Exercises in Futility - How CrossFit Ruined a Football Career 

aisforairborne thats exactly what I had in my head even before he said that line lol. I was like “WTF?”

Literally read this comment at the same time he was saying it 😂

That was the best line of the whole video

It's all done to a scale, her workout could be easy, where his could be really difficult.. same workout, different intensity & weights

LMFAO

weak joe*

Any level of humility? He would also be training with his team all the time. Its probably more of a social thing for him I imagine.

Lol and then I kept watching and the sports illustrated article popped up. It was in the off season he did it and his performance really dropped off. Lol crossfit is such a joke to the whole athletic world and everywhere you look there is proof of how stupid it really is.

Wants retirement

Why not? Is he not just a person like you and me...just cause he’s a pro doesn’t mean he needs to surround himself with just pro ball players.

why you lookin at 15 year old female tennis players? hmmmm XD

@@feveredmushroomHD maybe he's 16.

maybe unpopular opinion but mr. olympia does not look aesthetic .. I wouldn't wanna look like that .. all extremes are bad

@@steelermia Ironically Mr Olympia is nothing but aesthetics. Useless in terms of actual strength and conditioning training and comes with a variety of problems relating to long term health, including heart and kidney failure.

@@louiscypher4186 wouldnt say uselessm mr olympias are defo stronger than 'regular' people. But i agree that its not even close to being the best way to gain strenght, and it definitely isnt very healthy either

And he said "he doesn't have the experience that a lot people here do". The NFL pro absolutely has more experience with strength and conditioning than anyone in that gym, the coach included.

@Thomas Santino since were correcting *everyone

@@damat9607 *we're...

Stupid little hippie CrossFitters. Some ppl man

Heh heh, got im

nah dude he should have read Starting Strength.

Hell, the money that was spent on CrossShit classes could have been spent on Jeff to train him instead.

Everyone is better watching athlean x videos

Well Yeah, Jeff trains NFL players 😂😂😂

@maverickM249 you still HAVE to read the book

The crossfit alma matter

that's the cross fit moto

"If it ain't broke, you're not tryin hard enough."

- Crossfit

Hahahaha

Philip Jr Well yeah, that happens when you're not training for hypertrophy or strength. Cross fit is more cardio and muscular endurance than anything else.

no he actually got leaner and stronger with more endurance

3WOD No, not according to the NFL.

@@anti1training you can't correlate in game statistics to actual physical ability

3WOD That's exactly what it means

Maybe he wanted to bang those Amy shimmers lol

I dunno, Amy schumer is rich af

"Amy Schumer looking girls" lol. This comment needs more likes.

I spit my coke on my phone

@@Wowthatsfail 😭😭😭😭

It's like natural selection. There are enough red flags to stay away from crossfit. If you're still doing it despite being warned that it's a complete mockery of lifting and that it will get you injured you kinda deserve what's coming.

Their lane, meaning the fast track to the er

In all fairness this moron running back should have a small amount of common sense and not join this garbage.

Training CrossFit in conjunction with another sport is a horrible idea.

It's a bowling lane.

DaleE988 some football players don’t every touch a weight. Look up Chad Ochocinco squatting.

Fber chad ochocinco was a wide receiver and was the best route runner of all time.

@@justaguy7240 Wide receiver, huh.. lol

Fber everybody else in football needs weights

So fucking cringeworthy.

Jesus. Lifting weights fast and with poor form is a recipe for disaster.

I mean you should’ve figured it out when she complained about the fact “you’re using your strength to lift” in a strength exercise.

banjo guy what else would he use to lift other than his strength? The fucken force?

banjo guy fr guys a dumbass

The biggest donators to CrossFit ™ are chiropractors.

Kyle Shalati when I was in football we go for heavy and do speed drills as well and my 40 time is a 4.8 and I was getting stronger too and faster as well

@@kxfromga5359 Your point is?

OwO What is This? He should just stick with football 🏈 workouts

@@kxfromga5359 Ah, I definitely agree. Don't know how a football player could end up in a CrossFit gym 😂

OwO What is This? Well it’s a small world I guess 🤷🏾‍♂️😂😂

And the ACL

😂😂

L5S1...so damn vulnerable

Throngdorr Mighty unfortunately to kill crossfit you must change the way they think

Malachi Gary Kills real athletes careers.

RIP Richy P

It won't be the same without Rich Piranha

RIP Rich... he took my heart with him but smaller by the day was too much

With rich piano on the house if course

Let him live forever in this series!

BURN IT DOWN 😅

Four years later, he has a torn MCL now lol

Ah that's why he always gets fucking injured

His nutrition is probably effed up too let’s be honest

@Gerrylynn Mako lol

He needed a crossfit intervention.

