Can anyone tell me what's exactly wrong with crossfit...

Can anyone tell me what's exactly wrong with crossfit? I'm well aware that SOME of it's exercises are dumb or dangerous (I wont be doing those) but since I'm in DYEL mode I think it's a good place to start.

Plus, I'm also interested on training with more people, since I think it will help me stay motivated and improve my social skills, as oppose to just going to the gym alone to pick up heavy things and then put them on the ground.

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Is that roid bacne?

You'll end up never perfecting form on any lift and start to think that kipping pull-ups are still pull-ups. It's a retarded place to start. Fuck cross-fit.

Crossfit has two big problems:
1) Poor programming - they will set you up for injury with silly shit like doing max lifts while fatigued or doing high-skill lifts in numbers guaranteed to see your form break down.
2) Focus on "everything", be good at nothing. Progress is really hard to track of you're always doing something new, too.

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well I mean it still works your muscles albeit sub-optimally and makes you used to using them. And it's more cardio focused which honestly is just a good thing for most people (heart is the most neglected muscle). Lifting is a lot easier if you're in a good shape since you won't feel like you're out of energy after just couple of sets of squats. Just go for it if it feels like an easier way to get into fitness. At some point you probably start gravitating towards normal lifting anyway, depending on your goals of course

Where should I start then? Every time I join a gym they make me do cardio like 40 minutes each session, that's ridiculous.

is this legit? it sounds so over the top i'm suspecting satyre

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Just go lift man

>they make me
What the fuck are you talking about? Just do your own thing. Did you sign up for a PT but don't have the balls to tell him what you want to do?

no keloid scars....happens to everyone but mostly with darker people
high levels of collogen

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>Apply stress
>Recover
>Adapt
>Apply the same stress
>Recover
>Expect to adapt?

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No, the trainers are all retarded. I told them I wanted a more toned body and they always send me to waste my time doing cardio instead of lifting.

>toned

Dude if somebody at the gym comes up to you and tells you what to do, just tell them to fuck off.

>By clapping more or less, you can signal to us which stories really stand out.
now this, i can get into

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They work FOR the gym, I cant tell them that.

>crossfit

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what are they gonna do set off the lunk alarm?

What kind of fucked up dictatorship gym do you go to man. Most places you pay a fee, get access to the gym and do your thing, nobody can force you to do shit unless you start acting like a chimp. PT's can suggest whatever, you have no obligation to do anything they say my dude.

>Apply stress
>Recover
>Adapt
>Apply more stress
>Recover
>Adapt
Supercompensation is pretty fucking great.

They help people keep track of their progress by taking measures, weight, etc. They are supposed give you a program according to your objectives, but each time this fuckheads give you a 40 minutes cardio routine.

If I tell them off I don't know if they would be willing to help me again.

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>Commercial gyms

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Cardio will help fatties lose weight, so they focus on that

This is what's wrong with it

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>it's the difference between building a house and getting really good at putting nails in a board.

I dont get it
I can push myself pretty hard, like, doing dips everyday for 50 reps a session, 20rep squats for week everyday in cycle and shit but that never happened to me

How do you fry triceps so hard with overheadpressing that it fucking dies

Espexially wheb they use pushpress in crossshit

Desire to know more intensifies

just in case you arent baiting and actually a turbo autist too afraid to be straight forward, tell them you already had a run earlier that day and came there to lift weights.

low weights, increase weights till heavy singles and triples. take off a little weight, do another set. then another. decrease weights again until you are just lifting the bar.

Its commercialized ego lifting

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I take it you dont do cardio at the gym.

>they make me
just follow a beginner program dude

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I prefer running outside. dont know where you live, so maybe thats not possible. but i go to the gym to lift weights.

>I don't know if they would be willing to help me again.
Good, you don't want/need their help.
Get in there and lift some weights.

You want a non faggot POV? I did crossfit for two years when I got bored of years of gym time.

