I Trained Crossfit For 30 Days Straight 

It’s not healthy but that’s the point of a sport. Train and kill your body to compete and win. It’s like all sports. I learned that through rowing for a crew team

Every sport sucks in the competing part. I do Judo... Trying to get into the National Team and be the best in my weight category. Well to do that I've been training with injuries for months. Competition is not healthy at all

That is so true. Ben said "It seems like they are more focused on finishing faster than everyone else than actually performing strict form", but isn't that literally what competitions are for? I've yet to see an olympic lifter tap out of competition because they are worried that the next lift might not be with perfect form :D

@@myazepeda Exactlyyyy! THANK YOU! All sports are "unhealthy" in some sort of way...

But its a great workout if you do not train like an athelete and give you ultimate max every day. Its a great mix of workouts that keeps things interesting.

i saw brandon williams just try it out and had awesome results. ill think about it

I concur with this coment!

Thirded..ed.

@@BenEcho If you're near St Kilda, there's a guy called Lachlan Giles that's a recent world champ, you'd be in good hands, gi or no gi.

@@BenEcho crossfit is popular because sports merchandise companies made it to sell their sh*t, to broaden the market.

completely agree!

I have been doing it for 5 years and I still scale things to work with my body. I love the community aspect to it most.

have fun getting Rhabdo you goddamn amateur

'scaling' ... you don't have to do crossfit to be doing scaling. Scaling has got nothing to do with crossfit - it's common sense.

Rule 1 on life. Believe everything you see on the internet.

Rule 2 CrossFit gets you more jacked than all the bros in gym trying be bodybuilders

@@snapduke don’t act like they’re not on gear to lmao. CrossFit is for people who don’t like to Cardio on their own

wow thank you! haha i appreciate comments like this, it means a lot!

Wait a few months/Years - will make you feel 80 all the way. Lmao

A lot of firefighters attend and coach at the box I attend, I started in March this year and like yourself I've not felt this good in over a decade. Best part of all? Picking up my kiddos is almost effortless. I'm excited for the future gains and progress. Gonna be focusing on cutting excess weight now that I have established the habit.

good point. You see results pretty quickly even if you go just 3 times a week.

The college football player quit halfway through the wod though, eheh

Agreed! 👏👏👏

1000 Push ups - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mJ8vXvb98gw.html

I appreciate that!

Why don't you just lift the barbell properly... With challenging weight. THEN do your cardio after? It's mind boggling why anyone would want to combine deadlifts with cardio. It just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Word. Ben deserves much more followers. Even if you don't care about the subject, the entertainment value is immense.

thanks guys i appreciate that a lot

I'm asking myself about that too. Even pro athletes take rest days.

Depending on whose programming you follow you'll have one or two rest days a week. Mainsite crossfit.com programs 3 on 1 off, the one I follow (Crossfit Linchpin) is Monday-Wednesday, Thursday off, Friday-Saturday, Sunday off. A lot of physical gyms program Monday-Saturday, Sunday off, but usually have a less intense day built in.

That’s a good point. I’ve never been injured from CrossFit and I think it comes down to the individual, I’m good at self regulating my form. I should have talked more about it in the vid, I’ll remember for future content. Cheers

I recently started crossfit as a way to get fitter and injury prevention...Most important...Start slow and every time you do a new movement, don't load the barbell, keeps weights manageable, feel in control. Do not compare yourself to someone doing crossfit for a 1 year plus

I found with crossfit if you can manage form and ego, you should be fine. It's also important how the box or instructor actually structure the week. I went to one crossfit box where we did 1 rep max deadlift PBs on the monday followed by a WOD, then on the tuesday the WOD involved high volumes of deadlifts for time. Needles to say i opted out and was smart about it. As for most things it's jst common sense.

@@chachacamel maybe its a weird question but why did you start the sport for injury prevention with one of the highest risks of getting injured?

@@ErikDerElektriker short answer…because barbell movements are the basic and best all body exercises that can pretty much only be performed well using the correct muscles. And I have and had injuries in the past from bio mechanical imbalances which if I fix in the long term will reduce my injuries and stabilize my joints. Long answer… At a regular gym good luck getting to a barbell and trying to do cleans for example. At CrossFit The coaches are always there if I have a question to look at my form and they walk around and correct those who are new or need help. Sometimes they take a quick video of me so I can see myself how I’m doing the movement. There are no egos at my gym and no single rep PR days as the comment above me stated. Every time I don’t feel comfortable with a new exercise I keep the weight really low (like I could do double the reps asked or more) until I feel like I got the exercise right. I also do Vinyasa yoga as a complimentary exercise to also increase strength and flexibility. Basically when I’m in doubt I lower the weight and increase my rep count. We use barbells maybe once or twice a week. Rest of the time it’s functional type of body weight exercises. I started both 3 months ago and I already feel great benefits, AKA lack of pain and increase in mobility

well said and very true

Can you please tell me how to gain weight from doing crossfit and if it's better for gaining weight not only muscle or bodybuilding?

