Len Nicodemo
Cancelled
- Jan 2, 2019
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- Melbourne
So I’ve started this thread because of the following reasons;
1. I hate cross fit
2. Cross fit has no adequate fundamentals from a training perspective to reinforce why it does what it does
3. It’s expensive for what you don’t get education wise
4. CrossFit reinforces and promotes poor standards and excuses them for ‘effort’
5. CrossFit was developed to make money and solely money
6. CrossFit is systematic of the fitness industry now. Create a fad, create a marketing plan and budget, take stock of the deregulated market where anyone and anything can pass
7. There is no programming
8. There is no technique
9. CrossFit uses acronyms to pass as workouts - basically make up a whole heap of exercises and lump them together to deliver a workout
10. I got banned from the current CrossFit thread
Basically CrossFit came about because it’s founder wanted to create an alternate form of exercise that bucked the trend from traditional exercise prescription. The guy thought ‘hey instead of doing prescribed gym work within the rules of the gym, I’ll get my client to climb up a ******* pillar because it’s different so that must be ok’. And basically it stemmed from there. Let’s take Olympic lifts and and turn them into conditioning movements, interceded with high levels of aerobic conditioning to completely fatigue the body, then lets do it again, all while increasing training loads and taxing the CNS.
I’d also like to draw your attention to the CrossFit games. This is the highest level within this sport, this is apparently where the best of the best participate. Now I’ve seen bad form before, real bad form, but to see this openly displayed and encouraged in a high level sporting space is pretty concerning.
What we have is the following;
-Bad technique
-Unsafe technique
-Technique that judges say is passable
-A propensity for injury
-Public exposure to potential exercise goers that this is ok and the norm of how to complete exercise
Tune in;
(Watch from 3 mins on as I don’t advocate paying out on the woman’s body the way the narrator did - I am just here to show the horrendous deadlift form)
Now whilst the commentary isn’t overly nice at times, the basic thing that can’t be ignored is that this is what you’re getting from your coaches and your top levels of competition.
Guys I’ll give you some advice - don’t do CrossFit.
1. I hate cross fit
2. Cross fit has no adequate fundamentals from a training perspective to reinforce why it does what it does
3. It’s expensive for what you don’t get education wise
4. CrossFit reinforces and promotes poor standards and excuses them for ‘effort’
5. CrossFit was developed to make money and solely money
6. CrossFit is systematic of the fitness industry now. Create a fad, create a marketing plan and budget, take stock of the deregulated market where anyone and anything can pass
7. There is no programming
8. There is no technique
9. CrossFit uses acronyms to pass as workouts - basically make up a whole heap of exercises and lump them together to deliver a workout
10. I got banned from the current CrossFit thread
Basically CrossFit came about because it’s founder wanted to create an alternate form of exercise that bucked the trend from traditional exercise prescription. The guy thought ‘hey instead of doing prescribed gym work within the rules of the gym, I’ll get my client to climb up a ******* pillar because it’s different so that must be ok’. And basically it stemmed from there. Let’s take Olympic lifts and and turn them into conditioning movements, interceded with high levels of aerobic conditioning to completely fatigue the body, then lets do it again, all while increasing training loads and taxing the CNS.
I’d also like to draw your attention to the CrossFit games. This is the highest level within this sport, this is apparently where the best of the best participate. Now I’ve seen bad form before, real bad form, but to see this openly displayed and encouraged in a high level sporting space is pretty concerning.
What we have is the following;
-Bad technique
-Unsafe technique
-Technique that judges say is passable
-A propensity for injury
-Public exposure to potential exercise goers that this is ok and the norm of how to complete exercise
Tune in;
(Watch from 3 mins on as I don’t advocate paying out on the woman’s body the way the narrator did - I am just here to show the horrendous deadlift form)
Now whilst the commentary isn’t overly nice at times, the basic thing that can’t be ignored is that this is what you’re getting from your coaches and your top levels of competition.
Guys I’ll give you some advice - don’t do CrossFit.