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Weightlifting as a sport was most likely never going to get into the fitness culture really at all. It’s not an economic. America being this flourishing capitalistic economy, we focus on the sports that make money. Therefore, the sports that make money draw the youth because the youth can get jobs, they can get scholarships at big universities, and then hopefully go on to play pro.That doesn’t exist in weightlifting or at least it didn’t exist in weightlifting until CrossFit. Crossfit did two things. It exposed people to weightlifting and that exposure has a few branches, but then it also created a system for youth. The exposure starts with really just a massive amount of people who would have never snatch or clean and jerk, now snatching or cleaning and jerking.
It’s as simple as that, but then also it allowed for that need to have maybe a weightlifting facility within a CrossFit gym. Some people want to get better at the snatch and the clean and jerk, naturally because they’re doing them in class so they want a little bit more specific coaching. Some weightlifting coaches have found success opening up their Barbo clubs in CrossFit gyms.
After that, you start to see people transfer over into weightlifting. You start to see people on the world team who made their start in CrossFit, have transferred over into weightlifting, and they would have never been on this world weightlifting team if it weren’t for CrossFit.
The exposure is, it’s right there, but now we’re looking at a system. In other countries, systems just meant we were able to take youth, make them stronger, make them more athletic, and then specify them to a certain sport. Weightlifting was one of those sports.
In America, weightlifting was never one of those sports. We would never specify kids for weightlifting, but now we have the children of crossfitters. We have kids who are growing up with parents who have snatched and clean and jerk.
Even though it’s just a hobby, even though the parents still go to a nine to five, they know what weightlifting is. They know what the gym is like. They know what real training is like. Regardless of what people say about CrossFit, it really is real training.
You get people back squatting, jumping, running. You can’t argue that that is much more effective than going to a Globo Gym. Basically, what’s happened is we’ve created this bridge from one sport weightlifting to this pop culture movement, and that’s CrossFit.
Now there’s hopefully going to be more of a systematic thing in place where, if we are able to see talented kids, we can take them and bring them into wave of thing. It’s happened many, many times. As far as the future, because I think that’s the second part of your question.
Weightlifting as a sport was most likely never going to get into the fitness culture really at all. It’s not an economic. America being this flourishing capitalistic economy, we focus on the sports that make money. Therefore, the sports that make money draw the youth because the youth can get jobs, they can get scholarships at big universities, and then hopefully go on to play pro.
That doesn’t exist in weightlifting or at least it didn’t exist in weightlifting until CrossFit. Crossfit did two things. It exposed people to weightlifting and that exposure has a few branches, but then it also created a system for youth. The exposure starts with really just a massive amount of people who would have never snatch or clean and jerk, now snatching or cleaning and jerking.
It’s as simple as that, but then also it allowed for that need to have maybe a weightlifting facility within a CrossFit gym. Some people want to get better at the snatch and the clean and jerk, naturally because they’re doing them in class so they want a little bit more specific coaching. Some weightlifting coaches have found success opening up their Barbo clubs in CrossFit gyms.
After that, you start to see people transfer over into weightlifting. You start to see people on the world team who made their start in CrossFit, have transferred over into weightlifting, and they would have never been on this world weightlifting team if it weren’t for CrossFit.
The exposure is, it’s right there, but now we’re looking at a system. In other countries, systems just meant we were able to take youth, make them stronger, make them more athletic, and then specify them to a certain sport. Weightlifting was one of those sports.
In America, weightlifting was never one of those sports. We would never specify kids for weightlifting, but now we have the children of crossfitters. We have kids who are growing up with parents who have snatched and clean and jerk.
Even though it’s just a hobby, even though the parents still go to a nine to five, they know what weightlifting is. They know what the gym is like. They know what real training is like. Regardless of what people say about CrossFit, it really is real training.
You get people back squatting, jumping, running. You can’t argue that that is much more effective than going to a Globo Gym. Basically, what’s happened is we’ve created this bridge from one sport weightlifting to this pop culture movement, and that’s CrossFit.
