Is crossfit really that bad?

HOW MUCH do THOSE PLATES EVEN WEIGH

like 3 gallons

25 lbs
source: i turned my head and squinted

There's nothing Inherently wrong white it but it's the cultists culture that surrounds it that is the issue. Drinking the Kool aid no matter what you're apart of is usually a terrible idea.

The issue with cross fit is that it became to commercialized and you aren't working out towards a goal. There are a hand full of a decent cross fit places out there but a majority of them are not run properly and are only ran to make money. The people teaching these cross fit classes don't teach safety( bailing ) and form they just tell you do these exercises. That brings me to the 2nd point, working out just to exercise. When you follow a structured routine you will know what exercises you are going to do each day and what the results are going to be. Crossfit prides it's self on being the opposite of this. Every day you do a random assortment of exercises. Monday you might do a burpee box jump push up circuit. Wednesday you are doing 10 sets of OHP into kipping pull ups to failure. These random workouts make it even harder for the instructor teaching the class to come up a decent workout plan for long term results because at the end of the day they are businessmen, not athletes. Crossfitters tend to think they are doing a lot and building muscle but in reality they are just working up a sweat and accomplishing nothing in the process. This isn't just a problem with crossfit btw, this is a problem with personal trainers as well but.

tl:dr Crossfit is is poorly structered and poorly run. Becoming a crossfitter will leave you with an empty wallet and little to no gains unless you can find a place that is properly run which is very difficult to do.

Rogue's blue plates are 45lbs and 20kg no idea which those are.

crossfit is great idk why fit autists hate it so much

00:54
"now jerk it"
>hnnggg

Snap city.

They're either 5 lb or 10 lb weights. Judging by the, almost doing an ohp I'm guessing 5.

that honestly gave me physical pain watching that

Crossfit is ideal for retired athletes or athletes who have reached their goals in one sport and want to move on to training in a different way.
It's shit for people who are new to exercise, because they learn bad habits that they don't know how to compensate for.

>They're not natty
>They don't train for CrossFit by doing CrossFit

Why was the bar so thick?! Why were they using mixed grip to clean?!

axle clean and press, albeit the form isn't top notch but it's an ugly lift even done right

youtube.com/watch?v=q6agvB5mBvY

>Alternate grip cleans

Honestly, I never thought I'd see this outside of an abstract-lifts meme thread.

This dude is kinda right. Crossfit is just oly lifting+cardio+trainers who wanna start new trends. Its all about who has the best "box". Like they literally try to make a workout so untraditional and "new" that they stray away from actually building muscle and more "wow now I can show my friends this new WOD I bet they've never seen!" just do Olympic weightlifting with cardio.

Judging from the way the bar moves and bounces, I'd say no more than 10 lbs each

F-Functional strength!

>Crossfit people are LITERALLY push pressing four plates when people on this board can't even press one plate

Literally why aren't you doing crossfit yet?

For those that don't know, this is a legit lift.
It's called the continental clean
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFH_PCkEkww

The danger is you're pressured by others in "the box" to lift too much too soon. Then you end up like Kevin Ogar who got paralysed from the waist down... Lift for yourself and not as a means to measure your dick in crossfit "olympics."

youtu.be/fAW3FzISdSA

>three legged dog in lifting area

RIP doggy

found the pic

>legit lift
>Ya let's go ahead and teach this to be who have never seen a barbell before
Smh desu senpai

Anyone have the gif or video of people hammering away at things?

Underated

Enjoy your rhabdomyolysis if you do it, OP.

4 plates of plastic, guess i fell for the bait

It is a continental clean you mong legit strongman move

My friend joined a crossfit gym and it sounds very different from what Veeky Forums and hilarious youtube videos lead me to believe. Mainly because on his first day they mostly just tested to see what his 1RMs were on various lifts, including the main ones.

I couldn't even finish the video

Days off?

To be fair most good crossfit gyms dont do "crossfit" in the sense that they actually programm (which goes completly against actual crossfit protocol) their workouts same goes for every competitor a good structured "crossfit" (oly lifting, powerlifting moves gymnastics, metcons, cardio) program is probably the best thing for the individual who wants to get fit.

