Last week Jillian Michaels made news in the CrossFit world during an interview with Shape Magazine. In the interview, Michaels shared that she is not a fan of CrossFit, especially when it comes to kipping pull-ups.
Michaels would continue, “I have a few issues with CrossFit, which is not a secret. First of all, you’ve got what, maybe 20 to 25 movements that don’t really vary? And you’re doing them over and over and over again. So on one hand it stops being effective because you’re not challenging the body from various angles of push and pull, with different varieties of exercises and different types of movements that work different modalities.”
Former CrossFit Games champion Sam Briggs reacted to Michaels’ comments on her own Instagram account this past weekend. In Briggs’ post, the 2019 Dubai CrossFit Championship winner referenced the 10 domains of fitness that CrossFit practices.
Briggs begins by saying, “I saw the recent interview by @jillianmichaels and @shape … I thought that maybe some others out there didn’t fully understand what we do in @crossfit … so here’s an attempt to shed some light into what we actually do:”
And in case you missed it, Jacob Heppner won the Internet with his response to Jillian Michaels’ opinions of CrossFit.
