CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret (Page 2)

While I can agree with personal responsibility I think there is a professional responsibility as well if in fact the occurrence of Rhabdo is much higher than average as noted in the article.  Like you stated on my FB, your "box" educated you up front about what it is and the signs to look out for.  That is professional responsibility.  I would guess the piece is either blatant sensationalism or the author walked into one of the DB boxes out there that preaches this sort of thing and then cast a blanket of assumption on the entire movement.  Judging from responses of other friends that are into CF the whole mascot thing is certainly out there and is joked about in SOME gyms but they also admit those are not the types of gyms they would ever feel safe setting foot in.  

Totally agree.  I have a hard time calling it a "box" as well...that's just dumb.  

There.

One wouldn't hire a coach they didn't respect, they were in the dark about those aspects of the coach-client relationship, and one that they felt was irresponsible. I wouldn't join a gym (and have quit some) that I felt a safe environment wasn't priority #1, and that only offered a hodge-podge of workouts. I can elaborate on this for hours and gladly answer and give advice to my friends who are looking to join a CF gym. But, as it's been brought up before, blanket "it's dangerous" statements are pretty ignorant, in any sport.

(I didn't write it in all caps and bold! The editor is seriously efffed up)

Yeah, I guess I have the same question. 

I have had blood in my urine twice following particularly hard marathons (lots of hills).  Maybe that was from something else though?

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Teejay and Comet, thanks for your input re CF and rhabdo.  Everything you say makes complete sense. 

I could see myself getting caught up in a paired workout (I think that was the term) and pushing too hard.  I would like to think I'd have the common sense and ability to control my ego in that situation, but, umm, something (like way too many years of doing stupid stuff like that) makes me think I might not :)

I was simply interested in opinions of folks (like you) who dabble in both Triathlon and CF. No hidden agenda, defensive much?

I also find that when people post a potentially controversial thread with a strong opinion in the first post (and I don't have one on this subject, for the record) it skews the entire thread from the get go. I wanted the conversation to take it's own course without my influence.

Nail on the head.  And no offense to Comet meant but her first reply basically illustrates this.  (runs for cover)  I've hung out in large groups of CF doers and quickly learned rule #1 in CF is "you do not joke about CF".  Doing so results in a lecture on how awesome it is, how everything else sucks and how you have to do it.  Triathletes may share a lot of the trials and tribulations that crossfit is going through now but I think as a whole, most triathletes are able to laugh at themselves at the end of the day because we know we are ridiculous.  

With that said, if I weren't into tris I could see giving CF a go.  I did the gym thing for years and it was mind numbing boring and I missed competition, thus back to running and tris.  

Rhab-do-my-ol-y-sis? 

Just a guess... Huh, I probably could have looked it up instead of just writing something down that I really have no idea about, but where's the fun in that? 

I call all my bitchez "sis". g2g.

But the "o" is before the "lysis"... wouldn't that make it a my-oly-sis instead of a my-losis? 

Ah, Teejaay I just had to say that I've felt really similarly, except I was good with just dreams of HIM.  Even a half pushed me to a point of feeling like I was becoming a WORSE athlete instead of a better one despite training under coaching that seemed to work well for other triathletes at my level and taking really smart people's advice.

Crap....does that mean I have to try CF now too?? 

In all seriousness, I have to be honest and say that I've seen CF going on in my big box gym and shrugged to myself that I just don't get it.  It seems like weight lifting moved forward past non-functional things like a clean-and-press or shows of brute strength popular in the 80's and became more functional.  I love using the stability ball, multi-planner movements more with body weight than a loaded up barbell.  CF seems a little like a step backward.  But I don't know much about it beyond what I see, and perhaps our trainers are not on the right track.  So I'm interested to hear others' thoughts.

Does it seem like more people are getting injured with the CF trend than with other niche gym workout type programs?  Yes.  But I don't know if there's real data to support that.  As far as the article, it just seems like sensationalism to me.

I just do what's fun.  Crazy, I know.

I'm far from the typical triathlete, but it was fun.  I'll always be slow and it's hard on my body at my size.

I used to play volleyball cuz it was fun.  I used to snowboard cuz it was fun.  Now I'm golfing cuz, you guessed it, it's fun.

I don't feel the need to justify or defend it.  Nor do I care what others do for fun, even it seems like the LEAST fun thing ever to me.

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/6d606a0b7d31

For the other angle although I find it funny how they indirectly point a finger directly at triathlon

More like directly LOL - they posted a photo collage of IM tattoos!

Good counter article, thanks for posting.

What I find hilarious is the fact that after I posted your article asking my CF friends if there was validity in it (because I truly didn't know) they are now calling me a hater.   Aye carumba!

I'm going to post a counter counter article filled with a collage of tribal tattoos.    I keed I keed.