It looks like circuit training laced with a shitload of gyrating, kipping and dangerously yanking on weights like an idiot. That's my best guess!
so jumping from exercise to exercise? I saw a mother with a baby strapped to her fucken chest doing something similar.
Wow. Sounds like a contender for the tandem Darwin awards. Poor baby. There was a pregnant mom doing crossfit that came under a lot of fire. A little activity while pregnant is okay, but swinging around weights and doing Olympic lifts is terrible. I hope the kids get taken away.
crossfit is a lot of things-it's a franchise business with cult like qualities-it's a concept of total fitness-it's a competitive eventwhat it is not however is a training methodology, it shows people where they want to be, but not how to get there. room for improvement and an interesting concept however.
i think it's what attracts a lot of their consumers in the first place. from looking at their appearance and overall fitness level in these seminars and random classes these people are the sort of folk that can also be found in wing chung death strike classes. they pay to feel part of something right out of a comic book so to speak.as pointed out repeatedly, the dominating athletes in the crossfit games have built their fitness levels thru other ways than "crossfit", crossfit is in their case an event they prepare for and not a training methodology. as the prize money may get bigger and the even attract more atheletes it will be further revealed that crossfit gyms are not what builds crossfit winners. and the attention will shift to successful atheletes and their trainers, away from the cult
lock her up. Who the fuck in their right mind would risk their Kids life. The idea of circuit Training or PHA from Bob Gadja is not new. It´s like "hit" cardio.. i mean we did this in the 80s. Crossfit is OK if you want to do it...but please learn the lifts from an old School powerlifer!!
great post...and I think it is your first point (franchise/cult like qualities) that drive people (many of whom could improve the system) away from CF
Don't forget selfies.
the "crossfit fail" compilations on youtube speak volumes on what sort of organization crossfit is. can you imagine such recordings in weightlifting or gymnastic schools? i sure can't
starving is a time tested method of losing weight. as crossfit tells its members to eat a paleo diet, i assume they dont eat a lot of calories. the result is a lean but otherwise oddly developed body from all their unbalanced training they generally look like shit as you could call it. not that it matters as it's not a bb contest but you brought up the physical appearance thing
i find this immensely confusing statement and not sure what you meanbut it's obvious to me that these people dont have the slightest idea of what they are doing
I encountered this bloke at the gym, I suspect he's a crossfitter because-he wears sleeveless but has small arms-he wears warms up reallly reallllly fucking long to do a few shitty squats all hips no quads-he talks my ear off about what a stud dimitry klokov isWhen I told him that weightlifting methodology doesn't produce an impressive physique by itself and Dmitry has in fact done a lot of "bb work" to develop his outstanding physique he seemed shell shocked. I told him it's the truth Dmitry wants to market himself as some sort of Arnold and make it in the world of entertainment, therefor he builds his body with bb.He seemed really sad
