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By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:35:32 +0000

This rant is right on- thank you!!

By: Johnny J

Johnny J — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:07:16 +0000

Fantastic posting. I am a former professional/elite athlete in multiple sports and I was bamboozled into this cult for a long time until I woke the fuck up and realized that I was wasting my time and money. Pulling workouts out of a hat on a daily basis is just plain retarded. I knew more about training than the coaches. The WODs are just ridiculous. Fuck form and just go for time. WTF?!? Give your head a shake. Real athletes do real training from real coaches who received real educations. Not some ITT Tech/DeVry two-day silly course.

BTW, Crossfitters would get destroyed in real sports. Crossfit makes you good at Crossfit. Don’t believe the hype.

By: Xlete

Xlete — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:57:28 +0000

I did CrossFit before CrossFit was cool, but we called it wrestling practice… and it was much harder and longer than a WOD. (I know… “How can you say that????”) Go through a few wrestling seasons and you will understand. FYI, wrestlers don’t worry about rhabdo.

I have trained jui-jitusu for 12 years, competed in wrestling for 10 years, boxed and kickboxed (in the ring, not in a cardio class), ran track, and now, as I get older, I choose to powerlift because it makes my body feel better. I am lucky in that I am a natural athlete. I did Fran without doing any cardio for a year besides walking on a treadmill. I was challenged by a CrossFitter at my gym after I had a max effort deadlift session and did it in 4:17. (I know some people think I am lying, but years of wrestling (mental toughness) plus being blessed with athleticism made it possible.) No, it wasn’t easy and I puked. A max effort deadlift session before Fran is not recommended… I take that back. Maybe it is in CrossFit, I don’t know.

Now for my point:
The article was entertaining. I really don’t have a problem with Crossfitters as long as they leave me alone, don’t take over the rack for 20 minutes, and don’t challenge me about my goals… hmmm, that leaves very few Crossfitters that I do like. For some reason, CrossFitters believe their fitness goals are better than others. If a CrossFitter asks me how much I deadlift and I tell them (over 500), they switch it up and ask how many kipping pull ups I can do in a certain amount of time. At that point I will not give them a direct answer because they are comparing themselves with me instead of just trying to better themselves. I am in it to better myself. I could take first or tenth in a powerlifting competition and if I PR, I am thrilled. If CrossFitters would stop comparing their methodologies, times, and performances with others, they would be tolerable.

Thanks for reading my rant.

By: M.B.A

M.B.A — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:53:23 +0000

I partially agree with most of this. It is totally a cult. CF is nothing new and they just gave it a name and started charging big bucks to use the name. Glassman is a genius really. He is selling shit that he didn’t create. For $1000 I got my piece of paper and a t-shirt. I didn’t learn anything in those 2 days I wasted that I didn’t already know but now that I paid my $1,000 I can go out and open a crossfit gym and start charging people ridiculous money to come into my garage or my dirty ass industrial building and teach them how to squat and do pull ups. I saw so many fat overweight out of shape retards getting their cert and thought to myself, how the fuck are these people gunna train anyone.. They clearly can’t take care of themselves.. But then again, look at the founder Greg Glassman, he can barely walk and is clearly 60-70 lbs overweight and everytime I have seen him he is hammered drunk or well on his way to being completely plastered. Hey coach, is all that booze paleo? He will undoubtedly need a liver transplant which I am sure he can afford with all the dough he is ranking in… In fact no one saw him at the games because he was up in his sweet laughing and getting wasted periodically coming out to stare at anything with tits.. You would see people wanting their picture with him and watch him pervertedly stare, rub, and grab on any lady who wanted the photo op.
The games is their biggest claim to fame… “Crossfit makes the fittest athletes in the world” … If you check out any competitors training regimen it is nothing close to any programing on the main site… These guys are doing far more than anything ever thought of by Crossfit… Then they use their training, strength and metobolic to be better at crossfit and try to win these competitions. Then crossfit says “hey look at these people, do crossfit and you can be like them” … There is a fair amount of BS there. The work these competitors do is no doubt amazing but to say they are the fittest in the world is just ignorant. They are the best cross-fitters in the world and nothing more than that. 75% of these “atheletes” couldn’t throw a damn softball.
Crossfit can be great may not be the best and everything that they claim but it is far better than 30 minutes on the treadmill and doing some dumb bell curls. Depending on which affiliate you land in you can get a lot out of the fitness program that is Crossfit.. If you land on an affiliate that has one of those overweight out of shape owners that should be a clear sign for you to just move on. Who wants to be trained by someone that can even train themselves.

