Totally agree it has helped with exposing fitness to many who are looking to get fit with legitimate exercises
However the below points really hinder it from being a truly revolutionary form of working out - i find it combines both the best (achieving fitness and strength utilising circuit training and free-weights/oly lifting) and worst (impressionable marketing highlighting key behaviours/attitudes that almost always lead to injury) of the fitness industry
1. lack of training required to become a crossfit coach
2. the enthusiasm of many new comers with little exposure to free weights and correct form (many crossing over from boot camps, zumba etc.), combined with the gung-ho mentality to smashing your hi-intensity/hi-rep/hi-weight workouts
3. the lack of stop-gaps (ways to mitigate risks) in the programming/WODs compared to other sports
there just needs to more done to fine-tune this new genre of working out to change stubborn minds about it, it doesn't matter how many lives it changes for the better, if it continues to needlessly injure so many of its participants i don't think it deserves all the credit for changing the game just yet
Totally agree it has helped with exposing fitness to many who are looking to get fit with legitimate exercises
However the below points really hinder it from being a truly revolutionary form of working out - i find it combines both the best (achieving fitness and strength utilising circuit training and free-weights/oly lifting) and worst (impressionable marketing highlighting key behaviours/attitudes that almost always lead to injury) of the fitness industry
1. lack of training required to become a crossfit coach
2. the enthusiasm of many new comers with little exposure to free weights and correct form (many crossing over from boot camps, zumba etc.), combined with the gung-ho mentality to smashing your hi-intensity/hi-rep/hi-weight workouts
3. the lack of stop-gaps (ways to mitigate risks) in the programming/WODs compared to other sports
there just needs to more done to fine-tune this new genre of working out to change stubborn minds about it, it doesn't matter how many lives it changes for the better, if it continues to needlessly injure so many of its participants i don't think it deserves all the credit for changing the game just yet
Lack of training to become a coach? You mean the two day course?
I can do a two day Olympic lifting course and become an Olympic lifting coach
i can do a two day power lifting course and become a powerlifting coach
I can do a two day Strength and Conditioning course and become a strength and conditioning coach
I can do a two day kettlebell course and become a kettlebell coach
Whats the difference? No one is jumping up and down about any other two day course, why is one different? Oh, because it's Crossfit, you need to be a master coach to coach Crossfit...
Injury rates again.... This has been done many times before, injury rates are the same as power lifters and Olympic weightlifters according to a study, must have something to do with the two day course...
Don't you have to do a minimum supervised hours for the weightlifting / S&C.
Although this is probably easy to falsify if you wanted to
The article was a bit redundant given that they already published one from Rippetoe titled Crossfit: The Good the Bad and the Ugly which tackled the same subject.
T Nation is very patchy with the quality of their authors and supplement crap though.
I think the injury incidence is more anecdotal - while I don't really know of anyone who's hurt themselves doing strength training or PL, it seems like almost everyone who does MMA variations and Crossfit ends up with some kind of chronic joint or back injury at some stage.
The article was a bit redundant given that they already published one from Rippetoe titled Crossfit: The Good the Bad and the Ugly which tackled the same subject.
T Nation is very patchy with the quality of their authors and supplement crap though.
I think the injury incidence is more anecdotal - while I don't really know of anyone who's hurt themselves doing strength training or PL, it seems like almost everyone who does MMA variations and Crossfit ends up with some kind of chronic joint or back injury at some stage.
hence why I said anecdotal which most people who talk about injuries in Crossfit are referring to. I don't think the injury reporting is all that accurate, especially with the 'gung ho, tough guy' attitude of many Crossfitters.
I think the injury incidence is more anecdotal - while I don't really know of anyone who's hurt themselves doing strength training or PL, it seems like almost everyone who does MMA variations and Crossfit ends up with some kind of chronic joint or back injury at some stage.
Injure so many of its participants? Any proof of this?
Lack of training to become a coach? You mean the two day course?
I can do a two day Olympic lifting course and become an Olympic lifting coach
i can do a two day power lifting course and become a powerlifting coach
I can do a two day Strength and Conditioning course and become a strength and conditioning coach
I can do a two day kettlebell course and become a kettlebell coach
Whats the difference? No one is jumping up and down about any other two day course, why is one different? Oh, because it's Crossfit, you need to be a master coach to coach Crossfit...
Injury rates again.... This has been done many times before, injury rates are the same as power lifters and Olympic weightlifters according to a study, must have something to do with the two day course...
The crossfit hating isn't really justified. It is just another sport now and cops flack from BBs and PLs probably partly because in a short space of time is more popular that both of them.
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