Crossfit Games? Really?
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Yes, really. It's been going for a long time. The games workouts are batty.
I picked CrossFit back up again in the last year or so. I did it for 3ish years back in 2012, and went way, way harder than I do now. Back then, there was an injury culture: everyone gets hurt at some point haha, you did something dumb etc. That's a terrible attitude for anything. I quit because I finished my M.Sc. and went back to work which ate all my time (225-300 hrs a month), and because I was getting too beat up from the gym.
Now, I am at a gym where the average age is probably 45. We all gotta work tomorrow and here just here so we don't get fat(ter). It's a good group.
I like CrossFit because it's something different every day, and I have no motivation or discipline to work out on my own. Signing up for a class holds me accountable and gets me doing something. I also like the Olympic lifting side of things.
everyone gets hurt at some point haha, you did something dumb
Which isn't technically wrong, but generally you want to work to avoid injuries, not accept them.
I'm not intimately familiar with crossfit, but it seems like it values moving quickly over maintaining proper form, and that's a recipe for injury. I've already had one injury that seems like it's not the kind that heals, so I have to be careful to not make it any worse. I wouldn't dare do crossfit.
The trick is to not be too proud to scale your workout down. A lot of the workouts are made for guys who are a lot stronger than me; like 250ish lb deadlifts for reps. I top out at 275, so there's no way I'm doing that. I also don't get caught up in the scores like I did when I was younger.
Because I'm not competing and just doing it for me, it's really helped me with some chronic hip and back pain.
CrossFit seems fine to me as a form of exercise, but it's kind of like hearing about the International Zumba Games.
I get it. They take the games pretty seriously. It's the Superbowl for CF. Anyone who is serious about it is there, and the top athletes as well.
That's basically just American ninja warrior.