Why Everyone Hates CrossFit

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  @BenEcho · 4 years ago · pinned

  Thanks for the love! I actually have a new video coming soon about crossfit 😅. I enjoyed your perspective and love your channel, keep it up!

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  @Diggy22 · 4 years ago

  Not everyone hates crossfit. Chiropractors, surgeons, and EMTs appreciate the extra influx of business 🍵

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  @erickvillegas2544 · 4 years ago

  I don’t hate them, I just want to see them do a regular pull up.

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  @han3wmanwukong125 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Crossfit has revolutionized fitness, by teaching the correct way to do an incorrect pullup&quot; <br>Bury me, cause I&apos;m dead.

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  @jakeave · 3 years ago

  My only experience was being out of town and entering a crossfit and said &quot;Oh, I&apos;m on a month long trip and I&apos;m just looking for a gym for a few weeks&quot; and the guy was like &quot;this isn&apos;t a gym, this is crossfit&quot; and I immediately knew I was in the wrong place.

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  @triccele · 4 years ago

  &quot;It was a great idea, just with terrible execution&quot; is the best way to summerize crossfit. Great video as always.

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  @SriranjanSeshadri · 4 years ago (edited)

  The dangers of a bad trainer cannot be overstated. Joined a crossfit gym in my early 40s. In less than a week, they tried to get me to do handstand push-ups, kipping pull-ups and box jumps. This was when I didn&apos;t know what a push-up or squat looks like. Got injured way too often. Crossfit came across as a sport for the fit to demonstrate their fitness, not a tool for the average person to get fitter.

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  @sa4555 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Some 10 years ago I entered a crossfit gym, as the gym was having a introductory session which was mandatory for all new students costing about 400 dollars for 3 sessions. Then I saw the so called session teaching safe movements of how to do Pullups, followed by worst Deadlift form I ever saw in my life. I walked out telling the sales person I know better and quicker ways of becoming disabled for life, since that day I have never taken these clowns seriously. Crossfit, no thanks.

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  @osricen · 3 years ago

  I was very curious about this. Recently I sent a video of myself doing handstand push-ups very slowly to my friends because I just managed to do it after many years... and one of them, crossfiter, told me that the best way to achieve it is to kick up and cheat it by doing it fast... I told him: that&apos;s how you get a broken cranium or neck and he told me that&apos;s the way they do it in crossfit. Thing is I managed to do handstand push-ups because I started slowly with regular ones and then more difficult versions, dominating the form correctly, with much care.

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  @liamengram6326 · 4 years ago

  I think there are 2 main factors:<br><br>1. Experienced lifters see these people running several miles then attempting max lifts. Everyone knows this is a bad idea - including the participants and organizers.<br><br>2. Crossfit spreads a mentality very quickly - even to the newcomers - that if you&apos;ve done 3 crossfit classes a week for 6 weeks in a row you are now somehow more physically fit and have a higher expertise on lifting techniques than someone with years of dedicated experience doing 6 days of weights and 3 days of cardio every week. I have seen crossfitters approach my friend Dan on the platform and critique his snatch technique even though he was a full ride weightlifter at LSU, and is now the strength and conditioning coach for a local college football team.

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  @route779 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I work out 5 times a week for the past 10 years. Tried cross for a week and saw how unsafe, and unnecessarily self destructive to your body it was. My sister got into CrossFit &nbsp;4 years ago and is addicted. Her body looks great but at what cost? She suffers from physical issues as a result and recently had surgery on her shoulder. You can get the same results by sticking to a safe gym regimen without sacrificing your body.

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  @cal5384 · 4 years ago

  When i was a gym manager at a predominantly powerlifting gym, we held a workshop for trainers in the area just to give tips and trick for the big three lifts (squat, bench, deads) because that is a powerlifters skillset. Around our area we had two CrossFit gyms and we had a bunch of CrossFit coaches attend the workshop, and let me just say it was shocking/concerning that most of them lacked the proper skills to perform the three most common compound movements safely and soundly. More so was the concern that many of these individuals were regularly teaching others on how to lift, while lacking the proper technique themselves.

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