why the hatred?

Pffffft...I'd like to see a Tour de France winner win the Crossfit Games.

Or a powerlifter win Wimbledon

Or a lion tamer pilot a space shuttle

What about mega endurance runners? The kind that spend three months crossing the Sahara.

Lunatics.

Brian? wrote: »

There a lot of great things about the Crossfit methodology. Brilliant stuff altogether.

It's the cultishness that drives me up the wall. The winner of the games is the "fittest man on the planet". He's perfectly adapted to crossfit alright. I'd like to see him win Le Tour de France.

I also don't like the reps for speed idea with Oly lifts.

as someone thats been doing crossfit longer than most now i honestly dont see ANY cultishness. What i see are the average person doing crossfit buying everything with reebok labeled on it and thinking they're elite because they can kick into handstand and do kipping pullups.

MightyMandarin wrote: »

I've been to 2 stages, one on the flat and one in the mountains and even with 7-8% incline on the road those guys still ****ing fly past.

Personally I think the speed they cover makes them more worthy of the title imo.

meh, we could all do that if we were cycling antelope blood into our bodies like they are.....
But truthfully on ped's or not, wouldnt argue with you that these guys have to be very close to the top in terms of endurance

I keep telling my dog he's the 'best dog in the world' ... deep down I know he isn't .. but I like to keep up the charade to keep up the spirits at home

Its plain stupid to compare sports.

No matter what somebody achieves there will always be something they cant do. They will always be a fan of another sport there to point this out.
Just enjoy which ever sport you enjoy for what it is.

The highlights of my sporting calander are Tour De France, Vuelta, Football World Cup or Euros and Intriguing MMA fights. It makes no difference to me if a gym head points out how little these guys squat or an athletics fans points out how slow their 100m sprint is.

Anyway, why is it people hate crossfit again?

Transform wrote: »

What i see are the average person doing crossfit buying everything with reebok labeled on it and thinking they're elite because they can kick into handstand and do kipping pullups.

I think you should start thinking about things from their perspective. In my head, being able to kick into a handstand or do a unassisted pullup(ignoring kipping) puts you at least into the top 10% of the adult population once you start heading past 30. For most people who have been introduced to fitness through crossfit and who are surrounded by obese people in all manners of their life, in their eyes they have suddenly become the elite.

I work in IT though, so I might be biased in terms of my experiences. The only time weight becomes a issue to the people around me is when their belly becomes too big to fit comfortably between them and their desk, but not big enough that they can't just rest their keyboard on it. But you are heavily involved in the fitness industry and I'm assuming that a disproportionate percentage of your social circle is in that top 10%.

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I think you should start thinking about things from their perspective. In my head, being able to kick into a handstand or do a unassisted pullup(ignoring kipping) puts you at least into the top 10% of the adult population once you start heading past 30. For most people who have been introduced to fitness through crossfit and who are surrounded by obese people in all manners of their life, in their eyes they have suddenly become the elite.

I work in IT though, so I might be biased in terms of my experiences. The only time weight becomes a issue to the people around me is when their belly becomes too big to fit comfortably between them and their desk, but not big enough that they can't just rest their keyboard on it. But you are heavily involved in the fitness industry and I'm assuming that a disproportionate percentage of your social circle is in that top 10%.

true enough as 60% of the pop are overweight or obese so fat acceptance is the norm and its quite sad to think that we now have greater access to fitness facilities than ever before but willpower is still harder to control for many.

Ive no problem at all and think its brilliant that people believe they're elite

im just uncomfortable that people ACT and SWAGGER around like they believe they're going to regionals or the games because they've been doing crossfit for a year or came 9th in some local small crossfit type competition.

As already mentioned there's good and bad to ALL aspects of fitness and that includes activities like yoga which you think would be non competitive.

I do crossfit for me and try to help people get better at it without getting injured from junk metcons and poorly managed programming.