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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
I don't really care, because I'm a lazy shit that doesn't do either, even though I should. | ||
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + http://imgur.com/gallery/4qMIm Looks perfectly safe and healthy... Seriously though, I heard it described somewhere as people who work out but don't have a sport trying to turn their working out into a sport. Also heard a LOT of stories about how a quarter of the people in any serious crossfit group are constantly nursing some kind of injury, generally due to doing something retarded in training. It's pretty obviously not as safe as "normal" lifting, proper form is proper form for a reason... But if you can't motivate yourself to work out normally doing it *sensibly* seems like a possible way to motivate yourself to keep working out. Also from someone I know who does it (lightly) crossfit teams tend to be pretty comradely and are a great support network/source of motivation. I'd advise just finding an actual sport to play though, if you need an objective to be working towards or a group of people to do it with. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjYyfkcaNI Just google around, there are some hilarious gifs and pictures of "crossfit" all over the place I mean... wtf + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Ak1ImQi.jpg) edit: oh and the biggest turnoff about it, it often recommends very advanced or dangerous exercises to beginners, straight away. Which is both completely stupid and incredibly dangerous... | ||
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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
Then you watch them do like pull ups and you just shudder horribly and feel phantom joint pain. I dunno, people who do crossfit are usually hella fit, but to me crossfit is the fitness worlds equivalent of farmer engineering. Sure you can make it work and ultimately get your goal accomplished, but you make a lot of unneccesary sacrifices, risks, and most people think you are kind of retarded. /shrug I mean sure, you can make steam using a torch and water in a propane tank, there is just a good chance you'll die if you do it enough. Sure you can lift as much as you can as fast as you can for as long as you can with no form, there is just a good chance you'll hurt yourself or look weird. | ||
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Doctorbeat
Netherlands13241 Posts
On September 16 2016 10:00 sung_moon wrote: To my homies, I'm curious of what are your opinions on Crossfit? I don't plan on switching over at all, I'm just curious. There's seem to be an air of arrogance from people I know who Crossfit, while my other gym friends look at it in suspicion. It can work if you have a PT who knows what he's doing and knows the limitations of the body and the importance of good form. However, Crossfit tends to get negative publicity because it has a connection between speed of exercise and complexity of exercise. If you need to do fast pushups no biggie. Fast jumping jacks or bodyweight squats? No problem at all. But then you have Crossfit people trying to cram as many oly lifts/strongman events in in 1-2 minutes and that's how you get injured. I do like how it's made strength training more popular, especially with women (probably because it's group exercise). | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
An average joe that just wants to get into shape shouldn't really worry about that kind of thing imo. edit: One of the issues I find with training is that a lot of it is internal goal setting. That isn't necessarily bad but for a lot of people they work a lot better if there's some kind of external goal pushing forward. So I think the concept of Crossfit giving that is quite sound. Body weight exercises are also really good that from what I've been told a lot of people tend to neglect when doing normal strength training. Main issue again is just this rather weird culture that's formed around it I think. Didn't know it made strength exercise more popular in women. That's really cool if true. | ||
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Doctorbeat
Netherlands13241 Posts
On September 16 2016 17:42 Numy wrote: From what I've seen most of the "good" trainers basically train their people using normal strength training focusing on form like always. I don't see much wrong with the concept but I think it's developed this weird ecosystem or group think that can be dangerous. Met plenty of very nice crossfit guys that know all the potential dangers so do it properly while also enjoying that sense of competition. An average joe that just wants to get into shape shouldn't really worry about that kind of thing imo. edit: One of the issues I find with training is that a lot of it is internal goal setting. That isn't necessarily bad but for a lot of people they work a lot better if there's some kind of external goal pushing forward. So I think the concept of Crossfit giving that is quite sound. Body weight exercises are also really good that from what I've been told a lot of people tend to neglect when doing normal strength training. Main issue again is just this rather weird culture that's formed around it I think. Didn't know it made strength exercise more popular in women. That's really cool if true. The large majority of Crossfit posts on my FB wall are from women. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
Price wise here it isn't too bad to my knowledge. All our gyms typically give discounts if you are on medical aid(what we call insurance) and well majority of people are on medical aid that can afford gym. edit: thinking of taking the plunge into online dating. idk though man. Seems hard and soul crushing and scary | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
On September 16 2016 21:30 Numy wrote: I don't know enough women to get crossfit posts on my FB wall. Price wise here it isn't too bad to my knowledge. All our gyms typically give discounts if you are on medical aid(what we call insurance) and well majority of people are on medical aid that can afford gym. edit: thinking of taking the plunge into online dating. idk though man. Seems hard and soul crushing and scary Do online dating, go full meme and have a great time and share your stories of sexual conquests it's gonna be gud | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On September 16 2016 22:31 Scip wrote: Do online dating, go full meme and have a great time and share your stories of sexual conquests it's gonna be gud You would make a great yuppie. You should see if ghandi needs a roommate for college. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On September 16 2016 22:30 mordek wrote: Its like $110 a month here for a single membership and I could get my family into the YMCA for like $60, with my workplace discount its $42. So it seems entirely irresponsible to go to the crossfit box unless my one hobby and passion in life is to get good at crossfit and in that case I should just move to a city with a major box. Dam that's expensive wtf. Here I pay like R300($21) a month access to any of the stores nationwide. @Scip - lol maybe there's some truth in not taking it seriously and having a great time. | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
How good Crossfit is almost entirely comes down to who runs the gym. If you have some bullshit artist who got a weekend cert so he could charge way more money than a normal gym and just have everyone do the HQ WoD every day then that gym is total shit, people in it will look like shit if they aren't already athletes, and they'll get injured more often and burn out most likely. In an odd twist they'll probably lose their comraderie faster because chain WoDs are dumb and it's hard to goal set when they're all you do and they don't repeat forever. It's cool though people are dying to join them so the owner will still make bank with his revolving door of trainees paying 100-120 a month yet only using the gym like 3x per week and a lot of the workouts involve low equipment wear(lots of running and pull ups and such). | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 16 2016 21:30 Numy wrote: I don't know enough women to get crossfit posts on my FB wall. Price wise here it isn't too bad to my knowledge. All our gyms typically give discounts if you are on medical aid(what we call insurance) and well majority of people are on medical aid that can afford gym. edit: thinking of taking the plunge into online dating. idk though man. Seems hard and soul crushing and scary Would highly recommend online dating. | ||
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
How many people did you meet before you met your otter? | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 17 2016 01:09 phyvo wrote: How many people did you meet before you met your otter? I chatted with a couple but she was the first girl I met in person off of dating. She had been using it for some time, though. | ||
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