An Average Joe’s Anger…
I am very upset at the fact that Crossfit boxes just keep popping up around existing boxes- on the same streets – in the same towns... We like to talk about community but it has become who has the biggest box, the most monetary support and a who’s who of games competitors and athletic sponsorships - How can we build a community when we are becoming exactly what we despise -The globo gym... Crossfit Headquarters kindly accepts our affiliate fees every year with absolutely no return like protection from other pseudo crossfit globo boxes looking to clean up with shitty programming, over-crowded classes and with little regards to community, personal development and goal accomplishment... Congratulations Crossfit Headquarters... we have become over-crowded, non-coached, unsafe, nonfunctional movement CROSSFIT GLOBO!!! Coach Glassman should be proud of what his Crossfit model has become… An organic community of Mice and Men...~The Pissed-off Average Joe
Valid points by The Average Joe. At what point does the original design/message become hidden behind the cash machine? What do you call it? The Average Joe calls it Globo-gym CrossFit and I have called it CrossFit aerobics. CF aerobics is defined as 25+ athletes for varying abilities and 1 coach. The focus tends to shifts from quality coaching of skill & technique to managing chaos with less focus on fundamentals. Maybe it’s all dependent on an individual perception and if their needs as an athlete are being met.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Crossfit is something that I was excited to join two years ago because it seemed like it was a little known secret. Something that none of my friends knew about. Similar to I think most, once someone realizes how effective Crossfit is for conditioning and making one truly fit, you want to scream it out to the masses. Where I'm glad that Crossfit is "blowing up", there is that danger that something so successful stops growing organically and becomes for a lack of a better word, "tainted". Meaning that people start to see dollars only rather than the real goal, which is to redefine the word "fitness". I just recently completed the Level 1 course successfully and similar to other sentiments, it was scary that there were individuals that obviously lacked the background necessary to properly coach others and were literally going back to their boxes the following Monday to start coaching Crossfit. I personally feel honored that the coaches at ECC feel that I'm ready to become a part of the coaching staff. But I'm not naive to think that I know everything and even as a coach I'm still continuously in learning mode. Like Coach Wheels said recently, "once you walk in thinking you know everything...that's when trouble soon follows". It's these types that are going to bring down Crossfit.
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