Crossfit?

themommie

thanks for sharing. i enjoyed reading all the info. i personally think weights are great but you have to find something that works for you , if you dont feel comfortable , you wont stick with it

Health_Gal

thanks for sharing. i enjoyed reading all the info. i personally think weights are great but you have to find something that works for you , if you dont feel comfortable , you wont stick with it

Many non-Crossfit gyms have good weights programs and personal trainers that can make sure you are lifting with good form to avoid injury, which is especially important if you want to start lifting heavy.

pamelapeldo

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vs1023

CF is a Personal fitness goal of mine. The minute i saw it I felt I had to try it and everything I've read has said go at your own pace and work up to it. I plan to try it next year since I just rejoined my gym for a year. So for now I do bodypump and bodycombat.

Health_Gal

One of the big problems with anyone that's a non-elite athlete trying to do Crossfit is they generally post the workout at a level that elite Crossfitters might be able to do them on a good day, and then everyone else with a normal level of fitness has to take time to figure out how in the heck to modify it so they might be able to do it. Even with modifications and scaling, many Crossfit coaches push people to the point they are often extremely sore for three or four days after a workout. And being that sore for that long is not my idea of a fun or sustainable fitness program.

You're better off with BodyPump and BodyCombat. At least with those classes, you don't have the headache of trying to figure out how in the heck to scale it to something that do-able without landing you in the emergency room. I do a class similar to Body Pump, and all you have to modify is the actual weights on the bar. With Crossfit, you have all sorts of crazy lifts that hardly anyone outside of Crossfit does or knows how to modify to make them safe for a beginner. I do a kick boxing class that looks similar to BodyCombat, and with that, you just have to decide how hard you want to kick or punch to modify it.

snkeller24

Lets look at the olympic lifts used through out crossfit ... yeah by name you may not know what they are, I only knew squats and stiff legged dead lifts when I started; but let's see how they play out in daily life.

For starters - lifting anything up off the floor, clothes baskets, children, luggage, dead patients, hurt patients. Basics right there of either a dead lift and/or a clean, depending on what you do. (One hand dead lift = suitcase lift)

Let's say you work at a store or even just go shopping and need something off a taller shelf, of course no employees around so you wiggle it towards the end, get it in your hands, holding it over head until you're stable and lower it (similar to over head squat/snatch)

Lets say you're holding something that needs to go up on a shelf, you use some momentum from a lil dip and a big open hip that helps pop that box up just a lil higher then muscling it up ... BAM hang power clean and maybe throw a jerk in there.

You're playing the 'toss the child in the air' game with your kid or just going from waist to over head with said kid - BAM kettle bell swings.

Farming, fire fighting, working on an ambulance, hospital, warehouse ... over and over again you're using those basic movements ... sure you don't think of their fancy name, but essentially you're doing them. And when you do them incorrectly what happens? Workman comp claims, that's what. Oh you threw your back out? From lifting that 250 lb patient with your back and not your legs ... shame on you. Almost all job descriptions have some type of "lifting" requirement in them. Learn it. You don't have to live by cross fit, but learn those lifts.

So don't for one minute think that what is taught is pointless in the real word - it's applicable, crossfitting or not.

And I've never had a headache trying to figure out what weight to use. If I don't know my 1-rep max I pick a weight, do a few reps, coach watches me, if it feels like too much I drop. If I feel comfy I do that; if mid way through the WOD I start to get fatigued that I'm getting sloppy my coach will drop my weight.

Everything is scalable - we have members of all shapes, sizes, ages, and backgrounds. We cheer each other on and help out where we can. We're a family. End of story.