Why Everyone Hates CrossFit

If you've ever heard of CrossFit your first impression probably wasn't a positive one, this is 3 of the main reasons everyone seems to hate CrossFit...

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WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE CROSSFIT?

Introduction- 00:00
The Rise of CrossFit- 01:13
Reason 1- 02:43
Reason 2- 05:39
Reason 3- 07:36

[BenEcho]

Thanks for the love! I actually have a new video coming soon about crossfit 😅. I enjoyed your perspective and love your channel, keep it up!

[Diggy]

Not everyone hates crossfit. Chiropractors, surgeons, and EMTs appreciate the extra influx of business 🍵

[SriranjanSeshadri]

The dangers of a bad trainer cannot be overstated. Joined a crossfit gym in my early 40s. In less than a week, they tried to get me to do handstand push-ups, kipping pull-ups and box jumps. This was when I didn't know what a push-up or squat looks like. Got injured way too often. Crossfit came across as a sport for the fit to demonstrate their fitness, not a tool for the average person to get fitter.

[triccele]

"It was a great idea, just with terrible execution" is the best way to summerize crossfit. Great video as always.

[jakeave]

My only experience was being out of town and entering a crossfit and said "Oh, I'm on a month long trip and I'm just looking for a gym for a few weeks" and the guy was like "this isn't a gym, this is crossfit" and I immediately knew I was in the wrong place.

[erickvillegas]

I don’t hate them, I just want to see them do a regular pull up.

[route]

I work out 5 times a week for the past 10 years. Tried cross for a week and saw how unsafe, and unnecessarily self destructive to your body it was. My sister got into CrossFit 4 years ago and is addicted. Her body looks great but at what cost? She suffers from physical issues as a result and recently had surgery on her shoulder. You can get the same results by sticking to a safe gym regimen without sacrificing your body.

[liamengram]

I think there are 2 main factors:

1. Experienced lifters see these people running several miles then attempting max lifts. Everyone knows this is a bad idea - including the participants and organizers.

2. Crossfit spreads a mentality very quickly - even to the newcomers - that if you've done 3 crossfit classes a week for 6 weeks in a row you are now somehow more physically fit and have a higher expertise on lifting techniques than someone with years of dedicated experience doing 6 days of weights and 3 days of cardio every week. I have seen crossfitters approach my friend Dan on the platform and critique his snatch technique even though he was a full ride weightlifter at LSU, and is now the strength and conditioning coach for a local college football team.

[osricen]

I was very curious about this. Recently I sent a video of myself doing handstand push-ups very slowly to my friends because I just managed to do it after many years... and one of them, crossfiter, told me that the best way to achieve it is to kick up and cheat it by doing it fast... I told him: that's how you get a broken cranium or neck and he told me that's the way they do it in crossfit. Thing is I managed to do handstand push-ups because I started slowly with regular ones and then more difficult versions, dominating the form correctly, with much care.

[cal]

When i was a gym manager at a predominantly powerlifting gym, we held a workshop for trainers in the area just to give tips and trick for the big three lifts (squat, bench, deads) because that is a powerlifters skillset. Around our area we had two CrossFit gyms and we had a bunch of CrossFit coaches attend the workshop, and let me just say it was shocking/concerning that most of them lacked the proper skills to perform the three most common compound movements safely and soundly. More so was the concern that many of these individuals were regularly teaching others on how to lift, while lacking the proper technique themselves.

[bobd]

“Whether or not CrossFit is bad, largely depends on the gym you go to”

💯.

[hanwmanwukong]

"Crossfit has revolutionized fitness, by teaching the correct way to do an incorrect pullup"
Bury me, cause I'm dead.

[Teeders]

Met a guy on a dating app once that was into crossfit. Said he wanted a partner that was into crossfit and it was a deal breaker if she did anything other than crossfit. We didn't get past that point as my knees are already bad.

[SeaniMonsta]

In 2011 I was working at a café. A guy came in with a CrossFit T, I asked him what CrossFit is and he replied, "we train in a way that allows us to take any sport and almost beat any professional." ...I was a wrestler in college. I knew then CrossFit was a joke.

[sa]

Some 10 years ago I entered a crossfit gym, as the gym was having a introductory session which was mandatory for all new students costing about 400 dollars for 3 sessions. Then I saw the so called session teaching safe movements of how to do Pullups, followed by worst Deadlift form I ever saw in my life. I walked out telling the sales person I know better and quicker ways of becoming disabled for life, since that day I have never taken these clowns seriously. Crossfit, no thanks.

[greaterpainter]

I used to do Crossfit in high school. I always liked that we worked out in groups, but I always thought it was weird that everyone was obsessed with the amount of time you completed the workout. Sacrificing form for speed seemed so stupid to me so I always took far longer than everyone in the group. Despite them giving advice about kipping and the like. I could kinda tell even as a teen that this was probably dangerous so that along with the membership price is what made me leave

[Anderson_Seen]

They tried to recruit me some years back, I had just lost like 50 pounds (not doing CrossFit) dudes was waaaay too into it, and the “community” of it all. I was like nah fam, when it’s time to get in shape, I don’t need no friends, I need self-discipline in eating first, and a regular workout routine.

[yuukotombo]

The thing about cross-fit dismissing traditional workouts with lines like "do you ever see someone do this motion at a job site?" is that these exercises are designed to isolate muscle groups. Its not that you'll do that exact motion, but that you're targeting specific groups you will use during other motions. Ones that might not get a lot of strength build up without isolation. If your goal is to build strength you don't want to shortcut a workout.

The thing about the guy winning Ninja Warrior and how cross-fit helped him - is that Ninja Warrior only asks you get to the other side of the obstacle. If all you need to do is get your chin over the bar, then cross-fit has the right strategy, but if you're actually wanting to get stronger you're shooting yourself in the foot by doing butterfly pullups.

[gomiho]

I considered crossfit until I moved close to a crossfit gym 4 years ago. I'd regularly see people outside, rain or shine, working out and suddenly stop, puke on the side of the road, and then go back and keep working out. That mentality was a big NOPE for me.

[TickleMeElmo]

"we're doing this shit so we can go outside and survive better"

You live in the modern world in a developed country. Looking both ways before you cross the road and putting on your seatbelt are the fundamentals. Getting at least 30 minutes of cardio plus eating about two to three cups of veggies a day can also help you survive.