The couch thread

[friedquads]

Pain and suffering, though, have become something of a calling card among dedicated CrossFitters. “It can kill you,” program founder Greg Glassman told the New York Times in 2005. “I’ve always been completely honest about that.” The program’s own mascots include “Pukey” the clown and “Dr. Rhabdo,” whose kidneys are spilling out of his abdomen (T-shirts $32.00, S-XXXL).

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09 ... z0zqGgJgsN

lulz this reminded me of the XXM sizing like thousands of posts ago, those were good times.

I was thinking the same thing!

[Shafpocalypse Now]

WGM is the old tired ram-cat you left with the last pack of babies, not a cubbie.

[WildGorillaMan]

Oh, and where do I get a velvet of Cubbie Gorilla Jesus?

Where do we get a photo of grown up you? Introduce yourself.

You know where.

And Coug, introduce yourself on the FSF, don't front like you don't know how it works around here.

Normally, I'd also say



But we both know I've already like 1/2 a Gig just of you posted on Team Gorilla.

[___________]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maNaJ63S ... r_embedded

[Gary]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maNaJ63S ... r_embedded

Shit. The nigger-hater (the one with the label) beat me to it. Here's the "Crossfit vs Athlete @ Exercising" vid I was gonna post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPPSKl4Q ... re=related

[Anon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maNaJ63S ... r_embedded

I think its so wrong to put people on ergs without teaching them how to properly row.

I thought this comment was about the "fighter's' rowing form lol

[___________]

*****

[kreator]

Recently when I got to college I was working out one morning and had some issues with the the wrestlers. I got to the gym early so I could workout before anyone got there but...no luck. It was packed to the rafters with collegiate athletes who kept moving my things needed for my WOD so my times suffered. I even saw this one man "squating" 405lbs by dropping three inches and coming back up! Is it just me or are all other athletes than Crossfitters simpletons?

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?p=845078


Wish I could punch this kid.

[syaigh]

Recently when I got to college I was working out one morning and had some issues with the the wrestlers. I got to the gym early so I could workout before anyone got there but...no luck. It was packed to the rafters with collegiate athletes who kept moving my things needed for my WOD so my times suffered. I even saw this one man "squating" 405lbs by dropping three inches and coming back up! Is it just me or are all other athletes than Crossfitters simpletons?

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?p=845078


Wish I could punch this kid.

Dear skinny gym kid,

Sports require specific strength and power generation. Although, for general strengthening, a full range of motion is ideal for the squat, wrestlers, volleyball players, and other athletes need to develop strength and power in the postures required for their sports. For this reason, sometimes, strength coaches will have these athletes squat to a depth that will increase power production in the range of motion they use for their sport. This is called FUNCTIONAL TRAINING. It is specific to the ATHLETE's FUNCTION. Because if you are a wrestler, you are not going to sit on your heels before driving your opponent to the ground. Likewise, volleyball players are not going to jump from a below parallel position either. Partial squats as well as full-depth squats are utilized in order to SPECIALIZE athletes to be good at their sport. Sometimes, they even use POWER CLEANS which are not a full range of motion Olympic lift, but useful nonetheless. I'm sure you are familiar with those.

@fit is a generalized program that doesn't require any specific knowledge of periodization, planning, strength building, or anything of the sort, so you wouldn't know that. Educate yourselves, and don't run on at the mouth about things you know nothing about. By the way, some athletes also use ROTATIONAL movements and these are useful for most people, even generalists, as well.

:)

[friedquads]

Recently when I got to college I was working out one morning and had some issues with the the wrestlers. I got to the gym early so I could workout before anyone got there but...no luck. It was packed to the rafters with collegiate athletes who kept moving my things needed for my WOD so my times suffered. I even saw this one man "squating" 405lbs by dropping three inches and coming back up! Is it just me or are all other athletes than Crossfitters simpletons?

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?p=845078


Wish I could punch this kid.

Dear skinny gym kid,

Sports require specific strength and power generation. Although, for general strengthening, a full range of motion is ideal for the squat, wrestlers, volleyball players, and other athletes need to develop strength and power in the postures required for their sports. For this reason, sometimes, strength coaches will have these athletes squat to a depth that will increase power production in the range of motion they use for their sport. This is called FUNCTIONAL TRAINING. It is specific to the ATHLETE's FUNCTION. Because if you are a wrestler, you are not going to sit on your heels before driving your opponent to the ground. Likewise, volleyball players are not going to jump from a below parallel position either. Partial squats as well as full-depth squats are utilized in order to SPECIALIZE athletes to be good at their sport. Sometimes, they even use POWER CLEANS which are not a full range of motion Olympic lift, but useful nonetheless. I'm sure you are familiar with those.

@fit is a generalized program that doesn't require any specific knowledge of periodization, planning, strength building, or anything of the sort, so you wouldn't know that. Educate yourselves, and don't run on at the mouth about things you know nothing about. By the way, some athletes also use ROTATIONAL movements and these are useful for most people, even generalists, as well.

