Today's CrossFit WOD

Although I don't really socialize in the gym apart from a few hellos and so on, I don't see anything wrong with the social component if it doesn't impede the workout in any way. It's the apparent one-upmanship and peer pressure together with a disregard for form and safety that I think makes it an accident waiting to happen.

Why are these people not using squat cages when doing squats? Are they insane?
 
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Dropping the weight from arms length..big boom bouncing weight walk away with lats flaired..

that's CF in a nutshell, want to understand the psychology :)

it's perfect biz model, everyone feels special & strong

ya, i just did that :)

contrast this with working out by yourself..
 
rocketman987 said:
Dropping the weight from arms length..big boom bouncing weight walk away with lats flaired..

that's CF in a nutshell, want to understand the psychology :)

it's perfect biz model, everyone feels special & strong

ya, i just did that :)

contrast this with working out by yourself..
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Yup:


Junior is obviously in a CrossFit gym. With any luck, he'll get his dad to join him and show him all he knows about form and technique. Good times. :D
 
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Frederick Foresight said:
Yup:


Junior is obviously in a CrossFit gym. With any luck, he'll get his dad to join him and show him all he knows about form and technique. Good times. :D
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that does nothing to build strength or muscle..ya place your body at risk for a limit deadlift..dumb

unless getting paid for that ego
 
Frederick Foresight said:
Yup:


Junior is obviously in a CrossFit gym. With any luck, he'll get his dad to join him and show him all he knows about form and technique. Good times. :D
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It blows my mind how many people deadlift with a curved spine. It hurts my back just watching that clip.
 
Frederick Foresight said:
I've never done burpees because they don't appeal to me. Occasionally, I see people at my gym doing them, but I have yet to see someone do the push-up part properly. They seem to phone that part in. I gather it is a cardio-type exercise, since you don't get the chance to work any particular muscle group to exhaustion or failure. Rather, it causes generalized fatigue/exhaustion.

I agree with your comment that CFers are concerned more about the numbers rather than the form, but there are also "exercises" that I don't think have much of a targeting effect on any particular muscle group. From what little I have seen and read of CF, there is little or no discipline. And I echo Baron's sentiment that there are two types of CFers: those who have already hurt themselves and those who will.
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I was introduced to them in High School during football practice, then again in Marine Corps boot camp where they were lovingly referred to as Bends and MF'ers. Usually done in a sand pit, typically as punishment, while in close quarters to other guys while getting kicked in the face. :vomit: I maintain it's a good cardio type exercise, and helps with general co-ordination, but I'm too damn old to do that crazy stuff now.
 
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