>>76621565
Wasn't covid pretty much a death knell for large portion of gym chains worldwide, and those that stayed afloat did so only barely?

>pay to snap your shit up in a group setting
based?

>>76621565
It's because crossfitters' retarded routines send them on one-way trips to snap city faster than they can be replaced

>>76621565
i dont think its anything unique to crossfit, just the natural ebb and flow of fitness fads that come and go like aerobics classes or zumba or whatever else

>>76621565
The new fad is hyrox

>>76621565
I'm guessing they just gambled too much on endorsements and inflation made their absurd gym fees worse.

>>76621648
>hyrox

It's way more retarded than it sounds.

I didn't think it was possible to out do crossfit, but these guys compete at who can workout the fastest lol

Crossfit is just the roidlympics of fitness. Hyrox is the roidlympics + cardarine + blood doping of fitness.

The level of cheating you have to do to get any level of enhanced social credit for participation in shit like this now has led to everyone just quitting. Everyone is back to being content with completing a marathon or HM and then fucking off from worthless shit like competitive "fitness" forever.

>>76621565
Seems like it was for millennials and ended with millennials

>>76621821
Sorta I think their marketing really fell apart once it became apparent how easy it is for people to look like models with anavar and sarms. No one thinks "I need to do this to look like that" no p90x trolling kind of stuff anymore just "what do I need to take" and "who should I listen to" which is more realistic although maybe unhealthier. It's just become really apparent even in the mainstream that there's a much wider spectrum of working stuff. It's a lot harder to meme yuppies when they can gpt anything.

Is CrossFit a sect?

>>76621565
I'm not surprised. Most people, in a funny way, are not fit enough for it. Thats why they get snapped up. And its simply tiring. Like I think people have woken up that too much intensity/volume is not necessarily good. Your average person gets far more benefit from workouts that are stimulating instead of annihilating, as the old phrase goes.
>>76621821
I sense the same thing. I havent figured out why millennials took to it so strongly but whatever.

>>76621821
>>76621871
Possibly. It would be curious to make a list of all the fads that were, in a way, expressions of the millennial generation, to get a sense of what was going on in the world. Things like crossift, BJJ, marvel movies etc. Not that it matters.

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>>76621905
It's not just novices it's bottom to top bad coaching and selection

>>76621613
A lot of small businesses died

>>76621923
Like what

>>76621565
Crossfit was always fad based.

>>76621936
Fast food, street food, and some other useless shit.

>>76621923
a lot of business whose owners always used any surplus to buy a new car
lots of small businesses here in Italy where owners don't reinvest but splurge

>>76621613
crossfit gyms were also punitively expensive. anyone cutting back on costs in the current economy would look at the price they're paying for an access-limited gym membership and think, "why dont I just pay half as much to work out in a normal gym whenever I want"

>>76622087
That's the big thing. CrossFit is expensive. And the general population doesn't need CrossFit-style workouts. They need a basic strength and cardio routine, and probably just need to take up some physical activities, like sports etc.

>>76621871
no, its bored people with money to spend to fill the void of their life. You have less money now.

>>76621923
the town barbecue restaurant :(

>>76622087
I don't think you know what punitive means.

>>76621613
COVID didn't do anything. The government needlessly shutting down commerce did it. Place the blame where it belongs, please.

>>76622221
F

>>76621635
This. It's remarcable that ut survived that long at all.

The age of millennials is over. All hail the new era of zoomers

this is an opportunity

>buy crossfit meme gym at bargain basement pricing
>build real gym in its place
>layout designed to filter women and thirdies
>no treadmills
>no sauna
>no lunk alarm
>five squat racks minimum
>old-timey medicine balls
>naked kettleball snatches
>posters of silver era bodybuilders on every wall

it would be heaven on earth

Ozempic killed cross-fit.

>>76622278
unbelievably based

>>76622278
I wonder if a "private club" system is the way of the future. Not open to the public. A person has to be recommended and/or interview to become a member. Hell, you could even have some basic fitness tests to see if a person is the right fit.

https://thebarbellspin.com/crossfit-games/pec-tears-at-regionals-23-and-counting/
bwahaha - sure just jump on rings as 90 kilo roider and do some dips when already tired
that's good for ya :D

>>76622285
Big if true.
But ozempic should affect all gyms, not just crossfit.

