Comment by jff | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jff | Hacker News Reader

Here's a crossfitter who severed his spine with a poorly-done lift, be warned it's a bit disturbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qc3kDCB7bA

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/AoClAei.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/uLWrijU.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/s4GWEmj.gif And again! http://i.imgur.com/7gCoxY7.gif and again! http://i.imgur.com/uOXc113.gif

Crossfit! http://i.minus.com/iZUsT11hiMbCz.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/MPSXRUT.gif

Crossfitttttt! http://i.imgur.com/Y2yrqPS.jpg

Crossfit! http://gifsoup.com/view3/4092663/crossssifttt-o.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/gs28aPU.gif

Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/0iQG9fx.gif

A lot of what you see in there is either officially encouraged ("kipping" = basically cheating at pullups/lifts/whatever for more reps with shit form) or arises from a total lack of proper training on anyone's part (the guy who just powers up the weight with his arms and back rather than using his legs)

Remember, Crossfit: not even once.

I'm a loss for words. That is disturbing. For people who don't workout and don't understand what's wrong with some of these. The form so terrible and dangerous you could easily kill and injure yourself for life. And they're getting none of the benefits of the exercises they're trying to do because they're not doing them correctly. Thank you for posting this.

Crossfit => Death Wish Workouts™

> http://i.imgur.com/gs28aPU.gif

I'm speechless. I genuinely am at a loss for words. Is that like a hack squat except with no legs? "Hey, you know how they have Romanian deadlift? Let's do that for hack squats! That'd be pretty cool, right?"

This is no joke but i just couldn't help laughing! http://i.imgur.com/AoClAei.gif

I used to sell SaaS software to CF gyms and have been to hundreds of gyms. I've never seen anything like any of these at a CrossFit gym ever.

Do your homework before forming an opinion - don't take 10 edge-case GIFs on the Internet as the primary basis of your opinion. Been CrossFitting since 08, and, like anything, there's both good and bad things about it.

These don't add anything productive to the conversation, and basing your opinion on these is like basing your opinion of a religion -- or followers of that religion -- on the actions of a handful of fanatics.

The frequency of these fanatic events does tell you something about the subject as you can compare them to the frequency of events of other subjects (workouts). Being able to easily to find 10 edge case gifs tells you a lot about crossfit - and none of this is positive.

These are gifs of people doing dangerous things in a gym. Some are likely Crossfitters, some likely aren't.

My point is don't believe everything you see on the internet. Take some responsibility and do your own homework.

Something like 50% of them have Crossfit signs on the wall behind them.

So, kip much?

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