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The failure of crossfit comes from the top - by one of the crossfit elites
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:59 am
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:59 am
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Annie Thorisdottir, CrossFit’s poster child for years, may have kidney damage from the Games. Let that sink in folks. We’ve gone past “these people know what they are getting into” to “one of the fittest females on Earth may have permanent repercussions from this contest.”
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Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:00 am to CptBengal
Oh yeah but how many burpees can you do?!
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:00 am to CptBengal
She pee pee herself all the time?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:02 am to CptBengal
Yeah but she got to compete in a recently made up sport that very few people care about. WORTH IT
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:02 am to CptBengal
that was more a criticism of the games, not Crossfit as a whole
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:03 am to CptBengal
Everything in moderation.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:03 am to Salmon
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that was more a criticism of the games, not Crossfit as a whole
The head guy of crossfit is the same one who makes up the Games. The same fat frick who developed some of the crossfit programming.
ETA: also look at the expected responses. That's the reality of their culture
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 9:05 am
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:05 am to CptBengal
I'm currently orchestrating a merger between Crossfit and Scientology.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:07 am to CptBengal
I didn't feel like reading the article, but I'm guessing she had something akin to rhabdo?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:07 am to CptBengal
This is why I only compete on Broken Skull Ranch.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:08 am to CptBengal
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Kara Webb passed out after Murph and said she came to when she was being wheeled into the the [sic] medical area.” And continued, “I was pretty angry after Murph. I felt like, ‘This is just ridiculous. I feel like we were part of a circus.”
This defines Crossfit in a nutshell. It's a fricking circus of bizarre, testosterone laden "exercises" that are wrought with potential for injury.
I can't wait for the craze to fade away.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:09 am to PhilemonThomas
I love these slapfights. I don't take sides, but I will say my Lifetime Fitness gutted their 1/3 of the gym at the start of the year for crossfit stuff and that area is still going strong every night with people doing all kinds of crazy exercises. It's alive and well for now.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:09 am to CptBengal
I agree. The Games were brutal this year. This does not change the fact that the program itself works. If you are the average crossfitter you are not doing 12 high intensity work outs in 5 days. This really is a non-issue for non-Games crossfitters.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:09 am to CptBengal
crossfit is laughable, but this mostly proves that women should not be competing at elite fitness levels; their bodies are just not designed for that type of stress.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:09 am to TygerTyger
What is Murph?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:11 am to Scruffy
1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run
in a weighted vest
its pretty brutal
I do half murph all the time in my local park and its a solid workout
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run
in a weighted vest
its pretty brutal
I do half murph all the time in my local park and its a solid workout
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 9:13 am
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:11 am to TygerTyger
Read the article.
It does not find flaws in the exercises, but mainly the volume of exercises they were required to do.
They point out how the director used twitter to decide the next event happening 10 minutes after the voting. Thats ridiculous.
Good read.
It does not find flaws in the exercises, but mainly the volume of exercises they were required to do.
They point out how the director used twitter to decide the next event happening 10 minutes after the voting. Thats ridiculous.
Good read.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:11 am to BigPerm30
quote:
I agree. The Games were brutal this year. This does not change the fact that the program itself works. If you are the average crossfitter you are not doing 12 high intensity work outs in 5 days. This really is a non-issue for non-Games crossfitters.
This. I was watching and wondering how much more they could do to those athletes.
When I saw they brought in Murph I was shocked. And Murph is one of my favorite workouts. But to mix it in with a dozen or so other workouts in a 5-day period is insanity.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:11 am to BigPerm30
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the fact that the program itself works.
Not really.
Higher rates of injury is not a working program.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:12 am to CptBengal
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The failure of crossfit comes from the top
The failure of crossfit comes from the fact that you can't reinvent exercise. I have had more than one ortho surgeon tell me that it is not matter of if you will get hurt with crossfit but a matter of how bad. One of them has 2 mastercrafts one bought in 2010 and is named P90X and another one bought in 2013 and named it crossfit.
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 1:29 pm
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