Crossfit looks rather scary

[Otispunkmeyer]

And not in the "oh my that looks like hard work" way.

I mean it looks scary in that I can easily see you ending up in a hospital with some bad injury! I have just watched a video someone on FB proudly posted where they were doing these, I guess, full range olympic lifts as fast as possible. Dead lift -> Clean - > Press and back down sort of action. But they're going so fast that they're not doing any of it properly. Its all rushed, bent back and full of jerking movements. That seriously cannot be good for you can it?

I have been reading as well, that training daily to exhaustion is part of doing cross fit. That sounds iffy as well, the last person I know of that trained that hard supposedly suffered permanent muscle damage according to his old coach.

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Wednesday 5th March 18:19

[Otispunkmeyer]

22s said:

I agree.

Been doing Wendler 5/3/1 for months, switched to the 300 workout last week as going on holiday in a few weeks so wanted to trim up. Can deadlift 190kg 1RM, never hurt my back on DL before - pinged it doing 50 x 60kg deadlifts as fast as I could because my form was st. Idiot.

Also there's this (no idea about whether his form is correct, or how long through a workout he was, and it was actually mainly due to the awful placement of the plates behind him): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tMsa26v23g

Edited by 22s on Thursday 6th March 15:03

Jesus!

[Otispunkmeyer]

With the aid of the link he posted I think he is trying to say that cross fit is exercise for the sake of exercise, it's not formulated in a way that's going take you to your goals like a prescribed training program will. Not necessarily a bad thing, some people just want to do some exercise! Move about a bit and have a good time doing it. Nowt wrong with getting people active !

[Otispunkmeyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjYyfkcaNI

[Otispunkmeyer]

Hoofy said:

P-Jay said:

Anyway they returned briefly, yes they looked 'bigger' some even had 6 packs, after several hours of explaining they would now show the rest of the group just how powerful and amazing they were now - we started riding, what followed was a display of some of the most painful riding I've ever seen, they seemed to have the lung capacity of asthmatic old ladies and for all their power, they were as weak as kittens - suspected they'd been using roids or something, turns out we tricked them - their God (or Gym leader) told them that they were so massive now that they're constantly tired from training and doing any sort of real sport would only undo all their hard work.

Yeah but they can outlift a cyclist and out-cycle a lifter.

TBH I'm quite surprised their fitness levels have dropped. I thought the whole point was that it made you fitter. I mean that Froning is the fittest man in the world.

Apparently Froning doesn't train CF. He does other stuff.

But no matter what the sport, if you train too hard without proper recovery and eating right you'll be completely st come the time you need to put it all into practice. You can over do exercise... some people don't believe this, but I've seen it twice. Both people never reached the same level again.