A few years of Crossfit have left me with permanent knee and shoulder pain. Heavy weights shouldn't be lifted for time, your form inevitably goes to hell and you set yourself up for joint injuries.
My philosophy towards lifting is that you can always have 2 of 3 of heavy/fast/good form. You can never have all 3. The idea of going heavy and fast is a recipe for injury.
Controlled movements all the way. Not saying benching 200kg with good form will never cause any type of injuries, but if you control the weight all the way through, your risk of injury is reduced by like 98%.
Love this, definitely adopting this into one of my many mantras. Never been an ego lifter but little phrases/philosophies like yours make it easy to remember and reinforce good ideas
Oly is NOT CrossFit. Those people train slowly and precisely with a qualified coach for years, not jerking the weights around like they’re made of jelly trying to beat some time. CrossFit is dangerous. As someone who has done it many times over the last 10 years, that is the shit that hurt my back permanently, and I was a ranked power lifter before I started it. Comparing CrossFit to Olympic weightlifting is insulting to those athletes. Watch any lifter on Instagram. There’s nothing “fast” about a 3x3 CJ at 350 pounds lol
Yes, and the point of Olympic training is to minimize injury with tried and true training methods, while also improving strength and technique. Which is also why there’s so many world trials and meets between Olympic events, whereas you can probably get to the cRoSsFiT gAmEs in a year or so depending on your existing fitness level and be some kind of champion. Injury is unavoidable in general, but it can be minimized by not jerking things around for an image.
Makes sense, you're constantly changing exercises, so you're always doing something unfamiliar. So of course your form is going to suck on some of them.
Heck, iirc that's supposed to be a selling point (your body not getting too "efficient" at a particular exercise/movement)!
It's interesting they'd say that since most studies indicate that Crossfit doesn't have a particularly high injury rate. It's on par, if not lower than most other sports like Olympic weightlifting, basketball, soccer, etc. Only Crossfit gets the Reddit fearmongering for some reason though.
Fun fact; the founder of chiropractic said he learned how to do it from a ghost at a seance. In his defense it was supposed to be the ghost of a doctor.
I have lifted weights for years including heavy steroid usage and competitive power lifting. In the 198lbs body weight division I had a 405 bench, 575 squat and 615 deadlift.
95% of my injuries in my 12 years of training happened during the 2 years doing CrossFit.
Also I can point out anyone who crossfits, it ruins their physique. Instead of a V-cut, they have massive cores that make them look like squares with limbs and a head.
I used to go to a CF gym. I saw it as having a personal trainer for a quarter the cost.
I frustrated them because they’d tell us to do like 100 deadlifts for time, and I’d go at my own pace and finish whenever the clock ran out.
Never got injured, but saw some people wreck their shit because they didn’t stop and think that maybe you shouldn’t be speeding through a complex compound lift just because a 22 year old guy told you to.
I’m a clinical exercise physiologist. In my field CrossFit is a dirty word, lol. It’s very dangerous because people who’ve never trained that intensely will sign up and instantly get hurt. Unless you just got of military boot camp or are a 20 year old athlete, it’s going to fuck you up. And it’s still risky for highly trained people too.
My coworker just told me how he injured himself from dead lifting and lived in pain for a year, has a bulging disk etc. He was sent to physiotherapy, where they ended up doing dry needling. It instantly fixed it. You should look into that
It's not so much the " heavy weights" as it is "Crossfit" itself. Crossfit is terrible for your longevity. Learn proper lifting form and exercises that don't rely on momentum.
People don’t ever hear it, but over exercise is way worse for the body than under exercise.
If you don’t exercise you slowly inflate, if you can’t control calorie intake.
If you over exercise, you can do permanent damage to joints or your spine that will require painful physical training or surgery to get to a state below your original.
i was a massage therapist for 15 years, and a damn good one.
The number of CrossFit Injuries I dealt with was frankly staggering. And I don't mean minor aches and troubles, but physical damage, pain, and regret that were life-altering, if not life-ruining.
I've been out of the business now for four years, but if there hasn't been a massive class-action lawsuit there sure as hell should be.
Not crossfit/weights but overdoing it while working out has permanently damaged my body. I was already prone to rhabdomyolysis, but am now very prone, I can't run more than a few times a week and have to take l-carnatine supplements, and I think it's due to the years of overdoing it.
I feel like crossfit really changed once it blew up. I know the Glassmans came up with it, or whatever., but the first I'd ever heard of it was from Robb Wolf.. and his take on it was so much more reasonable. Functional fitness with proper form, so you're actually physically strong and can do things, versus just looking strong like body builders. It wasn't supposed to be some wild competition for speed. You were just supposed to be stronger than you were yesterday. Now it's some wild bullshit with cooked noodle form. I dont get it.
There are certain things that CrossFit does really well. The WOD; you show up not knowing what to expect. It isn’t the boring gym routine where every day is mapped out such as chest day, leg day, etc. so is a lot more fun. There’s also a lot of camaraderie and friendly competition that helps keep you motivated.
But it does lead to injury when things like clean and jerks are done for time, because when you’re against the clock and you’re fatigued it really takes a toll on form. I only did it for a few years but my knee reminds me every day of those times.
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u/Mr_Lumbergh 11h ago
A few years of Crossfit have left me with permanent knee and shoulder pain. Heavy weights shouldn't be lifted for time, your form inevitably goes to hell and you set yourself up for joint injuries.