re: Crossfit is a sham- as told by a crossfitter

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Since when are snatches and clean and jerks "conventional exercising"?

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This helps show that cultfitters know shite about excercise. This excercises that you think cultfit invented have been used in high schools and colleges forever. They have also been in main stream weight lifting and body building forever. Just because YOU never did them before doesn't mean shite. All not means is you didn't play sports when you were young and decided to workout once you got older and cultfitting made you feel special. Congrats

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Beyond that, what would conventional exercise be? Bosu balls and calf raises? That's just a fricking nebulous term made up by the CrossFit haters.

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So excercises that have been proven to work for 100 years now isn't normal because it's not in cultfit? Again thanks for proving you know shite about working out.

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Is this what this is all about and you're jealous and butthurt about it?

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If you read my first post and disagree bring up those points and I'll be glad to discuss them with you. To throw out teenage statements only shows why you are a cultfitter..Thanks for making this so easy. As in any cult blind faith is the most important thing. You definitely fit that mold greatly.

Scruffy has only been working out for a couple months, but he realized that the best way to beat the boredom and monotony is audiobooks.

Those things are the bomb.

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. I have good strength and cardio. 550 deadlift, 405 squat, 215 snatch, 285 C&J. 5:30 mile, pretty good metcon times. And I did gain all this from crossfit- so there is good. 3 years ago I was weak and fat and never imagined I would be where I am in terms of fitness. The methodology works, if used correctly.

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Crossfit is a sham

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K.

So is there no bench press in Crossfit?

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Snatch/clean and jerk were probably in the first Olympics.

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But but in the box is where it was invented dude.........Signed cultfitter

I'm not sure what Olympic year it originated.

I believe it was the clean and press then it became clean and jerk.

This was probably Paul Anderson's time and even before that

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It just amazes me how gullible people are and the power of having to be apart of a group.

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Being part of a group really does help.

I started working out again a few months back and the last time I lifted weights was probably 7-8 years ago.

Going to the gym by yourself and lifting really low amounts makes you feel pretty damn self concious.

To avoid that, I always picked the times where few people were there.

Eventually got over it when I realized that no one there gave a frick.

Gotcha.

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I enjoy it but I'll probably change to something else eventually.

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This is the point. If everyine was like this, as if it was just another way to working out, and not what invented workout. It would have a total different view from the outside looking in. But for people to defend it as if it's a religion only asserts the idea that its more of a cult with greater physiological benefits than physical.