The "CrossFit Culture" is a bunch of DORKS!!!

[amlove21]

In this context. She was great...

Ohhhhhhhh. You meant ‘filthy’. Like her performance was filthy. Like it was just dirty.

I misunderstood. Cause your post said ‘FILTH’.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Ohhhhhhhh. You meant ‘filthy’. Like her performance was filthy. Like it was just dirty.

I misunderstood. Cause your post said ‘FILTH’.

Exactly.

 

[amlove21]

Rumors of CrossFit being the unwilling partner in a hostile takeover- all CF HQ social is deleted.

Might be Rogue.

 

[Kaldak]

Well, that has to piss off their righteous founder.

 

[digrar]

Well, that has to piss off their righteous founder.

 

[Cookie_]

Rumors of CrossFit being the unwilling partner in a hostile takeover- all CF HQ social is deleted.

Might be Rogue.

On the crossfit reddit, it looks like some of the community managers in other countries have put out generalized statements.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Rumors of CrossFit being the unwilling partner in a hostile takeover- all CF HQ social is deleted.

Might be Rogue.

Not sure how you would execute a hostile take over of Crossfit. But this would be such a bad time to do so. I didn't notice that they got rid of Regionals and are going with Sanctionals...what ghey term to use.

 

[amlove21]

Not sure how you would execute a hostile take over of Crossfit. But this would be such a bad time to do so. I didn't notice that they got rid of Regionals and are going with Sanctionals...what ghey term to use.

It’s a business, so you get 51% ownership, like any other business.

Then you stop w the dumb shit they do and change the business model.

 

[SaintKP]

Crossfit and dumb shit?


Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

 

[ThunderHorse]

It’s a business, so you get 51% ownership, like any other business.

Then you stop w the dumb shit they do and change the business model.

No, just, like, what is there to take over? Fire Dave Castro, please.

 

[amlove21]

No, just, like, what is there to take over? Fire Dave Castro, please.

Rumors are Dave Castro might be one of those minority owners.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Interesting-

CrossFit Shutters Facebook, Instagram Accounts Amid Data Privacy Concerns | Morning Chalk Up

Mod edit to fix broken link
Ooh-Rah

 

[ThunderHorse]

Noticed that this thread died when Crossfit left Facebook. Matt Fraser and Tia Toomey won. Was it on CBS this year at all?

 

[digrar]

Could functional fitness trends become an Olympic sport?

Could functional fitness trends like CrossFit and F45 become an Olympic sport?
ABC South East SA
By Bec Whetham
Posted Sat at 8:24am

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Paying money to see other people work out might not sound like everyone's idea of fun, but it is fast becoming a part of the international sporting calendar.

Key points

• Functional fitness is a growing trend around the world
• Australia is part of global movement to establish functional fitness as an Olympic sport
• Some health experts have concerns around the intense exercise

The international CrossFit Games are underway in the United States this week, and the Australian Functional Fitness Federation (AFFF) is working hard with international counterparts to bring the sport to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

What is functional fitness?
Branded fitness regimens like CrossFit and F45 — which also holds fitness "playoff" events — have been popular throughout Australia and around the world in the past few years.

While branded forms of the sport cannot be in the Olympics, the sport of "functional fitness" could be.

The official International Functional Fitness Federation (IF3) bases its competitions on six tests, including strength, power and aerobic capacity.

There is also bodyweight endurance (such as handstand walks), bodyweight skills (such as one-legged squats) and "mixed modal" — a combination of everything.

The AFFF was formed in December last year and is working with the international body to help see the sport progress.

The organisation's founder Mel Robinson, said federation-sanctioned events were carefully developed to test the body in a very specific way.

"Yes, they might not know what they're getting but everything has so much thought and reason behind it, it's very cool," Ms Robinson said.

She said the variation of skills appealed to athletes from other sports, such as gymnastics, weightlifting and running, which are all embodied in functional fitness.

The boom of functional fitness
Since starting in 2011, the CrossFit fitness group is now in more than 120 countries and has thousands of gyms.

Its world championship in Madison, Wisconsin, in the United States, is currently underway.

For those athletes, it is the pinnacle of their sport.

As well as vying for the title of "Fittest Man" or "Fittest Woman on Earth" they compete for US$300,000 in prize money.

Health professionals divided
However, accredited exercise physiologist Ashley Bigaran said its workout model did leave health professionals with some concerns.

"The demands of the training program aren't exclusively catered for novices and that's where the injuries are sustained," Ms Bigaran said.

