The couch thread

[WildGorillaMan]

Still scouting the minor league affiliates for the @fit Next Big Thing.



It ain't easy. There's big boots that need to be filled.

[POD]

http://www.crossfit.com/cf-affiliates/2 ... 90601.html
I think we made the topic for the affiliate blog today. Hi, Lynne.



Like I said, it's described by a tachometer.

Is that the chick with the super, super deep voice?

Comment #11 - Posted by: Joe at June 1, 2009 12:09 PM

Haha, yes, yes it is. I remember someone bringing that up on the message boards once, and suggesting that it was a sign of steroid usage, along with the general manliness of her. Everyone flipped out at the guy.

[Kraj]

I remember someone bringing that up on the message boards once, and suggesting that it was a sign of steroid usage, along with the general manliness of her.

What gave it away? The fact that she closed a Captains Of Crush #4 gripper with her vag?

[Fish]

How many fingers can you fit up your ass?

Oh come on now.




I am sure some of them could get there whole fist up there if not more.

[JohnnyBadAss]

How many fingers can you fit up your ass?

Oh come on now.

I am sure some of them could get there whole fist up there if not more.

Especially the one in front with the scowl (4th from left, front row). I bet she's a double-fister.

[The Ginger Beard Man]

Still scouting the minor league affiliates for the @fit Next Big Thing.



It ain't easy. There's big boots that need to be filled.

Damn! It'll be a shame if they get her on the juice.

[sanchezero]

Still scouting the minor league affiliates for the @fit Next Big Thing.



It ain't easy. There's big boots that need to be filled.

pretty sure i've seen her on bangbus...

[Gin Master]

Still scouting the minor league affiliates for the @fit Next Big Thing.



It ain't easy. There's big boots that need to be filled.

Those hands could palm a Dynamax ball.

I skimmed the @F forums against my better judgment.

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthrea ... post599985

Here is a request for digital review of a PR squat of 250. Pounds or ounces wasn't specified.

Then comes this gem of advice.

I think you should deliberately attempt TO get stuck. If you make it then your confident will grow. If you don't make it, take some weight off. At some point I just wanted to get the reps but I would avoid doing it properly just to make the numbers. So I would get a rep out of the way to do the next, and get that rep out of the way for the next and so on, thus avoiding tackling each one.

What happens is allowing other muscles to take over the workload or using leverage instead of creating all the appropriate tensions. If you avoid the tension that ultimately lets you down it doesn't get resolved and the result is your reps get crappier and crappier, just because you know in the back of your mind you'll get stuck and you would rather avoid that just to tell yourself you're stronger.

So, take the full brunt of the weight, never avoid it. Make it hard as can be and eventually those weak points will handle it. Never again will you wuss out of a rep because the aim is to get stronger, lifting more weight does not always mean you are stronger when you avoid hard reps.

[Blaidd Drwg]

BZZZRKSKRKKKRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

lifting more weight does not always mean you are stronger when you avoid hard reps

[POD]

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=46865

Scott Shapiro
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Los Angeles CA
Posts: 2

Talking Strength seminar los angeles
I've learned a lot about powerlifting and crossfit workouts from various videos in the demo section and on youtube.

But I really want to spend time with professionals who can correct anything in my form. I've been training at my local LA fitness and am always the only one ever doing powerlifting so I've never had any in-person feedback! I don't have the time during the week to join a crossfit gym, so I'm looking for weekend seminars in Los Angeles.

I came across one this weekend at Crossfit South Bay: May 23rd Pulling Seminar with Sean Waxman and Tom DeLong

Here's the description:

"Pulling a barbell from the floor, along with squatting, is one the best ways to develop overall brute strength. It is also pivotal in learning how to do the Olympic lifts properly. However, most people are unable to properly pull a bar from the floor.

"Spend the morning with world-renowned Strength Coach and former USA Weightlifting National team member Sean Waxman and former USA Powerlifting Champion and Sports Scientist Tom DeLong, as they teach you the progressions that will dramatically improve your ability to pull a barbell from the floor. Through the use of force plates and Dartfish motion analysis software, the same technologies used in all the top university human performance labs as well as in the Olympics, we will be able to give you very specific feedback as it pertains to your barriers to optimal performance."

Any input on how these seminars are? Are they meant for beginners or more experienced lifters?

Anybody know of other similar seminars in the LA area?

Any certified trainers in the area, please contact me if you have one-off seminars/programs that would help refine my lifting skills.

Thanks!!!
Scott

Joshua Murphy
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Atlantic Highlands NJ
Posts: 617

Welcome Scott!

