What is crossfit

[ThatGuyRyan]

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[Chief Walking Stick]

It's a place where all the bros and broettes go to get addicted to working out. Then they tell everyone all about it and post pics of how awesome their body looks. Along with that, they post disgusting instagram pictures of food they say looks delicious but it's always some kind of sloppy gross looking "shake" or food that looks unhealthy to eat.

I'll stick to be addicted to beer and pizza.

 

[Tjodalv]

They're called "chickbros." Get your shit together Grimmles.

 

[Monk]

I heard its a satanic cult


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[nvanprooyen]

We have already beat this to death. Also, Dom is a funny mother ******.

 

[HeHateMe]

I was thinking about charging a local crossfit gym to come out to the farm the next time we get a hay delivery. They can unload and stack it 7 bales high (i usually go six) ill feed them grassfed beef liver for their paleo diet, and charge for that too. Overachievers can stay to muck out the barn with these giant shovels i got, and if they still need to grind they can split logs and clear out the mile long forest trail with machetes. Do u think ill get paid for this?

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

Just call it WOD and you'll be set.

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

I think it's really a place for ex-athletes go because they just don't want to face the fact that they need to move on and train for general health and aesthetics in their late 20s, 30s and 40s.

Maybe the late 20s part is pushing it for some people, but the point remains.

Look, I can give you 80 percent of a good workout philosophy in one paragraph, nay, 4 sentences:

Make sure you ass to grass squat with very light weight at the beginning (BW if necessary) and with particular care to form over weight progression for the first 3-6 months of training.

Try to limit direct/isolation arm/leg work and concentrate on multiple joint movements where your feet are on the floor and you're using barbells and dumbells.

Any workout lasting longer than 1 hour is too long, and they should average around 45 minutes (speaking of weights/resistance).

Utilize HIIT as a primary cardio source with steady state cardio as a secondary source with the understanding SS is more a general fitness tool while HIIT is more efficient at burning calories for those looking to lean out a bit.


I think most people who take fitness seriously (not me at this point, but in the past) after a bit of studying see that the vast majority of experts agree on this points.

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

It's a place where all the bros and broettes go to get addicted to working out. Then they tell everyone all about it and post pics of how awesome their body looks. Along with that, they post disgusting instagram pictures of food they say looks delicious but it's always some kind of sloppy gross looking "shake" or food that looks unhealthy to eat.

That sums it up.

I think it's really a place for ex-athletes go because they just don't want to face the fact that they need to move on and train for general health and aesthetics in their late 20s, 30s and 40s.

The classes I've seen are people who have no experience with compound movements. So you see some stuff that's comical and some that is just dangerous.

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

You know how many ex-athletes (not university level) have never performed a full clean or power snatch?

I never performed a full clean or even attempted a power snatch and was a fairly good athlete in H.S.

The same goes for a simple ATG squat. Where are the people squatting ATG in great numbers anywhere really?

 

[1COBearsfan]

I was thinking about charging a local crossfit gym to come out to the farm the next time we get a hay delivery. They can unload and stack it 7 bales high (i usually go six) ill feed them grassfed beef liver for their paleo diet, and charge for that too. Overachievers can stay to muck out the barn with these giant shovels i got, and if they still need to grind they can split logs and clear out the mile long forest trail with machetes. Do u think ill get paid for this?

Yes, I'm sure you could get paid for that. Probably pretty well too

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

You know how many ex-athletes (not university level) have never performed a full clean or power snatch?

I never performed a full clean or even attempted a power snatch and was a fairly good athlete in H.S.

The same goes for a simple ATG squat. Where are the people squatting ATG in great numbers anywhere really?

That's fair, I guess I didn't either and was pretty athletic in HS. Of course, i didn't jump headfirst into doing power cleans as many times as possible in x amount of minutes.

There are two guys at my gym who ATG or even hit parallel and I'm one of them lol

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

That's fair, I guess I didn't either and was pretty athletic in HS. Of course, i didn't jump headfirst into doing power cleans as many times as possible in x amount of minutes.

There are two guys at my gym who ATG or even hit parallel and I'm one of them lol

**Slow claps for ATG squats**

I really only seriously squatted in my mid 20s or so....

In the late late 1990s, when I was beginning in weight training for football the coaches were so fkn stupid they basically loaded me up with something arounf 240lbs on my back and had me do 3's with terrible form right at the beginning. My groin must have been weak and I could barely move for like ten days; it felt like I basically strained my groin.

I told my coach and he told me to basically suck it up and it was normal....so I tried it another two times.

I ended up missing like 4 weeks of speed and agility bc of this moron, and from then on swore off squatting for the remainder of HS. I used to go use the bathroom when they squatted or some shit. Thank god I saw the benefits in power cleans and did them like 2 times a week usually for great intensity. I also stayed active and was a naturally very large/quick person so I got by.


