CrossFit - C/D?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAu-ftOM3C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZdp59yyG0M&feature=relmfu

Anybody do this? Have any thoughts? It just seems like circuit training but ~tweaked~ to make working out more fun. The only things I can find out about it from the website is that it is awesome and improves your life and that you can also buy special shoes and stuff for CrossFit.

reebok getting involved is a new wrinkle and seems kinda wack but crossfit is great imo and works. i dunno that it makes "working out" more "fun" exactly, but it offers a real opportunity to explore what's possible for your body, and the community aspect def helps with motivation

I like the CrossFit concept of developing broader/deeper general fitness through randomized workouts. It's good to disrupt habits and get out the rut of doing the same workout all the time, which is a) boring and b) never going to get different results after a certain point.

On the other hand, if you are training to improve athletic performance, you have to think in terms of specificity. I guess there's nothing preventing someone from doing CrossFit + sport-specific training, but it makes me tired to think about that.

^ get out of

Awesome, thanks for the frggin' tips!

Okay so I’ve been doing this for about 6 months now and not to be corny or anything but it has changed my life. Now I’m coming from a background of never really working out at all and sitting at around 80lbs overweight. I was able to drop 60lbs about 4 years ago by starting to run regularly and have been able to keep it off. But over Christmas my girlfriend bought us some Living Social/Group deal for an Onramp(introductory) course to a local crossfit gym and to be honest I was not really looking forward to it. It turns out that after the first class kicked my ass I was pretty much addicted. The thing about it is that it’s fun as hell. The workouts can be killers to the point of sometimes feeling like you’re going to puke but you can’t wait to come back and push yourself again. it’s crazy to be 36 and in the best shape of my life . I don’t think I will every want to work out in any other way than this.

I know this is getting more popular all the time and I mostly see that as a positive. I mean I feel like most people with even a mild interest in fitness would enjoy this immensely and might not even know it. It is expensive though but I feel that a real investment in my health for the first time in my life is worth it.

also Annie Thorisdottir the winner of last years crossfit games is so awesome! <3 her

Yay. A close friend of mine is also addicted, he looks great.

I guess the next step for me would be to dive into the nutritional aspect of it which means a Paleo diet. It seems a little ott but I’m going to give it a try. based on the results I’ve seen by going to the work outs 5 times a week and not really changing my diet much, I can only imagine what I would notice after I apply the diet as well.

Oooh definitely talk to a nutritionist first. Paleo is scary. If you were in your 20s--as my friend is--I'd say go for it and prepare to gain a tonne of weight.

good call, I'm really just starting to do research on it and i would definitely be going for a modified version and not full on.

this stuff is fascinating but 5x a week (and the $$) is a little too much for me. some of the youtubes of these people are insane (a dude doing 100 pull ups, hands bleeding? uhh)

i'm curious, how much rippetoe/heavy lifting is involved so far?

During the Onramp course we are taught a lot of the Olympic style lifts and they are incorporated into the workout right off the bat. The primary focus is on the movements themselves and proper technique , loads are always scaled down as to maintain intensity throughout the workout and still achieve full movements.

the benchmark workouts give you an idea of what a normal workout would be.

of course i would scale down most of those for my fitness level.
like i'm not doing handstand push-ups yet but i'm getting there. And pull-ups are done with the assistance of a resistance band thing

sounds p sick
all i do is run a lot & like freeweights/other bs x45 min once a week

maybe will look into dis. the 'fun as hell' sounds hard 2 swallow but who knows i guess

isn't crossfit kind of like that though? i know a bunch of people who have done it and afaict it's like really quick conditioning drills mixed with sprinting. like run to this side of the gym - do 20 pushups - run back to the other side of the gym - do 50 jumping jacks - run back to the other side - do some lifts - etc etc etc

everyone i know has also puked at least once after a workout

i think im mainly skeptical abt taking a class or w/e cuz i dont really like 'other ppl' tbqh.
but theres also no way id go as hard as that benchmark link on my own, prob

lol yeah I get that! I’m telling you I would have never saw myself doing it . I would dread going to the gym before but know I can’t wait to see what the work out of the day is going to be. I get this crazy nervous energy every time but it’s a good nervous. It does have a lot to do with the people too and they have all been nothing but positive at the place i go to. xxp

yes i have come close to puking and it's not uncommon

The gyms are far too expensive with wack hours, IMO. For $100-150/month, I expect 24-hour access.
There's so little control over individual franchises, too, that you can get the worst, most dangerous gym or a great training staff. If you take the most basic certifications and pay the fee to have Crossfit on the outside of your building, they don't seem to give much of a damn what happens in there.
There's a lot of videos of Crossfit gyms doing stupid stupid shit, like squatting with a baby strapped to a dad's chest, tossing barbells back and forth, etc.

