Three years of CrossFit, 3x5 Lifts, 5/3/1, Olympic Lifting,

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/n5oni/three_years_of_crossfit_3x5_lifts_531_olympic/

Interesting to note, BtGB comes in at the end.

I'm not trying to hate on CF (though it can be amusing). Notice 531 is in there, which I do like as well as a linear strength program.

Awesome post. I love it considering I almost got certified by them before. On the other hand, it isn't so much who you're certified by as much as how you use it.

I thought about it a few times since I have more than a handful of personal friends that are involved with crossfit. At one time, I was considering attempting to open an affiliate or training program at the gym I worked at since we had a lot of dead time. There was another CF affiliate about a mile down the street but I was pretty optimistic about it until having to deal with the gym owners or rather the fact that I couldn't even get them to have a sit down about some other stuff and their insurance company no longer supplied insurance to CF (K&K).

A few times I considered doing a few CF internships with my friends but opted out because of the commitments to time (and not getting paid for it).

At this point, I'm still trying to figure out if I should go back to IT, maybe step into the fitness world or whatever I'm gonna end up doing. I actually thought last night about CF but there is a small community of fitness gyms out there now that may be similar in equipment and what they do except they don't do CF.

I know it all too well. Gym owners can be more stubborn than the meatheads who insist on testing their max bench with the pins still on the bar and no spotter. Though if you want to get into the personal training business, I'm pretty sure there are others that would get your foot in the door better and not have to make you intern without pay.

I'm saving for my PICP myself. I'm not sure if it's a good certification for getting a job, but I'd rather learn and worry about knowledge later. I can always renew my NASM one fairly easily.

Well, there is a reason they are out of business. Bare in mind, I was talking about the Gymnastics gym I worked for not some CrossFit gym owners.

I'm not against paid internship but I still needed to make ends meet and what free time I had besides coaching is when I needed to bring in more cash...because gymnastics coach pay isn't stellar unless you do craploads of private lessons or of course, work at a gym that is doing well without stingy owners. Hahah! What am I thinking?

PICP looks interesting but it was something I figured was in the class of Pavel or Chek. Down the road after getting a start somewhere.

Yeah, something I need to think about. I'm not convinced that an ExSci degree if I changed my major would actually equate to making a living. But I tend to be pessimistic.

I was thinking about that article today during my workout (wall runs) and how the author liked the crossfit physicality but was always tired and didn't really feel strong. That struck me because after nearly two years of BtGB I do really feel "strong". I'm no muscle bound Slizzardman, but I have lots of strength there that I know for sure didn't exist before.

Yep. Many other crossfitters have noted the same thing. I can't say I was because it's been a long time since I did only just CrossFit. Nowhere near 6 months, much less 3 months.

I still the workouts, especially the small local in house competitions. Those are pretty fun.

I have never done Crossfit per se, but I have always been interested in it. As an Outsider to this culture, I think that the problem with CF is not so much the programming, as this is very easy to customize, but rather the leadership which seems to be problematic at times.

One also has keep in mind that CF did not really invent "crosstraining" as this was already very popular before. CF just brought the marketing to this whole thing. For example Karl Adam, the first Coach of the very famous "Deutschlandachter" used interval-training with heavy weights in the sixties.

Blairbob said:

Well, there is a reason they are out of business. Bare in mind, I was talking about the Gymnastics gym I worked for not some CrossFit gym owners.

I'm not against paid internship but I still needed to make ends meet and what free time I had besides coaching is when I needed to bring in more cash...because gymnastics coach pay isn't stellar unless you do craploads of private lessons or of course, work at a gym that is doing well without stingy owners. Hahah! What am I thinking?

PICP looks interesting but it was something I figured was in the class of Pavel or Chek. Down the road after getting a start somewhere.

Yeah, something I need to think about. I'm not convinced that an ExSci degree if I changed my major would actually equate to making a living. But I tend to be pessimistic.

Ahh as much as I would like an Exercise Science degree, I am just so...unstimulated by school. I don't know why but I feel so unmotivated sitting behind a desk doing nothing. I'd rather be learning from people who I know get results and applying it myself. Definitely tried the school route but it just didn't hold my interest at all. Besides, half that stuff makes no sense until you start working with clients and applying it.

Phillip, AFAIK it's not really that important to get the degrees (but could be completely wrong about this). I think that if you can get results with your athletes, and your athletes go on to spread the word, you'll become known as a good trainer and people won't care about your credentials. Athletes want results and results attract them more than anything else. I could be wrong, though.

Thank you Patrick! That is what I'm hoping for and exactly why I want to get a PICP cert. The knowledge is what is important. Then I'm hoping to train a few people for cheap and let them get strong so I have the evidence to back everything up.

Patrick is right, just look at guys like DeFranco or Wendler ... I dont think anyone has ever asked them about their degrees