Glassman got outed as a massive chud

>>76622234
Good lord

>>76621613
Also why Planet Fitness is putting barbells and racks in all their gyms now

>>76621565
>Do balanced training consisting of cardio, bodyweight, and weight training
>friend tells me about Crossfit
>"Workout of the Day" is something stupid like doing 50 squatting overhead presses with 135 pounds for time
>other "Workout of the day" shit is just as stupid

Dumbest shit ever.

>>76622234
This

Ahh, back in 2012 /fit/ used to endlessly mock the crossfit lemmings who thought they were special and elite.
Good times.
>crossfit - not even once

>>76622694
It is popular among women. For a reason.

>>76622701
As anons have said, we know how to get fit. We have known since the 50s. Every new fad just wastes peoples time. And too much of the fitness world is ran by unreasonable platitudes.

I forgot the name, but in my country there is a crossfit copycat where they actually have a guy who knows what he's doing telling people to exercise normally to avoid snap city, it's far cheaper than crossfit too. There are only like 100 gyms around and they're owned by a billionaire family that owns tons of small but profitable businesses like a publishing house, a silver mine etc.
I think crossfit was a mix of luck and novelty. Eventually, regular gyms, copycats, pilates (the new fad) just won against that overpriced, dangerous and now outdated trash.

>>76622800
Sounds kino.
>Be billionare
>Open effective training gym
>own publishing houses
Literally /fitlit/ the family.

And circuit training, when performed rationally, can be extremely effective, but it easily leads to retardation. As a wise man once said. "any idiot can make someone tired, but it takes great coaching to make someone better".

>>76622278
This is literally how a good chunk of olympic weightlifting gyms in the US got their gear lol, poaching good shit off those retards when their gyms close is based

>>76622278
A return to Silver Age physical culture would be great.

>>76622307
god I'd kill for those to become normal

>>76623184
Especially if it was just a private club. It could have a gym, a library, and a social/games room. A guaranteed third place to go to between work and home.

Maybe thats how Crossfit needs to rebrand.

>>76622689
Are they really??? Shockingly based.

>>76623215
Basically just the ymca with a moose lodge/fraternity of eagles membership policy? I like it good way to keep the undesired elements out or remove them if they get in.

>>76622087
Ye the crossfit gym near me was $150/month in an area where full service gyms with pools/sauna/hot tubs/tracks/basketball courts are $100 inclusive. The $100 gym has more than enough racks for diddlies and squats too so it's not like you even got anything extra at the crossfit gym.

>>76623223
Yah.

>>76622307
Like a gentlemans club from back in the day and not a strip club. Have a little bar and social area in the back for men to smoke cigars and recount stories after a hard workout.

>>76623223
This is what country clubs are lol They cost an arm and a leg to keep the riff raff out. Most of us are the riff raff unfortunately

>>76623288
Well, the riff raff need a place to socialize as well, and the scheming. Dont forget the scheming.

>>76623288
They cost an arm and a leg because the property taxes on an estate that large have got to be incredible as well the extreme amount of maintence they take and staff that's required to operate at all. It's not to meant to be prohibitive it just is incidentally like wholefoods.

>>76622712
>we know how to get fit.
But do you know how to get CROOOOOSSSSSSFFFFIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!

>>76622307
ive been a member at two gyms with this kind of model:

1st was an old school golden-era gym. real grungy but excellent equipment. the owner was a local boomer bodybuilder, won state back in the day, cool dude. the interview was just to filter out social media gymsluts, retarded zoomers, and hobos/druggies. The vibe filtered people more than the selection criteria.

2nd was basically a country club but in the city downtown. Gym was immaculate with all the newest machines - however, it was completely empty except for weekend cardio milfs. Membership was like $200/month and the old white boomers spent most of their time in the shitty exclusive restaurant.

Both experiences were good but still get mogged by any halfway run CC-type area imo

>>76623288
most country clubs still cater to boomers unfortunately. you better love golf, sunbathing near the pool (not actually swimming), American pisswater beers, and overpriced mediocre bar food because that's all 90% of country clubs have.

Wonder if they will update for zoomers eventually. They could add an actual gym, pickleball courts, a rockclimbing wall, tendy place, etc.

>>76621905
As the video mentions it’s a replacement for religious gatherings for secular (read:childless) people

>>76623549
the country club near me has a gym and pickleball

>>76621565
Most people can't do it. Vast majority of people suck at sticking to something so yeah of course it dies.