@@noreenosama2890 eat in a calorie surplus, continue to do normal weight training at least 3 times a week, train every single muscle group twice a week and don’t do that CrossFit every single day as your muscles need rest and recovery.

how is it dangerous xd

Butterfly pull-ups are nonsense. Plenty of boxes do not program them for good reason

Last few months have been hectic, filming ninja warrior tv show then moving house. Hope to be more consistent from now on.

@@BenEcho That's crazy hope you win the NINJA WARRIOR again !!

Thanks brother!

1: whenever I did poor form on an exercise the coach would call me out on it and I would have to either do a regression (easier version) or I would have to slow down. In competition it would be called a “no rep” so there is high incentive to do proper form. 2: each gym sets their own regiment and at the start of every week we can see what the workouts are from Mon to sun. You can also find some online. 3: Think of them as a completely different exercise to pull-ups. Just like you have strict and kipping muscle up. They serve a different purpose, they require way more cardio endurance/coordination and mobility. We also use strict pull-ups in many workouts too.

3. The easiest and most exact way to answer this question is to ask the opposite. How do you regulate a strict form pull-up in a competition setting? You've seen "strict" pull-up competitions before. They're idiotic. Someone's always kicking their feet a little; not going all the way down, swaying their hips a little etc. Kick kick kicking their little feet to get that last rep. How do you regulate how much foot kicking or hip swaying is allowed? You can not measure it. Someone may sway their hips ever so so so slightly. Is that allowed? Where do you draw the line. It's subjective. Your "strict" pull up competition would become a competition in who is the best at hiding their leg kips and hip sway. That's dumb. It'd look dumb. And you'd have endless idiots arguing over how "that one guy was slightly swaying his hips but the judges didn't call it." "oh they came down to fast and bounced at the bottom" "that guy is moving his feet too much" "his elbows are locked but they'd not behind his ears" "their grip is too wide" The world record video for most pullups done in a minute is full of comments saying it doesn't count. Every video on that topic is like that. You simply can not reach a measurable, repeatable, scalable consensus on how to regulate "strict" reps. The answer is you don't. You say it's all allowed. You break down the pullup into it's 2 most important parameters. 1) the bottom position and 2) the top position. Do whatever the hell you want in-between. That's the only way to ensure a level playing field. That is the only way to ensure no one's gaining a advantage by kicking their feet a teeny tiny bit, or swaying their hips ever so slightly. You can't cheat. Breaking movements into their core parameters is what allows crossfit to be a scalable and measurable system of fitness. Its success and popularity isn't an accident. They created a system of fitness that is repeatable and scalable to enormous groups of people with out error. Repeatable. Measurable. Scalable. Objective.

@@cheeriosaltcream To be fair, the whole idea of strict is to not have any slight adjustments allowed. Perfect upwards vertical motion with 0 backwards or forwards movement what so ever or no rep. But I do get why the kipping is more logical in a time-competitive sense. Furthermore, you cannot push stricts. 2 rounds further and u won't be able to do them perfectly strict anymore.

CrossFit does strict pull ups as well. Most good gyms and coaches will recommend athletes work on strict strength and form and not try kipping until they have a good set of strict pull ups. Yesterday in preparation for the Murph workout I did AMRAP (As many rounds as possible): 5 strict pullups (some ppl did 20# weighted strict pullups) 10 push ups (I did deficit push ups) 15 air squats (I did elevated heel air squats because I need to improve my mobility) I got through 12 rounds. That's 60 strict pullups in a workout. Something I'd never be able to do 3 years ago when I started CrossFit. In the real workout I'll do kipping pullups. 100 of them total. The goal of kipping pullups isn't, strictly, to build strict pull up strength. It's to do a certain amount of work (going from dead hang to chin over bar) either in a set amount of time, or as fast as possible. Ideally with good form. They are much more strenuous in terms of Cardio and muscular endurance. And I have to say after doing kipping pullups your lats will be very fatigued. They will likely get stronger. Supplemented with strict work strength will be gained. Every exercise movement can result in injury if done incorrectly or too much. Every workout with kipping pullups my coaches warm us up and talk to us about scaling options. We stretch our arms/shoulders, do scap pullups, small kips, strict pullups, many times some ring rows and complementary dumbbell work. Warmed up properly and executed with good form I've had little problems over 3 years doing kipping pullups, bar muscle ups, and ring muscle ups.

