CrossFit is a branded fitness regimen that is based on daily workouts that followers can access online. It's a bastardized mixture of powerlifting and high-intensity interval training. This subpar 'sport' is sponsored by the subpar clothing brand, Reebok. It's known for its high injury occurrence and the obsessive behavior of its fans. The CrossFit CEO also hates Nick Jonas.
CrossFitters are annoying. How do you know someone does CrossFit? They tell you. Probably long before you ask. Many CrossFitters consider it their label and their primary purpose in life (not CrossFit, but telling people that they do CrossFit). They're almost up there with vegans and mormons. Whether or not you wanted it, CrossFit will be the subject of any conversation you have with them.
CrossFit promotes bad form. Their WODs (that's 'workout of the day' to you non-CrossFit plebs) primarily consist of tons of reps of compound exercises. When you're doing defined sets of X reps, you can mentally prepare yourself to brace your core for each rep. But when you're busting them out like you're trying to rip your tendons apart, cores gets soft, backs curves, all fucks go out the window because you're just trying to survive. CrossFitters don't care about form as long as they achieve a certain number of 'reps' in a certain amount of time. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THEIR PULL-UPS.
CrossFit is hella expensive. Sure, you can look at their workouts online for free, but good luck doing them in your garage or 99% of gyms out there. If you want to do CrossFit, and I'm not sure why you would, you'll need an all-access exclusive pass to their 'boxes'. And their average monthly fee is $125. Planet Fitness, which has its own issues, has WAY more equipment than a box and costs $10 a month. With that extra $115 a month you could buy some actual drugs to get you actual gains.
CrossFit inflates the egos of lifters with bad form. I get why they do it: ya make 'em feel good, they'll come back for more and keep paying their monthly fees. But by not correcting bad form, and instead awarding it with cash and meaningless titles like "The Fittest Man Alive", ya teach the kids that it's ok if their back breaks because at least they'll have a plastic trophy to comfort them. If you can't lift 225 with the right form, you can't lift 225.
The CrossFit Games try to kill their competitors. Their Netflix doc was just plain scary. People looking like they were about to break their backs on deadlifts. Passing out from the heat. Injury disqualifications. I saw it, and remember how the sport even made the athletes remain outside in the blazing heat after they crossed the finish line. They had to find refuge in tiny spots of shade under seats. It was ridiculous, and anyone associated with CrossFit should be embarrassed (well, additionally embarrassed...they already do CrossFit).
CrossFit is a bit like a cult (relentless obsession, high initiation costs, groupthink) and once you join it's hard to leave.
Stay clean.
Avoid the box.
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