Just because its been used in legitimate competition doesn't mean its not retarded.
It is absolutely retarded, messes up your whole fucking form and movement just to adjust your grip

You do it with an axle you cant grip it double overhand with any reasonable weight

Meant you of course

I don't care what you call it looks sketchy as fuck what are the benefits to a normal fucking clean

Cleaning something that is not an standardised olympic bar...you can ask that question for bearly every strong man move..

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Obviously I'm no doctor but...yanking your back backwards when you pull it up doesn't look right...

It's called an axle bar, used in strongman. The mix grip is called a continental clean. Typically axles don't have rotating collars so the say you clean needs to be differant.

Then don't talk about things you don't know of child. Seriously I sometimes forget how little the people on here actually know.

I had to close it after the first chick destroying her back and blowing out her elbows/shoulders

klokov doesn't do crossfit. He does seminars to teach crossfitters how to do olympic lifts.
youtube.com/watch?v=viQnHOXyqEg

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that's some bad OHP form
forearms should be perpendicular to bar
and I say this while I am sitting at home at 30% body fat.
fuck this gay earth
does correct form even matter?

There is no way lil sis who doesn't work out is contenental clean and pressing 245lbs with shit form.

Cross fit is the reason my gym has two weightlifting platforms so honestly I'm happy it exists.
People doing terrible form shift etc doesn't bother me as long as it's not someone I care about.
I wouldn't do it ofc. Doing as many Olympic lifts as fast as possible is retarded and heading down the road to snap city

...He went for 1rm on cleans and snatches? Holy shit. They should at least take a week to build his form and to see his mobility.

ya fell for it

> but in reality they are just working up a sweat and accomplishing nothing in the process.
They will lose weight from the cardio and the normies will eat it all up as the best fitness thing out there.

I can feel my shoulders separating from just watching that

snap city

it atleast one person a paraplegic

It is an axle, the bar is a solid piece of metal without bearings so the weights don't spin. You can't clean it normally unless you're beastly strong compared to the weight you use. Also thicked bar means your grip might not be good enough to do it double overhand.

Even the strongest man in history does it when it is heavy enough.
youtu.be/BBNZD75VJec?t=46
lift starts at 40 seconds

Would be better if it didn't reuse the same clips over and over.

This is fucking painful to watch. Can't even make it half way through. So much cringe.

More like convoluted lift.
Seriously, what the fuck is the point of this piece of shit lift?

What's the point of you, dickface?

IT IS TO GET THE BAR UP SO YOU CAN PRESS IT OVERHEAD YOU FUCKING FAGGOT PIECE OF SHIT.

youtu.be/BBNZD75VJec?t=46

Crossfit is philosophically terrific, but executed in the worst possible way imaginable.

Just clean and press it you faggot.
And if it's too heavy to clean just press in the rack.
Rustling your jimmies.

But you can't always clean an axle like a barbell.
>it does not have bearings
>it is thicker
And you can't use a rack in a competition you fucking retard.

>retard
Hey I'm not the one doing this shitty lift you're so adamant about defending.

Big Z laughs at your pathetic shoulders

>CrossFit™

Yes.

Look at all the retarded shit going on in this picture. I pulled this randomly off my local crossfit gym's page. Do you want this to be your workout?

Forgot pic

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>just look at my DeadPressCleanThrow, it is totally legit
just because someone made it up, doesnt mean the lift is a good one.

i have seen this shit before in another thread and once more i can not express how disgusted i am with this

it's actually what makes it good

It's fucking retarded.

Pretty sure 5kg

>literally

What are the benefits other than bragging rights which don't even belong in the gym

WHY OH GOD WHY

Your ass is my dick.

holy fuck that pregananant chick

DUDE 4pl8 ohp LMAO

>there's a 67 year old man who calls me a hero when I lift

There was an elderly man who would say I looked like James Bond when I used to work mall security. Who takes elderly comments seriously?

25 kilos each

Holy fuck they are strong. Flimsy girls jerking 4 plates

Lot of gold in this video
youtube.com/watch?v=7lS3pBJfRiI

It's an advanced lift for specialists that has a high injury risk even when done properly. A person continental cleaning 100lbs really ought to be able to deadlift 315 and regular clean 185. if you can't do that you likely don't have the strength to safely do it.

Why is crossfit bad?
>Shit programming
>Shit coaching
>Cult mentality
Why is crossfit good?
>qtpi girls
>good to bring more people in to lifting

that's it m8

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JUST

Golem get ye gone!

>trying to continental clean an axle bar when you're not even fat