CrossFit’s lucrative and simple business plan

Re:CrossFit’s lucrative and simple business plan by diamondback on Saturday July 25, 2015 @10:22AM (#9947639)

The main issue I take with crossfit is the programming. Bad coaching and a prevalence of speed and reps over form is one set of problems but perhaps greater is the intrinsic lack of good solid progression in the workouts.

A lot of these people are more or less wasting their time grinding out workouts that have no real rhyme or reason to them when they could be putting all that perspiration into good linear progression and actually increasing their strength and performance.

There's also a pervasive smugness in a lot of these boxes. It almost seems to be part of the workout; thinking you're some kind of superhuman and better than everyone else.

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Re:CrossFit’s lucrative and simple business plan by timonv on Saturday July 25, 2015 @05:02PM (#9948997)

I disagree. There are plenty of coaches that get programming wrong in any sport. If they do programming themselves without any knowledge on the topic, ofcourse it's going to be problematic. And that happens in WL and other strength sports just as much.

That said, many newbies will make _a lot_ of gains when they start out doing crossfit or any form of barbell training.

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