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Originally Posted by Vancouver240sx
Hahaha great 1st comment. Any reason why crossfit "SUCKS"? I'm kinda new to it, still learning. If you have some reason as to why it isn't good I'd love to hear it.
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Because it's not a workout, it's an extreme sport where the mentality is no pain, no gain at all costs.
Here's why I think Crossfit is retarded:
- You do olympic lifts for speed. Heavy olympic lifts for speed. Oly lifts are hard enough to do with good technique by themselves; you throw in a speed component and you're asking to get hurt
- Ask yourself why crossfit exercises standardize on a single weight regardless of how much you weigh. Look at the WOD as an example. How do they come up with the weights? They're completely arbitrary
- To get "certified" in crossfit, you can take a weekend course and TADA, you suddenly know about crossfit.
- They're of the mindset that if you can't do a WOD, then you aren't tough and shouldn't do crossfit and that there are absolutely no other ways other than to do met-con shit.
- Crossfit doesn't make you strong. At least not as quickly as a good progressive program will.
Also, see this site:
Crossfit: The White Papers
tl;dr: Crossfit is for retards.