Why do you think there is so much push back against Crossfit programming?

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John Sinclair · Answer

Why do I think? There's so much pushback against CrossFit programming. So I'm not going to talk about coaches and quality of coaches or certification of coaches. I'm going to talk about the programming itself. The programming in CrossFit, Falls under the considerations of what we would call high, intensity steady state training. So we're trying to produce a lot of work in a very short period of time and essentially turning weight training or gymnastics training into a and those skills into a race and so the result to the body is that we get a high-intensity response that creates a very high heart rate and we have to maintain that heart rate for the entire race. Now, that's It's fantastic. If we're doing it every now and then. But the challenge becomes is in the CrossFit programming, is that is a workout of the day that something that is required of us almost every day. And when CrossFit first came out, they, you know, we're pretty strict on, you're going to do a wad every single day, and it's going to be in this format high intensity, steady state. It might be an amrap, it might be an Imam, it might be As many rounds as possible as many reps as possible. There were specific, programming, attributes that all fell under. The umbrella of high-intensity steady state training. This has a tremendous benefit in terms of the amount of power speed and endurance that we can create and to try to sustain an obviously elevates. Our conditioning level the challenges that it's just not sustainable like to be able to do that. Every day of the week is not Not sustainable. And what Chris CrossFit had to do is they had to implement some recovery workouts or as I call them work, ins in between the workouts to allow for that recovery so that you weren't coming every day. So, if you've got a good box, that knows how to program nose, out of scheduled programming. I think you're okay. For me, I'll only program high intensity steady state training once to twice per week, maximum,

Tim Crowley · Answer

I think it's a little bit unfair to generalize against any type of training or any type of system but I think part of what I've seen with Crossfit is that sometimes maybe a lot of the instructors. Are people doing it? Maybe not you know highly either other certified or experience and I think we look at the same way with bodybuilding Olympic lifting power, lifting, they all involve training and training with weights, that doesn't necessarily make them appropriate for particular Sports training. And so I put CrossFit in this condition in this area as well. I think somewhat, you know what could be somewhat randomize and some of the exercises and some of the you know, system sets and Reps and such could be such that. It may not be good for a particular athlete or particular sport. Say, you know, baseball softball. Tennis swimming with a lot of overhead work or in terms of skill level trying to get people to do exercises with a heavy weight. That they may not be, you know, technically qualified to Do yet. And again, this is generalizing there's some very, very good CrossFit coaches out there and there are some that maybe not so much and that goes with other things as well.

Billy Mitchell · Answer

Hey, that's a great question. Why do you think there's so much pushback against CrossFit programming? I can only give you my opinion and my experience. I am not a crossfitter per se but I do use CrossFit principles. I do like amrap Sandy. Mom's, I think, one of the things that I've observed, as I've coached people who have come from, Crossfit is hinge mechanics and a high rep high, volume of Plyometrics, missed with mixed, with Olympic lifts. If you are coming in To a CrossFit environment and you're not coached early on on the technical components of those lifts your risk for injury is at a much higher rate. I do think CrossFit has kind of been stigmatized to be at a higher injury rate and maybe there is statistical data to support that. That said, if you're in a good box with good coaches, I think everybody can get better with a reduced risk of injury. Again, the Side of that. Is that we're just running people through circuits that include very technical lifts under load without a lot, or a great deal of assessing. I use CrossFit principles in my training with my golf professionals and we just change the exercises to be a little bit more. Functional. There's a section that I do that. I focus on a hinge is Squad and a Thrust with some upper body pulling and we run through a apps, which are as many rounds as possible in a 15 or 20 minutes scenario or to exercise. Sighs circuits that are every minute on the minute. So I hope that answers your question. I would get into a box and observe the coaching to find out what, your level of comfort would be. And I would certainly always start with an individual assessment to make sure that you understand what your body requires. Hope that helps crossfit's, not the devil, any type of lifting can cause injury, if you're not conscious and aware of technique and in your environment, have a great night.

Paul Edmondson · Answer

Why do you think Miss so much pushback against CrossFit programming? I think the, the biggest push back or the biggest negative connotations that surround CrossFit is that when you're opening up to a community around you to come in and try workouts of the day, a lot of those workouts that they are high intensity repetitive exercise in one plane of motion and, you know, the benefits for Aesthetics and well as well. As Community are fantastic, where most people have the pushback is you're taking 50 to 100 people off the street and you're assuming that they can do whatever it is, you're programming for them. So if you're doing 100 snatches in a workout, Just because that person comes into your facility doesn't mean they have the adequate shoulder flexion to get into that position and withstand the rigors of load repetitively for time under tension. So I think the assessment and the build-up criteria is where people have the pushback with Crossfit. I think if there was a Foundation program, establishes Mobility, stability, and in key regions of the body before you start to load those areas, that would be a massive benefit because then you get the benefit of fitness health, Aesthetics Community, Spirit competition which all those things at CrossFit a brilliant at if it had that assessment criteria and bulletproofing the body prior to the workouts of the day, it will be Be a fantastic program. Some CrossFit Centers do this. That their credit, some don't. If it kind of was rolled out across the world to be able to do that, then I think it would have have much less push back. Thank you.

Erin Carson · Answer

Why do I think? There's so much pushback against CrossFit programming a, I think CrossFit is coming a long way as far as finding some of the gaps in their programming that put people at risk. So I think that the essence of pushback against CrossFit is the extreme pushing of athletes to do Olympic lifting for time and speed. I think there's sometimes a lack of patience in the progress of the athletes with in CrossFit and so they rush them into movements that they're really not ready for and put them at risk.

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Why do you think there is so much push back against Crossfit programming?

John Sinclair

John Sinclair

Tim Crowley

Billy Mitchell

Paul Edmondson

Erin Carson