no direct correlation? there are abundant facts about the direct correlation to injury and the program. and uhm even crossfit embraces the injuries it can entail as shown my its mascot. it seems its all about Rhabdo! and to define that:
Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibers that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents (myoglobin) into the bloodstream. Myoglobin is harmful to the kidney and often causes kidney damage.
rhabdo is NOT a good thing. it is bad. that is a fact. if you want to argue that then it would seem that you think its a good thing.
do you think that, maybe, you are the exception to the rule when it comes to technical proficiency? it takes years to get to that point. how does crossfit deal with teaching the technique. my experience and it seems most others from reading articles about it, you throw the WOD at the person and make them do the same weights as everyone else in the world and then time them and have everyone around them cheering them on. that sounds like a recipe for disaster [belief].
you may never get injured from it and that is awesome. good for you. now for the other 99.99999% of the world that does crossfit, are they conditioned with years of practice? are they technically advanced with years of practice? i can answer an honest NO to both. that is the problem. you are doing the same WOD as a couch potato.
can you name a sport that has the same injury rate? i posted the info already btw.
1st quote: Crossfit is based off of periodization methods... hell, Mark Rippetoe helped design the strength portion of the programming you see in crossfit. All crossfit chapters consist of two workouts, in case you didn't know, one is a form a periodization based off skill level (SWOD) and the other the conditioning part (DWOD). So by saying that the actual strength programming at minimal reps causes injury is ludicrous, it's the people not the program, plain and simple. Rhabdo only occurs in those who don't know how to recover properly and ignore the signs of overtraining, again, the persons fault not the program.
2nd quote: You are exactly right, I agree that 20 reps of 135 lb. power snatches are dangerous to a novice/intermediate, but then again the person should be aware of what they're signing up for. That's not the programs fault, that's the fault of the business end of the program and coaches (not properly trained) who do not properly inform participants of the program and it's requirements; that they need to be proficient in the lifts before they go anywhere over 5 reps in ANY technical movement. The coaches should be taught how to assess their clients accordingly and make sure that their clients are fully aware of the dangers they could potentially face.
3rd quote: Football, whether reported or not, everyone who has actually played has had an injury over the course of their career at the college level and higher, after 10 years of beating your body day in and day out. Especially concussions, which often times go unreported due to the fact that they are easy to hide and hard to detect. The study has a very high degree of uncertainty and a very high percent of error because most times minor injuries in the sport go unnoticed and unreported, we just put an ace wrap around it, RICE it, and hit the field. Your study only accounts for instances that were reported and only a small percentage of the total collegiate and professional football players in America.
Injuries in American Football ... Page 133
Academic Emergency Medicine, M.J. Mello et al., Injuries in Youth Football, March 2009.
Talavage, Thomas; Eric A. Nauman, Evan L. Breedlove, Umit Yoruk, Anne E. Dye, Katie Morigaki, Henry Feuer, Larry J. Leverenz (In Press). "Functionally-Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players Without Clinically Diagnosed Concussion". Journal of Neurotrauma.
A chronicle of injuries of an American intercollegiate football team
I guess it all depends on your definition of injury... but I consider an injury to be anything that inhibits or makes the playing of the game uncomfortable. Injuries are high at the top levels in nearly every sport. Do some research and you will find that a 20% incidence of injury in crossfit is nothing compared some sports.
