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Originally Posted by The God Hypothesis
To elaborate on my cult claim, their was an air of elitism and "every other workout sucks" to the crossfit group. If you needed a breather or shot of water you were "weak". Puking was encouraged, form was ignored. It just felt terribly unhealthy and worked my joints more than my muscles on too many occasions.
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A thousand times this.
Of course it's wonderful to design and experiment with new workouts, to consider alternative approaches to traditional exercise, and to attempt to improve physical endurance and stamina. But the mere fact that there is a novel, "improved" exercise routine, is not reason to completely ignore/ eschew other exercise. Worse yet is the attitude.. were it simply "I only Crossfit", that'd be fine, do whatever you want; it's that they seem to scoff at people whose workouts consist of anything that ISNT Crossfit.
I'm in the best shape of my life right now, and I attribute that directly to staying interested in going to the gym. That means kettle bells, tabata, traditional weight lifting, basketball, swimming, etc. That's not too far from the Crossfit mentality, but because I don't do the WODs, I'm sure there isn't a single Crossfitter who would say I'm in better shape than they are.