I am a Pre-PTer, I am currently waiting on my acceptances for next May, and am wondering if any current Pts, DPTs, or Pre-Pts, etc. crossfit? It seems most of the Pt community I have met are very health and fitness conscious, as I am. I have a few friends that crossfit and I have been thinking about starting my self. Right now I run and lift weights regularly. My only concern about crossfit is doing some of the more complex lifts (overhead squat, deadlifts, olylifts in general) at a fast pace. This seems like it would compromise form on some of these lifts. Most crossfit workouts are geared for doing them in the fasted time possible, and are usually relatively short, but very intense. So do you crossfit? What are your thoughts on crossfit? Lets talk about crossfit!
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Do any Pts or Pre-Pts crossfit?
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Crossfit gym membership is like $150/month on average. With that I could buy groceries for the month. I can't imagine how any full time student already paying an arm and a leg for graduate school can afford crossfit as well. Sure wish I could though 🙁
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There's a crossfit place semi-close to where I live, but like jellybean said, it's very un-affordable, so not something I can do... I just stick to regular weightlifting and cardio 🙂
I am also a Pre-PTer and huge advocate of fitness. However looking at the Crossfit work outs, their main focus is "no pain, no gain" style which is totally what we should be against. If you look up their workouts, they do like 50 "fake" pull ups meaning they throw their body weight up with minimal lat pull. As for power cleans, they are meant to be explosion lifts, not cardiovascular lifts. Doing over 10 reps of snatch would seem to destroy your shoulder socket. I could be wrong, but I used to deadlift like crazy giving up form at times and I ended up in physical therapy for my knee.
The whole point of crossfit is to scale it to your abilities.... Give up your ego that you have to be the strongest and the fastest... I have been crossfitting for over 2 years (and i am over 50!) and I am no where near the strongest or fastest but i have increased my core strength tremendously and that has improved my back problems. It is however very expensive for students so I can see why it is not in the near future for all you PT students.
Yeah a membership to a box (gym) is really expensive. I was thinking about just doing the workouts at the gym I currently go to (division 1 university), which has almost everything I would need except a climbing rope and olympic hoops, but I could substitute those out for other exercises. The injury factor was and is my main concern, like stated, especially doing compound lifts at a high rate of speed. From everyone I talk to, they said while speed is the goal, form is always number one, and is all up to the individual to maintain for their safety. I am still doing my research on the program so if anyone else has any feedback lets hear it. Have a great day everyone!
what's your goal? If its to lose weight or gain muscle mass, can be done easily without an expensive membership to crossfit or boxing gym. Equipment at a D-1 university as you mentioned should have all the olympic lifting equipment. If its to be trained by someone with Crossfit expertise, that may be another story, but alot of information is out there online for you to find your specific routine.
I am not looking to get trained by a crossfit instructor per say, a few tips wouldn't hurt; but was more just seeing what people here thought of the program and if anyone did it. Right now I lift weights 4 days a week, and run about 4 miles 2 times a week, so I am in pretty good shape. The crossfit regime has caught my interest as of late; mainly due to its intenseness and the fact that I have been doing the same workout routines (give or take) for years now and wanted to try something new.
I've just made the decision to go back to school and become a PT. I'm also a huge CF proponent. I've been doing it since 2004 and training people on the side for about 5 years. CF is awesome but also misunderstood by a lot of people. It's a very open program, which is great, but it also means there is next to 0 regulation. There is massive fluctuation in the quality you get from gym to gym and trainer to trainer. The best gyms/trainers all have a huge focus on form and quality of movement. The lesser gyms/instructors often have the impression that they can trade form for intensity, which is completely false. When you lose form, you lose efficiency, which then limits your intensity (and leads to injury which also obviously hurts performance). Our motto is to always seek best orthopedic function, in other words whatever our task is we will train and use the form that our body is most optimally suited to use.
In any case, even if you are not on board with everything about CF, one of the best things about it is how it has brought a HUGE amount of information into one place that is easily accessible to all. There are experts from all areas of health and fitness that have brought something to the table and it's there for anyone to look at if you are willing to sift through it. One person in particular that folks here might want to check out is Kelly Starrett. He is a DPT and CrossFit coach who has a blog called the Mobility WOD. It's all about mobilization/stretching to get athletes to be able to get themselves into the most efficient positions to increase their performance.
In any case, even if you are not on board with everything about CF, one of the best things about it is how it has brought a HUGE amount of information into one place that is easily accessible to all. There are experts from all areas of health and fitness that have brought something to the table and it's there for anyone to look at if you are willing to sift through it. One person in particular that folks here might want to check out is Kelly Starrett. He is a DPT and CrossFit coach who has a blog called the Mobility WOD. It's all about mobilization/stretching to get athletes to be able to get themselves into the most efficient positions to increase their performance.
Gajid, thats awesome that you mention Kelly's blog, I just discovered it about 2 weeks ago and have watched quite a few of his videos. I agree his website is great; he is a big proponent of crossfit and a DPT. I cosign his site 100%. So you have been crossfitting for years, is this your number source for training? Do you follow the mainsite? Do you work out a crossfit box?
CrossFit is definitely my primary training source, but I also play around with various other sport specific training methods also depending on what I'm into at the time. I have done a lot endurance stuff in the past also. CrossFit is the base and then I take it's basic principles and apply them to whatever sport I want to go after for specific training. One big endorsement I can give for CF is that after 7 or 8 years I'm still improving, every year I am in better shape than the year before.
I am at a gym, Jet City CrossFit in Seattle. Our gym programming is mostly taken from past mainsite. We usually adjust them a bit to fit our equipment and obviously scale to the abilities of our clients as well. I follow our gym programming for the most part but also add in extra strength work (Always experimenting with something) and put extra focus on weaknesses.
If you are willing to do the research, watch and really analyze the videos you can definitely self teach, everything you need to know is on the internet, it's just a lot more work. If you go this route one of the key things is to always make sure you are scaling appropriately. Mainsite will occasionally put up some workouts with some really tough gymnastics movements or really heavy weights that most people have no business doing, so you need to know when and how much to dial back. Scaling weights is usually pretty obvious but the gymnastics movements are really where you need to be careful and keep it in line with your ability.
Going to a gym is definitely way more fun though, one of the key draws of CF is the community it builds. Also some of the more advanced lifts are pretty tough to master without some expert outside eyes on you.
I am at a gym, Jet City CrossFit in Seattle. Our gym programming is mostly taken from past mainsite. We usually adjust them a bit to fit our equipment and obviously scale to the abilities of our clients as well. I follow our gym programming for the most part but also add in extra strength work (Always experimenting with something) and put extra focus on weaknesses.
If you are willing to do the research, watch and really analyze the videos you can definitely self teach, everything you need to know is on the internet, it's just a lot more work. If you go this route one of the key things is to always make sure you are scaling appropriately. Mainsite will occasionally put up some workouts with some really tough gymnastics movements or really heavy weights that most people have no business doing, so you need to know when and how much to dial back. Scaling weights is usually pretty obvious but the gymnastics movements are really where you need to be careful and keep it in line with your ability.
Going to a gym is definitely way more fun though, one of the key draws of CF is the community it builds. Also some of the more advanced lifts are pretty tough to master without some expert outside eyes on you.
Thanks for the advice! I would definitely become a member at a box if I could afford, but my gym is $30 a month vs. $150 a month. I think I will dabble into a little and try to perfect some of the oly-lifts a little better. I could see crossfit very useful during PT school when free time is limited; one could just rock out a 30 min. workout and be done.
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