Dealing With Pre-Existing Injuries and Chronic Pain

Looking for some help...

What types of injuries and pain have held you back from CrossFitting at the level you want to?

I’ve had shoulder pain, lower back pain, and overall feelings of instability. As an active and fairly strong military guy, it never seemed to make sense. As a result, I couldn’t perform nearly the full “spectrum” of CrossFit that I wanted to (and knew I could), such as olympic lifts and gymnastic moves. It made me feel extremely frustrated, knowing that I had the drive and discipline to excel with CrossFit but was limited by this pain. It was also disheartening to watch my friends continue to progress while I plateaued, and especially to miss the camaraderie when I had to take time off completely. There’s no substitute for the community of CrossFit or for the satisfaction that comes from achieving those performance breakthroughs.

Through years of searching for a solution, I found that compromised foundational stability and chronic pain--even pre-existing injuries--have to be dealt with through correcting fundamental alignment and movement.

What sustainable solutions have you found to deal with your pain or injuries?

Thanks,
Mike

Dealing With Pre-Existing Injuries and Chronic Pain

Off-Season Strength Cycle CrossFit

Hey guys I have been working on a hypertrophy strength cycle to couple with Metcons, skill work and monostructural stuff. Obviously I believe in a little more on the periodization side of programming for competitive CrossFit so if you would, please hold back the negativity to that regard. But I am definitely open to constructive criticism. Thanks!

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Off-Season Strength Cycle CrossFit

Racks and Accessories Interchangeable

Curious to those familiar with Sorinex and Rogue Racks are the accessories pretty interchangeable as long the racks and accessories are for a 3x3 rack?

Racks and Accessories Interchangeable

Affilate growth ground to hault - market stauration?

We have been putting some energy into a longterm market analysis tool, wanting to read our market as it moves on an on-going basis.

Now most of this stuff is owned by the company so I can;t share it, but would really love some thoughts on this follwoing.

It appears affilate growth has ground to a hault worldwide. 12 months ago it was around 300 gross affilliate growth / mth, now its around >80

Now this is Gross Affilate growth, it doesnt account for death rates. It's just total world wide affailte increase.

There could be multiple reasons for this, I'd be interested in thoughts.

1 - So it's that maybe HQs still getting 300 / month but there's a huge death rate, word on the street is this is happening in the Australia market big time. Classic market saturation means boxes without good marketing or retention startegies can no longer compete well, and membership slwoly drops below break even point.

2 - Or it may be that the market is flooded and people are shying away from opening new boxes. I have rubed sholders with alot of box owners, and I feel it's fair to say few have the professional experiance to really gather or understand the information to know if their market is flooded, so most are still opening with little understanding of their local market conditoins.

Also define flooded, traditional advertsing, (open the doors and they will come) is surely a failed strategy in most areas, where as strategic thoughtful prospecting, matched with excellent value delivery will still likely work, its unlikely that one prospective client has a close friend in two different CrossFits - aka Refferal selling.

3 - It could also be HQ has cracked down on affiliation? I'm hearing they now do a phone call with each applicant. And their not just accepting every affilaition. Rumour?

4 - Or worse case, boxes are still opening all over the place, but just not affilating, I think this is unlikely. In most situations, $3000 for brand usage is more than worth it. attract two clients and its paid for itsself.

A little on point 4. here in NZ, we got some marketing interns to do some pretty damn good market research, becuase there is zero brand control spending in NZ, I don't beleive any CF here get together and control brand, the only person contrlling brand here is the media, and it generally aint good.

The CF brand is really damaged here. For example, when asking in a street survey the first three words that come into a target demographics head, when told "CrossFit"....go. The answers revolved around unsafe, fanatic, and not for me.

We did something similar in the US with a buddy of mine, not quite as detailed, and the numbers are still coming in but the answers where more, "I don't think I'm fit enough to do it". Two VERY different objections to overcome. Overcoming brand damage is one thing compared to just showing people its for unfit people too.

Anyway, just some meandering thoughts from a startegic marketing guy with some numbers.

Love to hear thoughts

Sean

Affilate growth ground to hault - market stauration?

Master Qual

So what do you think about the 2016 Master Qual-

2014 had-
Max clean

1 round for time 100 pull ups and 100 wall balls

Amanda

3 rounds for time-
50 cal row
15 hspu
50 double unders

2015 had-
Max snatch

5 min AMRAP
5 MU
10 cleans 155#

Double heavy Jackie-
1000 meter row
50 thrusters 75#
30 c2b

21-15-9
DL 225#
Box jumps
HSUP with new style of standards

Total have seen -
Clean twice
Pull ups- one time
Wall balls- one time
Muscle ups- twice
Snatch- Twice
Row- twice
HSPU- twice
Double unders- once
Thrusters- once
C2B- once
Dead lifts- once
Box jumps- once

So far 12 exercises with 5 repeats.

Possible new ones- Pistols, Bar Muscle ups, HS walks, GHD.. OHS??

I am thinking on the max they might to Max OHS from the ground. That way they could check off clean, s2o, jerk and OHS at the same time.

Metcons run from 4-5 min to 15-20 min.

Congrats To Scott Jenkins and Mike Cook for making the MQ. How many others made it? Great job everyone.

Master Qual

Partisipants by country

Yeah, I'm gonna say it, I love doing stats in my freetime. Don't pretend you don't!

Interesting to see the games popularity by major country.


Number of 2016 CrossFit Game partisipants per capita by major country

COUNTRY RATIO
Iceland 354
Australia 1,101
New Zealand 1,280
Untied States 1,294
Canada 1,588
Ireland 2,745
United Kingdom 4,434
South Africa 11,802


Iceland's way out ahead, then Australia, New Zealand, and the US are similar, Canada's a little further behind.

Interesting stuff

Sean

Partisipants by country

Concept 2 PM3 monitor

I have been trying to find a monitor for the Concept 2 model D rower. So far I have had no luck. We have a cracked screen on one of ours. Does anybody have any suggestions on where to find one?

Concept 2 PM3 monitor