Originally Posted by
Just Janna
Just curious... have you seen others overcome slight physical limitations? ie weak knees, ankles, wrists.. shit like that?
Your trainers will scale down the exercises for you. For example, a lot of beginners are not able to do pull-ups....you may be doing ring rows (holding and pulling up olympic-style rings at a 45 degree angle with your feet on the ground), if that gets easy then you'll start doing jumping pull-ups (you get a plyometric box to stand near a pull-up bar, use it to jump above the bar and repeat) then when that gets easy you're likely able to do pull-ups with the added strength. One of the main keys to the workouts is intensity and constant movement.
Originally Posted by
Tyler88
CrossFit works, but you will plateau with it very easily. Most of the time the programs incorporate little progression or overload because they use mostly body weight movements. So, yes it will get you in shape, but at the same time as a long term program it would be effective as some other programs. I also don't like the fact that some crossfit gyms push doing max reps and disregard the quality of the movement being done.
The qualifying rounds for this year's CrossFit games were recently concluded in the past several weeks. Some of the competitors were doing 300lb overhead squats and often averaging 250+lb thrusters. So much for "plateauing easily". As for the "no regard for quality of movement" yes there are minority of bad apples in the bucket, but the successful CrossFit gyms emphasize form over everything. It's nowhere as bad as the laughable shit you'll find a typical globo gym.