The couch thread

[Mountebank]

Max rhabdo cases via GHD sit-ups for time!

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Crossfit Ann Arbor had like 4-5 GHR benches, Yukon brand, I think.

I am pretty sure Rant is the original coiner of the "koolaid" comment.

[Jag Panzer]

I can't even look at the pics of Barky anymore.

It's like watching the old episodes of All in the Family before Sally Struthers turned into a land whale.

[louburr]

Did you see how many ghr benches they have at her gym. I did. Time to get tested for low test. HRT here I come.

[JohnnyBadAss]

Not to mention $20,000 worth of Concept2 rowers.

[Danny John]

A very interesting interview:

http://www.powerathletesmag.com/archive ... assman.htm


Scroll halfway down for the 750 deadlift, not 600. The second time I did deadlifts, I pulled 600. Four years of O lifting gets you to 600...I wasted two full years!

[Botototo]

Ummm.

http://journal.crossfit.com/2010/04/glassman-sgw.tpl

[TerryB]

Ummm.

http://journal.crossfit.com/2010/04/glassman-sgw.tpl

Sooooo...Couch's dad is a rocket scientist...he must be SO proud that his son turned out to be a charlatan, a verbose swindler pulling money out of people's pockets w/ base appeals to ego and vanity.

'Atta boy, Couch! The biographical picture becomes more clear.... I wonder when Dr. Glassman realized his son couldn't cut it in...anything...much less science or math.

[Jag Panzer]

Ummm.

http://journal.crossfit.com/2010/04/glassman-sgw.tpl

Sooooo...Couch's dad is a rocket scientist...he must be SO proud that his son turned out to be a charlatan, a verbose swindler pulling money out of people's pockets w/ base appeals to ego and vanity.

'Atta boy, Couch! The biographical picture becomes more clear.... I wonder when Dr. Glassman realized his son couldn't cut it in...anything...much less science or math.

Reading some of the Google results, Glasshole Sr. isn't much lower on the kookery scale than his boy. Craziness hidden behind a wall of obscure verbosity must be a genetic thing.

[Count Truculent]

A very interesting interview:

http://www.powerathletesmag.com/archive ... assman.htm


Scroll halfway down for the 750 deadlift, not 600. The second time I did deadlifts, I pulled 600. Four years of O lifting gets you to 600...I wasted two full years!

thanks a ton
ill read through the whole thing and see if i can't pull out any more gems

Mel Siff did a commentary on this interview

viewtopic.php?p=397054

Also, then Couch and his cronies had their rebuttal here

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=2090

Now, I've read this thread from start to finish, and I'm 99% sure that Glassman's rebuttal hasn't been mentioned here. There are some gems in there, such as

I came up in the company of super-elite gymnasts. Not once did I in over a decade of sitting in the company of the world’s best gymnasts and coaches for six hours a day six days a week ever here anyone discuss how it was that you became flexible or how you stretched.

It's been hard to find evidence of Couch's "super-eliteness" in gymnastics. Surely, all one needs to do is find out who were the best gymnasts and coaches in the world back in the 70s, and ask them.

Hold on, now, I think yoga’s fine. It is a formalized somewhat systematic approach to improve flexibility and has captured the imagination and attention of hundreds of thousands. This is good, very good. But yoga, and other stretching protocols don’t muster up to the flexibility that gymnasts develop without ever giving it a thought.

Replace the word yoga with crossfit, flexibility with GPP, and gymnasts with athletes, and you have a pretty accurate statement.

And he calls Siff a "bald faced liar" about his diet. My brother stayed with Siff for a week for a Supertraining camp, and his diet was pretty much as stated. Lots of fish and veges. Also cost my brother $200 for the week. Compare that to a L1 CF cert. Siff was also in tremendous shape for a guy in his late 50s, apart from his dodgy heart. The fact that someone like Glassman lives on, despite his diet of gin and fried foods, while Siff didn't is a cosmic injustice. Also, Couch benefited greatly from Siff's passing, because I think if Siff found out he was called a bald faced liar, he would've turned his critical attention to CF to an even greater degree than he turned it to someone like Chek.

