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

[Stretcher Jockey]

Disagree on Crossfit becoming more like powerlifting. The games this year had events specifically for swimming, sprinting, rucking, and a max clean and then the typical CF type WODs. Try getting a powerlifter to run a mile, Ill see you in an hour.

They are moving to legitimately testing all kinds of different modalities, and while I still think they are a bunch of dorks, its quite a bit more balanced across the physical spectrum.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Eh...the swimming is a bit of a joke. 1000m? That's not much for a swimmer, heck it's not even half of my current triathlon workouts. My point is that it will lose its place in the consciousness of society as a commercial sport. Case in point, in previous years this thread would talk about the Open Workouts. There was no talk this year.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I remember when the Games were in May and the Open was in March...but now the first open workout is in October...this is getting dumb as fuck.

 

[Cookie_]

Because I saw @amlove21 post this on Instagram:

Brands break with Crossfit over CEO's George Floyd tweet

Is this the start of crossfit as a brand going the way of "Bikram" yoga?

 

[ThunderHorse]

Because I saw @amlove21 post this on Instagram:

Brands break with Crossfit over CEO's George Floyd tweet

Is this the start of crossfit as a brand going the way of "Bikram" yoga?

Greg Glassman is a wacko.

 

[ThunderHorse]

So I guess the games happened, had no idea. Have to say I think Crossfit as an athletics based competition is probably going to be non-existent very soon even though individual athletes seem to be doing ok on the sponsorship front.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

It looks like they are halfway done....and will move to Stage 2 in Mid OCT.

BROOKE STILL IN IT!!!!

 

[SpongeBob*24]

I tried the search function and was surprised this hadn't been posted already. @Ooh-Rah please move if it should go elsewhere...thanks!

Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old athlete from Serbia, drowned at this years games.

 

[Devildoc]

I tried the search function and was surprised this hadn't been posted already. @Ooh-Rah please move if it should go elsewhere...thanks!

Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old athlete from Serbia, drowned at this years games.

I saw that, that was awful.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I tried the search function and was surprised this hadn't been posted already. @Ooh-Rah please move if it should go elsewhere...thanks!

Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old athlete from Serbia, drowned at this years games.

I already see the problem with Crossfit here. Having done many open water triathlons of far greater length, the shortest I've ever swam in open water was 1500m and we had like 20x the number of paddleboard and kayak support, hell there were floatation devices to hold onto and rest.

Everyone talks about how there is no qualification for Ironman open water swims, but I can tell you that the deaths that occur are mostly due to heart attacks in the water or something else. Not a lack of swimming skill. And Crossfitters are never in the pool, even with all the swimming events they've done at the games, they don't do them as part of the open, which maybe they should if they're going to keep this up. But this is completely on the lack of safety personnel.

They could also just cut the bullshit and get back to liftweighting. Since adding things like crit racing and swimming they also haven't been on TV.