First, the Crossfit Games thing was held recently and the winner was named “fittest person in the world”, garbage. For almost 100 years, the winner of the Olympic decathlon has been rightly considered the “World’s Greatest Athlete”. Inventing your own contest does nothing to equal or surpass this established standard.

Second, having watched a fair amount of videos from Crossfit there is a rather sinister trend present. When being interviewed, a Crossfit athlete will often say something like “well when I was a Division I athlete…” or “after burning out on my sport I gave up my athletic scholarship and joined Crossfit”. It’s fine to pimp people like this for promotional reasons. However, most people will never be good enough to play college sports (much less get a scholarship to play Division I). The use of information by Crossfit is extremely misleading.

It’s a “package”, marketed at folks who think they need that sort of bootcamp-circuit-formula training. Does it help some people? You bet. So does the “trainer” at the local shiny-weight-machine gym who’s walking you through the seated row & press machines while he’s checking out that babe on the treadmill in the short-shorts. But they also have the potential to do some damage, especially when there’s no real knowledge from which to assess a client’s needs & limitations (and what to do to target/correct them).

Stay tuned :)…..