Teams have their own coaches and trainers. Why did Moreno feel the need to use this fucktard?

@@jakethemuss3 Seems like he thoughtd itd be fun

Wasn't this during the players strike and players weren't allowed contact with coaches or to use the team facilities?

You dont need a professional to tell you thats bullshit

@@jauchi5078 A lot of talented athletes don't know what part of their training gives them the most benefit. I could imagine this guy thinking "wow, this workout feels worse than the sprints I've done at practice, it must be effective at making me a better athlete". What he fails to realise that the sprints were just conditioning, and that his coach programed strength training is the core of his speed/size development. One problem I see in the athletic training industry is that, athletic strength training isnt terribly complicated so to get work, these trainers more or less make up excercises with dubious effectiveness in order to stand out. Elite athletes are great despite mediocre training not because of it. Sub elite athletes get burned and are never talked about it. Iirc LeBron lost some weight and athleticism a few years back with a wooshoo trainer. That trainer still gets to put Lebron on his resume despite possibly making him worse.

Should ask Jeff Cavalier to be his trainer...

@@rextransformation7418 Facts💯

thats what i saw too. took the words right out of my mouth

He ain't free.

lol but still he should of went

Alejandro Cisneros nigga he a Millionaire

Should have

Yes exactly!

Johnson Johnson yeah really is his own fault

he starts moaning about tightness in the posterior chain (which is probably (within reason) a good thing for the NFL as it protects the spine), but then goes on about rear delts? this guy just splurges things to sound clever like any PT in their first year. He then teaches box squats wrong and encourages a tight posterior and anterior pelvic tilt. What an absolute melon.

No hard feelings when it comes to a guy who should know better.

Mmm

I mean... Could have just done insanity instead of crossfit for a better cardio time. Crossfit was a joke on release and Im really sorry you got scammed man.

Have you heard of the bpc-157? A month or two of body protective compound might do wonders

Too long and unfunny?

Lmfao hilarious comment

Don't hate on Reebok. Gym clothes are gym clothes. Last year a Sports Authority near me was going out of business and everything was 70-90% off. Better believe I bought whatever fit and was comfortable.

Take it as a joke fam

@Daniel Stewart issa joke but reebok sponsors crossfit and crossfitters love rocking reebok

Martin Wendland Reebok also sponsors the UFC. Good and bad to all companies eh

Tetsu no omo Is them sponsoring UFC supposed to be a good thing, the UFC REEBOK deal ruined alot of athlete sponsor contracts

Cuz he gay

It was during the Off-season. This is where players who want to get "better" start to train on their specific needs for next year. This young man thought that cross-fit would help him and it ended up burning him out.

@@jokersoulja and you think team-mates don't train together in the off-season? Just because it's not schedualled and enforced by the team/admin doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I seriously doubt the Cowboys chain the door to the Gym after Superbowl Sunday and leave it locked until September.

@@maxdecphoenix Obviously not. I did not state he never trained with his teammates. I stated he wanted to use cross-fit as a tool to help him perform better on the field. You and I don't know the variables between him and his teammates. Maybe they did do a work-out together, maybe they didn't. We don't know. All we know is that he messed up his body doing cross-fit.

They don’t have team workouts in the nfl. You can always train with the people on your team it’s just not organized.

It was injuries, brought on by crossshit.

Massa said I gotz to add mo chainz 2 getz strongerz.

Savage lmao

😂😂😂

Let's put it this way, Crossfit pullups not only have garbage form, but rely mostly on momentum and at a couple of strong cheat actions for multiple reps. It overall takes less than half the power for Crossfit pullups than for real ones.

4 normal pull ups looks more impressive than 40 cross fit pull ups. Cross fit pull ups look like the guy is completely exhausted and just trying to finish

man i can do 10 pull ups and i’m not in the nfl. how fucking weak is he ?

14 is impressive 40 crossfit pull ups are easier than a single real pull up Shit becomes cardio

True. It's like if someone does the worm 40x, is that the same as 40 push ups?

That's probably why they're famous...

valley? i dont get it.

TrackForField California feminine accent

Maybe they the big giey.

Akilleus sounds rough when you say it bud

Lmfaooo 🤣 😂

W

Smashing

That can't be right, this guy doesn't have a big nose and isn't smashing.

🤣

Rip

Lmao

Probably drives a dingy white, windowless van too 😆

I thought he looked like a 70s porn dude

@Tim Asuna Never trust a man with a mustache

what? jk! cross shit is a joke!

Sweep the leg

I felt my back compress every time he hit the box! Lol!

Me too. You're just supposed to touch to give you a cue on depth, right? I don't think I've seen somebody fully sit like that before.

