[GrileVege]

Crossfit is dangerous if you are unprepared and unsupervised. So is firing a weapon, driving a car, or swimming. Unfortunately, while most people understand the inherent dangers to shooting, driving, and/or swimming without being properly trained, many attempt to start crossfit "cold turkey". You cannot, however, blame crossfit for this. It posts videos online. It donates equipment, money (discounts), and time (seminars) to the military. I have spoken to several people at work who say that "crossfit injures people". When I asked them "why?", most said they read about it or heard about it but don't remember who exactly from. Two of them were personnally injured. Both had never been to a crossfit seminar, never bothered to look up how to do an exercise online (using the helpful videos that are posted on the crossfit main site), and weren't even doing a crossfit workout.

I see people all the time who are "doing crossfit" because they combined a random assortment of exercises with kettlebells, pull-ups, and running. This is not crossfit, anymore then having a steak means that you are now on the atkins diet.

Crossfit has a very specific programming pattern, a balanced emphasis on form and intensity, and, most importantly, an emphasis on scaling. Main-site crossfit workouts are created for 170lb elite Olympic athlete types. Very few people out there can perform every single workout as prescribed in the goal timeframe. A proper crossfit trainer will scale down the weight or duration of the exercise to meet the physical condition of each person. Problems arise when groups or individuals decide to "crossfit" for one workout (like dieting for one meal) and lift weights or perform movements that they are either untrained on or use excessive weight/duration.

Please feel free to contact me if you want to discuss this further.