Name I Koop wrote:
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wawaweewa
Originally Posted by
Name I Koop
Originally Posted by
wawaweewa
Originally Posted by bijald0331
Why is Crossfit TRASH? Put aside all monetary considerations.
For the same reasons that marathons are trash.
Specifically when it comes to crossfit, the emphasis on time and a ******ed amount of reps when it comes to certain exercises is pretty stupid and dangerous as well as being unnecessary.
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The oly gym I currently train at has a level 3 crossfit trainer or whatever (comes there once a week because he knows the owner) and I tell him all the time that crossfit is basura.
I'm sorry, but your reasoning is "basura". Compare a ******ed amount of reps to a specific sport....say a 400m sprint. What's the frequency of your legs turning over? It's a huge amount of reps. You usually run them within a time frame, the more reps, the better. When training for these sports, you over train your muscles and body...more reps, more time....more results
Tell me again, why you think it's garbage?
Go to any oly trainer and ask about doing 100 cleans or 100 snatches. Watch them laugh in your face.
Technical exercises require technique . Not a ******ed amount of reps all the while being timed. Some of the stuff they do is fine but the overall theme is garbage. It attempts to be all things and in the process just becomes average at most.
You are talking to a man that has trained doing all the Olympic lifts for the past 10 years, so I know what they are about....they are done for power....hence why they are called power lifts....but, at the same time there is no problem with doing high reps with low weight. These lifts, for the most part, incorporate all the major muscles so with high reps you are getting a VERY good endurance work out....which is what cross-fit is....anyhow, I'm not about paying to join a cross fit gym...but I am about doing this the workouts myself at my local gyms
You played football right? No offense but I know how athletes, especially in football, do the oly lifts. Mostly off of brute strength but very little technique. It's mostly as a result of football coaches/trainers advising them to practice the lifts (for obvious reasons) but never actually taking the time to develop the flexibility and technique. I was like that too until I started seeing an oly trainer.
Once you get into the technique it's an entirely different world. I'm not saying this to offend you because I used to think I was doing oly lifts too when I was younger. I was doing power cleans and power snatches with little technique (at the time I thought it was great technique
as I was putting up decent numbers) as well.
When I said that crossfit is garbage that doesn't mean that there are no positives from it. Running marathons is pretty +*@$#@% stupid if you ask me but that doesn't mean that there aren't some valuable components within the training .
