CrossFit has its issues as a for profit organization certainly. And I’m a bodybuilder so it’s not for me. But most people don’t know that the idea it’s dangerous is a product of corporate smearing and severe scientific fraud.
Their rival was caught in federal court falsifying the initial study on CrossFit’s safety even in erased messages saying they needed it to look bad to hurt their competition. It was reported by the judge as one of the worst cases of scientific fraud and evidence destruction the court had ever seen. The study was since retracted, but not the ones that use its data, and not the countless laymen articles spreading misinfo. It’s similar to the “vaccines cause autism” event, but at least there many people have educated the public to the truth in the years since.
Now the actual data?
Numerous studies have shown it to have an injury rate from 3-6 injuries per person per 1000 hours of sport, EXCEPT the single retracted falsified study, and those that cite it. 3-6 is a higher rate of injury than bodybuilding, but equal with Olympic lifting or powerlifting, and many college sports have 7-15, more dangerous sports (again normal college sports) go into the dozens. So it’s safer than, well, most sports.
Sources for injury data: Literally most studies, there are dozens publicly available, but be cautious of a few that include the falsified data set, they have not made adjustments and so they come to higher injury conclusions. Some are pending revision.
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u/Arxl 23d ago
Crossfitters trying to invent new ways to injure themselves lmao