Comments on: “CultFit”

By: J

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:19:30 +0000

http://www.sealfit.com/

By: J

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:12:30 +0000

Ive been doing crossfit for 2 years. Ive been to a box a few times, and everyone in there was way cool. Not your typical meatheads with steriod attitude. I don’t think its cultish at all. There maybe fanatics, but you get that with any sport people. Biking, whatever. All I know is this

1. Never injured, and I hit it pretty hard
2. Times have always gotten better
3. Way stronger than I have ever been in my life. Ever.

Im ready for some zombies.

Just like anything. You like the insanity program, p90x, your typical 3 sets of 10 workout, then do what works best for you. For me at the age of 35, crossfit has worked better than anything, and I just do it by myself and learn off of the web.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:34:55 +0000

One more thing about the CrossFit certifications (seminars), which I know something about becasue I have been to just a few….just because you have a certification does not make you educated.

Go to some affiliates and found what background they have in relationship to strength and conditioning. Again, most a are F’ing clowns that think CrossFit invented the Snatch, C&J, Deadlift, Squat, Thruster, etc….sorry Coach, we were doing them with DB’s back in ’86 during wrestling practice when we were the odd man out during Round Robins. You didn’t invent shit. The people coming into the iron sport may not have been exposed to a lot of this, therefore, they do not know any better.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:16:10 +0000

Ethos…you are on the money. Having been involved with CrossFit (Affiliate) for over 3 years now I can honestly say it is a cult. For those that don’t think so, you are only fooling yourselves.

Other sports are not cults. As a former competitive strength athlete and wrestler, we never displayed the cult like attitude of crossfitters. Maybe because we were real athletes….participating real sports. CrossFit, the sport, is nothing more than entertainment like thee former WWF. Crossfit makes up events and title(s) in a half-assed attempt to identify itself as an established sport that has rules and regs that they follow.

CrossFit has valid applications, but the current crop of people coming in think that they are special because they flop on the floor after wod making fools of themselves. When was the last time anyone saw a world class sprinter flop on the ground after running the 400….not likely….why…because they are not attention seeking, wanna be clowns. BTW, a clown is an appropriate mascot for the Cultfit nation.

Gee, why are you so defensive? The Blog isn’t attacking people trying to better themselves….it is attacking the machine of Crossfit. Don’t be an ass! Did the article strike something too close to home. It made me look back at how F’ing stupid I was following this BS.

By: Sermon

Sermon — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:37:50 +0000

I just read the 1974 Caltech commencement speech by Richard Feynman. In it, he discusses “Cargo Cult Science.” Cargo Cult Science lacks
“a kind of scientific integrity,
a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of
utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if
you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you
think might make it invalid–not only what you think is right about
it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and
things you thought of that you’ve eliminated by some other
experiment, and how they worked–to make sure the other fellow can
tell they have been eliminated.”
I think this describes CultFit well. But as a corporation, their duty is not scientific integrity, it’s making money. And they are doing fantastic at that, so I hear. Just don’t get the two confused, Moonies.

Just read the speech–its great.
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:37:07 +0000

Chris,

Glassman should actually work out before offering advice.

By: Price

Price — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:04:52 +0000

I really liked your post. I think crossfit is total bullshit. I think it’s totally bullshit to try to put a brand on exercise. It’s just another gimmick. If you want to get stronger… eat, lift, and rest. If you want to get faster… run more/faster. If you want to lose weight… take in less than you put out. THAT IS ALL. Hard work makes you an elite athlete, not crossfit. Crossfit makes you and elitist douche. It’s like buying a 20 dollar bottle of water. No thanks, I’ll stick to the 1 dollar bottle, shit, give me the tap. You’re an idiot if you pay upwards of 100 dollars per month for something you can be getting for 50 or less.

By: ETHOS

ETHOS — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:37:38 +0000

Reformed Cross…CultFitter here…Look this is a bit tongue in cheek, and as a previous poster replied with take a step back…take a breath…and let it come in, it’s FUNNY! That aside, this is one of the more interesting posts i have seen in response to the CultFit phenomenon, the other being Dan John’s article on his break from “The Group” haha. I loved doing CrossFit, it was a lot of fun…for a while, then i realized that i could implement things that i enjoyed with END GOALS in sight and stil do some of the CrossFit-esque workouts on my own. You can still use their workouts, but why follow a program based in….extreme variance, that’s like having a diet made up of lets say healthy food only, but you eat something different every day, what if by accident you eat only protein for a month? think you’ll have issues? yes. Naysayers will scream “But they are eating healthy organic food!?” yeah who cares? it’s still not good for you. Anyways, i like doing my own thing, getting strong, staying fit and healthy and my job requires it, but Crossfit is a little silly thinking it is a fitness end-all, they don’t come right out and say it, but seriously, there are people on the forum that have their own Crossfit periodized workouts BECAUSE they weren’t getting the strength training they wanted out of the current blather of a program presented by the main site and the subsidiary affiliates.

In retrospect the Crossfit movement will be seen as something that helped people realize that YES we can perform well after using compound basic movements, but they just showed people a different way to look at “the wheel” they didn’t invent the damn thing.

Finally, if you enjoy Crossfit, then have a good time, but i cut ties and stopped any adherence to their protocols when i realized it was run like a money hungry cult. My view is that i won’t be affiliated with something like that, it’s just a personal thing, nothing against it’s “followers” they routine call themselves as such. Frankly, i was shocked when i found out how easily you can get an affiliate and get a Crossfit “certification” i have friends who went to school to be PT’s and it takes an ENORMOUS amount of commitment and work, thinking you can learn something in 2 days is lunacy.

Thanks for the article it was funny and voiced a lot of what i had been thinking the last few years. Have a good one, thanks for reading my little rant.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:08:28 +0000

Very interesting perspective. I just wish I had the time and energy that you devoted to this article. I mean what a waste. You need to take a good look in the mirror as I am sure you will see that all the BS you just wrote about is just a reflection of your own insecurities…

By: warchikk

warchikk — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:37:54 +0000

How can you be “sort of an expert”? That makes about as much sense of most of your article.

I suspect that you might not survive the zombie apocalypse. That’s the real secret to CrossFit. We’re training to outrun the zombies.