Seriously! Building 'functional fitness' should not involve encouragement to do risky moves, rush at the expense of good form, or over-exert yourself to the point of vomiting. I saw all that routinely when doing CrossFit. I was stronger then, but I'm wiser now.
Especially since a lot of people have next to no fitness experience when they join. I’d absolutely suggest focusing on strict weightlifting form before moving to functional fitness (if at all)
Crossfit for some reason really likes to confuse "hard and untrained" with "functional" then they all wonder why they waddle everywhere at the age of 60.
I started teaching "functional" fitness in like 2007 and that included insane things like...single-leg squats. Or movements in different planes. You know, actual functional movements.
This stuff is just designed to look good on social media. I'm so glad it died down.
Had lyme disease in my 20s that affected my knee joints and that combined with trashing my knees skateboarding in my teens, barbell squats were hell on my knees in my 30s. Started doing single leg squats with controlled tempo and after a few months, i never feel knee pain, even if i hack squat 300+ lbs. That exercise alone bullet proofed my knee ligaments.
I had awful ankles while playing lots of sports through k-12. Just constantly rolling both ankles. Single leg squats became a staple exercise for me by second rugby season and I managed multiple seasons with no ankle injuries.
Yep. The thing that’s frustrating is the physical therapy exercises are what she needed to start with anyways, but once they do their work she’s back to causing damage with CrossFit.
While I am not at all a fan of CrossFit, I do think it can be a system that helps people get into fitness and I’m not going to shit on someone for finding a space that helps them fall in love with fitness.
I certainly have my criticisms of CrossFit and I don’t think it’s the best end all be all of fitness, but if it helps someone get into it, I’m not going to shit on them for that and also hope they find their own journey outside of it along the way.
Lift weights, cardio, fix diet. Then if she wanted to do stupid shit like this she could. wtf is this video? She injured herself, went through the process of healing, then just went right back to doing the same shit.
I know it fits the binary view of an American, but there are actually CrossFit and functional fitness centers with coaches who are educated and knowledgeable about their field. The same kind of coaches would never allow a person of that fitness level to do a box jump like that.
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u/Hairy-Association771 1d ago
Thanks for the daily reminder to not do crossfit