Why Is CrossFit Dying?

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Mason Startup

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@hillerfit 10 ай бұрын

This is a good video

@roberto84396 10 ай бұрын

🦇

@Greg_Glassman 10 ай бұрын

Not a fan of how he talked about Marble racing but he's right

@edpayne29 10 ай бұрын

Almost as if it needs a great media manager. Like a Sevan

@dvdjks 10 ай бұрын

@@Greg_GlassmanMarble racing was a fun shelter from the storm during Covid. CrossFit Gyms were forced to close. CrossFit could have taken a stand. It didn’t. My box went underground with secret off site WODs. Safe rebellion. Could’ve been more.

@heybigchris 11 ай бұрын

I remember Buttery Bros covering various CrossFit athletes and showed a lot with their personalities. Since they got fired from the CrossFit media team, I started losing interest in investing in individual athletes other than their social media content. Buttery Bros really brought out a lot of their character development on the off-season, sometimes even in BTS during the events, it's a shame to see the CrossFit media team shut them out.

@hardushelm6268 10 ай бұрын

Great video, started CF in 2019 and I can definitely relate to this video. Those road to the games type of videos kept me exited and kind of motivated in my cf journey, the last 2 years or so I’ve just been going through the motions… I don’t even know most of the athletes’ names and don’t have a favourite athlete any more😮

@MonstersFlyinginTheSky 9 ай бұрын

but maybe crossfit is dying because people are realizing how dumb it is.

@TheSteelTower 10 ай бұрын

You nailed it here. I’m new to CrossFit and I’m actively trying to find more information on it online! Shouldn’t be this hard! Keep up the good work, bro. Subscribed 💪🏾

@followthewave 10 ай бұрын

This is the most accurate Crossfit video I've seen in their lack of media relations, and absolute lack of growth.

@philg55 7 ай бұрын

The back ground music reminds me of a documentary I watched years ago called Loose Change. Great video!

@realalbertan 10 ай бұрын

F1 has been huge for a long time. The netflix series just woke the US up to it.

@texasjmd 10 ай бұрын

Good video. Part of the problem or one of the major contributing factors to CrossFit dying is the fact that it’s hard to watch the games now. I am very interested in the CrossFit games so I look for them and find them on KZbin to watch. Years ago they used to be televised on ESPN and other channels. I knew people at my office that didn’t even work out but would watch the CrossFit games with interest when they were on TV. Not anymore because you can’t find them on TV.

@socalgolf9978 7 ай бұрын

I think most people don’t care about the games , they want an alternative to work out other than the gym but at 200$ a month it’s not practical

@Beyonder369 6 ай бұрын

The people that compete at the highest levels in the CrossFit games are olympic level atheletes, way beyond the average CrossFit member. Also most elite competitors are on that secret sauce. To compete at that level was a dream for many but social media has exposed the reality of the sport. Not to mention performing olympic lifts at high speed repeatedly is a recipe for injury.

@bennwaters5851 5 ай бұрын

No they are not. They are good at workouts. Their running, swimming, biking and quasi gymnastic movements is bang average compared to Olympic level.

@travisjones22 10 ай бұрын

Cutting the media team, deleting the social media accounts, minimizing the Games is what “killed” CrossFit in the public eye (and it had been dying a slow death ever since)

@brunoRobot 4 ай бұрын

I watch CF games since 2010 and its true that after Fraser's retirement there is a lack of taste. Its like after the last event of the last day, there is a very small ceremony and thank you good bye, like nothing happened. Who the hell are Adler and Sprague for ppl ? There is no rivalry, no salt, no tension, no story behind it.

@coryp164 10 ай бұрын

Good video. I think you are just missing more stats. Most importantly, you didn’t mention any affiliate data. This is definitely more important than the number of google searches.

@b.4081 10 ай бұрын

Spot on, Hyrox does this so much better nowadays.

@aronlisy6108 9 ай бұрын

So good channel! Keep it up!