also kind of overcomplicates general physical fitness just like the muscle-man mags they make fun of, without the workouts necessarily leading to anything in particular (other than being sore/puking etc.) - lift some heavy stuff, sprint a bit, keep your overall conditioning good is a nice guideline.

When I was studying for the bar I was going to the gym almost every day and doing what I didn't realize was almost like an ersatz crossfit workout combined with basketball. I think I picked up some of the stuff from watching other people at the gym (who may actually have been crossfit people) -- some days I'd do more trad weight training, some days kettle bells and step/jump type stuff, body weight exercises, jumprope, the occasional class, running, rowing, basically mixing it up and trying to keep it intense. Plus I was doing a lot of bball drills -- dribble exercises, sprinting down court and taking layups, etc. It was awesome and I was in great shape, but it's really hard to keep up that kind of working out with a demanding job and a baby. The bottom line is, if you can get to the gym often, push yourself every time, find ways to make your workouts something you look forward to (for me, bball), and vary your workouts, you will see great results, whether or not they're part of a crossfit-type program.

I also really enjoyed doing medicine ball work on balance platforms (idk what they're called - they have little round ridges underneath them that rock so you have to really use your body to balance) -- I'd basically do different kinds of directional thrusts/holds with a heavy medicine ball while trying to stay balanced. Great for bball.

you guys ever fuck with Tabata? i started doing that a bit, definitely hard

Yeah we do tabata in crosscut it's pretty dope. I have more to say about this when I get a chance

The gyms are far too expensive with wack hours, IMO. For $100-150/month, I expect 24-hour access.
There's so little control over individual franchises, too, that you can get the worst, most dangerous gym or a great training staff. If you take the most basic certifications and pay the fee to have Crossfit on the outside of your building, they don't seem to give much of a damn what happens in there.
There's a lot of videos of Crossfit gyms doing stupid stupid shit, like squatting with a baby strapped to a dad's chest, tossing barbells back and forth, etc.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, June 1, 2012 5:46 PM (4 days ago)

It’s definitely in your best interest to really look into any affiliate you are thinking of joining. There are some fly by night gyms that are very much about cashing in. the gym I go to takes safety seriously and dumb shit is not tolerated, they emphasize form and the classes are kept small to maximize their time with everybody involved in the workout.

lift some heavy stuff, sprint a bit, keep your overall conditioning good is a nice guideline.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, June 1, 2012 5:48 PM (4 days ago)

This is all good stuff but my problem was I would never really do this on my own with any intensity. The competition and involvement between the group members is huge to me. Plenty of times I would have quite on a workout if it weren’t for the people cheering and encouraging me on. And I’ve never even been someone that does group stuff as I pretty much hate people but for that hour the folks in the gym are like a family suffering together and loving it.

This shit is not for everyone and I’m sure there is a big backlash or whatever because it’s pretty trendy but it has changed the way I look at my body and the the things I thought it was possible for me to do

how many times a week is it?

7 is a good start. you can work up from there.

lol
the first introductory month was 3 days a week. now i'm doing about 5 times a week.

what's a good price?

I want to see video of the gym where they toss dumbbells to each other.

I'm paying $135 right now. yeah that's not cheap but i've seen them for more. i quite my old gym where i was paying like $55 and never going to, so that helped. xp

$135 / month for how many classes?

you can go everyday if you want

there are like 6 classes a day

if you actually go ~20 times month its a v good deal

compared to the cost of like a personal trainer it's cheap

i was going to say, yoga classes are like $20/pop here so if you even go 2 times a week it's still reasonable

actually that's a little high, drop-ins are like $15 and a membership will set you back $75-$100

but i imagine the cross-fit dudes are more in your face more engaged than yr average yoga instructor

the thing is i do want to go all the time. it's not something i have to motivate myself to do. so i take advantage and get my 5 days in a week.

