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Photo Credit: Men’s Fitness Charles Poliquin recently wrote, in which he appears to soften his stance on CrossFit. Here is our response, originally posted. I was surprised recently to hear from some friends that Poliquin had published an article “softening” his stance on CrossFit. While he does seem to yield on some points, his most recent article is full of critiques of the CrossFit program. This article, longer and more complete in thought than his previous writings on the subject, gives us a valuable chance to evaluate his arguments. “CrossFit has great intentions.

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It is a socially based system that encourages camaraderie and sense of belonging to a team. A major strength of CrossFit is that it helps people in the gym who are not motivated to train alone.” Here, Poliquin shows us his perception of CrossFit by putting it in his own terms. To Poliquin, CrossFit is little more than a social phenomenon, best understood by its ability to motivate trainees. This view does not in any way acknowledge CrossFit’s revolutionary definition of fitness nor the data behind its methods. Poliquin is either intentionally refusing to engage CrossFit on these grounds, or is showing ignorance of them. “I travel the world over and I see an increasing number of CrossFit teachers attending my classes. Upon first arrival, my staff and I can point out which CrossFitters have great results, and which have less than optimal results.” By what standard is Poliquin evaluating these CrossFitter’s results?

Certainly CrossFitters experience an array of results from following the CrossFit program, but CrossFit’s goal is to increase fitness. Is Poliquin actually measuring this? And by who’s definition of fitness?

“Here is what I like about CrossFit enthusiasts: 1. They believe in hard work and are not afraid of doing it.” Here, Poliquin compliments the average CrossFitter. This is a refreshing change from his previous writings on CrossFit, where he described CrossFitters as looking “like a bunch of cachexic fitness-model wannabes searching for their souls in the weight room.” ().

(Link is W/F Safe) “2. They go for efficiency and use the most bang for your buck exercises. Why go to Tae Kwon Do when you can go to Krav Maga? I like the fact that they train women to do chin-ups, power cleans, and deadlifts.” In this point, Poliquin grasps an essential part of CrossFit, the use of functional movements. By our definition, these movements are “categorically unique in their ability to express power.” “3. They are very keen on proper nutrition.

In all fairness, I would say that of all my students, CrossFitters are the best educated about how to eat for performance and body composition. A large proportion of my new BioSignature students own CrossFit operations. They train exercises that you would normally avoidor forget to do for some reason. Here is what I see as potential concerns with CrossFit: 1.

Technique is often horrendous. Competing to achieve personal records in number of reps or load at any cost kicks proper mechanics out the door.” Nowhere did CrossFit advocate an “At any cost” mentality. In fact, our Seminars emphasize developing mechanics FIRST every weekend. And our practice follows suit: we teach air squats and PVC-pipe cleans, etc., before adding load. Before CrossFit, where else was the air squat even taught as a technical movement? CrossFit has commited more resources to the advancement and availability of instruction in gymnastics, Olympic lifting, and powerlifting than any other fitness organization in existence.