>>76621846
A few SARMS cycles will get you better gains than years of natty lifting will and I will not be talked out of this thought.

>>76622278
I say keep the lunk alarm, when a guy completes a pr rep or crosses a fitness threshold, set it off and celebrate.

>>76622234
This is true

>>76623265
For 100-150 dollars you can build a home gym.

>>76621565
It turns out you can train badly and hurt yourself anywhere, you don't need a specific building

>>76623536
Funny, there’s a gym in my area now that caters to gymsluts specifically: all shiny “high tech” equipment, minimal free weights, big center area with all the “functional” training stuff, sauna, red light therapy, dance classes, and pickleball. Immaculate facility. I think the big chain gyms are becoming so overcrowded and such bad experiences since covid restrictions ended that the gym audience is fragmenting itself into different kinds of specialized gyms again.
>>76624852
>For 100-150 dollars you can build a home gym.
Yes, a shitty gym you won’t use.

>>76624872
>Yes, a shitty gym you won’t use.
Wrong. For 150 dollars you can buy pull up bar + dip bar + one dumbbell. You can train everything and destroy powersharters.

>>76621821
It's remarkable how things associated with millennials are usually gay and pathetic. What a desipicable generation.

>>76622234
Thanks!

I don't know much about crossfit but they have a good sister channel about broken science and how shit like the replication crisis happened.

>>76622689
They didn’t have barbells before? Holy cow

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>>76625016
Nope, only smith machines

>>76624900
lol QED
>>76624905
I’m a millennial. My generation has been and continues to be gay and cringey. I can’t stand most of them and I am one.

Fitness is over. take the fat pill

>>76624905
The music and some of the fashion (not the skinny shit) are the only good things from it. Shame the music got cancelled for being racist, indie was too white, and the fashion got cancelled because it made you look attractive and didn't fit fatties

>>76621912
>be millennial
>as a kid, grow up thinking He-Man, Street Fighter, WWF and TMNT are the coolest shit ever
>suffer extreme cognitive whiplash when years later Gen Z declares all expressions of strength and machismo are patriarchal, problematic, and fascist-adjacent
>arguably the first "participation trophy" generation, although we also remember being encouraged to do our best and achieve
>the analog-digital transition generation: first to adopt the Internet and cellphones although we remember doing just fine before them too
>major world event during early adulthood is 9/11 and the resulting Islamist shitstorm
>fucked over by the economy at every major milestone: dotcom bubble, 2008 financial crash, COVID19 financial crash
>inherited a world already going down the shitter only to be blamed for everything by the Zoomers. Yeah, because I invented leaded gasoline and Styrofoam, right?

I think the "millennial experience" has been trying to find socially acceptable ways to exist in a world that never gave us a fair shot before pulling the rug and declaring us obsolete. All the stuff we grew up aspiring to has been cancelled, made obsolete, or declared bad.

Translating that to fitness I think a lot of millennials grew up thinking sports were for jocks, and gravitated to subculture stuff like martial arts. But, boxing is for bouncers and hard-nuts. Traditional Eastern martial arts have that taste of cultural appropriation about them. Much better to follow new, modernised, culture-free styles that push a person physically without incorporating much violence. So, XMA, freestyle karate, kickboxing, BJJ, MMA. Stuff where nerds don't get immediately destroyed and there's a chance you might meet girls.

Crossfit is the traditional intimidating sweaty BB/PL gym repackaged for the XMA generation. Competitive without the testosterone, bright airy training centres, plenty of women in lycra. Its all the same "diet coke" mentality: most of the taste and none of the guilt.

>>76624852
There’s no way a home gym is that cheap

>>76621936
It was shit for the high street in general. Big businesses like banks shut branches and operated online instead. Cafes, pubs, bars, small bakeries, florists, and so on, got hit hard.

Pick your local town or city, use Google street view and use the time feature to scroll back ten years, see how the number and nature of high Street stores/shops changed. Its pretty depressing.

>>76621648
Off brand oreos?

>>76622225
He used it correctly, fag

>>76624852
More like 1000-1500 if we're being serious, but that then sets you up for life with absolutely minimal ongoing costs

>>76624905
Guilty as charged.

>>76625634
Not anymore, I can’t find weights anywhere for less than $1.50 a pound and I blame that on shipping costs. It’s cheaper for me to go to a gym for 8 years then it is to get the same equipment for my house so the gym wins again

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>>76625647
>see how the number and nature of high Street stores/shops changed. Its pretty depressing.
All according to plan.

