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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel pretty strongly that it's crossfit.  Between the injuries, the instructors praising people for trying and the idea of hanging from a bar, it HAS to be crossfit.  I just don't know why OP is so offended that overweight people are trying to get in shape.  [/quote]

OP here and I think it's great when anyone decides to work on their fitness. But some activities don't improve your fitness, they just test it, and it's probably best to avoid them until you have the requisite strength.[/quote]
The reason you’re being appropriately smacked around is because you assumed that because these people were fat that they were unfit.[/quote]

The irony to this is if you met me, you’d discover I am a very fit person who does not conform to the expectation that fit women are small and thin.

I am genuinely not shaming anyone in this class for their body types. The class itself involved no actual fitness— no warm up, strength building, stretching, nothing. Several people in class told me it’s their main form of exercise. It was clear a handful of students actually train to do this activity— there were a few advanced students in class (none of them were thin, but they were clearly fit) and it’s obvious they train for this activity with a heavy focus on upper body and core strength.

The rest of the students told me they’d been taking these classes for years. But it was clear they did little to no training outside the class and several complained about struggling with basic fitness activities, like holding a plank. Pretty much everyone I talked to told me about some injury ir another they’d suffered from doing the activity.

Some of the unfit people were thin. I also worry about their risk of injury. But the nature of this activity involves carrying your entire body weight on her hands and shoulders, so I do think if you have excess weight, that risk will be higher.

I just don’t understand why this school isn’t doing more to support students in improving fitness *before* pursuing this specific activity. They could offer a progression if classes that supports students in reaching their goals. But it appears most of their classes are all levels, and I don’t see any training or strength classes on their schedule. This is baffling to me.

It would be like offering diving classes without making sure your students could swim first.[/quote]

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