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I'm sorry, but this is is the biggest list of strawman arguments I've ever seen. People dislike CrossFit because elite CrossFitters are perfect physical human s
by stevenwei 13y ago
I'm sorry, but this is is the biggest list of strawman arguments I've ever seen. People dislike CrossFit because elite CrossFitters are perfect physical human specimens and they're jealous? Huh?
Here are the real concerns with CrossFit:
1. Incredibly poor quality control across affiliates means that a lot of instructors are not well trained in teaching how to do mechanically complex lifts to participants that have never done them before.
2. Which leads directly to increased rates of injury amongst participants trying to perform too many reps of the same exercise using too much weight causing their form to break down because their instructors are not paying attention to them. The culture of CrossFit exacerbates this by encouraging you to push yourself beyond your limits...and potentially beyond what is safe.
Now, if you luck out and end up at a good CrossFit gym with good instructors you might not ever experience these problems. But that's the issue. How do you, as an untrained athlete that has never done a power clean before, determine whether or not the instructors at your gym know how to properly teach them?