While Olympic lifts, like a snatch or jerk, have obvious health benefits, Ms Bigaran said they needed to be performed with perfect technique.

While seasoned athletes might know how, she feared beginners in a 20-strong class could miss out.

"How can you constantly coach and monitor every individual's movement pattern?" she said.

Ms Bigaran said the sport's tendency to attempt multiple heavy lifts in a short period of time did not favour athletes.

"If their recovery is inadequate, the movements they're going to perform will be insufficient and inadequate," she said.

"It's promoting poor movement mechanics and that's potentially going to result in injury."

She said Olympic weightlifters were required to rest between three and five minutes before attempting the same lift again.

The need for a unified, professional sport
Elite athlete Jess Coughlan, who is from Sydney, will represent Australia at both the International Functional Fitness Federation World Championships later this year and at the CrossFit Games this month.

She said she believed sceptics were steadily coming around since she joined in 2011.

"As [it has] become more mainstream, and a little bit more professional in terms of the way coaches can increase their knowledge through all the different … courses… I believe that's slowly started to shift," Ms Coughlan said.

Health concerns aside, the AFFF's Mel Robinson said the upcoming games, while a great event, could only offer a big enough platform for its best athletes to compete.

"It's taking that word and brand away which sort of stops them from even getting to the Olympic Games because it is a brand," she said.

"Where we're functional fitness, we're a sport, we're recognised as the Australian functional fitness governing body now."

The AFFF is working to establish and grow other functional fitness competitions.

"All our elite athletes are quite excited about this movement as well. It just offers extra opportunities to those guys that have to get to the US to compete on the big stage," Ms Robinson said.

An essential part of the sport is training and employing highly-qualified judges to ensure the legitimacy of the movements.

"By having those disciplines in place, they are trying to provide that structure that is going to make it a little more professional," Ms Coughlan said.

Could it ever reach an Olympic level?
Every host of the Olympic Games gets to add some new sports, given they follow certain criteria.

While it is too late to apply for Tokyo 2020 or Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028 is still a possibility.

Ms Robinson was hopeful functional fitness would be in with a chance given Los Angeles's neighbour, Santa Cruz, is where the functional fitness craze began.


For Australia to qualify, it would need to hold a national qualifier every year, be a part of a world championship every year and have an anti-doping strategy in place.

While exercise physiologist Ashley Bigaran commended the work of the IFFF, she said there were several popular and legitimate sporting codes — like netball and squash — that were not at the Olympics.

"CrossFit as a competitive sport may be worthy as an Olympic sport but are they ready just yet?" she said.

"I think they've got a bit more work to do."

 

[Jordsta]

Noticed that this thread died when Crossfit left Facebook. Matt Fraser and Tia Toomey won. Was it on CBS this year at all?

Negative mate. They let it be streamed by other mainline companies like Rogue (who did a better job)

 

[ThunderHorse]

Negative mate. They let it be streamed by other mainline companies like Rogue (who did a better job)

Which of course means that the exposure to the "sport" in the US will wither on the vine.

 

[Devildoc]

If there's been any 'hit' to CrossFit, you wouldn't know it around here. Several CrossFit gyms--er, excuse me, boxes--and they continue to recruit hard.

I did notice that Goruck was partnering with them somewhat as well.

 

[ThunderHorse]

If there's been any 'hit' to CrossFit, you wouldn't know it around here. Several CrossFit gyms--er, excuse me, boxes--and they continue to recruit hard.

I did notice that Goruck was partnering with them somewhat as well.

I think that the gyms will continue to do well for what they are.

But with removal from mainstream distribution it will become more like Olympic Weightlifting or power lifting than what it previously was when it came to competition on television. Could that put it in the Olympics? Maybe, Olympic weightlifting has been an Olympic Sport since 1896 and I see Crossfit ending up more like powerlifting than not. Not that that is a bad thing, but just that where it had inserted itself into the Sport Culture with the major coverage from ESPN is going away.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

If there's been any 'hit' to CrossFit, you wouldn't know it around here. Several CrossFit gyms--er, excuse me, boxes--and they continue to recruit hard.

I did notice that Goruck was partnering with them somewhat as well.

Oh thank god, for a minute I thought there was gonna be a shortage of tight bodied soccer moms.

 

[Grunt]

If there's been any 'hit' to CrossFit, you wouldn't know it around here. Several CrossFit gyms--er, excuse me, boxes--and they continue to recruit hard.

I did notice that Goruck was partnering with them somewhat as well.

Here neither. They are giving Dollar General and Family Dollar Stores a run for their money as to who is planting more businesses here.