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Fuck Gym Jones too. 500 bucks a year for an online membership??

And this fucking gem of a snippet:
It was the advanced program that Mr. MacDonald, barefoot and in cargo shorts, was teaching in early August, the one that culminated in tears and sweat. But that was only a small part of the course. The eight participants spent much of their time in front of a white board at the back of the gym.

There, they sat in folding chairs and listened to Mr. MacDonald give a lecture. The class members, some of whom had traveled from as far as London and New York, took notes and followed along with a 135-page study guide.

"You can never get rid of endurance work," Mr. MacDonald said, stabbing at the board with a marker. "If you need to get rid of something in your workout, it needs to be the weight room."

He put the cap on the marker. "And always - always - be prepared to go to a dark place," he said. "Now, who's ready to work out?"
get rid of the weight room? Nice...

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powerlifter54 wrote:
protobuilder wrote:Let's dedicate the NEXT 10 pages to BMacnCheezy.

Yeah but we would run out of material in less then 5 pages...
I see what you did there.

Anyone else think those people are "Cougie" or whatever that dude's name was that posted his youtube videos here pretending to be a chick, and that guy who bitches at AW in the Pmenu thread?
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It's the proximity bias.

All those fuckers are NOT power athletes. They are still really based on the circuit training model of training, unless someone is getting sport specific.

Circuits are still circuits and always a compromise.


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baffled wrote:Anyone else think those people are "Cougie"
It's me, Rant, Quack, and a guy from work.
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I'm a fat guy now? Yeah, you're hot on the trail.
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Jay wrote:Fuck Gym Jones too. 500 bucks a year for an online membership??

And this fucking gem of a snippet:
It was the advanced program that Mr. MacDonald, barefoot and in cargo shorts, was teaching in early August, the one that culminated in tears and sweat. But that was only a small part of the course. The eight participants spent much of their time in front of a white board at the back of the gym.

There, they sat in folding chairs and listened to Mr. MacDonald give a lecture. The class members, some of whom had traveled from as far as London and New York, took notes and followed along with a 135-page study guide.

"You can never get rid of endurance work," Mr. MacDonald said, stabbing at the board with a marker. "If you need to get rid of something in your workout, it needs to be the weight room."

He put the cap on the marker. "And always - always - be prepared to go to a dark place," he said. "Now, who's ready to work out?"
get rid of the weight room? Nice...

Again.

Fuck Gym Jones.
I can see why Maxie Moose would say to toss the weight room out for their specific clients that are more endurance-focused in their respective sport. It's not any different than the power and oly trainees being told to not do any cardio other than walking for an hour max.
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friedquads wrote:
Jay wrote:Fuck Gym Jones too. 500 bucks a year for an online membership??

And this fucking gem of a snippet:
It was the advanced program that Mr. MacDonald, barefoot and in cargo shorts, was teaching in early August, the one that culminated in tears and sweat. But that was only a small part of the course. The eight participants spent much of their time in front of a white board at the back of the gym.

There, they sat in folding chairs and listened to Mr. MacDonald give a lecture. The class members, some of whom had traveled from as far as London and New York, took notes and followed along with a 135-page study guide.

"You can never get rid of endurance work," Mr. MacDonald said, stabbing at the board with a marker. "If you need to get rid of something in your workout, it needs to be the weight room."

He put the cap on the marker. "And always - always - be prepared to go to a dark place," he said. "Now, who's ready to work out?"
get rid of the weight room? Nice...

Again.

Fuck Gym Jones.
I can see why Maxie Moose would say to toss the weight room out for their specific clients that are more endurance-focused in their respective sport. It's not any different than the power and oly trainees being told to not do any cardio other than walking for an hour max.


Mark Twight tries like heck to be esoteric and cultlike, but he has actually set records and has produced athletes who have done stuff. There are many elite endurance athletes who have never set foot in a weight room before -- and Gym Jones caters mostly to an endurance community -- so his recommendation isn't unreasonable.

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Dude would crush it even more if he could pull 4 bills.

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baffled wrote:Dude would crush it even more if he could pull 4 bills.

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Exactly

Specialization is for competitive athletes......I mean insects.
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davidc wrote:
WildGorillaMan wrote:Hey!

http://www.thecouchthread.com/

A board for bitching that's bitching about a board for bitching. How clever. Very pataphysical of them. Still, all other analysis of @fit, not to mention meta-analysis of @fit is still, at best, footnotes to the couch thread.

E for Effort, though.
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lesser_rebelangel wrote:

In other news, CrossFit has discovered how to quell the haters: henceforth, they'll be green-screening actual weights in:
It took you 236 posts, but that was actually pretty funny. Well done.
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Nafod is a dem-bootlicking faggot and the product of an anal birth.
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Look at you with your big-boy pants! Kudos.


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WildGorillaMan wrote:Hey!

http://www.thecouchthread.com/

A board for bitching that's bitching about a board for bitching. How clever. Very pataphysical of them. Still, all other analysis of @fit, not to mention meta-analysis of @fit is still, at best, footnotes to the couch thread.