yoga instructors tend more towards silent seething

crossfit isnstructors will rip your heart shakra right out of your chest and make you do fingertip pushups on it

chakra

hmm it looks like the crossfit place three blocks from my house that has a free beginners class you can attend on saturday at noon ...

also it has all five star reviews on yelp except for one douche who posted a one-star review because he showed up for the free class and it had been canceled!

also they have this picture on their blog which makes me figure i can probably handle at least one class w/o dying

http://crossfitelysium.com/images/stories/IMG_0570.jpg

hey girl hey

yeah a lot of places have a teaser WOD on saturdays. you should survive it

this is taking place on the coming saturday
http://hope.crossfit.com/

we'll be doing it

stuff is tempting but the gym near me is too expensive

one thing I will give Crossfit: they're often the only place that you can use some interesting equipment (bumper plates, kettlebells, etc.) - I'm fine w/ my LA Fitness (when I have time to work out - I pretty much just deadlift and overhead press), but I hate deadlifting on their rubber-mat floors w/ steel plates.

kinda broken-hearted that I had to go back to apartment-living, I was hoping the next place would have a garage with a ceiling high enough for me to get my own barbell and bumpers

otm getting to dump weights is pretty fun

The ceo of crossfit seems to relish the xxxtreme danger of his program though. It seems worse than mere lack of quality control

I don't think anyone is arguing that this could ONLY happen in Crossfit

My sister-in-law is a Crossfit devotee and has had remarkable success doing it, so I know that it can be a great program; I also know that practically anyone can call themselves a Crossfit gym and that quality control is practically non-existent given the way the organization works. The latter is the reason why I'm loathe to go near it.

(If I lived in her city, I'd consider checking out her gym)

Whenever I see videos of people doing crossfit workouts, I'm kind of aghast at the horrible form and injury-risk-increasing movements. I'm actually surprised injuries aren't even more common.

Plus there's all the bullshit around numbers, as though doing 50 fake jerky pullups is somehow better than doing 10 real ones.

yeah that's what i'm saying. There really is no real standards for any trainers be it crossfit or your local average gym . That's why it's up to the consumer to be informed about who is programing their training.

and yeah crossfit ceo sounds like a complete fucktard xxxp

Plus there's all the bullshit around numbers, as though doing 50 fake jerky pullups is somehow better than doing 10 real ones.

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:30 AM

the numbers thing is basically to establish baselines and track progress. kipping-pullups arent fake but rather a different type of pulled intended for a different purpose. there are plenty of situations where regular stick pull up or even weighted pullups are programed.

*stricked

i'm not too familiar with the whole crossfit culture thing as a whole. My only exposure to it was a for like 6 months. but the head trainer had years of experience training high level athletes and certifications in a broad scope of fitness areas so my experience was awesome. I went away with a ton of knowledge that i now apply to my own fitness programing.

you could say the same thing about pop warner,high school football or a number of other organizes sport coaches.

while rhabdo does happen to football players - a central difference is that college football players (like the Iowa football team) are elite athletes. At the level of D1 ball, you take greater chances with your health for your sport. Your average Crossfitter - and certainly the average rhabdo Crossfit case - is a pencil pusher with an EXTREME workout program, so we view them rather differently.

not on average no but i know my high school football coach was fresh out of college and was the fucking english teacher that coached football in the afternoon, had use running till we pucked and didnt know shit. I think this is not an isolated case. Not to mention some kids dad that was coaching my pop warner team when i was 12.

The idea that someone could take a weekend course and be qualified to train safely is ridiculous. like i said this is a major problem with crossfit.

mena couldn't someone conceivably get rhabdo from doing t90x or whatever at home ?

Conceivably sure but it seems orders of magnitude less likely when you don't have someone barking at you to keep going past the point of failure

You could conceivably get rhabdo doing any physical activity - but we don't see a history of it in Pop Warner or P90X.

p90x hassnt been around very long

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-says-one-day-p90x-sent-him-emergency-170839781.html

basically there are shitty crossfit gyms and good ones. just do some research before starting any program and listen to your body especially when starting out.

