4 ms·

LOL at people talking about CF being dangerous.

by paltman 11y ago

austinjp 11y ago
Any weights routine is more hazardous than doing nothing, in the short term (not the long term). CrossFit is no exception.
- paltman 11y ago
  Thanks for the laugh! :) "Hazardous". Haha.
  - austinjp 11y ago
    It is truly bizarre that you are blind to well-documented hazards. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_vis=1&q=weightlifting+injuries&hl=en&as_sdt=1,5 https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_vis=1&q=weightliftin...
    - paltman 11y ago
      You can be injured doing any activity, especially activities incorrectly. You can also die prematurely from inactivity. I've been doing CrossFit for 2 years and feel better than I have in decades. I do have a background in weightlifting (college football). However, my wife does CrossFit as well and prior to starting she never touched weights. Again, she feels better than ever. But then again she isn't being stupid about doing movements she is uncomfortable with and isn't loading until she has got the technique down. Furthermore, there are 70+ year olds in our classes, some of them first timers as well. They are obviously not snatching their body weight but scale the exercises appropriate to them. I guess this just goes along with a general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility and blame externalities.
      - austinjp 11y ago
        > You can be injured doing any activity I completely agree. Your comment seems to support my assertion that there are "well-documented hazards" which I took the time to cursorily reference. And yet you replied with "Thanks for the laugh! :) 'Hazardous'. Haha." Your comments don't seem logically consistent. (Plus there's more than a touch of ad hominem attack in there, which isn't necessary.) You follow this with bandwaggoning and appealing to anecdote: "I do X, I know someone who does X" etc etc. > "general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility" I just have absolutely no idea how you arrive at this. For the record: I lift weights. I highly recommend it. It mitigates the risk of certain diseases. It increases the risk of certain injuries. I really have no idea why you'd debate this.

LOL at people talking about CF being dangerous.

by paltman 11y ago

LOL at people talking about CF being dangerous.

Any weights routine is more hazardous than doing nothing, in the short term (not the long term). CrossFit is no exception.

paltman 11y ago
Thanks for the laugh! :) "Hazardous". Haha.
- austinjp 11y ago
  It is truly bizarre that you are blind to well-documented hazards. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_vis=1&q=weightlifting+injuries&hl=en&as_sdt=1,5 https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_vis=1&q=weightliftin...
  - paltman 11y ago
    You can be injured doing any activity, especially activities incorrectly. You can also die prematurely from inactivity. I've been doing CrossFit for 2 years and feel better than I have in decades. I do have a background in weightlifting (college football). However, my wife does CrossFit as well and prior to starting she never touched weights. Again, she feels better than ever. But then again she isn't being stupid about doing movements she is uncomfortable with and isn't loading until she has got the technique down. Furthermore, there are 70+ year olds in our classes, some of them first timers as well. They are obviously not snatching their body weight but scale the exercises appropriate to them. I guess this just goes along with a general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility and blame externalities.
    - austinjp 11y ago
      > You can be injured doing any activity I completely agree. Your comment seems to support my assertion that there are "well-documented hazards" which I took the time to cursorily reference. And yet you replied with "Thanks for the laugh! :) 'Hazardous'. Haha." Your comments don't seem logically consistent. (Plus there's more than a touch of ad hominem attack in there, which isn't necessary.) You follow this with bandwaggoning and appealing to anecdote: "I do X, I know someone who does X" etc etc. > "general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility" I just have absolutely no idea how you arrive at this. For the record: I lift weights. I highly recommend it. It mitigates the risk of certain diseases. It increases the risk of certain injuries. I really have no idea why you'd debate this.