Please do not cross post (post the same message in multiple sections of the forum).

Check out this seminar:
September 26th - 27th
CrossFit Basic Barbell Certification
CrossFit North Santa Cruz
Scotts Valley, CA
http://www.regonline.com/builder/sit...eventid=722690 w/f safe

Funniest/saddest part is that no one else has posted since Murphy recommended the Rippetoe "certification." That was 4 days ago.

[sigifrith007]

I think you should deliberately attempt TO get stuck. If you make it then your confident will grow. If you don't make it, take some weight off. At some point I just wanted to get the reps but I would avoid doing it properly just to make the numbers. So I would get a rep out of the way to do the next, and get that rep out of the way for the next and so on, thus avoiding tackling each one.

What happens is allowing other muscles to take over the workload or using leverage instead of creating all the appropriate tensions. If you avoid the tension that ultimately lets you down it doesn't get resolved and the result is your reps get crappier and crappier, just because you know in the back of your mind you'll get stuck and you would rather avoid that just to tell yourself you're stronger.

So, take the full brunt of the weight, never avoid it. Make it hard as can be and eventually those weak points will handle it. Never again will you wuss out of a rep because the aim is to get stronger, lifting more weight does not always mean you are stronger when you avoid hard reps.

Either my reading comprehension has plummeted, or that was indecipherable stupidity.

[POD]

A quick Google search for the two presenters named above turned up:

http://www.purestrength.com/sean-waxman-bio.html

Sean Waxman is a former National level Olympic Weightlifter, highly regarded coach, and graduate student of Kinesiology and is therefore unique in what he brings to the table as a Strength and Conditioning coach.

Sean spent nearly a decade of his life immersed as an athlete in the world of Olympic Weightlifting under the direction and guidance of USAW Hall of Fame Coach Bob Takano. That meant four hours a day, six days a week, fifty weeks a year, in the trenches training, observing, and learning with some of the best coaches and athletes in the sport. This high level of skill driven by his passion and perseverance made him one of the top Olympic Weightlifters in the country from 1995-2001, earning him a spot on the National Team, a National medal, and five California state championships.

Sean’s Strength and Conditioning career started in 1995 when Los Angeles City College hired him to take men’s basketball to the next level. He took a program that had fallen short year after year and helped the team reach their first California State Title in 1997. In addition, Sean taught strength and conditioning for coaching professionals at U.C.L.A. Extension.

He then moved to College of the Canyons. In Sean’s two years at the college, he worked with basketball, volleyball, and football. He helped a previously struggling basketball team twice make the playoffs, and was instrumental in sending five players to NCAA Division I schools. Sean’s most rewarding accomplishment was his work with the women’s volleyball team. He helped transform them from worst to first. In his final season at C.O.C. the Lady Cougars had a .773 winning pct. and its first conference championship. This team had seven all conference players and the programs first two NCAA Division I scholarships.

During his time as a strength coach at the collegiate level, Sean prepared N.B.A. first round draft picks for their first professional training camps for Arn Tellum of SFX management.

Sean then accepted a position with West Coast Sports Performance as the assistant director of sports performance. He became a strength coach with the Long Beach Ice Dogs of the I.H.L. Also, he was one of the exercise testing consultants for the L.A. Kings as well as the L.A. Clippers.

In late 2000, Sean started Pure Strength, a private training facility located in Southern California. Since its inception, he has developed twenty-six NCAA Division I-A scholarship athletes, four Southern California High School Volleyball Players of the Year, three California High School Volleyball Player’s of the Year, one California High School Baseball Player of the Year, one National High School Volleyball Player of the Year, and four members of the USA Junior National Volleyball Team.

In 2006, Sean started Pure Strength Incorporated, a company of professional coaches. Pure Strength Inc. is dedicated to disseminating the information that will help anyone reach his or her performance goals. Through the use of the web, seminars, and clinics Sean’s company is now able to reach more than just the people who come to train with him on an individual basis.

Sean attended Cortland State where he studied Physical Education. He then attended Graduate School at California State University at Long Beach under the tutelage of NSCA Hall of Fame Strength Coach, Dr. John Garhammer, studying Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Biomechanics. This educational background is the final aspect completing Sean’s unique combination of credentials. Thereby making him what he is today: a highly sought after Strength and Conditioning coach and educational resource.

http://www.strengthpro.com/asts/ASTS2007lect_bios.pdf

Presenter’s Biography:
Tom DeLong, M.A., C.S.C.S., is an instructor in the Kinesiology Department at
California State University at Long Beach, Math and Science Department at UCLA
Extension, and the former Head Strength and Conditioning Coordinator/Instructor and
California Lutheran University. He is also the co-owner of The Performance Center in
Thousand Oaks, Ca. His research and interests involve the application of segment length
measurement ratios and their affects on optimal movement performance mechanics in
resistance training exercises especially in the sport of Powerlifting. Tom was a
competitive Powerlifter in the 82.5 Kilo weight class with best lifts of 611 squat, 424
bench and a 573 deadlift.

