<story><title>Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties</title><url>https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;ve ever been an athlete, and have spent 30 seconds watching crossfit - it becomes obvious the goal is to see how dumb of an &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot; you can do before getting hurt.&lt;p&gt;There are two type of crossfitters - those who have gotten a permanent and serious injury, and those who are going to get one.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and multinational food, beverage, and pharmaceutical companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglondon</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t verify the quality of these studies but it seems that injury rates per 1000 active hours of crossfit at 0.27 - 0.74 [1] are significantly lower than more common sports such as running at 2.9 - 4.4 and basketball at 6.3 - 12.9 [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6201188&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC6201188&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bionics.seas.ucla.edu&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;Rowing&amp;#x2F;Injury_2004_01.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bionics.seas.ucla.edu&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;Rowing&amp;#x2F;Injury_2004_01...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties</title><url>https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;ve ever been an athlete, and have spent 30 seconds watching crossfit - it becomes obvious the goal is to see how dumb of an &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot; you can do before getting hurt.&lt;p&gt;There are two type of crossfitters - those who have gotten a permanent and serious injury, and those who are going to get one.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and multinational food, beverage, and pharmaceutical companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cglace</author><text>I was a multi sport athlete and loved crossfit when I did it. Guess it all depends on where you go.</text></comment>