Weightlifting is a very rewarding sport. However, when practicing olympic lifts, form is everything. Break the form slightly and your chances of getting an injury increase exponentially.
This is exactly why seeing these crossfitters doing the clean and press makes my back hurt. Now, I am not saying that crossfit is bad, but many of these athletes get into the ‘I am a machine’ mindset and tend to forget that in order to lift heavy weights, you need to go through a learning pattern where you learn the right form.
What is even more upsetting is the fact that the voice in the background (which is probably the coach) tells them they are doing a good work and encourages them to keep going. This is just a catastrophe waiting to happen at any time.
What is your opinion on these lifts ?
I actually had to stop watching. If that’s a “coach” or “trainer” saying goooood, again again, then they should be arrested for deception and assault.
This is NOT CrossFit nor a CrossFit movement! This is supposed to be a AXEL(thik bar) Clean and Press (Strongman) movement. I would not recommend this movement at ANY gym without professional coaching. CrossFit is not the problem with safety, coaches and retarded athletes cause injuries like in all other sports and activities. Just unfortunate that CrossFit always get a bad rap for the guys that shouldnt coach or try to be pro athletes.
crossfit? really? haters of crossfit post shiiity videos… you cant do crossfit….its to hard for you thats why you post shiiit about crossfit.
That movement does not look safe. Its like they r told to carry their bar with their abdomen.
Wow! Jus wow!
This is a strongman movement and technique. Not crossfit. Again another unfair association with an industry that threatens to take business from standard gyms.
This makes me feel sick. What the hell are you doing?! The people at this gym have no idea that they are being “trained” by uneducated, ignorant fools and are being completely taken advantage of. There is no technique here at all, the weight is far too heavy, there is no form and what you’re doing should be illegal. Educate yourselves before you allow someone to be critically injured or killed in your “gym”.
This is not our gym Brittany. We just republished what is already going viral around the net. As for the gym, you are right, the coaches should be the ones to blame.