Functional Strength MRR Ebook With Video

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The idea behind CrossFit is simple: to provide you with cross modal fitness. The CrossFit athlete should be someone who is not only very strong but also very agile, very resilient and very flexible. The annual CrossFit games challenge their athletes to lift weights with compound lifts for multiple sets, go on long runs, climb ropes and then perform tons of pull ups (called ‘kipping pull ups’). The winner of these games is then crowned ‘the fittest man/woman alive’.

On the face of it, this is a great idea. Fitness should be cross modal. If you’re an athlete competing in the Olympics, then sure, one type of training is likely to be best for you and to yield the best results. For everyone else though, there’s little use in being really strong if you’re not flexible, or in being really fast if you can’t run very far. The best kind of fitness for everyday life is ‘Jack of all trades’ fitness.

So it’s a great idea. Why then the controversy?

CrossFit Controversy

It actually comes down to several things. The biggest concern for many is a lack of regulation. CrossFit gyms are called ‘boxes’ and in order to open up a gym and start training people, you only need to go on a very short 3 day course. This means that all kinds of people are running classes and that’s leading to people getting injured. Of course the same could be said for fitness in general to some extent but in CrossFit, it’s rife.

The other problem is with some of the programming. CrossFit encourages people to perform deadlifts for instance after running huge distances and for gigantic sets. The result is that they start to lose their form and become much more likely to injure themselves. Olympic lifts and deadlifts aren’t designed to be performed for large amounts of repetitions and this causes injury. There are other similar problems elsewhere in the programming too.

The ‘kipping pull up’ is another recommendation that comes under fire from some pundits. This is a pull up that’s designed to be performed for high reps and as such, encourages you to swing your body into the movement. The problem with this is that it commonly leads to injury yet again and teaches bad form.

If you go to the CrossFit website, you’ll find a new ‘WOD’ there each day. This is ‘Workout Of the Day’ and it’s a recommended training challenge that CrossFit fans can choose to follow and that some boxes will offer their clients.

The problem is that these workouts seem to be completely random. One day you’re running 6 miles, the next you’re performing ring dips to failure. That’s the point sure, but when the programming follows no rhyme or reason like this, it means you can end up training the same body part twice in rapid succession, or using technical movements when you’re feeling tired and exhausted. Even more random is the fact that the CrossFit website sometimes recommends the WOD be an ‘off day’. What if someone wants their off day to be on a different day of the week? What if that training schedule doesn’t fit with their precise routine? It’s all a bit strange and an almost ‘cult-like’ dedication seen by some people only makes it worse.

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