WTF is wrong with so many s&c coaches out there at the H.S. level?

 

[Omeletpants]

The average Cross fit athlete could beat the shit out of any of you and that's just the women

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

**Slow claps for ATG squats**

I really only seriously squatted in my mid 20s or so....

In the late late 1990s, when I was beginning in weight training for football the coaches were so fkn stupid they basically loaded me up with something arounf 240lbs on my back and had me do 3's with terrible form right at the beginning. My groin must have been weak and I could barely move for like ten days; it felt like I basically strained my groin.

I told my coach and he told me to basically suck it up and it was normal....so I tried it another two times.

I ended up missing like 4 weeks of speed and agility bc of this moron, and from then on swore off squatting for the remainder of HS. I used to go use the bathroom when they squatted or some shit. Thank god I saw the benefits in power cleans and did them like 2 times a week usually for great intensity. I also stayed active and was a naturally very large/quick person so I got by.


WTF is wrong with so many s&c coaches out there at the H.S. level?

I was a skinny kid in HS, basketball/baseball. I didn't start weight training until I was in my 30s. Now I'm on the bigger side admittedly 25% of that is fat but can still keep up with the young fb players around here. I was looking into starting a strength class here but have no idea where to start, I have zero credentials.

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

The average Cross fit athlete could beat the shit out of any of you and that's just the women

***** plz.

I'd beat that ass like a timpani ....

 

[HeHateMe]

***** plz.

I'd beat that ass like a timpani ....

kinda funny,i suppose avg you maybe could. my cuz is a crossfit freak, has all sorts of shit inhis garage and yard. but he is an airforce dude, who commands a fifty man squad doing that hurt locker shit. he likes the intensity and teamwork focus, morale building. dude holds an ar15 like its a pistol. he said it's like 50/50 weight rats vs xfit peeps he works with amd the xfit bros have a lot more fun with routine grunt work while the other dudes juice and hate.

 

[Omeletpants]

For many years I was a serious weight/power lifter working out 2 hours day up to 6 hours a week. I have been around some really strong and intense people. While I have never done a CrossFit workout I did sell some specialized back machine to two of them. Very big, heavy and unwieldily. These guys separated it into 2 pieces and took it out of my basement. I was really impressed. They were not bodybuilder muscular but built like a brick shithouse. Their functional strength was off the charts. With CrossFit I can see people becoming more functionally strong than weightlifting strong. In the end that's a more useful life skill.

 

[Monster]

I was thinking about charging a local crossfit gym to come out to the farm the next time we get a hay delivery. They can unload and stack it 7 bales high (i usually go six) ill feed them grassfed beef liver for their paleo diet, and charge for that too. Overachievers can stay to muck out the barn with these giant shovels i got, and if they still need to grind they can split logs and clear out the mile long forest trail with machetes. Do u think ill get paid for this?

Good Lord HHM Shut Up... I just had a bad flashback to bailing season and hot ass barns where you can't breathe... STOP IT

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

kinda funny,i suppose avg you maybe could. my cuz is a crossfit freak, has all sorts of shit inhis garage and yard. but he is an airforce dude, who commands a fifty man squad doing that hurt locker shit. he likes the intensity and teamwork focus, morale building. dude holds an ar15 like its a pistol. he said it's like 50/50 weight rats vs xfit peeps he works with amd the xfit bros have a lot more fun with routine grunt work while the other dudes juice and hate.

For many years I was a serious weight/power lifter working out 2 hours day up to 6 hours a week. I have been around some really strong and intense people. While I have never done a CrossFit workout I did sell some specialized back machine to two of them. Very big, heavy and unwieldily. These guys separated it into 2 pieces and took it out of my basement. I was really impressed. They were not bodybuilder muscular but built like a brick shithouse. Their functional strength was off the charts. With CrossFit I can see people becoming more functionally strong than weightlifting strong. In the end that's a more useful life skill.

Bodybuilders tend to be weak as fark where it counts.....there are many exceptions, but your average douchey gym goer literally spends like 2 hours a week on direct arm work and basically is pissing time away in the gym while looking at chicks in yoga pants....

There is nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is, and I used laugh at those people.

When you say "weightlifting strong," what do you mean...do you mean people like those Dbags?

Do you mean people who use olympic lifting to increase performance in a sport where power is key?

Do you mean someone like me who was basically a powerbuilder in my 20s?

Do you mean clueless women who go in their and hit 6 machines circuits at 20 percent intensity for 25 reps every other day and think they are doing something?


CF is a fairly effective protocal because it often utilized olympic lifting, full ROM squatting, some dead lift variants and other BW exercises.....not because it's put together and structured the CF way.

That's basically my point. I am not shocked people who engage in CF are functionally strong, but I wouldn't rush to attribute that to some proprietary CF workout. It's probably the same reason Olympic lifters would be fnctionally strong- heavy front squats and push presses make you functionally strong.