There are other good quotes, but I'll leave it to someone more experienced in this thread to fish them out

[Jag Panzer]

The good thing is that Couchfit's fuckery has changed so little that you can just re-post Siff's original critique and it's just as valid as it was 8 years ago when he first wrote it.

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[syaigh]

So, I guess he doesn't "need" Castro anymore.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Yeah, Glassman and that IART faggot Johnston both jumped on Siff's grave and danced with delight.

[Mountebank]

I can't believe no one is talking about this: http://games2010.crossfit.com/blog/2010 ... fit-games/

The cross fit gaymes are going to be held at the Home Depot Center in LA. All the cross fit loyal are arguing about whether this means they are selling out, meanwhile HQ is doing a "Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous" tour of the VIP Luxury seats in the accompanying video -- act fast, only 13 available.

And the @Fers were complaining about the cost of watching Regionals...just wait until they drop the cost of the Gaymes on them, now that it isn't subsidized by Asstro's family!

[WildGorillaMan]

So what's the lowdown on Asstro's fate? Was he not convivial enough?

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[GoDogGo!]

So what's the lowdown on Asstro's fate? Was he not convivial enough?

Well, he was prominently featured in the video I cited above, so apparently he met couch's affability filter. Which makes me very curious just what level of asshole someone needs to be at to get filtered out of @fit.

You don't need to be an asshole per se, just be a coward and have no squat.

[WildGorillaMan]

"affable" that's the word I was searching for.

[nafod]

Its still Andro Friday on the West Coast....I am lovin' on Barky!!

Hmmmmmm...I believe she merits a Texas Toehog

Hmmmmmm...yes...hmmmmm...

[Sofa King]

The HDC is a great facility. Easy to get to, bars and restaurants near by; lots of parking. Oh, and on the parking tip; for a Mexican league soccer match back in January, they were getting $20 to park in general parking, $40 VIP parking, and $60 for valet. On the bright-side, they do allow tailgating. When we had to be there for my daughter's volleyball tourney, parking was free, but security watched you all the way to the velodrome (which is right next to the track facility and near the tennis stadium.

Oh, and it looks like Jeff Martin has been relegated to @fit cameraman. Good on him.

[Yes I Have Balls]

The two new HQ Nutrition "Gurus":



Will Wright, M.D. completed his undergraduate education at the University of California San Diego with a degree in Biochemistry/Cell Biology. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas where he also completed two years of kidney research. He subsequently trained at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio where he completed an Internal Medicine internship and Diagnostic Radiology residency and in his final year was selected as Chief Resident. Will returned to his native California and UCSD to complete a fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Will resides in Pismo Beach, California with his wife Paige and their three boys.



Jeremy Mullins holds a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Marshall University (2003) and a Master of Science in Clinical Dietetics (2005). He worked for King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, KY in clinical nutrition (with an emphasis in cardiac and cardiac rehab) prior to his position as Vice-President of Medabolix Inc, a fully staffed medical weight loss and wellness facility, in Charleston, WV. Currently, Professor Mullins’ is an assistant professor at Marshall University (working on a PHD in Biomedical Sciences, is the owner of CrossFit Fire breather Fitness, and co-owner of CrossFit Thunder.

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Not sure what potential this has, but the first group of "Courses" not "Certifications" are closed to the public?

[Mickey O'neil]

Its still Andro Friday on the West Coast....I am lovin' on Barky!!

Hmmmmmm...I believe she merits a Texas Toehog

Hmmmmmm...yes...hmmmmm...

LOFL!!

[Beelzebub]

[kreator]

He received his medical education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas where he also completed two years of kidney research.

They brought him on board to deal with the rising number of rhabdo cases.