CrossFit as Church?!

[@pamconboy4315]

I’m 72 and just joined a fantastic box two mo this ago. Overweight, out of shape with bad knees.I wanted fitness and community and I have found it.Everything is scaled to my ability, my form is carefully observed and corrected and I can feel a huge difference already, both in ability and confidence. Nutrition guidance is available and I took advantage of it and that is making a big difference already.

[@38tripleK]

The Crossfit prayer, "Meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar, Amen."

[@pauljeon7838]

Need more carbs. Potatoes rice

[@mec4494]

🤣😭🤣

[@joshuahildebrand7125]

"camaraderie is agony coupled with laughter" great video

[@yaknow05]

God bless Greg Glassman. He and his father have saved the human race. He’s at least, saved me.

[@rachray160]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THE FULL VIDEO!!

[@Scobebo]

Brilliant video, with some great exchanges and ideas. Loved it, thanks for sharing.

[@bowyaka]

anyone knows where I could find glassman talking at Harvard Business School ?

[@zacparkerharris]

This is profound! Grateful for sharing this message :)

[@rraceyllacey]

Crossfit is taking fitness to a new level. You who are willing to rise above mediocrity will always have the nasty voices of the lame and uncommitted throwing sticks and stones as you seek for excellence. Remember, true friends will cheer you on. Those who sit in their desk chairs spewing negative type do so because your efforts for greatness reveal the 'haters'. They are self loathing, laziness and uninspired, living ambiguous existences to everyone looking. They are not willing to change and not willing to accept responsibility for their lives. They are Victims... and seeing someone who has power over his own life and fearlessly uses it, causes them to wail and nash their teeth like demons in a dark abyss who have had the firelight of intelligence thrust at them. They have nothing to offer, pay them no mind and continue rising to where they can never reach!

[@sunnysandiego1593]

Shut the fuck up and get back to the box with your cult.

[@joeszabo7618]

hvens fury Calm down kid , it's just an overpriced gym with bad instructors .

[@KZSoze]

@HvensFury.. "to a new level"? What's the measuring stick to qualify such a statement? No hate here, but you need to qualify what your'e saying.

[@59PianoMom]

Sounds like NEXIVM. Cult.

[@yoshihorror1948]

How long have you been doing it for?

[@Reformed1-e1c]

A lot of people who join communities, particularly fitness communities are looking for two things: Acceptance and identity. Rich Froning confessed that crossfit became his identity and eventually his idol. He later renounced this idea in his mind and used crossfit to express his faith. Further, a lot of people have been hurt or broken by life. They find solitude in outlets like crossfit, bodybuilding, sports, music.

[@JimGiant]

Crossfit is certainly like religion, for once Greg and I agree.

[@babymammoth34]

More like cult.

[@tommyh5454]

love the 30 min question around 43rd min....

[@joeszabo7618]

This guy looks like every used car salesman I ever talked to .

[@leoneoperativo]

Its good as a play but not for a competition.

[@DEEDUBZ]

What you put in your body, goes to the mind people...member dat!!

[@rraceyllacey]

Success aways brings out you haters.

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

Hvens Fury - Well said!

[@KageyamaBujinkan]

the same could be said of martial arts. I moved a couple times to be near a particular art to study, they also do fund raising for the homeless, benefit seminars for various causes such as cancer, food collection for the less fortunate etc.

[@adamthomas-brown8224]

Medical science comment at 1:10:15 is so true

[@leoneoperativo]

We are too much bored to do something its good to illuminate our existence.

[@michaelorsini9695]

Crossfit as Cult would be a better identifier.

[@leoneoperativo]

I think that everything is good without any sort of focused arrogance. In Africa crossfit is to remain Alive every second.

[@michaelnewton1332]

Whenever I see videos on how to build a “cult-like” following, I’m convinced that Jim Jones was born 50 years too early.

[@melissamybubbles6139]

So does this only have to be about CrossFit or just about exercise communities in general? That opening quote is horrifying.

[@davenportbarbell734]

Strange that a homosexual opened this talk at a Harvard divinity school

[@tallmikeholley]

amazing

[@59PianoMom]

Sounds like NEXIVM. Cultish.

[@lo0wheartsbieber]

Rich Froning; homophobic?