With a GOOD coach, you will lift properly. Audit the first class (usually free) and make sure they stress to everyone how to PROPERLY do the lifts.
It was okay, I got stronger. BUT, I lifted for form THEN reps, not just trying to crank out reps, so I was never "top of the board" until we did max out day.
The work outs were fun.

It's stupid expensive. The people are borderline retarded and cultish. I had to ignore their shit forever. A lot of the exercise are just power lifts for reps/time. If YOU keep good form, it's fine. But for the price, I wouldn't do it again. You can just set up a circuit at home or your local gym. I never did bullshit kipping pull ups, I did "real" ones. But the gym I finally landed on was very proactive about form and calling people out while lifting poorly.

It sounds like you're fat. I have a buddy that was really overweight and wanted to start lifting with me. I took up running just so he'd have a buddy. If you're overweight, lifting isn't the place to start. You'll look like a bear and get strong if you keep at it diligently, but you will never slim down or lose a gut by lifting. If anyone said they wanted to be "toned" to me, I'd have them do cardio too. If they just said they wanted to be strong or get bigger, I'd tell them to lift.

>run to lose the gut, don't lift
Retard advice. Lift and eat less. Period. End of story. Literally no reason to respond.

Oh so dropsets

But ive done those too, like curls with normal weight, and all the way down to literally 2kg dumbbells, and it did give me soreness and pump but thats about it

Cult
a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
"a cult of personality surrounding the leaders"

Nah, running is way faster to drop weight. I dropped 20 pounds over a 3 and a half month period by just upping cardio and cutting out milk/bread

didnt know the english expression. they work very well with t bar rows, its one of my favorite exercises.
but for triceps (weighted) dips and close-grip bench is all I do besides ohp.

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>cuts out high calorie foods
>gives credit to running
KYS idiot.

Sure, but I've never seen a fatty give up beer and burgers. I have, however, seen them start running and the pounds melt right off. You can both lift and run. Or even better, lift and swim. Not everyone is trying to get huge balloon arms, and for most people that's not where they aim first either.

lmao @ bitch that gets slammed into the police car

If that was the approach of crossfit, I'd be more for it. When I tried out a class, they only stressed reps and weight in a time frame, so I didn't care much for it when I saw how rekted my friends got from it when they didn't pace themselves. I got sore, but not rekted. Felt it would've been better just setting a circuit like you said and doing it at home or at my time in a gym if I was looking to do more cardio with my lifts.

That pregnant lady is stressing me out. Is it okay for her to be working out like that?

that's what you get for talking like a fucking woman and saying toned. you deserve to become a cardio bunny twink.

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both the condition and the mascot are real
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

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are you fat?

>Can anyone tell me what's exactly wrong with crossfit?
its programming is retarded, to the point of putting you in actual danger.

the constant switching of exercises means that you never actually get good at any of them.
the emphasis on speed and pushing your limits is generally dangerous.

combine these together, and you have a bunch of people doing complicated movements that they are not trained well in, at very high intensity and speed that they are not adapted to. this is a recipe for snapping your shit up.

also, while it is good at keeping you in general shape, it does not actually train you. there is no long term programming at all. you can do crossfit for 10 years, and at the end you will still not be any stronger or in better shape than you were when you were 3 months in. there is no real progression at all.

tl;dr you're doing random shit in dangerous ways for nonexistant results.

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La bestia del huitlacoche

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Crossfit is just Zumba for men

should be fine.

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Skinny fat.

people here don't understand shit about crossfit, wrong place to ask

imagine every fucking set you do is a drop set until you're so exhausted you can't get up

that's like a crossfit fundamental.

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If you want to do compound, barbell lifts, say exactly that.

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>those guys who skipped the gym tutorial
I'm not surprised you can't find any gains.

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why do only black people get keloids?

there's tons of benefits from cardio other than losing body fat, your respiratory and circulatory systems get better over time and you can exercise a lot of smaller internal muscles that rarely get touched on in a workout. Also running and stretching can increase flexibility, since you should never stretch without being well warmed up, and flexibility also helps with lifting. Also if you train sensibly it can help to improve your joint strength.

