- Crossfit is a cult
- Worthless Pull-ups
- Group exercises don’t work
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Personally I love Crossfit. Working out has always been a difficult thing for me and I always found it hard to pursue. The thing I love about Crossfit is that you come into the class every day and a workout is posted for you. I am a person that knows very little about how to structure his own workouts effectively and Crossfit takes care of this problem completely. Each workout caters to every person of every fitness level, with each workout there is a scaled option and the option to go up in weight. But more than anything I love the lack of repetition, with only named workouts being repeated you never go into the same workout twice. With Crossfit I don’t feel like I am behind anyone, I feel like I am progressing with every workout; my strengths can be shown and my weaknesses worked upon. So in short I believe Crossfit is the best fitness avenue for me.
- Crossfit is a cult,
To a person who looks inward on the Crossfit lifestyle it can very much look like a cult. I myself have often made fun of my Crossfit obsessed friends of their cult mentality, until I started myself. I think that when people talk about Crossfit especially when they first start they are just so enthusiastic about finding a workout regime that finally works for them that they can’t help telling everyone about it. So to be final I believe that Crossfit is a lifestyle that people join to varying degrees of dedication and as in anything including religions should be talked about openly to an appropriate audience. - Worthless Pull-ups,
Again as with the ideology of the cult when others criticize the Crossfit style pull-ups (kipping and Butterfly) they are looking in from the outside. Critics are just looking at the energy saving aspects of it and not the practicality, they only see these pull-ups as a way of cheating or getting out of the real work, in a way this is true. The purpose of the Crossfit pull-ups is to be practical not to be a muscle building exercise. When the Crossfit WOD requires you to do upwards of 50 pull-ups it is an almost impossible task for a person of average fitness and it is not just for the interworking of Crossfit that this caters to it is the real world. If a Canadian trooper has to pull his of herself over a wall they have to get over the wall in as little time as possible they won’t be worried about perfect strict form. - Group Exercises don’t work
A major criticism of Crossfit is that so many people doing the same thing and learning the same thing can lead to overcrowded gyms and people not learning the forms correctly. I actually agree, for the fact if there is a gym full of amateurs an instructor might find it difficult to teach and a student would find it difficult to learn. But this is expected in a club that is so popular. However when working out I find it helpful to compete against people doing the same workout because it pushes you to do better.