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**Roorseprate** · 09-14-2010, 03:48 AM

CrossFit is perfectly safe if done correctly while realizing your personal limits. You can still give max effort in your workouts without trying to kill yourself and everything is scaleable to your abilities.

The key is a trainer that knows their stuff - I trained with our PJs in Afghanistan, these guys are trainers themselves (several of them work at a CF facility as civilians).

I wasn't in in bad shape but I certainly wasn't up at their level either and they recognized that, scaled the training appropriately, were patient, thorough and didn't give anybody an ounce of crap if they weren't up at their level.

A lot of the movements appear to be simple, but you can seriously screw yourself up if you do it wrong and they were absolutely careful about ensuring that we were doing the exercises using the proper form with a mop handle before we used any weights.

I learned a lot from those guys, particularly on backing off on the weights and different training techniques and a lot of it actually makes for better overall training with less equipment and less time.

I would guess that most injuries can be traced to bad trainers or do-it-yourselfers that get over-zealous - for any gym rat, the temptation to throw a bunch of weight on quickly is going to be there if somebody doesn't convince them otherwise.

09-14-2010, 03:48 AM	#15
Roorseprate Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 659 Senior Member	CrossFit is perfectly safe if done correctly while realizing your personal limits. You can still give max effort in your workouts without trying to kill yourself and everything is scaleable to your abilities. The key is a trainer that knows their stuff - I trained with our PJs in Afghanistan, these guys are trainers themselves (several of them work at a CF facility as civilians). I wasn't in in bad shape but I certainly wasn't up at their level either and they recognized that, scaled the training appropriately, were patient, thorough and didn't give anybody an ounce of crap if they weren't up at their level. A lot of the movements appear to be simple, but you can seriously screw yourself up if you do it wrong and they were absolutely careful about ensuring that we were doing the exercises using the proper form with a mop handle before we used any weights. I learned a lot from those guys, particularly on backing off on the weights and different training techniques and a lot of it actually makes for better overall training with less equipment and less time. I would guess that most injuries can be traced to bad trainers or do-it-yourselfers that get over-zealous - for any gym rat, the temptation to throw a bunch of weight on quickly is going to be there if somebody doesn't convince them otherwise.
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