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A gym down the street from me just opened, offering "CrossFit Style Training" for $50/month. Interesting, attacking the brand monopoly and gauging going on in the CF community. All my local friends that do CF are -fuming- at this, saying lawsuits are coming, no one can work out "like" CrossFit unless it IS CrossFit, etc.Pretty fascinating to watch!
5. You will get insanely good at counting.
CrossFit mirrors American militarismThe fitness craze reflects the country's ongoing transformation from a culture of sports to a culture of war***This military ethos runs to the core of CrossFit, shaping its very vision of fitness. In the same article where Glassman defines what it means to be fit, he grounds CrossFit’s approach to fitness in those who already exemplify it: “We are but sharing the methods of a program whose legitimacy has been established through the testimony of athletes, soldiers, cops, and others whose lives or livelihoods depend on fitness.” The standard invoked here isn’t so much about staying in shape as staying alive. Take, for example, the way in we should understand the muscle-up, a movement in which you begin by hanging from rings, pull yourself up through them, as you would in a pull-up, then drive yourself up, as you would in a dip, so that you end with your arms locked out, suspended in the air.[v] Master the muscle-up, says Glassman, and –You’ll be able to surmount any object on which you can get a finger hold—if you can touch it you can get up on it. The value here for survival, police, fire fighter, and military use is impossible to overstate.This need to be combat ready, to survive, also informs CrossFit’s foundational idea, the need to “cross” the kinds of exercise you do. “Our specialty,” writes Glassman, “is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.”
So CrossFitters are all Spartans, now? And that makes the rest of us, what ...??Yeah, it's kind of a reach
One dimensional slugs that deserve to be kicked down a well.
Everyone has an uncle they’d rather you not meet.Please allow me to introduce you to Uncle Rhabdo, CrossFit’s unofficial and disturbing mascot. Uncle Rhabdo is a cartoon commonly referenced in CrossFit literature and representative of a troubling trend among CrossFitters.He’s a clown. Literally.The “Uncle Rhabdo” cartoon depicts an exhausted, yet well-muscled clown, connected to a dialysis machine standing next to some workout equipment. Concernedly, his kidney has fallen out and lays on the floor underneath him, along with some portion of his bowel. He’s left a pool of blood on the floor below him, but it’s not clear if this is from the disembowelment, the kidney’s arterial supply, or the collection of fasciotomies he appears to have endured. Uncle Rhabdo, of course, has Rhabdomyolysis.Rhabdomyolysis, apart from being a subtly pleasant and melodic sounding word, is an uncool, serious and potentially fatal condition resulting from the catastrophic breakdown of muscle cells. We’ll get more into the specifics in just a bit, but first let’s begin with a story.
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That's not how you do...whatever it is she's supposed to be doing. It's not from CrossFit.I think we talked about this in Yammering: CrossFit tends to encourage that kind of group "here's what I did today" thing. There are a couple of apps that encourage it as well. It's not unlike the daily mileage thread in Running, you just don't get to decide if it hits your FB feed or not like clicking into a thread.The focus is on competition with yourself: you record how many reps or sets of something you do or how much you lift and then try to improve on it next time. And some of the stuff we're able to do is pretty tough.
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