I have been watching some weight lifting tutorials at YouTube to do some off season strength work and eventually you will cross path with a Crossfit video - just to realize a 1hour 2017 crossfit games video have a million views - 1(one) million!!!
There is a CrossFit influencer that have average 500k views per video.
If you think about the Youtube Triathlon channels ( that I know ) like LS / Tim & Rinny / Triathlon Taren / GTN even Eric Lagerstrom have average of 15k to 35k average views per videos.
Is it →
Triathletes are just to busy to watch Youtube?
The average triathlete age is higher so they won’t seek this kind of entertainment ?
or Triathlon is just not that popular?
Crossfit is a young sport and I think appealing to young people because of the looks?
I think that you bring up good points, but I think that an additional factor is that triathlon is not a good and exciting spectator sport. That has been one thing that has plagued it for a while.
I can think of 2 triathlon clubs near me, but there are probably 10-15 CrossFit “boxesâ€. It’s just a more accessible sport and has more marketability. The only press triathlon gets is during the Kona world championship, which may not do anything to help folks get into the sport of triathlon. I know they focus on age grouper stories during the broadcast, but what most folks take away is really fit people riding on expensive bikes in expensive clothes in an expensive location. You can go to any decent size town or city and find a CrossFit box that offers beginner classes.
Also the crossfit videos have some pop and creativity which the kids love. With the exception of the Langerstrom tri videos that are gaining popularity, the others play it pretty much down the middle and lack innovation.
Are we REALLY judging the sport’s popularity according to views on YouTube videos? Have you seen what gets views on YouTube? Mindless Uber driver travelogues and swimsuit try-on hauls and top-10 Nazi officer uniform videos! Compare six model years of Fender Reverb guitar amps! What’s the REAL story behind KC & the Sunshine Band’s lack of musical variety?
The popularity of any YouTube video is inversely proportional to the IQ of the average YouTube viewer.
There’s no reason to panic here, folks. If any triathlon YouTube video ever moves the popularity needle, it will be because someone glimpsed some transition zone nudity with their GoPro camera.
I agree entirely with Flashbagbo. In addition I dispute the views of those who think triathlon is boring to watch. Look out for The Super League series, the ITU events on the better courses (Leeds/Bermuda etc) and even longer stuff. You want boring then watch Formula 1/E, golf, tennis…
Triathlon requires a little more commitment to train and it’s an extreme excessive compulsive sport. CrossFit, you have varied workouts and be able to half ass the commitment a couple of times with minor penalty.
among other reasons triathlon I need somewhere to swim, I need a bike. For CrossFit you need your local CrossFit gym.
And about $150/month
Yep. Their marketing has done a good job there. I know you can get fit with CrossFit but there are tons of other ways that don’t aren’t as expensive. I honestly like some of their workouts I see online as I do like a circuit type workout but I dont need to pay their prices and I don’t care for doing some of those Olympic style power moves. Squats and deadlifts I’m okay with. But I’m not keen on some of the more explosive moves.
I am surprised there are as many views in triathlon and just like fake likes, comments, there are fake views all the time. Also a view means even 1 sec of watching. Not necessarily actually watching. With that being said, triathlon is a time consuming sport. I am surprised people have any time to watch anything when they do triathlon. I sat down with a triathlon influencer for coffee a few weeks back. She didn’t know who Angela Neath was or Jesse Thomas.