OH GOD NO
+ I love the people defending her form on youtube. IT'S A 1RM, THEY DON'T LOOK PRETTY!
That goes to show you how easily people are fooled I guess. A middle aged chubby guy, who looks like he's never seen the inside of a gym tries to sell you a fitness program for exorbitant monthly fees. You'd think even beginners have enough common sense to smell something's wrong.
Terrible analogy. You can go to a crossfit gym and not do their way of crossfit. I.E., not deadlift, overhead squat, kettlebell swings and kipping pullups 30x as fast as you can while also incorporating other fatiguing workouts leading to poor form and higher risk of injury.
You want to know something funny about that? Her lifts were completely stagnate for her first 2 years of Crossfit. She attributes her strength gains to a change in diet.
http://robbwolf.com/2009/08/22/laura-demarco-the-whole-enchilada/
Like I said, you can go to the "Bleach Coolers" kiosk and order a lemonade without bleach, but the original idea is still terrible. Maybe you don't know what an analogy is, the same way you don't know what proper deadlift form is. Go ahead, keep trying to go back and forth with me, see where it gets you. At least you may learn something.
Oh I know what a analogy is, yours is/was just terrible. Hunch those shoulders!
Written by a girl who says in the article that she doesn't do deadlifts because the risk to reward isn't worth it.......
Whether you agree with this or not, I thought the article came off as just as elitist as crossfit is and was full of misinformed opinions lumping together 10,000+ gyms based on experiences with 2
What does her being female have to do with anything?
Should he have typed "Written by a guy..."
That's the first point he makes; gender has nothing to do with it.
he talks about faulty logic on her part and begins his argument with a big old fallacy (ad hominem)
That's the first point he makes; gender has nothing to do with it.
he talks about faulty logic on her part and begins his argument with a big old fallacy (ad hominem)
I don't read fitness articles by chicks who have never deadlifted.
Terrible analogy. You can go to a crossfit gym and not do their way of crossfit. I.E., not deadlift, overhead squat, kettlebell swings and kipping pullups 30x as fast as you can while also incorporating other fatiguing workouts leading to poor form and higher risk of injury.
I don't think his analogy was particularly terrible, but leaving that aside...
crossfit is a brand. if you aren't doing their way of crossfit, you aren't doing crossfit.
You can go to any gym and do proper deadlifts, overhead squats, kettlebell swings, and kipping pullups for a reasonable number of reps at a reasonable pace. You aren't doing crossfit if you do this. You're just weight lifting; like people did for years in gyms before anyone came up with the name crossfit.
The bad things they do is the part that differentiates crossfit from just weight lifting.
feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, but that's what i've gathered from my casual observation of crossfit.
Dat marketing. Say what you want about Crossfit (not a fan myself), but they've done a hell of a job from the business end. When you have your brand name being used as a verb, you've got something.