E for Effort, though.
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lesser_rebelangel wrote:Forging Elite Fitness:

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This might be the best work done on this site in 750 pages. Can we get a link to this?
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That workout was "Porn Gone Bad"
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http://www.crossfit.com/cf-affiliates/2 ... 10912.html
Tara's due date is September 22, 2011.
I took this photo of Tara Lynch Stempfer on Saturday [9/10/10]when she was doing the the "911 Throwdown WOD"
she had some subs on the weight, (73# push jerk, 1 pood kbs) otherwise she did it totally RxD

Row 2001 meter
11 Box Jumps 24″
11 Thrusters 85#
11 Burpee Chest to Bar Pullups
11 Power Cleans 120#
11 Handstand Pushups
11 KB Swings 1.5 pood
11 Toes to Bar
11 Deadlifts 120#
11 Push Jerk 75#
Row 2001 meter
Besides giving the fetus a nice long bathing in stress hormones, trying to squish it in multiple ways, and ENTERING A FULL-TERM PREGNANT WOMAN IN A COMPETITION, to call this a "swing" really cements the @F lack of knowledge about (KB) anything.
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lesser_rebelangel wrote:Forging Elite Fitness:

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It's like Shake Weight, but with real dicks.

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Captain Quack wrote:http://www.crossfit.com/cf-affiliates/2 ... 10912.html
Tara's due date is September 22, 2011.
I took this photo of Tara Lynch Stempfer on Saturday [9/10/10]when she was doing the the "911 Throwdown WOD"
she had some subs on the weight, (73# push jerk, 1 pood kbs) otherwise she did it totally RxD

Row 2001 meter
11 Box Jumps 24″
11 Thrusters 85#
11 Burpee Chest to Bar Pullups
11 Power Cleans 120#
11 Handstand Pushups
11 KB Swings 1.5 pood
11 Toes to Bar
11 Deadlifts 120#
11 Push Jerk 75#
Row 2001 meter
Besides giving the fetus a nice long bathing in stress hormones, trying to squish it in multiple ways, and ENTERING A FULL-TERM PREGNANT WOMAN IN A COMPETITION, to call this a "swing" really cements the @F lack of knowledge about (KB) anything.
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Wow. That's just about as stupid as you can get. Strenuous lifting and core work when pregnant and near due date?

Hello diastasis and long term ligament damage.

Having known a few women who, in their ninth month, found out that their baby no longer had a heart beat, I can't imagine why you would do anything this stupid.

And box jumps? Seriously? Don't they know about placental abruption?

Might as well go knock back a quart of whiskey. Fucking idiots. All of them. The mom, her coach, and everyone cheering her on.
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Captain Quack wrote:http://www.crossfit.com/cf-affiliates/2 ... 10912.html
Tara's due date is September 22, 2011.
I took this photo of Tara Lynch Stempfer on Saturday [9/10/10]when she was doing the the "911 Throwdown WOD"
she had some subs on the weight, (73# push jerk, 1 pood kbs) otherwise she did it totally RxD

Row 2001 meter
11 Box Jumps 24″
11 Thrusters 85#
11 Burpee Chest to Bar Pullups
11 Power Cleans 120#
11 Handstand Pushups
11 KB Swings 1.5 pood
11 Toes to Bar
11 Deadlifts 120#
11 Push Jerk 75#
Row 2001 meter
Besides giving the fetus a nice long bathing in stress hormones, trying to squish it in multiple ways, and ENTERING A FULL-TERM PREGNANT WOMAN IN A COMPETITION, to call this a "swing" really cements the @F lack of knowledge about (KB) anything.
You realize this is just another big "fuck you, haters" from Lisbeth, right?


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syaigh wrote:And box jumps? Seriously? Don't they know about placental abruption?
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/placen ... ION=causes
The specific cause of placental abruption is often unknown.
Possible causes of placental abruption include:
Trauma or injury to the abdomen — from an auto accident or fall, for example.
@F: Our workout is your abortion.


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Zombomatic wrote:It's like Shake Weight, but with real dicks.
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friedquads wrote:
Jay wrote:Fuck Gym Jones too. 500 bucks a year for an online membership??

And this fucking gem of a snippet:
It was the advanced program that Mr. MacDonald, barefoot and in cargo shorts, was teaching in early August, the one that culminated in tears and sweat. But that was only a small part of the course. The eight participants spent much of their time in front of a white board at the back of the gym.

There, they sat in folding chairs and listened to Mr. MacDonald give a lecture. The class members, some of whom had traveled from as far as London and New York, took notes and followed along with a 135-page study guide.

"You can never get rid of endurance work," Mr. MacDonald said, stabbing at the board with a marker. "If you need to get rid of something in your workout, it needs to be the weight room."

He put the cap on the marker. "And always - always - be prepared to go to a dark place," he said. "Now, who's ready to work out?"
get rid of the weight room? Nice...

Again.

Fuck Gym Jones.
I can see why Maxie Moose would say to toss the weight room out for their specific clients that are more endurance-focused in their respective sport. It's not any different than the power and oly trainees being told to not do any cardio other than walking for an hour max.
They are endurance-focused, I did forget about that....

fuck them anyway


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Captain Quack wrote:@F: Our workout is your abortion.
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

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You guys need to call 911, because tonight YOU ARE ON FIRE!
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