FasterTwitch wrote:
"Crossfit Form": The "correct" way to injury yourself, artificially inflate your ego, and look like a twat...all while being a member of a cult.
I'm pro fitness, in all forms. Just not pro stupid.
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I disagree. I've been an endurance athlete since around age 13 (to 46 now). And have supplemented that with CrossFit over the past 2 years in order to slow the inevitable decline in muscle mass and bone density that comes with age. Particularly for endurance athletes.
I've found the instruction to be high quality, the people down-to-earth and welcoming, and the whole experience a lot of fun. In short basically none of what you might expect if your exposure to CrossFit is just through social media or Ashley Horner. My gym has a range of people from a 6'8" 300lb. former collegiate lineman who can squat over 500lb to a woman who waddled in two years ago a good 150 lbs overweight, not able to do a single proper rep of any exercise, and she's lost 100 lbs. so far, and kicks ass at most things. She can do one-legged squats better than I can.
It's bar-none the best instruction I've ever had in weightlifting technique in my life. From instructors who came from Olympic lifting before CrossFit.
I wasn't a huge fan of the kipping stuff at first. But you get over it pretty quick. And kipping pull-ups are pretty much a necessary progression to bar or ring muscle-ups.
And it just generally makes you feel healthy. Improves flexibility and strength in all kinds of ways. Injures are pretty rare (I've yet to be injured)
Being built like Chris Froome I'm not that great at most things. But I love the days when there's any rowing (former collegiate rower) because I can usually destroy the gym, even the 22 year-old Marines. Or any day with a mile run (former miler).
So experiences can vary, but the it's not all doped-up, self-promoting, selfie-taking douche-bags that you might expect from social media.
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