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Speed is weird because of the actual definition Dynamax uses, which is how fast you can repeatedly cycle the same movement (versus how fast you can change between different movements, which is agility). It's a nice formal definition but I dunno how you test it in a way that has meaningful carryover....

Apropos of that, a friend and I actually did some tinkering to develop a suite of tests based around a modified version of Dynamax's 10 physical skills. (Because the answer to "wtf does 'fitness' mean?" should not be "work capacity!") For various reasons we ended up with: Metabol...

The rips are mostly caused by kipping pullups, and perhaps occasionally deadlifts.

Oh yeah, Kelly Starrett apparently has no fucking idea about the realities of heavy strength athletes, with his lame and cherry picked rant against ibuprofen in one of his latest blog posts. KStar falls into the "don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but definitely a smart dude"...

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=47185 I had the honer of meeting the coach at Crossfit by Overload. He is by far the most down to earth person I ever meet. He is a skeptic yet open mined. He is humble yet proud of his achievements and contribution to fitness industry. This man took the ti...

Doc.jpg @Fit! we work out so hard we need medical attention after! Thank god for RRG! Or did we not make it? marco I hear you about the beatins. You read these messages like "I wanted to tell the guy doing shrugs in the squat rack to fucking move so I could do push press 75lbs" Insread he...

Seriously, what the fuck? Those are poarts of the original wall for fuck's sake. Who the fuck does handstands on that? In public? I mean, if those are, where they think they are, it's pretty much in one of the most crowded places in Berlin. Charmingly, it looks like he also scrambled up to the hand...

What was it that guy in the vid up there did? How many reps and in what time? I'll beat it, give a shout-out to IGx, and post it on YouTube. It's Grace. 30 reps of 135lb clean and jerks for time. No specific form is specified for the cleans or jerks -- it's considered "ground to overhead anyho...

There are so many things wrong with this kind of attitude towards healing. I actually like a lot of the shit that Cultfit Oneworld does but fuck you are going at your own liver with teeth and finger nails taking this man NSAIDs when you are "tore up." Rather than treating the pain why not...

Check out the clones running at 1:00 here (about halfway). http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/Cros ... ontosh.mov

That is seriously scary.

Yeah, Greg E's new place is great. Worth a visit, he's doing open workouts most Saturdays.

These things are caused by eating animal foods and salt. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds have no salt. Actually man adds salt to food to make you fat and sick so you will spend lots of money on foods and medications. If people like you change to a mostly plant foods diet that is no...

Patrick, you and BOto both remind me of this Houseman poem... When first my way to fair I took Few pence in purse had I, And long I used to stand and look At things I could not buy. Now times are altered: if I care To buy a thing, I can; The pence are here and here's the fair. But where's the lost ...

The message board hasn't changed a bit. Predictably, as soon as attack dog #1, Dale Saran, needs a break, Barry Cooper arrives late to the party to muck things up, arguing about God knows what and proclaiming victory when his posts are ignored. I have an almost infinite amount of rage for Barry Coo...

Using the SDHP as a teaching progression for the clean is like using getting shot as a teaching progression for self defense.

Fuck the stupid fucking sumo high pull.

Hey, more early arm bend, now THAT'S what CF really needs!

Chew scrote.

PM walks an interesting line in that it's largely made up of people who left the CF community for one reason or another, yet its parent company still has ties to CF and can't burn its bridges for practical and financial reasons. So the majority of the regulars there can probably be implicitly unders...

2. Oto has a website? What is it's name, how ghey is it and is Kurt J. Wilkens an affiliate. Any discriminatory name calling I forgot to add? It's just a convenient goddamned way of organizing GPP training that I put together, not a Rival Camp. Asking for its bona fides is fucking nonsensical. I li...

I'm trying to decide how to answer this. My previous method in that thread was to simply ignore the bullshit attacks and answer any legitimate points, but I have the feeling that once I boil off the ad hominem here there's not going to be anything left. I'll give it some thought.

A 700 pound deadlift is not something that just happens, no matter how much of a natural lifter you are. Actually, Glenn Pendlay told a pretty crazy story in that thread about exactly this. Apparently Gary Heisey pulled 700 basically the first time he ever touched a barbell. That's the closest thin...

nafod wrote:

Brandon Oto wrote:I've put up a monetary reward for anyone who can substantiate the 750 DL claim.

It was already done by some physical freak specimen. I should have took your money.

Who?

I've put up a monetary reward for anyone who can substantiate the 750 DL claim. Thought I'd mention it here in case any of the IGXers happen to be in touch with some magically strong CF dude, or anyone who might know one, or anyone who might know someone who might... etc.

Wait, is Crossfit still using the Dynamax definition of fitness, or is fitness now defined by ''work capacity across broad time and modal domains''? As far as I can tell, the former is still around, but the latter rules the coop -- which is pretty clear based on their workouts. I hate that shit. Th...

Yes, but this was most interesting: My claims about hypertrophy are based on several decades of working in Gold’s Gyms throughout California, including the “Mecca of Bodybuilding" and comparing physiques of natural, “natural”, and steroidal bodybuilders to gymnasts and CrossFitters. That I’d h...