I can't hate on it. I've done powerlifting for crossfit seminars and alot of the top guys respect it. I also think that a baseline program would and is very affective for training soldiers. I think its the shit that surrounds it...the outfits..on the dudes anyway. My wife was seriously thinking of doing it, luckily Jill Mills is local and she trains with her. Its alot of the same stuff but she's trained by an expert instead of a dude who went to 1 cert class and opened a box. The one good thing is that people are training harder, chalk, the equipment etc has become more mainstream.
that's why glenn pendlay called crossfit the best thing to happen to weightlifting.
zip the clock back 5 years. 10. 25. the "fad" workouts were all nautilus or pink dumbbells, rubber band gizmos and "in just 15 minutes a day, 3 days a week!" bullshit. now the "fad" is heavy weights, compound movements, and pushing your body to the limits.
the sport is also, what, about 6 years old? it's in its infancy. in 10 years when all the bullshit gets trimmed out it's going to be just another sport like strongman or PL. remember that all of these are offshoots of one another. there used to just be circus exhibitions. then there was olympic lifting. then powerlifting and bodybuilding sprang from that. now we have crossfit. that's all.