Your average Crossfitter - and certainly the average rhabdo Crossfit case - is a pencil pusher with an EXTREME workout program, so we view them rather differently.

i think a lot of times it's also people with an athletic background that are getting back into fitness and try to go hard right off the bat becasue of their fitness history,

P90X has been around for as long as the Crossfit explosion.

you know more about this shit then i do for sure. i just see the sentiment out there that if you do crossfit you will get rhabdo and die as blown out of proportion . There are people of all ages and fitness levels getting positive results through crossfit and being exposed to fitness in a way they never have been before.

i just see the sentiment out there that if you do crossfit you will get rhabdo and die as blown out of proportion

i guess this is true as far as it goes. the sentiment that "if you do crossfit and get rhabdo, crossfit honchos will laugh at you" is not blown out of proportion

yeah that's pretty icky

yeah that type of response to someone getting injured is beyond stupid. fuck that that kind of shit

that said, i think crossfit seems to be a net-positive inasmuch as (anecdotally) it seems to have spurred lots of non-athlete types to get meaningfully fit and invested in their health. speaking personally, i'm considering joining one of the local gyms (if i can afford it) since my free-time for healthy activity has been seriously curtailed in the last six months, and i'm at the point where someone yelling at me could be just what i need

one thing it really taught me was how to make use of the hour you have at the gym. i came in totally skeptical about the whole thing. To the point where my wife had to promise me we would leave after 30 mins if i hated it like i thought i would.

Even for those who don't get "injured" I'm a little skeptical about the benefits of exercise that's so strenuous for someone not conditioning for a particular sport or activity. I would think you'd be putting a lot of wear and tear on bones/muscle/joints

I think there's a tendency for people to try to jump into super-tough workouts before they've got the conditioning needed to do them safely. Then they get into a cycle of injury, layoff, more injuries, etc.

from my experience a good crossfit gym will utilize basic strength building programs like Starting Strength,wendler 5 3 1 or something like that, combined with some gymnastic elements as well as short HIT workout. it's nothing revolutionary as far as i can see it just helped someone like me with direction and exposure to all that stuff.

I asked a guy at work what he does for exercise because of his recent back surgery and he said 'a modified version of crossfit'.. Turns out he does a modified version of crossfit because the regular version is what caused the fucking back surgery in the first place..

loooool

ha

Yea i need a crash course in fitness. Terrified of what my sedentary lifestyle will do to me as i age

I guess I just don't care about being in "top shape" to go to the office. My philosophy has always been to work out until you feel like you've really worked out, not to the point of failure and beyond.

another great thing i took from crossfit is mobilization techniques and working on flexibility. That shit helps you in everyday life.

lol damn

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/27/is-american-christianity-becoming-a-workout-cult.html

Some Christians are directly applying CrossFit’s workouts and strategies to their faith. There are Christian-oriented CrossFit gyms, such as CrossFit 27:17, named after a verse from Proverbs (“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”), and CrossFit For My Savior (“Because My Savior Was Fit for the Cross”).

On Easter, some CrossFitters participated in a special Easter Workout of the Day, an especially grueling session that, wrote one gym leader in Texas, “is brutal, but not nearly as brutal as what Jesus endured for each of us.”

At One Church in Columbus, Ohio, you can even do a CrossFit workout as part of a Sunday morning service. As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.” The service leader eggs on his congregation by telling them things like, “This is giving glory and honor to God and our bodies.” Afterward, congregants stretch, eat bananas, and hear a sermon. Between 50 and 70 people attend on an average Sunday, says Ford, and a second campus is in the works.

As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”
As One Church pastor Greg Ford told me, the church realized that “instead of doing music, we could do the workout as the worship.”

I hope these people burn in Hell

Religion, crossfit, cults, all makes sense to me. A match made in heaven.

Next they'll be allowing acoustic guitars during the service!

reminds me of this book (which i have but have never read): http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Gym-Divine-Bodies-Bible/dp/0415917573/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q31CCDVdas&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rGvJBuVH_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80FRLoq4jt0

oh no

:O

"super bowl shuffle"-level rhymes

Watched the Crossfit doc about the 2015 Crossfit games and while the fitness on display (and some of the challenges) were pretty impressive, good lord are the organizers and announcers (and many of the competitors) idiots.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8QeUid89vKw/maxresdefault.jpg

CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman resigned Tuesday, days after saying, "We’re not mourning for George Floyd" during an unhinged Zoom rant https://t.co/mTbO9eMV3m

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 10, 2020

From exercise companies to guitar effects pedals, so many unforced errors from raging assholes.