Christ, this is like something out of those "happy new year" comics.

More pics of this shit this is fucking hilarious

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>dyel
>I think
yea go ahead then, why the fuck are you asking anyone here

I have seen white people with keloids

Lol that's a sissy squat. It's a popular quad accessory for bodybuilders. DYEL?

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found the crossfailure

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>Ted DiBiase
>WWE
>mfw

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How do I make gains like this?

>Where should I start then? Every time I join a gym they make me do cardio like 40 minutes each session, that's ridiculous.
Start running for half a mile, 3x a week. Raise this to 2 miles over a few months. Then, add some bagwork and boxing.

That's what Jack Dempsey recommended and you can't really argue with Jack fucking Dempsey.

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>Blisterin barnacles!

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How do you let that shit get that bad
I'd go to a dermatologist the fucking second I saw a bunch of weird lumps spread across my back

hit the nail on the head desu

ex crossfitter here, I got started on lifting there and had some nice coaches who taught me squatting n deadlifting (we hardly ever benched tho) but one day I realised doing 50 deadlifts for time is retarded and started doing my own thing.

If crossfit was just a chill oly & gymnasitcs club that focused on SKILLS (best part of crossfit) and no stupid timed wods it would be fucking sweet.

that's an axel bar, it's probably from that retarded strongman club that people always think is crossfit

I'm legit wondering, does anybody get big doing these meme exercises without cheating and doing conventional shit on the side?

People who get keloids like him have no choice. You try to treat that shit and it just grows back worse than before, although it looks like it was progressive from the beginning with him, no matter what he did.

audible kek

Starting strength is a good place to start. Rippetoe may have some weird beleifs on diet but he made a great program for begginers. It's braindead-easy and you'll get results very quickly. If you don't have a trainer, just make sure you study the exercises well before adding weight.

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i've been thinking about why i find it retarded on such an intrinsic level and this is what i've been able to put into words so far

the problem with crossfit isn't as much crossfit itself but the way the exercising is actualized (and i'm saying exercising - not training - because it's hardly training when the main point is exhaustion rather than measurable progress). Crossfit classes are taught in large groups. Most crossfit PTs aren't teaching the students (which makes them but attendees and not students at all) - they order them around for an hour just to make them go through the motions. It's the very concept personal training in general is built on and it's focused on people who are only after the result of having a good looking body and being a part of a cool fitness clique. People often sign up because they don't know jack shit about working out and want somebody to go through the mental effort of learning for them - it's and easy skip, they just get told what to do. This isn't something i find worthy of respect as compared to say a young guy who wants to learn the knowledge on the subject of lifting, looks shit up, relies on himself and his ability to improve given his determination and focus.

Crossfit bothers me because I'm a faggot who likes his proper gym atmosphere and 15 people jumping around supersetting jumping jacks over a barbell with 50 sets of push presses solely because there's an egoistical PT shouting at them simply fucks with my vibe in a bad way.

tl dr
if you need some stranger shouting at you continuously in order to work towards your goals you're not someone I can respect

bonus points if work bitch by britney spears is playing

>fibonacci

kek

>tfw crossfit gym opened up across the street from current gym
>tfw all the retards and trendsters are leaving
>tfw more squat racks and power cages for me

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succint

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crossfit workouts tend to emphasize pure volume at the expense of form, all while performing big complicated lifts that can very easily lead to injury. this is why it has such a bad reputation

also, they literally teach you out to cheat rep your way through the workout just to get the volume in, pretty much defeating the point of the exercise

dat nigga has greyscales

Not enough rest its trying to mix heavy lifting with cardio which should be reserved for light lifting.
Alsoto become a weightlifting coach you need a one year formation and after this formation you can choose to specialise in crossfit by attending a 2 DAYS complementary formation.
So you cant just tell whats wrong with crossfit as a whole because most problems comes from the voaches and are seperate

Coaches*