Same!

Jack Murphy You are right, but some many people don’t believe that. They do that damn So Cal rolling box squat, which leads to rolling in a wheel chair.

T I Clearly you don’t know shit.

The coach went full Pete with this moustache.

Yes, he would definitely have a secret illegitimate child w/ Vice Principal Woman. No doubt

Microagrasion

Just needs the sun glasses

How and why does crossfit fuck you up?

@Logic Prime cheers 👍

emperor palpatine for the average American CrossFit isn’t that bad but for different reasons. Before you lynch me let me explain. The average American is an obese piece of shit that does nothing. Doing anything is better than that and if you do CrossFit there are dozens of people (like that overhype coach and people in your class) who will guilt you into actually working. That being said even average Americans shouldn’t do CrossFit. For lifters or athletes, CrossFit is a complete piece of shit because it’s all cheating movements. You cheat on the movements like the kipping pull-up and hitching deadlifts. This cheating movement doesn’t give you any more strength it instead just boosts your ego since you can stack on more weight or do more reps making you feel better. This is useless to an athlete who actually needs the strength and explosiveness but has been doing cheater lifts the whole time. Think about it, if I do 10 legit pull-ups slowly and you do 15 using momentum violently swinging your body, who has a stronger back? Oh yeah, a lot of movements in CrossFit are dangerous too. Proper form exists so you can lift heavy ass shit without hurting yourself. People get injured when they do 2 things, use too much weight because ego or your form is shit, both of which CrossFit does.

chi wrong. Doing anything is NOT better than doing nothing when it comes to CrossFit. Obese people should never do that bullshit. There are better options. They’ll go from obese to fat and injured.

emperor palpatine basically its fatigue seeking, which is the worst thing for speed athletes

"infinite elgintensity" is his main channel

.....without a refund.

Wait, is that why in the CrossFit games, some of them first do the event where many of them are on a gurney?

Coach, I don't feel so good...

@@MithrandirRS They call in advance. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the ambulance companies keep an eye on events to see where they are more likely needed and when they see crossfit, they call in extras.

I dont know why stuff like this makes me laugh, not many things do that.

Right , it's like if an nfl player would train like a strongman. Crossfitters don't know what specialization is.

This all boils down to ego. There are so many in the fitness industry with the Trainer - Ego mentality in thinking their ideas and way of training is the End All - Be All in overall fitness and it can push any athlete, regardless of what sport they play to the next level and beyond. WRONG 👎

E B They do, but the video was made in 2014, and I’d say the video he’s roasting was made in like 2012/2013. So it’s around the time CrossFit was really blowing up, and CrossFit “trainers” were slipping into training camps and spreading its methodology into the regimen. They really sucked in and fucked up a lot of athletes around that time.

@@THEpower924 ruined jimmy graham

Hilarious, absolutely hilarious, laghed five mins straight before i could even type this.

That was 185? I have uneven hips, no foot arch, hip shift, hamstring/ glute imbalance (getting it all fixed) can still get 185 atg easy peezy

A 185 single rep is casual twice a week for a year lifter level.

I thought it were kgs??

That really is absurdly weak for a professional athlete. I can squat 185 lb for over 20 reps and I'm half that guy's size and have a full time office job. Poor guy...

That wasn’t 185. A barbell doesn’t whip like that with 185 pounds on it guys. Be real. It was probably over 300

Where the fuck is he

"infinite elgintensity" is his main channel

@@leichterKampfer this is his archive channel

"infinite elgintensity" is his main channel

Alek B you should not be sitting like that with boxsquat, just touch and go.

Dave Tate, Mark Bell and Clint Darden all have videos on how to box squat. This is not how one performs a proper box squat.

You got us at the first half

Wow. I didn’t know about this guy’s story. I totally agree with the commenters about going from the best strength and conditioning coaches in college and wander away in the beginning of his NFL career.

No, Rip would turn him into a slow tugboat. Nfl teams have far better trainers than Mark at their disposal...which makes this video even sadder

@@jaykrizzle it's funny, because Rippetoe loves to shit on D1 and pro strength coaches, but any time someone who is actually strong questions him, he likes to point out that he specializes in training novice lifters. You're right though, Rip would probably tell him to gain 20 pounds to get his squat up. Actually, that would probably be better than losing 20 pounds and getting weaker, but still not ideal.

The joke is that they're skipping rope next to barbells

@@milesedgeworth132 I don't get the joke

You do tho. You crossfitards do everything wrong. There have even been some big crossfitard figures recently admitting to it and how they are trying to change it.

This is Elgintensity's backup channel

@@Theophan123 i might be kinda retard. i forgot about this channel 🤣