Re: Mel's Diet and Crossfit 'facts'

[Guest guest]

I've been following Crossfit for a few months now and

I think its simplicity and straightforward approach is

what makes it attractive. Its also a bonus that its

easy to track your progress in their WODs

Mark Limbaga

Associate coach

Eclipse Fitness Center

Manila, Philippines

--- kolby900 wrote:

> In Supertraining , Hobman

> wrote:

>

> Snip

> <<For sure he didn't follow a low-fat/high-carb diet

> and I have no

> idea how Crossfit determined that. I enjoy some

> aspects of Crossfit and often use the friends of

> Crossfit link as a web-surfing starting point. But I

> lost some respect when I read this log entry.>>>

>

> *****I seem to lose respect for Crossfit the more I

> read their

> published words, and this past journal of theirs was

> no exception.

> Here it is for anyone interested:

>

> http://www.crossfit.com/cf-journal/cfjissue2_xt4.pdf

>

>

> I will comment that unlike many of the other fitness

> trend cults that are out there this particular cult

> is unique for two reasons. First, they have

> incorporated so many aspects of fitness that folks

> can now claim almost anything they do as Crossfit

> including circuits, Olympic Lifting, gymnastics,

> strongman, martial arts etc. That's smart marketing.

>

>

> The second uniqueness is that they lack any real

> philosophy. All

> the others 'fit cults' have a strong philosophical

> element that can peak curiousity and dialog, while

> Crossfit simply spews generic 'facts' that any basic

> textbook can support and wraps them into their

> promotional materials while taking it all to an

> extreme. Their philosophy is simply 'go 'til you

> puke' and has little icons on their websites of

> folks vomiting. So, although they have seemed to

> corner the market on all forms of movement and

> program design they have no intellectual property to

> speak of.

>

> But they do have a following.