Great piece on Crossfit #marketing strategies vs. actual coaching #science (via @stevemagness)

Crossfit endurance, Tabata sprints, and why people just don’t get it

Great piece on Crossfit #marketing strategies vs. actual coaching #science (via @stevemagness)

I think with any popular training program, you run this risk. I CF and I love it - the biggest problem I see is the programming. No two gyms are alike and just about anyone can open a CF gym. There was a 2 month period where I didn't do CF because the gyms in my area were just terrible. It's so hard for new people who have no idea what's going on to know that they're being 'trained' in an irresponsible manner. If someone is a novice with regards to exercise/training, then they'll have no idea that they are receiving harmful 'training'. Sadly, it's hard to explain this to people; there ARE probably more careless/bad CF gyms than there are good and because of this, CF gets a bad name. I love CF and I love the gym where I get to workout; we have great coaches who are cognizant of everyone's abilities and limitations and they make sure that workouts are properly subbed/scaled ...

Full article: http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2012/01/crossfit-enduranc...

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@CashCats » 06 Oct '12, 12pm
RT @mattjs: RT @mattjs: Great piece on Crossfit #marketing strategies vs. actual coaching #science (via @stevemagness) [link]
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Great piece on Crossfit #marketing strategies vs. actual coaching #science (via @stevemagness) [link]
@michaelslav » 04 Oct '12, 9pm
RT @daniel_lavipour: [link] excellent article giving a critique of crossfit
@daniel_lavipour » 04 Oct '12, 8pm
[link] excellent article giving a critique of crossfit
@NZRUN » 03 Oct '12, 11pm
"Essentially, Crossfit is living in like the 1940s". A great critique of Crossfit training by Steve Magness @ [link]
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Crossfit endurance, Tabata sprints, and why people just don’t get it [link]
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