It's Crossfit, look at her form for doing the snatch, she's been taught no control or form and that shit can ruin your entire body if you don't do it right. There's a big reason why she fucked up her ankle in the beginning and it all has to do with crossfit.
This. Theres a lot of CrossFit hate going on here but it's all about the gym and the instructor. It's like any other kind of working out: you need to be consistent with practicing your movements and need to be pushing yourself in a way that makes sense for your body. I go to CrossFit at a good gym with good instructors who care about you not doing things wrong and it's a fantastic experience.
Huh? Her snatch looked completely fine. I don’t ever see at any point her elbow overextending. Her catch position was pretty good although she caught it a bit soft.
the point isnt her losting fat. the point is that cross fit exercises are unnecessarily demanding and CF has a reputation of "fuck it we ball". that combined with her being fat is a recipe for permanent injuries.
I also have a distaste for crossfit. I've done this before. Landed on both shins, and bruised the bone on my right tibia. So, I don't even agree that she should be doing crossfit, but I wouldn't ever tell others what sports to practice. If it works for her, then more power to her. Life is short, and we all accrue a few injuries in the process if we've done half the living that we should.
If she knows it and is fine with it, that’s her choice. I had my bad experiences with crossfit too, before I knew anything about fitness. I would never do any timed strength training again for example. It does not make any sense, no matter your fitness level.
Her snatch form is fine? What are you even talking about, what more control would you like to see. It looks like she was redlining the lift, but she still rode the bar down to the bottom of her squat, which is what you're supposed to do. She shouldn't have been doing those box jumps, and I would never have a new athlete go for that tall of a box but weird to point out the snatch specifically.
Like the first lift she did around the one minute mark. She changes grip a few times throughout. But maybe that's a CrossFit lift I'm not aware of. Kinda like their "pull up" style. On further review, yeah, her form afterward is good, it was just that first lift that made my butthole pucker.
You mean the clean and jerk? Yeah it's not ideal to have hands slide in, as it weakens the third pull, but it's not abnormal to reset your hands after the clean before the jerk. I do worry that you can't tell a clean&jerk from a snatch and want to give form critiques.
I don't know if CrossFit got her to do box jumps or if she did it on a whim, so I can't add judgment there, even though I do agree CrossFit is silly. Box jumps are also a good exercise and aren't specific to CrossFit.
REGARDLESS of that, doing box jumps as an obese person is just a straight-up bad idea. Stick with more static exercises.
Not all are like this :( my gym always shows progressions for the movements. She probably should be doing box step ups rather than jumping on that high of a box. People ego lift all the time I see it in crunch and at my CrossFit gym.
Crossfit only "works" for some people because of the social aspect of it. Which by all means I hate seeing someone get fit with cross-fit, but whatever it takes.
Which is why you see some newer gyms (like orange theory and F45) try to capitalize on the social aspect but not the danger of cross fit.
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u/papitaquito 1d ago
Fuck that gym that let her do that.
Also congrats on the gainzzzz