Crossfit addiction

[Gymgo]

Partner started crossfit a while ago , has anyone else's partner changed and in what way , my partner watches loads of it and reads about it and has now said about doing competitions

I can't see why people actually like it, it's like a cult

I have family members involved in cross fit and it really is cultish. They socialise together and trade through each other.There's a hairdresser, accountant, car dealer, homeopath,mua, etc and they network massively, trying to get other family members to only use these businesses.
At a family birthday pre covid we were all made quite uncomfortable by the sheer number of them and how they seemed to take over.
They travel extensively to competitions and there seems to be a category for everyone regardless of age.

Otherwise known as a CrossFit wanker. Does he measure his food into Tupperware dishes and eat at certain points of the day?

I do it (CrossFit that is - not measure my food!) and I don't tend to mention it apart from that I go to the gym.

I know the type you mean though. My DH went through a stage of being a CrossFit wanker. Taking the piss out of him when he did it in the style of the inbetweeners and the briefcase wanker sorted it out. Took quite a few times though. Luckily there's not too many of them at our gym. We're an odds and sods one with a healthy mix of pensioners and middle aged people to keep things less cultish.

Good luck op, I hope for your sake he cops onto himself.

It was a thing in the 2000s when it first gained popularity and people bragged they were the bee's knees because they'd picked up a weight. God, the snobbery and sneering. They certainly didn't like it if you told them you'd been powerlifting, weightlifting or bodybuilding for years 😂

Tell him to stop being a bore and only talk about it with other CrossFitters. He'll probably do that thing where he insists a partner has to listen to every gibberish comment a man says 'to show support'. If he's going to follow the last decade's gym trends for bored middle aged men, next he'll claim he's going to do a Tough Mudder. Although with the shocking technique they teach at CrossFit, I don't fancy his chances...

(I'm in competitive strength sports myself but oh god, you just don't talk about it to people's, that's so embarrassing. That's what you're community and club mates are for. Not boring the arse off Janet in accounts.)

about the terrible technique. Ive seen some shocking stuff from people who have come from other places Luckily one of our coaches used to compete in Olympic weightlifting (they are the classes i prefer to be honest - I wouldn't do any of the other classes if there was enough for me to do it all week)

Totally agree with your hobby talk, stays with the hobby. No need to bore the pants off of anyone else. Which probably what im doing now

Starting CrossFit 7 years ago is one of the best things I’ve ever done. My gym is a perfectly normal gym, full of perfectly normal people.

If he’s not been doing it for long he’s probably just excited about finding a new hobby he enjoys. While that doesn’t excuse him droning on about all day and night we do have to tolerate some level of talking about our partners hobbies in a relationship. I couldn’t care less about my DH’s triathalon training or gaming but I smile and nod. He probably does the same when I talk about CrossFit.

You sound like you just want to start a CrossFit bashing thread. Lots of people want to join you by the sounds of it so crack on!