135# shoulder press x 5
pull ups x 10
45# bar jumping squats x 20
5 rnds with 2 min rest btwn
The facility I'm at this week offers a crossfit class and has a modest cache of the necessary tools. I found a dark corner and went to work. Although a "crossfit" facility can now be found in just about ever city I still find myself looking for a park, traveling with a k-bell, or going to a globo gym and resigning myself to pure strength training. When I first started crossfit I never had second thoughts about sniffing out and visiting any crossfit facility I could find. Not any more though. What has changed?
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Could it be that more and more of the affiliates are too focused on CrossFit as a way to make a living through elite fitness vs. striving for elite fitness as a way of living? In looking for other sites like cfjax and 324 I've only found a handful of affiliates that don't appear to be more focused on the number of new members they have vs the quality of their efforts and results of those members. It's a case where quantity has outpaced quality and people are starting to follow the money and success of the "CrossFit Business" not the reason and ideas behind the original success. To me it's much like coming across some obscure band that resonates so perfectly with what you like, who you are, and what you believe in. You're excited because not everyone knows who they are, what they sound like, or where to get their music. Then, all of a sudden you see some preppy frat boy walking down the street with a shirt of your favorite band and you wonder, how did that happen? You're not that guy, he shouldn't be into the same music, and then.... you do the unthinkable. You turn on the radio to find that your fears are reality. They're playing the music they shouldn't be, in heavy rotation, and you realize that everyone's drinking the same kool aid. That's the point where you come to a realization, as you did in your post today, it's time to question the establishment. Have things gone wrong? Is this still for me? Does all of this resonate with me, or are there only a few remaining recognizable parts of the original whole? Who knows, I could be way off but it's definitly worth considering the ingredients of the original addiction. Someone, or something, may have changed them somewhere along the way.
ReplyDeleteBecause it's not new anymore, and with a little time in, a lot of affiliate's have egos. They've been to all the certs, been to the better business seminars about how to pitch crossfit to the laymen and undiscovered, and really don't give a shit about where you've been or what you've done. They just want you to sign on the dotted line and set up your automatic payments. It feels cliquey. You listen to what they preach and all you hear is regurgitation, some vignette spit back out from last weeks CrossFit Journal post. They are so sure of themselves and what they're selling that they come off as self-righteous. So you smile, retreat inside to some dark place that tries to imagine that you're in your favorite cave, destroy their workout possibly yourself, maybe buy a t-shirt and continue on down the road. Because after going to so many gyms that didn't measure up to our expectations of the ideal, we simply stop giving a shit and come to the conclusion that despite being alone, it's not that lonely out in the wilderness.
ReplyDeleteJust my take brother, but I definitely have noticed my waining interest in seeking out other affiliates on my passing throughs.
True Clint. I remember meeting people at some of the certs who were "opening affiliates" and I was taken aback, wondering if they had ever done any type of training before this tidal wave hit. The optimist in me says that it's better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteWhit, it sounds like you've experienced this before. Don't worry Alan is expecting you. He needs some more testosterone up in those mountains.
Will there be a second coming of crossfit?