Now there’s hopefully going to be more of a systematic thing in place where, if we are able to see talented kids, we can take them and bring them into wave of thing. It’s happened many, many times. As far as the future, because I think that’s the second part of your question.
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It’s as simple as that, but then also it allowed for that need to have maybe a weightlifting facility within a CrossFit gym. Some people want to get better at the snatch and the clean and jerk, naturally because they’re doing them in class so they want a little bit more specific coaching. Some weightlifting coaches have found success opening up their Barbo clubs in CrossFit gyms.
After that, you start to see people transfer over into weightlifting. You start to see people on the world team who made their start in CrossFit, have transferred over into weightlifting, and they would have never been on this world weightlifting team if it weren’t for CrossFit.
The exposure is, it’s right there, but now we’re looking at a system. In other countries, systems just meant we were able to take youth, make them stronger, make them more athletic, and then specify them to a certain sport. Weightlifting was one of those sports.
In America, weightlifting was never one of those sports. We would never specify kids for weightlifting, but now we have the children of crossfitters. We have kids who are growing up with parents who have snatched and clean and jerk.
Even though it’s just a hobby, even though the parents still go to a nine to five, they know what weightlifting is. They know what the gym is like. They know what real training is like. Regardless of what people say about CrossFit, it really is real training.
You get people back squatting, jumping, running. You can’t argue that that is much more effective than going to a Globo Gym. Basically, what’s happened is we’ve created this bridge from one sport weightlifting to this pop culture movement, and that’s CrossFit.
Now there’s hopefully going to be more of a systematic thing in place where, if we are able to see talented kids, we can take them and bring them into wave of thing. It’s happened many, many times. As far as the future, because I think that’s the second part of your question.
Weightlifting as a sport was most likely never going to get into the fitness culture really at all. It’s not an economic. America being this flourishing capitalistic economy, we focus on the sports that make money. Therefore, the sports that make money draw the youth because the youth can get jobs, they can get scholarships at big universities, and then hopefully go on to play pro.
That doesn’t exist in weightlifting or at least it didn’t exist in weightlifting until CrossFit. Crossfit did two things. It exposed people to weightlifting and that exposure has a few branches, but then it also created a system for youth. The exposure starts with really just a massive amount of people who would have never snatch or clean and jerk, now snatching or cleaning and jerking.
It’s as simple as that, but then also it allowed for that need to have maybe a weightlifting facility within a CrossFit gym. Some people want to get better at the snatch and the clean and jerk, naturally because they’re doing them in class so they want a little bit more specific coaching. Some weightlifting coaches have found success opening up their Barbo clubs in CrossFit gyms.
After that, you start to see people transfer over into weightlifting. You start to see people on the world team who made their start in CrossFit, have transferred over into weightlifting, and they would have never been on this world weightlifting team if it weren’t for CrossFit.
The exposure is, it’s right there, but now we’re looking at a system. In other countries, systems just meant we were able to take youth, make them stronger, make them more athletic, and then specify them to a certain sport. Weightlifting was one of those sports.
In America, weightlifting was never one of those sports. We would never specify kids for weightlifting, but now we have the children of crossfitters. We have kids who are growing up with parents who have snatched and clean and jerk.
Even though it’s just a hobby, even though the parents still go to a nine to five, they know what weightlifting is. They know what the gym is like. They know what real training is like. Regardless of what people say about CrossFit, it really is real training.
You get people back squatting, jumping, running. You can’t argue that that is much more effective than going to a Globo Gym. Basically, what’s happened is we’ve created this bridge from one sport weightlifting to this pop culture movement, and that’s CrossFit.
Now there’s hopefully going to be more of a systematic thing in place where, if we are able to see talented kids, we can take them and bring them into wave of thing. It’s happened many, many times. As far as the future, because I think that’s the second part of your question.
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