Posted on 10/17/2016 5:24:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Video Link -- This school district is in metro Las Vegas. Crossfit has had a tremendous impact.
Crossfit is an intense non-aerobic program to build core strength and can be a safe training program. But kids should not be doing an adult workout, said Yuri Feito, an assistant professor of exercise science at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, who is currently doing research on the effects of CrossFit in adults.The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that heavy, Olympic-style lifting and powerlifting should be delayed until kids’ bones and bodies reach maturity. Tack that on to there has been no posted research on the effects of weight training and children other than the AMA’s determination that it causes respiratory problems, and that the apparent intent of the program appears to be to get them from in front of the computers, perhaps it is too early to put the program in such widespread practice. Cart-horse.
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Sounds great....would have enjoyed that as a kid.
Check out how it is applied at this elementary school... HES CrossFit: The Kids Are all Fit
It is having a revolutionary effect.
in one of my lines of work i see too many people who do such programs or routinely go to gyms and injure themselves, with the help of the quick results sales oriented trainers and owners of these businesses.
Injury doesn’t just happen. it’s this ridiculous mentality of over working the muscles repeatedly = torn shoulders, knees, chronic hip, back, neck issues. Many people exercise too much and don’t stretch or let muscle areas sufficiently recover, which is when the muscle growth happens.
People can get a really good workout in as little as 10 minutes 2-4 times a week, avoiding the overly repetitive 30-60 minute current forms of exercise including some forms of yoga can be over time more harmful to joints and muscles then helpful.
Cross fit and whatever “new” thing comes next is all just business hype. Most Trainers I talk with are so brainwashed to sell the exercise they forget a most important need is flexibility/full range of motion. To me, as people go beyond 25-30yrs old, flexibility, range of motion, balanced muscles side to side - front to back are more important then looking super toned but having muscle attachments at joints ready to pop.
Cross fit for kids is crazy, it’s a boon for Physical therapy and surgeons just as kids playing excessive sports is too. It teaches them to prioritize exercise over proper food balance and I doubt it teaches them to stretch properly or enough or how to do other sorts of things to help their bodies have balanced health.
You should check it out before reaching a conclusion.
It is mostly about functionality and variety and is scalable for all levels of fitness, age, and even disabilities. It is the opposite of repetitive exercise.
It is not what you think it is.
It works for Navy SEALs and Marines as well as for great-grandmothers, kids, and amputees.
I’m not disagreeing that a program should not be put in motion. But they are using a program that no research on youth has been accomplished. How much is too much? How little is making the program worthless except for getting them from in front of the computer.
In 2010, I was working for the department of the army and I helped DOD implement the Crossfit program. It was placed into motion because the military has discovered, after 40 years, that the introduction of aerobics into the system in the late 70’s and using it for the answer to the appearance problem in the military of over weightness, was not conducive to carrying a pack and running 100 yards to escape a firefight. They were trim and pretty, but physically weak for the needs of the job. Hence the crossfit program was implemented, at great expense with the remodeling of the facilities and the training to understand how it do it, to increase core strength. And they are still trying to figure out their over weight program.
But as you can see, this program is not for youth yet. And if they admit they are using it as an excuse to get the kids into “a safe and useful” program, are they? This program could/may be doing more damage than we can see in its infancy. According to the AMA and it’s research, good chance The intention is good, but they are jumping the gun. Determine how deep the water is before you dive in.
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Take a look at that video link I sent you earlier. You'll see that that the kids regime is very different than adult Crossfit. The kids love it because is seems a lot more like play than exercise.
And educators and parents see kids attention in school (and grades) go up quickly as the kids become more physically active.
Everyone continues to bring up the success of the program with increased grade and confidence. I’m not talking about the levels of academics, I’m talking about levels of physical capacity.
I saw on one of the pictures a youth doing overhead lifts with what appeared to be a 35 pound dead lift bar. Probably York. Is that safe? Is his bone structure capable of that kind of stress. Adults are a different product as most have reached the levels capable in their growth of bones, ligaments, tendons and are closer to cookie cutter capacity. Youth have not. They grow at different levels and speeds and are dramatically different from each other.
You mentioned a lot of schools using this technique and are determining it to be safe because they do it. According to WEBMD, “CrossFit claims that the system is “empirically driven and clinically tested” which insinuates that the methods are scientifically supported. A review of the current scientific literature, however, shows no published studies about CrossFit in top-rated peer-reviewed strength and conditioning or exercise physiology research journals.” This particular entry was accomplished by Michael R. Esco, PhD, CSCS, HFS, is an assistant professor in the department of physical education and exercise science at Auburn University Montgomery in Montgomery, Ala.
Again, I’m not sasying it is or is not safe. I’m saying there is enough problem identification to apply it to kids without some approved source research for youth to erase the identified problems in using it for youth. So until they can clear up the possible cardiovascular problem and the danger of bone and joint injuries to developing bodies that school staff cannot measure, then consider the damage that could happen. And at this time, no one knows. Again, cart/horse.
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Any workout system can be misused particularly with growing young athletes.
Great care needs to be taken by instructors to keep kids from moving into workouts and exercises that might be dangerous.
As a fitness nut, my enthusiasm stems from the fact that kids are working out and they like it!
That said, your points are well taken.
Whether it's Crossfit or any other regime...great care needs to be taken by instructors so as to prevent young bodies from moving into dangerous territory re: heavy lifting, etc.
The move of implementing crossfit and the physical needs of it are getting so popular that many are trying to use it, whether it is needed or not, as a technique for success when it is not designed for the common person. And youth are not ready for it so their program would have to be individualized by a physician based upon capacity. It isn’t a one size fits all program that the school systems you mentioned aer throwing in there without considering the side effects. They did it before years ago when a number of systems decided football was too violent. So they replaced it with rugby! No need to go any furthrr with that one.
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