1. A common misconception is that crossfiters just try to do everything as fast as they can, but that's not correct. Sure, in a competition if you can do 3 reps while the other guys can only do 1 or 2 you get out on front, but not every workout is about volume. Some are about strenght, some are about resistance. But since you usually have a time cap and there's a natural air of competition (not only with other people, but with yourself) you end up trying to push harder to squeeze a few more reps. It doesn't mean you should just do a movement without thinking form though, and good coaches will always call you out when you're trying to press for more reps by sacrificing good form. But it's not unusual for the later reps in a workout to seem a lot uglier than when you started since muscle fatigue disrupts your form, but even in the gym if you're lifting until the point of failure your last lifts are gonna seem pretty bad too. But to sum it up, no you shouldn't sacrifice form just to finish a workout faster and a good coach will call you out on that, but part of the fun in crossfit is trying to push yourself harder and not halfass it, so you HAVE to feel like you gave it your all, you should try to push your body to the limit where your form can still handle. 2. There are some pre built workouts that you can try and they are a lot of fun, but usually each Crossfit gym will do their own workouts too. It's important, however, to keep in mind that nobody should start Crossfit by doing the standard athlete's workout. You need to learn the movements, have better form and increase your overall fitness before trying for an RX workout, which is the standard. For instance, a Handstand push up is a more advanced movement, so if that's in your workout and you just started you SHOULD NOT try to halfass it, and your coach may switch it to a light bar or dumbell press or another movement that engages similar muscles but are safer and easier for people who just started. But overall your Crossfit gym will set your workouts and training protocols. Also I highly encourage you to do this as a group activity, since part of the charm of crossfit is that it's a community experience and people will cheer you on and encourage you to go further. 3. What happens is that people see butterfly pull ups and they think about strict pull ups, but they are actually very different in nature. A strict pull up will demand power and strenght and will burn you really fast after just a few sets; the butterfly pull ups, however, are more about endurance. While the movement doesn't make you engage your arms, pecs and lats as much as a strict pull up, you need to keep your body moving up and down the bar and that's very demanding. So if you have a workout with strict pull ups you usually have a lot less reps and will focus on strenght, while workouts that will allow you to use a butterfly pull up will have a lot more volume and will usually be about endurance. You probably won't be able to do a 5 round workout with 20 reps of strict pull ups each, because that's 100 movements and your strenght will probably fail way before the end even though you're not necessarily tired, but it's perfectly doable if you're doing keeping or butterfly pull ups, but you won't feel your strenght fail as much as you'll feel an overall fatigue of moving constantly up and down the bar, and that's really the point. The butterfly pull up is not about building strenght, although every good coach will tell you (and teach you) that you should learn how to do strict pull ups before trying to do butterfly pull ups. But since the crossfit competitions are usually more about volume (because it's more entertaining), you'll usually see athletes doing butterfly pull ups instead of strict pull ups. And a last note about injuries: crossfit is more like a sport than a normal gym workout. And in every sport when you're pushing your body you risk injuring yourself. You can injure yourself playing football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, even tenis and reportedly the overall injuries of every single one of these are higher than crossfit, but since people think "gym" instead of "football" when they think of crossfit they tend to see it as dangerous. Well, no one thinks soccer is dangerous, but statics shows that you're more likely to injure yourself playing soccer than doing crossfit. Part of the reason crossfit got a bad rep is bad coaches. Your coach should care for you, he should care if you're thinking form before volume, if you're doing the movements right, if you're trying to push heavier weights than your body can handle and if you're feeling pain or are injured. When they don't...that's where the crossfit fail videos come from. Now even if your coach is really good that doesn't mean you can't get injured, but it's as likely to happen as it would if you were playing basketball with your friends every day, even less so. So don't be afraid to try it out. I've done Crossfit for over five years and had a minor shoulder pain once, but I've injured myself in similar ways just going to the gym. Whenever you make a body acitivty you risk getting injured. That shouldn't discourage you.

I dont think its genetics, just programming. If you're training constantly and consistently without results, the way you're training is likely wrong.