Episode #274: Injury Risk With CrossFit

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Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Dr. Feigenbaum discusses the risk of injury from CrossFit.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Barbell Medicine podcast. I'm Dr. Jordan Fyganbaum. I hope you had a great week.
0:11.0	In this episode, we're going to talk about the injury risk in
0:13.9	crossfit. Now crossfit is often scrutinized for having an abnormally
0:17.8	high injury rate compared to other types of resistance training. So we're going to
0:21.1	talk about on the podcast, but before we do, let's talk about what is Cross Fit. The Cross Fit website says that Cross Fit is a fitness program that produces measurable outcomes through lifestyle changes centered on training and nutrition.
0:32.8	Workouts consist of constantly varied,
0:34.8	high intensity, functional movements,
0:36.4	and are most fun and effective among friends
0:38.2	at a local Cross Fit gym.
0:39.9	That's a great piece of copy.
0:41.0	Really, hats off to Cross Fit,
0:42.3	but what really is Crossfit?
0:44.3	Well Crossfit is a brand of course, but the training most commonly associated with it
0:48.6	revolves around a workout of the day, also called a wad that combines elements of gymnastics, Olympic
0:54.6	weightlifting, traditional resistance training, and endurance training. While
0:58.3	there's no consensus definition of what is and what isn't a cross-foot workout,
1:02.4	I think most will agree that the combination of these different
1:05.3	training styles into a single workout done in a competitive setting, so for total time or
1:10.8	total reps, is uniquely uniquely Crossfit.
1:13.6	For reference, I've actually been through two Crossfit
1:15.7	certification courses.
1:16.9	I did a traditional level one, as they call it,
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