“‘Pick
it up! Finish it out! Two minutes! As many rounds, let’s go!’ The coach’s hands
clapped together, lips pursed tightly in frustration for the mental and
physical break I gave myself. So, I picked up the bar. And, moving as slowly as
possible with as best form one can do when they’re tired and hurting, I
finished it out. That night I needed a double dose of ibuprofen and an ice
bath.” Halfway through her op-ed Brooke Ross clearly shows what you she thinks
about Crossfit. By stating that she needed ibuprofen she is creating a feeling
around the workout itself and how it made her feel. Now as she goes on through the article she
continues to introduce the reasons why one shouldn’t participate in this kind
of exercise.
Brooke Ross’s sole argument is based
off of the illusion that you will force your body through so much pain and
physical endurance that you will give yourself Rhabdomylosis (Uncle Rabdo), a
kidney condition that forms from excessive exercise and that makes you not be
able to clear toxins from your body and can attack the heart. The audience that
is reading this will surely be scared right off the bat just from hearing that
they can get this just from doing a single Crossfit class. Ross reaches out to her audience by telling
the story of a man that was hospitalized from not just doing to class but going
out and exercising even more after said class. Her descriptive language gives
readers the sense that they are sitting in the room with the man as he finds
out that he is going into kidney failure.
Ross allows the imagery of a
Crossfit gym as she talks about the first time that she went to a class. Just like the first quote she sheds light on
the toughness of the workouts and how she herself was struggling to finish a
single workout. With the help of a
doctor that she talks to, she states a specific quote from him saying that the
workout themselves don’t particularly hurt people the amount of exercise people
are putting themselves through on weekly basis.
Does the statement hurt her case?
In my opinion I think it completely disregards her first points on the
subject and ends up supporting idea of Crossfit in general.
Later on in the op-ed Ross goes in
to talking about Uncle Rhabdo and how it can affect someones life. She states how easily it is contracted and
how severely it can affect someone. She then links the thought of Uncle Rhabdo
to the lack of training in coaches.
Stating that the coaches themselves aren’t actually trained which is the
reason that people are ending up in hospitals.
She sets this scene to further scare people into thinking that they will
not only end up hurt or sick from the sport but won’t get the coaching that is
supposed to be supported in that environment.
With this language she creates a false dichotomy, allowing readers to think
that the only way a Crossfit class ends is by laying in a hospital bed.
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