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114 | My Opinion on CrossFit, Personal Fitness, Certifications & More
Category: Health
Duration: 00:20:05
Publish Date: 2021-06-01 09:00:00
Description: If you’re here for the business side of things, then go ahead and join my free on demand workshop, Your Biz | Your Way - 3 steps to build a profitable online health and fitness biz! And while you’re on the site, snag all the free resources - you’ll find goodies for trainees and coaches or entrepreneurs alike. Much love. 114 | My opinion on CrossFit, the importance of your personal experience in fitness, what makes a good coach, and do certifications matter? Today’s episode is going to be somewhat of a mash up, I have nothing more than my personal opinion on things. So please do not take this as biblical or objective truth. You can take or leave whatever you like from this episode. Because again, these are simply my opinions. And each opinion is formed through the lens of an individual, their beliefs system, their experiences and perspectives I chose these topics based on what I’ve been asked by my audience over the years. And these are some of the most popular topics. You are free to disagree or hold a different perspective. Please remember this is a free podcast and you are choosing to listen to it. You are a grown adult, and you exit at anytime you feel the need. I know that sounds dramatic for discussing things such as fitness modalities and what makes a good coach, but I figure we can’t be too careful. And it’s just a good reminder for all of us. So let’s go ahead and dive in to topic number one which is my opinion on CrossFit CROSSFIT For those of you that don’t know, I actually partook in a CrossFit for about a six month period of time while I was in college, and shortly after college. So, this opinion is not coming from a space that has no experience using this form of exercise. Whether or not that holds weight, I don’t know but I thought it was worth mentioning. I think, completely subjectively, that CrossFit as a whole has improved hugely over the last decade. And that is how long I have been following the sport for. I think that CrossFit does a fantastic job of building community, and welcoming people into practicing fitness. In fact, I think it might do that better than any other comparable modality of fitness. I would say, my issues with CrossFit are around the programming, and the possible lack of building a solid foundation of both strength and movement patterns before jumping into more advanced exercises. And I want to make it very clear that this is going to be over generalized. Because someone’s experience at one CrossFit box with one coach can be completely different from even another coach with in that box or another CrossFit box as a whole. So yes, I am going to be making generalizations about this motive fitness. I’m not a huge fan of oversimplifying, or overgeneralizing things. But it’s kind of a must with a topic as large as CrossFit. I certainly don’t think that only Olympians should perform Olympic lifts. That’s silly to me. Well Olympic lifts and some of the gymnastics moves performed in CrossFit or advanced movements, I don’t see any reason for a normal GEN pop person to not progress their way through these movements. As with any form of fitness, there are going to be shit trainers, and shit programming, that likely puts the client at a higher risk of injury. And I’m not for that no matter what modality a fitness is being used. That’s not specific to CrossFit though I do think that just given the movements practiced, at the intensity they are performed, there may be a higher risk for injury in comparison to some other forms of fitness and weightlifting. Truly, that comes down to the coaching and the regulation within a box. That leads me to another issue that I have with CrossFit. Which is the fact that a coach can be certified from a weekend seminar. And just like with your normal personal training, I do not think that this is adequate for someone to become a coach. With that, any certification is only as effective as the exper...
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