CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret (Page 4)

Cue the "but you would be faster if you just biked more" music  I wouldn't mind giving it a shot a couple days a week, not for any thought that it would improve my swim/bike/run performance but just so I can look a little more in shape than Tony.  It would be nice to have a shirtless poolside picture that could actually be posted.  Alas, my bum, dislocated shoulder will never be able to handle muscle ups, rope climbs and probably 50% of the other CF stuff.  

Yeah, but if you're working with the right person, you should be able to discuss your limitations and work around the bum,dislocated shoulder. 

Josh The Trainer Dude (his official title, or JTTD) asks me at the beginning of every session how I'm feeling, what's going on with my back, knees, etc. and we adjust the exercises as needed.  I don't know if that's one of the perks of working one-on-one with someone vs. a group workout, but I'd like to think that no matter what environment you were in, changes could be made to that day's workout for you. 

OK, that was a really, really good one though:) 

I love the tri ones too. 

We're all dorks. 

I made peace with my inner (outter?) dork a long time ago.

"Elite.  It smells.... elite."

"Whatever"

WORD

So I posted the article on my FB page and got a pretty lively response from a doctor:

"Medically- this article is garbage. I deal with clinically relevant rhabdo (in the hospital )every day, and it's a serious medical condition. And a few days a week, I run myself into clinically non-relevant rhabdo. The writer is borderline ridiculous when he bashes a OBGYN (obviously being humorous) about peeing. This is a sorry example of biased dramatic over hype of a nonissue. Rhabdomyolysis is a rate-limited function of the kidneys ability to excrete muscle breakdown. It is proportional to time - not effort. That's why military guys get it on long slow walks, and marathon runners can have issues at hour 3-5 or longer. Body builders will jack up their muscle breakdown 1000x what a runner experiences, but they don't deal with rhabdo because they are short burst, non endurance- much like crossfit. I'm sure there are rare exceptions, but you don't change your life for the .001% chance. 
Also, the above picture of the non-repairing arm almost exclusively (and almost only) happens in the setting if anabolic steroid use. Throw this article in the same pile of trash, along with the "marathons will kill you" pile."

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Why are those stupid little computer generated movies so funny??

Yet my friend's wife is home recovery from rhabdo that was brought on specifically from a crossfit competition.  Yes, she was in the hospital for multiple days.  *shrug*  Does your doctor friend do CF?  

Lloyd!!  I thought you'd like to jump into this thread.  I tend agree with your thoughts.  Whether you're into CF or think it's a waste of time, to say it's inherently more dangerous than other popular forms of working out (like triathlon) because of something like Rhabo is just silly.