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Re: Denmark going down the slippery slope
Something very similar happened to the box Alison Bishop and Brendan had before their current one. I think that was last year before CFHQ stepped in. Blauer was involved as well.
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The local Globo gym in my town (that has a strangle hold on what they call fitness) started a program called "Spartan Fitness" which as you can guess is a direct knock off of Crossfit... but it costs more on top of your membership and therefore is even more expensive that the boxes in this area. From what I can tell it is a flop. There is no culture of excellence. When the globo gym adopts this program it's like adding a new spinning class or TRX class... its a financial decision and the lack of heart and true understanding of the movements means it will fail. I am not worried about globo gyms doing crossfit because it will happen in every town, just a matter of time. But as long as they have peck-decks and cable cross-over machines they are selling crap and gold in the same bag and can never provide the kool-aid that we can!
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"But as long as they have peck-decks and cable cross-over machines they are selling crap and gold in the same bag and can never provide the kool-aid that we can! "
Mark Cannella trains high level weightlifters out of a YMCA. |
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There is a Globo Gym in my country that has also set up a "Spartan" Fitness programme that looked incredibly like a Crossfit copy. As it happens it was written by a Crossfit affiliate director who was working out of their facility before he moved into his own box (I think he also ran the staff training modules for the PT's who would be running the programmes).
I don't know how many ways you can re-use movements and excercises before it looks like somebody is ripping off another persons concept, but if it looks like crossfit, sounds like crossfit, and feels like crossfit..... Just another example of a gym jumping on an idea that they think they can use to create money (last time I checked it didn't get off the ground because there was no member buy-in, but the gym still tried it on). |
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From your comment I'm perceiving you have a very limited experience of CF. Go to a CrossFit gym and allow yourself to discover what CrossFit is about. You'll find (at least in my humble opinion) that it is more than 'Exercise's we used to do at basketball/ football practice' etc. What I've found is that the majority of CrossFit gyms represents something that money can't buy. Quality coaching and an amazing community. But that's something you can only experience to understand. |
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It's true that money can't buy community, but that's not an argument for Crossfit. There are plenty of communities out there that don't charge monthly dues at all, or that only charge dues sufficient to cover the group's activities. Communities are--by definition--made by their members, not by profit-seeking commercial entities. Katherine |
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You guys really believe Crossfit invented metabolic conditioning workouts? Invented the use of weights and couplets/triplets/chippers for strength-and-conditioning? Start with John Jesse and go from there, man. Just because you never heard of it before Crossfit doesn't mean it didn't exist.
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