I had no idea what Crossfit was until I ran across a documentary on Netflix called “Fittest on Earth.” I’m not sure what I was looking for at the time but I didn’t find it so I watched this instead. This sport is insane! It’s basically just very intense, strictly regimented exercises designed to push you to maximum effort and eventually achieve an extreme level of “fitness,” but these people do it competitively.
Mind you, I have absolutely zero interest in actually doing any Crossfit training, but I find the sport fascinating. It’s like competing in an Olympic Games where they select the events at random, and you have to participate in every event. It looks like just a bunch of people doing workouts really fast together, and granted, it is, but it’s also a race for time and points. It’s more compelling than it sounds.
Anyways, they are live streaming the current Crossfit Games competition on CBS Sports’ website if you want to check it out.
I sort of do Crossfit, but have been fortunate to have excellent trainers and coaches.
I have watched the documentaries and was flabbergasted at the one year when “Murph” was one of the WOD and athletes were dropping from the heat. I am so happy that the people I train with actually believe fitness shouldn’t destroy your body or health.
Having said all that, those athletes are amazingly fit. How they get there (I assume many/most are using PEDs) is another question, but I would love to be half that fit.
Yeah, I’ve found myself glued to x-fit competitions when surfing the dial (at least when The Three-headed Shark isn’t on!) Just incredible to see the type of activities those folk are doing.
What folk have said upthread about the potential damage to your body is exactly what I’ve heard from the fittest folk I speak with.