Re:CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
by mightybyte on Saturday September 21, 2013 @08:57PM
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I actually own that book and have read the whole thing...most of it more than once. I'm not saying that motor control doesn't go down. I'm saying that it doesn't go down enough to make it dangerous at the lighter weights. I have been doing high and low rep Olympic lifts since 2007. The only injury I ever got was on a 1RM clean and jerk. That might have been technique related, but it's probably more related to me having a history of previous injury which happened before I ever heard about CrossFit.
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Re:CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
by enraged_camel on Sunday September 22, 2013 @03:59AM
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For the love of God please stop with the anecdotal evidence.
Re:CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
by mightybyte on Sunday September 22, 2013 @05:20AM
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I don't see you busting out any peer-reviewed studies to support your claim. If you don't have that, then it's your word against mine. The fact that most of the people who have done these movements do them in low reps and really high weight doesn't prove your point either. I have actually done the movements under question in both rep schemes, and it doesn't sound like you have.