@joy_2363 9 ай бұрын

When I first got into CrossFit I binge wtched the "road to the games" so much and when I found out that they don´t do it anymore I became very depressed ahahah, they need to bring that back

@socrayes2010 9 ай бұрын

It’s almost like people have realized sweating doing random exercising can be done anywhere. Conditioning isn’t everything in health and performance.

@gerhardkruger6441 11 ай бұрын

When the Rich Froning montego started you had my curiosity, now you have my attention. 😅 Bring back Roads to the Games

@tomcazurb2228 10 ай бұрын

Good video, comparaison with f1 has completely non sense when you know how it works, but still a good point on media and identity !

@zacharyzbeetnoff7043 10 ай бұрын

Nailed it, they need to go back to spending some money on the docs and get back on Netflix. Not just relying on KZbin.

@wadeoliver3596 6 ай бұрын

You can't really trademark push-ups, pull-ups, box jumps... you don't need to pay CrossFit to have a gym that focuses on the basics.

@Beyonder369 6 ай бұрын

In Crossfits defense, there are no actual pullups being done

@meganleewhite 10 ай бұрын

It's so sad that the CF doc comes out a whole year later and you have to buy it .......

@djones3291 10 ай бұрын

The problem is though that all the media expenditure and the virality of CF in search terms did not lead to a sustainable or viable economic model. All the big brands and early adopters like Reebok and Nike pulling out of the CF scene highlight this. And unaffiliated Functional Fitness gyms opening up do as well, it's not a smart business practice to pay $4000 a year to use the word CF, when CF is just a sub branch of S&C really. They use movements from a bunch of other disciplines and put them together, they can't have any ownership over the movements themselves. I think what we see now is just the new normal after the initial excitement around the sport and reality has kicked in

@tomzimny7408 7 ай бұрын

Does this mean I have to cancel my CF membership?

@mangoauto8450 10 ай бұрын

Our box (affiliate gym) is busier than ever

@CrossFitMehedi 10 ай бұрын

This video needs way more view!!

@andyf5116 10 ай бұрын

It’s because you can only view the games in streaming. Coupled with athletes doing private “camps” instead of affiliate training. I would recommend required affiliation to qualify. Second, let athletes wear sponsored apparel at the games. F1 is built on that. Third, return to santionals, let the athlete chose their season. As a big skier, I’m never in “open” shape because it always falls at the same time. Injured athletes miss entire year if injured at the wrong time in the “season”.

@n90210 9 ай бұрын

Dead on. The documentaries now about the games have no story telling and just show the events. There are no stories around each event with the different athletes like they used to.

@tet2755 6 ай бұрын

I did CrossFit for years...never watched The Games one time. CrossFit was born in the affiliates, and died in the affiliates.

@mrqualityreviewer4752 Ай бұрын

I’m sure all the back and leg injuries don’t help

@r.a.wskillsadventuresandbu5571 10 ай бұрын

Its bloody expensive also.

@claydupuy7327 9 ай бұрын

Didn't realise Jeff won.

@MattWheeler-mu3pv 9 ай бұрын

Good take, unfortunately CrossFit does having a marketing dilemma but you missed something vital here, where it sits in the grand scheme of things in the social fabric of the mainstream media machine, all the equality and diversity nonsense, CrossFit actually has those things just not the type the corporate world loves that causes division and outrage.

@wazoologist 9 ай бұрын

Seems it's now just business. A pseudo-religion that people have become bored with, moving to new stuff, new is exciting!

@1987Magnus 10 ай бұрын

Crossfit would be a dynasty but they lack leadership and vision. The number 1 public health issue is teenaged obesity. They could do so much to reverse that with crossfit kids. Don't even get me started in the Armed Forces love for that training style.

@foundfoundfound1 4 ай бұрын

the crossfit games are a never-ending embarrassment. walking handstands are pointless (under you work in the circus).

