

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For me, butterfly pull-up are more cardio than anything.

I'm not sure why you and others are bitching about the kipping or butterfly pull-up. They'll different exercises and they each serve a different purpose. At my gym we train them separately.

Butterfly pull-ups are a lot more dynamic and do a lot more for "explosive" power than you think.