>>76625634
>There’s no way a home gym is that cheap
It is that cheap if you stop powersharting.
You need pull up and dip station/bar, then one dumbbell for some extra exercises.
150 dollars.

>>76625673
Stop powersharting, fatty. Then you can build home gym for 150 dollars.

>>76625754
Stop powersharting.

>>76622234

Based schizo

>>76626049
>Stop powersharting, fatty.
Never. Damn dyel twinks.

Is the number of gyms also dropping or only the crossfit ones?

>>76625629
Ok, this is actually an insightful post, and I’m >>76625398.
> I think the "millennial experience" has been trying to find socially acceptable ways to exist in a world that never gave us a fair shot before pulling the rug and declaring us obsolete. All the stuff we grew up aspiring to has been cancelled, made obsolete, or declared bad.
A lot of that is true. The biggest problem I have with so many of us is the resultant nihilism and refusal to do much about it. Neither our parents nor anyone else is coming to save us. But too many of us got raised to be slavish little rule followers.
>gravitated to subculture stuff like martial arts
Exactly. I tried out for school sports, got cut in the last round of tryouts, needed something to do. I landed in bodybuilding (which I love) bc my mom wouldn’t let me do martial arts.
> Crossfit is the traditional intimidating sweaty BB/PL gym repackaged for the XMA generation. Competitive without the testosterone, bright airy training centres, plenty of women in lycra. It’s all the same "diet coke" mentality: most of the taste and none of the guilt.
Slight disagree on the “airy training centres,” but I get your point. Most CrossFit places around me are in dingy warehouses. The powershitter/trad bber gyms have all died, or their owners are so autistic they’ve taken them to invite-only.

>>76624905
1992 chad here and i always hated my generation, I always thought that something is wrong with 99% of those fuckers, lazy, unmotivated, Godless pathetic scums.

I'm really happy that i'm in the 1% of millenials who are respected and think outside the box.

>>76627829
Only CrossFit or very similar concepts, it seems, right now. The number of gyms and memberships has been going up since COVID ended: a lot of people got scared into fitness by the plandemic.

>>76622266
No cap, bro. Lets all roid and get into bulimia. Delulu rizz lil skibidi gyatt fr fr

in my experience every woman i've met who was into crossfit was unstable.

>>76628366
Or fat

>>76628366
Why does crossfit attract women? And why crossfit make women take steroids?

>>76622307
6-1-2! Wharf avenue! Right next to the gentlemens club!

>>76622800
Billionaires are billionaires for a reason. Fuck commies

>>76624852
closer to 800-1000, but it still amortizes itself very quickly

>>76628370
squats

>>76621913
coping the fuck out of the lack of foundation mechanics behind weight lifting by gaining momentum in various ways to swing/fast rep to be an edgy retard normie.

edgy for the hardcore
accessible for beginners
Ideological for the social crowd

But it forgot to respect the basics of mechanical skill-building, recovery, and progressive overload.
Now that the novelty is gone, the flaws are all that’s left.

Crossfit was never good, it lasted this long because there are too many retards who cant show up to the gym alone without feeling like theyre stared down
> TL;DR
It started like an alternative to circle gyms to gain enclosure, a private area to not be seen by the scary gym rats when the cunt scream in the microphone
it failed when it began to take itself too seriously and didnt help the clients evolve to be independent, theyre the NAFO circle of the gym culture.
"a weak yet loyal europe, to american alliance nato pitty handjob"

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>>76621565
If only my fellow /fit/izens from like 12-15 years ago could have been here to shitpost about this.

Words cannot express the intensity of /fit/'s collective hatred of crossfit back in those days.

>>76628527
crossfit is just a fucking tragedy though, it was meant to help push the shy normies into actually getting healthy
but was grinded down into each and every fucking corner of the sports industry to make it become everything in one.

> The bants arent going away, its fun.. but the shy weak dudes out there is taken advantage of more than ever.
I have no plans of moving abroad to make business but places like america where over 40% is obese, theres a goldmine waiting
and its simple thing to solve by simply being humble and understanding the needs of the customers, shy/insecure inexperienced people.