@davefiver 10 ай бұрын

As people have said, as soon as Mars and Heebs got fired, the media and quality of the movies has gone downhill massively. I've never been in to crossfit myself, but I genuinely love watching it, but now I barely bother. Even the ones they do have presenting are so inbred and stale. It needs a shakeup. Also, the Crossfit gyms around my way have strange opening hours and they are stupidly expensive.

@Greg_Glassman 10 ай бұрын

Marble racing is a big deal though

@stellathecat2457 10 ай бұрын

Man this was right on!

@jazmyneknox406 9 ай бұрын

the fact that jeffrey adler has more subscribers after this video is proof that crossfit's media needs work

@bengoodey 10 ай бұрын

Hiller sent me. Have My 👍 and sub 🦇

@hillerfit 10 ай бұрын

🦇

@tomaszklos8218 10 ай бұрын

I think it's bad comparison. Formula1 its elite sport with 20? Race drivers, crossfit is massiv sport. I do know history of national crossfit athletes, some i even met. I started in 2013 and still in, competing, doing opens, my dream is to see crossfit games. For my crossfit is fine.

@KalispellBarbell 11 ай бұрын

Spot on dude.

@MarkSpinney Ай бұрын

Are you really trying to compare formula 1 to the CrossFit games?

@bennwaters5851 5 ай бұрын

Membership is too expensive, the qualification for the games should be based on open results, mega teams stacked with pro crossfitters goes away from local community feel, the games has gone away from traditional CrossFit movements too much. Cross fit games athletes are bang average at sprinting, swimming and biking. So why have it? PEDs at the top end. This is why it’s failing. No connection to the affiliates at the games. Movements most crossfitters can’t do or have access too and a steroid culture at the top. Tia Clair Orr had a baby last year now she is back even more shredded than ever ???

@claydupuy7327 9 ай бұрын

it is dead in the water. Good video.

@ShatterTheSkiesAbove 10 ай бұрын

CrossFit, in many other ways is dying because people like myself who have been coaching (L-2 certified) for almost 8 years are aware of the fact that CrossFit is pretty much promising people empty promises. I see people show up to the gym who frankly, shouldn’t be there because they’ve had multiple surgeries and are dealing with countless other physical shit. I ask members how they’re doing and their response is “ughhh I’m so sore…” and in my mind I’m like, “have you ever heard of a MF rest day???” “You’re literally a five-day-a-week goer and you’re beat the fuck up. Gosh. I wonder why 🤷‍♂️” CrossFit tells us that if you do CrossFit you will be doing this until you’re 90. Okay, on that surgically repaired back/shoulder/knee/hip that you got from one of those goofy ass movements like wall-walks and flailing around on a bar when you can’t even properly do butterfly pull-ups. Or having people with shit knees do jump lunges.. Okay… right. Not to mention their claim that their elites athletes are not enhanced. I mean. Come on. You don’t think many of us have worked hard AF for almost a decade and have gotten nowhere close to elite because our genetics and our diet (🧃) just ain’t right. Dani Speegle has basically completed her man transformation and also happens to be one of their most advertised athletes. Give me a MF break. CrossFit is giving us nothing but LIES. We are no longer as a gym giving them our money and it brought us more members because we dropped the CrossFit BS. Thank goodness.

@GardySanchez511 10 ай бұрын

One piece in particular stands out - as a certified L2 trainer and coach of 8 years, I believe you should know it’s your responsibility (along with other coaches in your gym) to understand scaling properly to meet the intent of the workout stimulus as well as keeping your members safe. Why does it matter what ailments your members have, and why are you not trying to take that as an opportunity to get those particular members the time and attention needed to get them through classes successfully and healthily? This sounds more like a coaching problem compared to a problem with CrossFit in general. Some re-evaluation could be in order…

@sarahbethdupree4546 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like you are not doing your job as a coach.

@shaunbailey5542 10 ай бұрын

Review the L1 my man.

@GizelleQuant 9 ай бұрын

“Dani has completed her man transformation..” 😂 I appreciate your candid comment.