Compare that to Rippetoe and a bunch of Glassman's lackey's teaching you the basics of how to deadlift a PVC pipe.

[TerryB]

[http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthrea ... post599985

Here is a request for digital review of a PR squat of 250. Pounds or ounces wasn't specified.

Greg Pieris gives a pretty good analysis there.

POD: nobody responds to that post b/c the presenters are Outsiders. They are not Of The Clan.

[Gin Master]

Compare that to Rippetoe and a bunch of Glassman's lackey's teaching you the basics of how to deadlift a PVC pipe.

PODDy, Rip doesn't use PVC, and he selects his own platform crew to instruct the barbell lifts. Glassman has nothing to do with it.

There is quality hate, and there is stupidity soaked with disdain. The two aren't synonymous. If you think Dartfish is going to be more helpful at this point than someone who can simply see, you are a fool.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

God damn. Whenever I try to throttle the full on hate back to cruise, I get POD posting some dumbass shit like that.

While there may be disagreement with the style of squat Rip prefers, Rip is definitely qualified to teach the squat. And damn near any other lift as well.

POD, you're bringing down the quality here.

[Grandpa's Spells]

Some of the ex-CrossFitters here spout some weak sauce hate that sounds like they're jilted lovers who wish they were still in the club.

[POD]

PODDy, Rip doesn't use PVC, and he selects his own platform crew to instruct the barbell lifts. Glassman has nothing to do with it.

Rippetoe has his own guys teaching it with him? That does make a huge difference.

[Kazuya Mishima]

Dirt Diva put her fucking cellphone number on her blog page.

"Please send me positive vibes Saturday and Sunday if you wanna text me along the way to encourage me that would be great.
818-433-2667.
I will have my angels guiding me along the way. My Mom will guide me safely she always does."

I'm not advocating or condoning anything.

Just sayin'.

[Grandpa's Spells]

I'm not advocating or condoning anything.

Just sayin'.

First LOL of the day

[Gin Master]

God damn. Whenever I try to throttle the full on hate back to cruise, I get POD posting some dumbass shit like that.

While there may be disagreement with the style of squat Rip prefers, Rip is definitely qualified to teach the squat. And damn near any other lift as well.

POD, you're bringing down the quality here.

That's right, brother. You and EZ had a long 4-day weekend. Jack and strippers notwithstanding**, it's time to get back on the hate sauce. POD makes it easy, doesn't he?

POD, there is a big difference between the organically grown @F shit and the outside subject matter specialists they gathered. Rip travels with his usual suspects. Sometimes he uses someone from one of the host facilities if they're qualified. E.g. Lynne Pitts and Kelly Moore came in for one of em. @F dipshittery aside, those two womyn can hoist a barbell better than most any PVC swinging kweer in tribal tats. It's about teh knowledges, Patty.


**I made a rare fly-by this weekend. I read the Zercher stuff, saw the reconciliation, felt a little gay, so I checked back out until yesterday. The virtual camping made me feel funny.

[Grandpa's Spells]

If only there were some sort of way to send anonymous text messages.

*whistles, looks at ceiling*

[Gin Master]

Fuck y'all. I'd throw her dog over a cliff, bury Hop Sing in a shallow grave, and spend three days in a peyote-fueled haze of booze, wrestling, and general craziness and not feel an ounce of shame. BDSM with a tatted ultra chick? Fukin A.

That's not a cry for help. That's a cry for dick. If you live within two area codes and you're not en route with a fistful of jimmy hats and some Wild Irish Rose, you need to turn in your man card.

[sanchezero]

would.

[TerryB]

I'd take a go.

[GoDogGo!]

Fuck y'all. I'd throw her dog over a cliff, bury Hop Sing in a shallow grave, and spend three days in a peyote-fueled haze of booze, wrestling, and general craziness and not feel an ounce of shame. BDSM with a tatted ultra chick? Fukin A.

That's not a cry for help. That's a cry for dick. If you live within two area codes and you're not en route with a fistful of jimmy hats and some Wild Irish Rose, you need to turn in your man card.

Remember, when you stare into the cleavage, the cleavage stares also into you.