Strength Trainer Pavel Tsatsouline on CrossFit Good and Bad

I've been doing crossfit for a month now (3X a week), and I must say it's been the only time in my life where I actually get stuff done. There's no chance to get distracted by your phone for 1 - 1.5 hours, you're around motivated people, hopefully you have a good coach who pushes you and corrects you if your form sucks. I'm far from being in shape (but am planning on getting in good shape within the next year), so i can't speak on behalf of serious athletes that plan on using CrossFit for life goals and to get fit for high-level competitive sports, but if you're just a regular inexperienced dude that seriously needs to start getting in SOMEWHAT of decent shape, i'd say this is an excellent way to do it.

Because let's be honest... 80% of people in regular gyms dick around, have improper form, spend way too much time on their phones and constantly give themselves excuses to "rest" and not push themselves. Basically, they watch a couple of YT vids and they don't know what they're doing. During CrossFit, you're only there for 1 - 2 hours, but you have no choice to actually push yourself and get.it.done.

Even if you're not doing the complicated exercises and adjusting them to your level of fitness and "staying in your own lane", it's STILL better than doing random machines in a regular gym without a plan, program and accountability... Just my 2 cents.

In addition, when I look at the major CrossFit athletes, it's pretty hard to argue that these people look terrible lol... they look better than swimmers, MMA fighters, and DEFINITELY better than power lifters lol

The funny thing about exercise "doctors" is everyone says "the science says this is the best way" - then they each say something different. Thats a special kind of science.

rule number 1.
Don't talk about crossfit if you don't know what crossfit is

CrossFit is stupid

Translation please

The obvious take from this video is this is a fella who has done very little crossFIt. Using the crossFit games is a really bad example of crossfit training. I just started crossfit myself, and there are 3 things I see as bad.
1. It neglects muscles, a little too focused on legs, lower back, and shoulders
2. The competition and time aspect motivates folks to do stupid stuff and neglect form.
3. RX+, it’s dumb, it’s only purpose is to stroke egos and motivate folks into doing crossFit wrong. Cool , more weight but slower times. What’s the point. There you have it.

one of the most informative 4mins on you tube. 100 doing that before my next comp

wtf did he just say? didnt say shit. fuck dis guy

What do the stats say in terms of injury recovery for CrossFit ? Cause these dudes at the top of the game and fkn machines and built like tanks .

I was skeptic about Agoge Diet because I thought that I would have to eat only broccoli to lose weight. I am eating only food I like and still losing weight.

My main gripe with crossfitters is how they equate 100+ reps and burn out as a good workout session. It feels good to get those numbers (I know, because I used to do some of their workouts), but being good at being fit and just getting reps aren't the same. Always go for quality over quantity, even if it means shorter training times. Your 60-year old joints and back will love you.

Goodddd

Colleges often redshirt afreshman football player to give him tome to build some size and strength. I think crossfit needs to at least recognize that this might be necessary sometimes

I've done CrossFit for years, and we've never done a single METCON exercise/movement for 40 minutes, or even 20. We've always broken it up with other movements.

Pavel is the guy to know the science behind training. No bullshit. Time to start using kettles :)

What adaptation gets u a acid buffer? How do u maintain it?

Can you get Jeff Cavalier from Athlean X on the show?

CrossFit single handedly made Chiropractors millions of more dollars in the past 10 years😂

Looks like a version of Joe Rogan who never who never did HGH, TRT and weed

This guy's a crossfit nazi lol

I can’t handle crossfitiots
And after they’ve hurt themselves doing something stupid then they can’t handle anything more than Ensure

Back in 2013, my school’s head football coach was a strong advocate for crossfit and swore that it would turn every 14 year old into super athletes.. So we did the whole gimmick, I’m talking wall ball bullshit, burpees, weight circuits, and every bodies form was absolute horse shit. We ended the season with a losing record of like 3-8 or some shit, I forgot.

The crossfit cult is so brainwashed into thinking training complex lifts and bodyweight exercises till failure will make anyone into a god, when it leads to just CNS burn out and injury city.

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Who does burpees and wall balls for 40 mins lol

Nice video

After I saw a kipping pull up I thought that’s it I’m out.

What in the fuck is he talking about?? Joe did you get a crack head off the street and start asking him questions about crossfit

Pavel, just as a reference, took me from never having deadlifted as a tennis player from staring at 135lbs. to deadlifting 400lbs 'easily' many years ago. His principles are real. Power to The People. That was the book that I used. Changed how I think and exercise, you know kinda forever. Thanks Pavel!!!

In Russia we do cross fit with a kettlebell around our neck

Greetings comrade

What idiot would do wall balls for 40 minutes haha

Hey buddy this is exactly what we do in cross fit . No one does wall balls for 40 mins. Plus we do competition to the sets and time to peak . Do a routine of cc and then tell me what up

J.R.: “CrossFit, let’s circle back to that”

P.T.: (sigh)

The kind of Sheer amount of stress they put, if they put it everyday then it is absolutely degenerative on your joints tendons and over all nervous system and is absolutely not sustainable until and unless you are not taking EPD or some kind of anabolic substances

Agreed. Cross fitters are losers.

It needs more kettle bells

What's wrong with CrossFit?
Yes.

Lol

Anyone who makes these cheap ass excuse like “CrossFit will hurt ur joints in old age n shit” go say that to Herschel Walker

Mow the lawns, cut firewood, walk to the shops, there you go exercise completed

I’ve never seen a man tip-toe more around a topic incessantly trying to not offend.

He was just making shit up. Do what you want as long you do something.

I'm so CONFUSED! What did this dude just say?

Two kettlebells talking

Always people that have never done crossfit that has the most to say about it. Makes me laugh. I would like to see Joe do one of the open qualifiers.

Lots of words but nothing said. Like interviewing an athlete after a game

Rich Froning addresses the early programming of crossfit. He admits that it was a circus . The programming now is way more organized and efficient.