Re: Crossfit Kills Stupid People?

Joe — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:38 -0000

You people are ridiculous. The notion of anyone submitting their opinion of what they PERSONALLY know nothing about is laughable at best. The New York Times article is so biased because if she even got 10% of her facts right, the article would never have been published except in positive praise of CrossFit.

The whole section on rhabdo is a gross falsification of what CrossFit stands for. NO ONE takes rhabdo lightly and it is reiterated time and time again, especially for newcomers, to push yourselves but not to the point of killing yourself. CrossFit routines can kill you in the same way that running 100 meter sprints until you collapse can kill you. Essentially it's not the routine that kills, it's not listening to your body what kills you. Even then rhabdo is EXTREMELY rare and doing CrossFit has empircally proven to be safer and prevent injuries than any other workout regime. Need an example?

You may find this on the CrossFit boards but a CrossFit program was developed at the USMC scout/sniper school. The course was 8 weeks long and at the end the recruits physical fitness test scores experienced unprecedented results that never happened with previous fitness routines, there were 0, i repeat 0, injuries sustained in the 8 week long course in an environment when 3-4 recruits are medically discharged from injuries sustained.

I might be mad at the gross incompetence of the modern body building community in not being able to understand the litany of evidence that proves that the CrossFit method produces better athletes and reduces injuries than what traditional body-building routines and 'globo-gyms can offer', but when the Crossfit community experiences 300% growth annually for the last seven years and is taking ever bigger bites out of body-building community, it makes me laugh enough to forgive you guys.

Last question, does this site offer any more articles written about subjects you know nothing about? Perhaps next month you can write about special relativity or the evolution of marine life.

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