By: I.D.

I.D. — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:55:13 +0000

Eh I dont have much to say. if you don’t like CrossFit.. don’t do it. Don’t be that missionary who is trying to have people revert back to their body building days.

Face it.. body builders are not fit. They are just aesthetic. There is no globogym program that has ever been utilized by the masses to sincerely provide them with a level of fitness (flexibility, strength, endurance, cardio, etc).

Congrats on your 350 bench press and 400 pound squat – but I just saw the obese gym-goer put up the same weight.

I come from a military background, I served 4 years with the 3rd Ranger Battalion from 2003 to 2007. It is a special operations unit with a very physically strict lifestyle and training regime. My time there we did the typical cardio training and body weight exercises (push ups, sit ups, etc etc) – in massive amounts if I might add. I was in good shape (I thought). I got out in 2007 and hit the globo gym as all the masses did. I can put up weight, I was in great aesthetic appearance. But the shit gets old, boring, and injuries and strains on my body did happen. I tried MMA for about 6 months.. and that was fucking tough! But the place I went to closed down and I went back to full time body building. January 2011 I was sick and tired of it. Tried crossfit, got hooked – easily the hardest regime I’ve done and has produced the most results. After 3 months of crossfit I tried benching for the first time since December/January timeframe and put up 300lbs – which I N EVER have done before. And the kicker – Not once did I bench in crossfit. I’m 6-7 months into it, and I will never stop. I improve every single day.

And now I learned that Crossfit is the default training regime of choice for almost all other Special operations units from Delta, Rangers, SF, and to the SEALs. It is really the only regime out there that will provide you with overall fitness. But if you wanna look big go do your body building regime.

Take care princess’

By: level99

level99 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 +0000

ROFLMAO
I love all the trainers going around claiming to be ‘certified’ …even the guys are the high-end gyms…certified by who?by what?
hahaha nice comment and a great article.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:24:03 +0000

Greg Glassman is a class A tool. After cheating on his wife who he has 4 new kids with he found some slore out a a gym in San Diego who oddly enough now works at HQ and rolls around in fancy cars not doing shit. Little does she know he is constantly trying to fuck anything with two legs everywhere he goes. Stupid bitch. Haha. Glassman is a sick old fuck.

By: Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:51:37 +0000

First time I heard about Crossfit was 5 years ago. I was talking to some friends when someone over heard me mentioning a race I had on Saturday (10K). He came over and started preaching Crossfit, gave me some website to check out and excused himself. A few days later I went to the website.

What I saw was some nonsense videos of people working out. I spent maybe 10 mins on the site clicking around trying to figure out what ‘Crossfit’ was. Was it a competition, a set of videos, some tshirts. I got bored and left.

Over the years I’ve had people talk about Crossfit to me and just recently really figured out what it was…

“A bunch of rich white people paying $250/mo. to have an uncredentialed coach instruct them to have spasms with PVC pipe and siezures on pull-up bars until they vomit. They generally do this for a period of 10-30 minutes and call it a workout. Those who partake in these group activities also have the option to pay $1000 to attend a weekend course where they have an alcoholic instruct them how to better lift their PVC pipe. Some people who do these activities may also confuse being nauseous with being elite.
Guy 1: Hey, I started this great workout program lately. It’s called CrossFit!
Guy 2: You go have fun with that. And don’t bother calling me when you need someone to take you to the emergency room.

Guy 3: Dude, when did you get all those tribal tats? You didn’t start—
Guy 4: Hey man, I just started doing this awesome workout program called CrossFit!
Guy 3: Oh, fuck.

Guy 5: The CrossFit workout was brutal today! I’m already sore as hell!
Guy 6: Maybe you should have scaled down to 1/2″ PVC rather than 3/4″.”

By: Cris Yorks

Cris Yorks — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:36:45 +0000

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