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What an amazing tip!!! I've been trying the BMUP by myself, one day I Almost broke my foot during the wod, doing it with a box jump! I've never done it anymore 😢 Now I'm going to buy this and try again! Thank you so much!
I agree that for many people (me included) CF is more fun than, let's say, "hybrid training" . But there is no evidence that CF is better than hybrid training for health and for increasing work capacity across broad time and modality domains. CF is mandatory only for people who want to compete in it
I m not sure who this message is for. Surely any coach that proposes CF or any other form of GPP to his athletes wants to improve their fitness. What am I missing? Is it against the many ex CF athletes who promote a less dogmatic approach to training? If so, I don't agree. They are just trying to further improve their methodology.
For example Pat Sherwood has been crucified for saying that the original Glassman methodology was not perfect and that moderate intensity work should also be included. The CF manuals are not the Bible, they can and should change over time to reflect the lessons learned from years of practice
CF was conceived as a contrarian movement and that's reflected in the very definition which is basically the contrary of what "Globo Gyms" were doing 20-30 years ago. But that it's not a sound logic and it's therefore not surprising that over time CF practice has incorporated more and more from other forms of S&C including some of the things it was against (BB accessories and moderate intensity continuous exercise, aka Zone 2)
@@samuele.marcora do you actually want to engage in a conversation about this stuff? If so I would be happy to have you on a podcast and you can present your thoughts and I can provide my point of view in real time.
@@thecoachesguild That would be great. I am off to China for a couple of weeks but let's get in touch end of October via email to arrange something. You find my email easily on the University of Bologna website. I look forward to our discussion
As I study for my L-1 I searched some type of information in helping me study and gather more information that would help me study. As good as this was it wasn't really as much of an understanding the manual as it was you guys talking about your history utilizing it. Can you do an actual study of the manual and stick to that for the length of the video, I think it's something surely missing outside of watching Greg from 10 or more years ago
My wish for 2025 is for you guys to produce more direct conversations, 50% of your recordings is about empty shit that has nothing to do with your topic. Get to it please and cut the empty talk
I don't understand the point being made. "Coaches push back because they can't or don't want to manage that many people" ?. "Could I "manage" a 20 person class? Sure. But I'm not selling them group managment, I'm coaching. Classes should be capped to ensure a quality product for the individual client. If you can coach a quality class with 10 people in it, you could not keep up that same quality for every client involved if it were 14 people. Could you still deliver a good class? Sure but everyone who is in there just lost 40% of their individual coaching time (on average) and if I were the client I'd be wondering why I'm still paying the same prices. Increasing class sizes absolutely decreases class quality and if you deny that you're just lying to yourself. If that weren't the case no one ever would buy 1 on 1 coaching.
That’s was not helpful at all, this doesn’t even answer the question attached to the video. Capping the class is a quality assurance element, it allows for equal distribution across many classes during the day, it helps the coach prepare for that group of people based on their specific needs, and much more. We can sometimes step on this cap when the class structure and logistics allows, but for all classes, he’ll no. I would love to see both of you coaches coach a class with 25+ plus athletes from all sorts of backgrounds, and then come out with a more detailed video. You can definitely cancel class caps if your gym is under 100 members or even less, but what would you do for 300 member gyms ? What if 50 shows up for the 6:00 am because all of them wants to finish there training before work. Sorry guys but it just makes no sense to do this.
Would love to hear more about the opposite - currently not having a class cap and some classes get incredibly packed plus, there’s also open gymers who do their own thing and as a coach you are looking at managing 25+ people. The space and equipment allows to handle a class of 20 but the mixture of extra class members and open gymers gets to be overwhelming. It would be hard as a coach now all of a sudden to implement a cap when some people don’t even check into class
I do CF in my garage and I enjoy it. It also improves my fitness. However I don't know of any strong evidence that it works better than other strength and conditioning programs. Can you tell me where I can find it?
