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Yeah i guess it's the proper form and olympic lifts that has attracted me to it
The one thing I hate, though, is that not everyone who does Crossfit has that proper form, and they sometimes preach things that few O lifters would really attempt (high rep power cleans and deadlifts and stuff like that).
I see so many people who do the workouts of the day without paying any attention to proper form. When you see them arm-pulling on cleans trying to do tons of reps, you want to cry.
What Crossfit advocates is great. The problem is that the WODs are accessible to anyone and are widely used by people who don't know or care about safety.
That's why I get nervous whenever people instruct newbies to do cleans or hang cleans. It's a lot easier to learn a squat or a deadlift than it is to learn a clean. And even if the squat or deadlift is executed improperly, the potential for injury is less than that of an explosive, coordinated movement like a clean. Add to that - very few newbies even have the requisite flexibility to do the olympic lifts.
The one thing I hate, though, is that not everyone who does Crossfit has that proper form, and they sometimes preach things that few O lifters would really attempt (high rep power cleans and deadlifts and stuff like that).
I see so many people who do the workouts of the day without paying any attention to proper form. When you see them arm-pulling on cleans trying to do tons of reps, you want to cry.
What Crossfit advocates is great. The problem is that the WODs are accessible to anyone and are widely used by people who don't know or care about safety.
That's why I get nervous whenever people instruct newbies to do cleans or hang cleans. It's a lot easier to learn a squat or a deadlift than it is to learn a clean. And even if the squat or deadlift is executed improperly, the potential for injury is less than that of an explosive, coordinated movement like a clean. Add to that - very few newbies even have the requisite flexibility to do the olympic lifts.