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Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties

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Post by diffserv »

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment? > The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and mult…

Unpopular opinion, but they aren't that far off with regards to academia. Academia has little scientific agenda at its core—most things boil down to money.

If you want to make a case for your idea on any topic, put money on that topic and professors and researchers work towards making a case for it (this is less true about math and (maybe?) physics but the farther you get from those topics, the more impact money has on results and ideas).

Academia (mostly? in the US) is just yet another institution that is solely driven by money.

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Post by Deimorz »

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment? > The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and mult…

This was an interesting article I read about CrossFit from about a year ago that goes into some of this:

CrossFit’s “Holy War”: The Rise And Fall Of Its Science Crusader https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/russell-b...

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Post by thelittleone »

wallace_f wrote: post #21
amluto wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supposedly there are (rare) good CrossFit trainers who keep their class safe.

Supposedly. In personal experience, I've observed an actual 100% fit for people who lack critical thinking skills, or often even general intelligence, and significant Crossfit engagement. I really do think it is an obviously anti-intellectual consumer cult. I know many people who have tried it and decided it was not reasonable. Edit: I think my comment comes across as a generalized put-down, which rubbed people the w…

100%? I'm interested to hear the reasoning and methods used to arrive at this conclusive statistic.

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Post by busymom0 »

hcho3 wrote: post #9

> “millions of individual adherents“ Is Crossfit a cult? At first I thought the article was a parody or something

It has become a cult. I personally have no problem with people lifting and motivating each other and CrossFit was originally quite good, especially the competitive athletes. But now a days it’s become a huge cult where it’s all about people motivating each other to see how many reps of a certain exercise a person can do while completely throwing the form out of the window. Couple of my friends are in sports medicine field and they tell me on how CrossFit has become a way to keep sports meds employed because it’s single handedly the most cases of sports injury in their clinic.

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Post by paulddraper »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #14
krustyburger wrote: post #3

This is actually a big deal. CrossFit, whether you like it or not (I’m not a fan) is at this point a major consumer brand. Not too long ago it would have been unthinkable for a brand this significant to make this kind of move.

It should be unthinkable. Do we really want social issues litigated by major brands slinging mud at each other? Imagine Pepsi publishing the equivalent article about how Comcast is evil.

> It should be unthinkable.

Zuckerberg, is that you?

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Post by Consultant32452 »

educomments wrote: post #25
chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment? > The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and mult…

If they had simply said "Facebook does not respect its users and is psychologically unhealthy; we're out" then I would've been pretty nonchalant. What a weird and unnecessary rant.

In the modern news cycle the only thing that matters is rage and shock. If they didn't make an unnecessary rant, it would get fewer retweets.

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Post by inglondon »

tw04 wrote: post #7
chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment? > The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and mult…

If you've ever been an athlete, and have spent 30 seconds watching crossfit - it becomes obvious the goal is to see how dumb of an "exercise" you can do before getting hurt. There are two type of crossfitters - those who have gotten a permanent and serious injury, and those who are going to get one.

I can't verify the quality of these studies but it seems that injury rates per 1000 active hours of crossfit at 0.27 - 0.74 [1] are significantly lower than more common sports such as running at 2.9 - 4.4 and basketball at 6.3 - 12.9 [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201188/ [2] http://bionics.seas.ucla.edu/education/Rowing/Injury_2004_01...

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Post by ralph84 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment? > The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and mult…

Academia has a pretty bad track record when it comes to nutrition advice. "Food science" is mostly the study of how to maximize food manufacturer profits, not how to construct a healthy diet.

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Post by cglace »

Spooky23 wrote: post #8
xeromal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is wrong with a` low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.`? That doesn't really seem like pseudoscience in the realm of anti-vaccine and grapefruit diet BS. It's a valid diet.

I don’t know much about the diet, but when it went crazy at my office a few years ago, half of the crossfitters ended up with significant injuries. The fitness program is dangerous and dumb.

Meh. Depends on the gym. Some emphasize form. Some don’t. Simple as that.
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