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May 13, 2015 at 7:21 pm #193973manny1010Participant
I’m a fan! Anyone else enjoys the community and being healthy?
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May 13, 2015 at 7:32 pm #665522Ag12thmanParticipant
It's great that you're staying up with your fitness through all the studying. Be careful with CrossFit, though. That can be a dangerous form of exercise. In the little town I live in alone there have been several injuries.
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May 13, 2015 at 7:33 pm #665523ruggercpa2bParticipantI am part of the cult. I go 3 times a week and will be starting the whole30 next week after my wedding. It helps with the stress of studying and working.
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May 13, 2015 at 8:47 pm #665524AnonymousInactiveI was looking into it, but seemed unreasonably expensive, like over $200/month
May 13, 2015 at 8:56 pm #665525SkynetParticipantI already do Crossfit studying for the CPA exams. Using my Gleim CPA Review book for biceps curls to exercise my muscles and opening the books to study in order to exercise my brain. Exercising Both mind and Body.
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Phase V : TBAMay 13, 2015 at 9:13 pm #665526Tripp11MemberI'm not a member of a CrossFit gym, but I do belong to a gym geared towards athletes and it's actually one of the Top 10 gyms in the nation according to Men's Health. We have a steady stream of CrossFit washouts or injured members coming thru the doors.
It's not cheap. My wife and I have a joint account which costs us $399 per month and with that comes 3x per week private instruction from one of their trainers (who actually went to college to study kinesiology or similar field) and obviously unlimited gym usage.
I was an ectomorph before joining, and now I'm eating healthy but also consuming 3,500+ calories per day and working out for 1.5 hours per day for 3-4 days per week. I've put on 25 lbs of muscle which I thought impossible.
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FAR - 83May 13, 2015 at 9:53 pm #665527ThrawnParticipantCrossfit is dangerous, it doesn't attend to proper form in your exercise and can leave you crippled. The only reason it is successful is that it tends to focus on finding people who previously had little to no activity and thus any activity will immediately work wonders. Do yourself a favor and go to a normal gym and get some training from a personal trainer until you know the ropes.
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FAR - Passed!!!! I have my life back.May 14, 2015 at 1:12 am #665529BoateParticipantThe whole stigma of crossfit being dangerous is complete nonsense. You injure yourself because you don't know your body and/or not listening to your body when performing the exercises. I do feel some of crossfit it dumb, such as kipping…. Just do strict pull-ups, kipping is a waste of time imo. Its like everything else in this world, until you are comfortable with how to properly perform the exercise, take it slow with low weights. Once you've mastered form, start challenging yourself with heavier weights. I see to often people hurting themselves because of wrong form or their egos getting in the way in how much they should be lifting.
With that said, I'll be competing in the Spartan Sprint here in NY and the Spartan Super in NY so hope to see some of you there!!
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May 14, 2015 at 4:14 am #665530waffle_houseParticipanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7rbB2bteE
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May 14, 2015 at 2:56 pm #665531AnonymousInactiveTripp11, consuming 3500 calories sounds awesome!
May 14, 2015 at 3:20 pm #665532AnonymousInactiveNo, you don't injure yourself because you don't listen to your body. You injure yourself because you listen to someone who paid $1,000 for the title of “coach,” wouldn't know proper clean-and-jerk mechanics if they slapped him in the face, and thinks it's a good idea to do heavy, compound lifts for time.
I've just described 9 out of 10 Crossfit “coaches.”
The only redeeming quality of MOST Crossfit gyms is that they are getting more people in the gym, doing more than just wasting an hour on a treadmill or elliptical. But the potential for injury is astronomical because, generally speaking, the attendees have so little knowledge about what they're doing that they don't realize how unqualified their instructors are. My advice to people wanting to give Crossfit a whirl is to get some real instruction from a legitimate strength coach, learn how to move under tension, correct any strength imbalances and functional movement deficiencies you have, and then scale your Crossfit workouts yourself.
May 14, 2015 at 3:21 pm #665533SomedayCPA2015ParticipantI agree, Anna, that 3500 calories per day sounds amazing. Also, total karma for posting in here when I should have been studying. Post should have said “YOU are smart” not YOUR. Gah! Somehow added in an extra letter there. 🙂
Anna it is expensive. =/ I personally look at it as my therapy sessions right now. If I were to actually see a therapist weekly, it would be $25 per session, so as long as I'm using my CF membership it breaks down to less than that per CF session (assuming I go a few times per week, of course).
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FAR - Passed!!!! I have my life back.May 14, 2015 at 3:28 pm #665534AnonymousInactiveI have a personal trainer once a week myself, not because I don't know how to deadlift, but because I get 50% discount as employee and it's just more fun. And free gym membership
I also do have a therapist 🙂
May 14, 2015 at 4:03 pm #665535AnonymousInactiveAnjanja, if your company makes it cheap to treat yo self, do it by all means.
I work for a university. A gym membership costs me $10 a month. A no-brainer.
And once I realized how cheap therapy sessions were through our insurance…..I felt like an idiot for not taking advantage of it previously.
But Crossfit….seems to have developed some pretty devoted followers and convinced haters. I could see this thread getting ugly. 🙂
May 14, 2015 at 4:09 pm #665536SomedayCPA2015ParticipantI want your job, Anna! 🙂
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