The snatch is an olympic lift that requires the athlete to pull a loaded (or unloaded) bar from the floor into an overhead position (arms locked with bar overhead), and then stand up straight. Here’s an example… in the gym I go to (quick shoutout to the incredible team at CrossFit ReviveR in Rochester Hills, Michigan!), it’s not uncommon to have a prescribed movement be something like Power Snatch. The beautify of CrossFit programming is that the founder’s definition of “constantly varied functional movements performed at a high intensity” is a completely relative statement that can fit anybody, anywhere. That means that every single movement can be modified to fit your fitness level. The amazing thing about CrossFit is that it is scalable. So let’s put that phrase to rest, shall we?
It’s quite clear these days that the the most dangerous thing you can do is: But I’ll take my chances, considering that an inactive lifestyle leads to: Zach Long of The Barbell Physio does an incredible job laying out the research on CrossFit injuries in this article (which you should definitely check out and read).Īnd look, injuries happen when we move. See: this article in the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation or this blog post that outlines the injury rates between several kinds of sports), you will learn that participating in CrossFit probably poses no more injury risk than running or being a part of that pick-up basketball league at the local gym with your church buddies. If you’re “into” the sport of CrossFit, you’ll probably get injured a lot, right? After all, it’s easy to understand how dangerous throwing barbells up the air and swinging your chin all over the place by the pullup bar could be…ĮXCEPT…when you really look at some evidence (like, information that objectively looks at injury data across different sports. It’s time to stop with the myths, and get on with the truth! Enjoy… Instead of letting these myths and misconceptions go on, I thought I’d put together a list of 7 of the most common phrases I’ve heard and try to address each one appropriately. With the gentle nudging of a few good colleagues (shout out to Mitch Babcock at FitnessTx.Physio& CrossFit Tuebor West), I decided to stop making judgments without first giving CrossFit a try. That was usually in reference to green vegetables, but the wisdom is still rooted in there:ĭon’t trash something you don’t have any experience with. Honestly…I even had some of these misconceptions myself.īut since when did it become OK to have literally zero experience with something and be so against it? My mom used to always tell me “try it, you’ll like it”. I’ve had well-respected colleagues scoff at it as a patient(injury)-generating machine, and have had patients assume they’d never be able to do anything “as intense” as CrossFit. He gave me permission to reshare his blog post:įor far too long I’ve heard people misrepresent CrossFit as a jocks-only club for crazy people that just throw around kettlebells, do muscle-ups, and half-assed versions of olympic lifting. Seth King is a physiotherapist in Michigan who is a CrossFitter himself. I’m trying to learn more about CrossFit and its relation to physical therapy, and I came across this infographic while browsing Instagram. From talking with them, I realized that CrossFit can be a wonderful experience IF the person running the gym knows proper form and stops people from sacrificing form for that new PR (personal record). Several of my friends also started working out at a local “Viking Fitness” program with an amazing personal trainer. While in physical therapy school, I met a few people who did do CrossFit some of them were dancers as well. Rhabdomyolysis can occur whenever anyone works out too intensely, and it isn’t just seen in CrossFit. While rhabdomyolysis sounds scary, it is easily treated if noticed early on. After going to the ER, she was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a condition where muscle starts breaking down and leaks a harmful protein into the kidney. She wasn’t able to lift up her arms the next day, and they became very swollen. In one of my clinical rotations, I treated a patient who was admitted to the hospital because of too many overhead presses from her WOD. I was a fan of weightlifting, but I thought some of the WODs (workout of the day) were too much. It seemed like it would be a whole environment similar to the ‘downstairs weight room’ in my university’s rec center: lots of grunting, dropped weights, and testosterone. When I first heard about CrossFit, I wasn’t too impressed to be honest.
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