Crossfit

cabla

Just a quick one here really.

Anyone know or anyone on Boards heavily involved with crossfit and personal training? With at least a level 1 Crossfit certificate?

I just completed my Level 1 in Dubai last weekend. Absolute blast and good to see an actual Crossfit Games guy (Austin Malleolo) head the seminar.

Anyone else done this course and what did you think of it?

Crossfit? Never heard of it!

Hanley

My girlfriend does a bit. She seems to like it.

RidleyRider

LuckyLloyd is very involved in it. He might see this.

Hanley

I did it befor it was cool. But after it was no longer underground.

Y'all are mainstream trend whore

CF L1 cert in Belfast in 2011. If you search for "my experience at the Crossfit level 1 cert" on here you'll find it.

LuckyLloyd

RidleyRider wrote: »

LuckyLloyd is very involved in it. He might see this.

I train at CFI, but I don't coach it or have a L1 cert.

OP, Transform offers personal training based out of Crossfit Ireland.

Transform

There must be at least 30 CrossFit boxes in Ireland now so you should have plenty of pick from when you google so just depends on where you live

Drained_Empty

cabla wrote: »

Just a quick one here really.

Anyone know or anyone on Boards heavily involved with crossfit and personal training? With at least a level 1 Crossfit certificate?

I just completed my Level 1 in Dubai last weekend. Absolute blast and good to see an actual Crossfit Games guy (Austin Malleolo) head the seminar.

Anyone else done this course and what did you think of it?

find it curious how a boards user of like 8 years, who went to dubai to do a cross fit course, wasn't aware of how ingrained cf is into this forum and irish fitness at the moment.

Inspector Coptoor

Perhaps the OP lives in Dubai?

It also reads to me that the OP was asking about people's opinions of the CF certification, as opposed to what people's opinion of Crossfit in general is or indeed where one could train in a Crossfit facility in Ireland

Drained_Empty

ok benefit of doubt given

continue on ppl

Mellor

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

It also reads to me that the OP was asking about people's opinions of the CF certification,

That's what I understood it as too.
And tbh, there's prob only about 5 regular posters (or less) who could have a valid opinion on this.

cabla

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

Perhaps the OP lives in Dubai?

It also reads to me that the OP was asking about people's opinions of the CF certification, as opposed to what people's opinion of Crossfit in general is or indeed where one could train in a Crossfit facility in Ireland

Appreciate that. Yes I live in Bahrain beside Dubai. This is where I've started Crossfit so I'm a bit ignorant of what's going on at home. I haven't been overly active on boards because of my move.

I was just seeing how Crossfit is accepted at home. Seems like most things in Ireland when someone tries to introduce something everyone is negative about it (not everyone clearly). I'll probably end up going on a rant here that innovation isn't exactly overly encourage in Ireland and we're an hour from London yet a million years apart.

I was possibly thinking of returning to Ireland basically and interested in setting up a box and seeing if there are some useful guys in Ireland with similar ambitions that could act as head coach. I've got my level one and helping coach now and involved with other sports.

Doug Cartel

cabla wrote: »

I'll probably end up going on a rant here that innovation isn't exactly overly encourage in Ireland

Please don't.

Dubdude

With some of the replies in here it really is clear why the health and fitness forum really is gone ****.

Hanley you could have just skipped your first post and gave out the info you had from your experience doing it which you later supplied.

amazingemmet

Ok as I see it, I'm not lvl 1 qualified but have been around a lot of Crossfitters over the years here's some points

- If the level 1 is your only qualification then it is essentially worthless in terms of being a good coach. This is the same for any two day qualification you wouldn't be impressed if your boxing coach had just done a weekend boxing course. right?

-Imo you need about 5 years of hands on coaching experience to be a good coach.

-You need to study strength and conditioning as your main source of info as essentially that is what CF is, branded strength and conditioning training.

-There's a lot of boxes springing up all over the place and there's quite a big difference between the ones that are run by coaches with a lot of experience and the ones run by someone with 2 years experience doing CF and 4 months as a CF coach.

-If you want to be a good coach I suggest you get your self in a role as an assistant coach in a more established box so you have good mentors to learn from.

Hanley

Dubdude wrote: »

With some of the replies in here it really is clear why the health and fitness forum really is gone ****.

Hanley you could have just skipped your first post and gave out the info you had from your experience doing it which you later supplied.

Irony++

Transform

amazingemmet wrote: »

Ok as I see it, I'm not lvl 1 qualified but have been around a lot of Crossfitters over the years here's some points

- If the level 1 is your only qualification then it is essentially worthless in terms of being a good coach. This is the same for any two day qualification you wouldn't be impressed if your boxing coach had just done a weekend boxing course. right?

-Imo you need about 5 years of hands on coaching experience to be a good coach.

-You need to study strength and conditioning as your main source of info as essentially that is what CF is, branded strength and conditioning training.

-There's a lot of boxes springing up all over the place and there's quite a big difference between the ones that are run by coaches with a lot of experience and the ones run by someone with 2 years experience doing CF and 4 months as a CF coach.

-If you want to be a good coach I suggest you get your self in a role as an assistant coach in a more established box so you have good mentors to learn from.

This ^^^^

Do coaches NOT courses. Blogged about this in the past and the country is now over run with CrossFit and strength and conditioning facilities which is great yet only the best will survive a few tax returns and not killing their clients

traco

Been doing CF about 18 months, so heres a punters viewpoint.

As said above the real value in a coach is teaching the lifts correctly and then programming them to maximise their results.

A L1 that has the the paperwork and is just pulling random wods from main site or any other source without proper understanding of technique in the lifts would be far from optimal and the risk of injury would be high.

There really is no substitute for experience from what I have learned. Unfortunately though many people will assume an individual with an L1 is the expert and hand over their hard earned only to see limited results, loose interest or worse get injured.

For my 2c, I'd prioritise lifting experience and lifting qualifications first, coaching experience second and then the CF cert.

Dermighty

Started CF a few days ago at Lifestyle Studios (Cork). From what I've been told they're going to be open officially from January onwards (I assume this means fully affiliated).

I like the idea of going into the gym and someone telling you what the days workout is going to be. For me, there's less chance of avoiding the things I dislike (which I generally dislike becuase I'm bad at them).

Workout 1 for me was "Fran", though I would regard myself as being very fit for BJJ I was definitely not fit for the workout we did!