> Small-group training (4–8 max)
led by actual lifters, not failed dancers/Instagram trainers
> Explosive compound lifts taught with mechanical control
no kipping, no clown reps/overexertion and/or additional swing momentum under fatigue
> Class-based system <BUT> organized by lift/day/level (structure & planning, actual workout schedule)
Not random WOD(Workout of the Day) wheel of suffering,"gotta confuse the brain, right babe?"
> Quiet lifters sphere vibe
No forced socializing(no facebook group invitations) or “Woo!” the microphone energy, just iron.
> Beginner-friendly without the fake hype/edgy commerical culture
"Come in clean but wear clothes that you dont mind inevitable wear/tear to grow in"
> No elite sphere vibe, no entitled perfume aunty/insta gossip crew
one of the trainers has allergies, avoid strong perfumes & keep humble distance

its so fucking easy, just cull the normies to evolve them instead of keeping customers depended on you

No joke though the us military contractors literally did conspire to deliberately exclude crossfit and used fraudulent studies to make it seem more dangerous than it was.

Even if you don't like the ortganisation this is still perverse.

>>76623585
kek

My regular ass gym has everything a crossfit gym would have except the climbing rope. Since Covid, it did a bunch of remodels and added a ton of power racks and shit. It's one of the cheapest gyms in town and has basically everything you'd need for almost any work out type.

I think people just got smarter about fitness. I'm seeing way better information about workouts than I did 10 years ago. Whether it is for powerlifting, bodybuilding, olympic lifting, sports specific, etc. people just know more about that shit now. Crossfit just come across as a suboptimal fad compared to other stuff. So I'm not even sure what kind of person would even be attracted to Crossfit now.

>>76628400
1000 dollars for home gym? If you are powersharter then yes.

>>76626049
post body
show us what you have built with just that garbage
and then when you're too embarrassed to, have a moment of introspection and realize WHY you look too shit to back up your words
i truly wish the best for you brother and you are only holding yourself back with this ignorance

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I just did a workout at my CrossFit gym and it's been good as fuck. People just don't do mobility in between workouts and eat enough to recover so they get injured. Then they shit on it.

My CrossFit gym has these elite coaches and athletes and you better put the fuck up and go hard if you want a shred of respect. No pussy shit. Real niggas love that type of environment. I'm unemployed and still pay the 170 a month to go. Makes me feel like the highest t version of myself. Most people can't handle it.

It's also great for body recomp. I've been gaining muscle and losing bf%. I also slam coca cola before my workouts cause I'm a ray peat nigga. Carbs up for more output. Fuck worrying about aesthetics I'm just trying to get pr's and the aesthetics gains come.

>>76621819
Yeah I once made the mistake of going. At my far regional gym we had very fit people consistently doing hyrox training 4 times a week with separate weight training. Though we'd be good so went to the London competition, you could immediately see fucking everyone was DBOLed and more up their ass. We obviously got wiped and it was just shite.

>>76622307
Sounds really gay
>muh super secret club, top members only!
Just put a sign on the front that says no whores and shitskins and call it a day

>>76621565
a cult whose primary ritual is the kipping pullup

>ctrl-f injuries
>no matches
Injuries.

>>76629778
>post body
I don't have a camera.

Crossfitters were all fad followers who got injured as fuck. Turns out bouncing around on your joints with poor form is unsustainable. Every crossfit person I've met cant lift their arms straight up without pain

>>76622234
>only alive to post his schizo rant thanks to said common sense measures

>>76632066
Anon I have a shark warding magical stone for you, all it will cost you is 20% or more of your annual income plus a proportion of the cost of everything you consume or transfer to others.
(magic rock may not stop all shark attacks)

>>76632066
based retard

>>76632028
Not as extreme ime, but yes, I know several crossfitters who ended up injured, mostly via kipping and doing some retarded WOD shit. Sounds like a boon for regular gyms: just invest in a little specialized equipment and anyone can do CrossFit stuff at your place. Only the really great CrossFit boxes will remain.

Dead

>>76628527
Based

>>76628808

Because they don't want the average person to be in shape.

big if true

>>76635615
yes

I strangled every single crossfitter with my bare hands for those retarded pull-ups.

I can give you 20 bucks, Glassman.
Not only because that's how much I value Crossfit.
But also because I'm poor as fuck.
Hell yeah.

>>76628585
>theres a goldmine waiting
Yeah and it's called Ozempig.

Coincidentally wheelchair sales have gone way up!