Getting rid of regionals and busting Ricky for drugs near the same time kinda killed the “attainability” of the sport. From an aesthetics standpoint, you can get the same if not better results doing workouts that don’t ruin the rest of your day.
If all the high level crossfitters are juiced then why put my shoulder joints through all that hell? If I was gonna use steroids I would just do traditional bodybuilding. So it makes CrossFit irrelevant.
Hopefully after pandemic quiets down and restrictions are lifted it will pick up again and stay there. I don’t think it’s the only fitness modality that cycles up and down though. People need/like to change things up every now and then. But because CrossFit is such a melting pot of techniques it seems more sustainable.
When i started xfit. It felt raw and like a tribe. On my first day I came to class without them asking me questions sort of like you make your on impression all i signed was a waiver. They didnt tell me about pricing membership. They just told me come and do the work out. After two weeks pretty much coming every day. I just told them I want to sign up. And it was a successful gym. It was weird like are they gonna ask me? But no pressure Now things have change they have all these entries classes mad expensive. It has become very commercialize. They go strict by the hours. I started going to this gym and people would just leave.... back in the day ppl will stay longer and do some extra credits and sort hang out like a tribe. It was fun. The clasmates would tell me they feel weird like their taking space. Fudge that!! Take advantage of your membership. I started the trend now more ppl are feeling comfy doing double sessions. But true crossfit lost that sort of tribe feeling. Is more like a club
The commercialization with the Open ruined it too. I stated in 2009 and it was raw and unpolished. That was the attraction for most people. Regular people doing hard workouts and competing against themselves.
@gae mainly improper form while excersising eg pull ups called kipping, workout of the day where form is non existent in many excersises but each their own, good luck.