Former affiliate owner here. As an affiliate owner I got 2 emails from CrossFit a year. The first was an invoice for my affiliate fee. And the second was an email detailing how to get my members more involved in the open (clearly financially motivated). There is nothing proprietary about burpees and power cleans. So if all you have to offer me is the use of a word, I'm sorry, it's not enough. Let alone the CONSTANT negative public image created by the company's own actions. I spent far more time defending the brand than I ever did benefiting from it. And then you have the revolving door of owners, ceo's, "directors of programming". How can we build our brands based off the terrible inconsistency of this brand? I needed to see more from them at $3000 to consider coming back. At $4500, I'm done for good. The community is the joy of this thing, not the brand. I hope one day another company like Rogue or someone steps in and gives our community the leadership it deserves.
When we were on PushPress, they failed to process multiple charges totaling $3000 and when I brought this to their attention, they were combative and unapologetic. I caught this error, not PP. They should have caught this in testing and they clearly did not adequately test their software and it nearly cost us $3k
“CrossFit… I’ve heard of that.”…. “I heard that the workouts are extreme” and I can’t do that” and they never walk into your gym and HQ has done NOTHING to change this perception. OR “I heard that people get injured doing CrossFit and I don’t want to get injured” and they never walk into your gym and HQ has done NOTHING to change this perception.
2-3 people walk into my CrossFit Affiliate every week. I’m glad to share the data with any other affiliate owner. Most have heard of CrossFit and some have done it before. 2024 has yielded the most leads ever for us. But, since you’re not a licensed owner, you wouldn’t know.
@@craighoward_diablo Happy for you. Keep paying private equity while they coast off of and profit from the brand that you and I helped build and any gym foolish enough to stay affiliated. The toolkit is dogshit and you know it. Affiliate roundtables and gatherings are affiliates helping affiliates. Private Equity brings NOTHING to the table and the brand will suffer in time and you will have contributed to it. We still have people that walk into our gym looking for CrossFit and I proudly tell them that we are no longer affiliated with CrossFit because we disagree with how the current owners are mismanaging the company and that HQ only owns the brand and not the methodology, they get it and often mention how many affiliates they know that have de-afffiliated. We also have people coming in who would not have come in when we had CrossFit in our name and on our wall.
We are no longer affiliated and we have new members and drop-ins all the time. My explanation to new members and drop-ins is simple…. “We are no longer affiliated with CrossFit because they were bought by Private Equity who gutted the company and is destroying the brand on the backs of affiliates and coaches.” The response is always something like “I totally get it. My gym is no longer affiliated and there are multiple in my area who de-affiliated.”
It is a licensing agreement. Affiliates pay to use the word "CrossFit". HQ has failed to promote the brand positively and counter the negative perceptions. "Doing CrossFit" is not a thing. HQ does NOT own the methodology, burpees, thrusters, or pull-ups. They own a brand and it is tainted. HQ violated the terms of the agreement in failing to steward the brand. And then they decided to squeeze affiliates on top of it. And to squeeze coaches by raising the cost of the courses. Shame on Jason Ackerman and Craig Howard for trying to shame gyms that de-affiliated. HQ has failed affiliates. HQ does NOT own the methodology, 21-15-9. burpees or thrusters.
HQ should have delivered value before rolling out a fee increase. They did the OPPOSITE. They did less and hurt the brand. Private Equity extracted money from the company and loaded it up with debt. Then they demanded more money for less. Almost all affiliates were capable of paying the fee increase. Many refused to pay the increase on principle. Private Equity gutted the company and has done next to nothing of value for affiliates.
How nice that Craig convinced HQ to slowly raise his affiliate fees. I wonder how much beyond these discounted fees HQ is paying him and the other members of the Affiliate Council.
HQ should have delivered value before rolling out a fee increase. They did the OPPOSITE. They did less and demanded more money for it. Almost all affiliates were capable of paying the fee increase. Many refused to pay the increase on principle. Private Equity gutted the company and has done next to nothing of value for affiliates.
I’m guessing this is a Monster rig, because my Infinity rig won’t hold the adjustable bar in that orientation. Still an amazing piece of equipment though 👌🏼
Chad was one of my first coaches. My wife and I took his semi personal training for Olympic Lifting at CrossFit Austin. To date, it's still one of the most incredible coaching experience I've had.