:)

I think that the kid would be better of being stuffed into a heavy bag at a boxing gym on training day.

[Mountebank]

The mindless WOD follower calling other people simpletons. Especially those who train AND actually compete in real sports. Har har.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

@F: Stilll completely inappropriate for first responders and the armed forces

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09 ... -crossfit/

More troops than ever are flipping tractor tires, lobbing 50-pound kettle bells and conquering the Three Bars of Death in an effort to become “tougher, faster, hard-bodied freedom fighter[s].” But some of them are also working out until they puke, faint or suffer permanent organ damage. Now, a team of medical researchers have a message for recruits: You’re probably not fit enough for CrossFit.

Ditto for P90X and Insanity. Together, the brutally intense fitness regimes are “the big three” being studied and evaluated in a review of high-intensity fitness programs by the Consortium for Health and Military Performance, or CHAMP, at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

All three are characterized by rigorous, explosive movements and an emphasis on rippling muscles and quick results (see here, here or here). And all three have garnered dedicated followings in military circles: CrossFit is already taught by several Army Captains and has become a mainstay in the Marine Corps. The program even names workout moves to honor deceased troops, like a grueling forward-and-backward sprint combo dubbed “Griff” for Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis L. Griffin.

“Our number one concern is growing anecdotal evidence of injuries,” CHAMP medical director Col. Francis O’Connor tells Danger Room. “Military leaders are interested in knowing how to handle these programs, and want more information, and we just don’t have adequate solid data.”

Indeed, CrossFit in particular has become linked to serious injury, including a 2008 lawsuit by former Navy sailor Makimba Mimms, who alleged that the program led to permanent disability from rhabdomyolysis, the breakdown of muscle fibers that can cause kidney failure.

Pain and suffering, though, have become something of a calling card among dedicated CrossFitters. “It can kill you,” program founder Greg Glassman told the New York Times in 2005. “I’ve always been completely honest about that.” The program’s own mascots include “Pukey” the clown and “Dr. Rhabdo,” whose kidneys are spilling out of his abdomen (T-shirts $32.00, S-XXXL).

Online, though, mobs of troops and veterans are quick to endorse the practical war-zone benefits of CrossFit and these other intense workout regimes. P90X’s “focus on push-ups, pull-ups and dumbbell training translated into the strength I needed to pull myself over walls and other obstacles downrange,” Army Lt. Col. Paul Cravey tells Air Force Times.

Already, CHAMP researchers have spent two days meeting with military leaders, fitness experts and members of the American College of Sports Medicine, to establish a research agenda. O’Connor anticipates published results and recommendations within 2-3 years, and expects subsequent studies on key issues.

And while the high-intensity fitness craze is relatively new, it coincides with another trend that makes the CHAMP review even more relevant: the lagging fitness levels of new recruits as a whole. Thirty-five percent of American youth are unfit to serve because of health problems. Compared to the Army’s new training regime, which wants troops to embrace yoga and calisthenics, start slow to avoid injury and sweat their way to basic fitness levels, CrossFit’s standards seem all the more extreme.

“Certainly, we are addressing a perceived lack of fitness among recruits,” O’Connor says. “People are doing too much, too soon, too fast. Participants [in high-intensity programs] need baseline strength and flexibility, and they simply aren’t prepared.”

And while O’Connor’s team is interested in evaluating the physiological pros and cons of the programs, they’re also trying to figure out why troops are so gung-ho about the grueling, exhausting, physical fitness puke-fests. O’Connor, for one, has his own theory.

“What attracts people to these programs?” he asks. “Frankly, I suspect that in some cases it’s because the commercials really do make them look sexy.”

[powerlifter54]

@F: Stilll completely inappropriate for first responders and the armed forces

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09 ... -crossfit/

More troops than ever are flipping tractor tires, lobbing 50-pound kettle bells and conquering the Three Bars of Death in an effort to become “tougher, faster, hard-bodied freedom fighter[s].” But some of them are also working out until they puke, faint or suffer permanent organ damage. Now, a team of medical researchers have a message for recruits: You’re probably not fit enough for CrossFit.

Ditto for P90X and Insanity. Together, the brutally intense fitness regimes are “the big three” being studied and evaluated in a review of high-intensity fitness programs by the Consortium for Health and Military Performance, or CHAMP, at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

All three are characterized by rigorous, explosive movements and an emphasis on rippling muscles and quick results (see here, here or here). And all three have garnered dedicated followings in military circles: CrossFit is already taught by several Army Captains and has become a mainstay in the Marine Corps. The program even names workout moves to honor deceased troops, like a grueling forward-and-backward sprint combo dubbed “Griff” for Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis L. Griffin.

“Our number one concern is growing anecdotal evidence of injuries,” CHAMP medical director Col. Francis O’Connor tells Danger Room. “Military leaders are interested in knowing how to handle these programs, and want more information, and we just don’t have adequate solid data.”

Indeed, CrossFit in particular has become linked to serious injury, including a 2008 lawsuit by former Navy sailor Makimba Mimms, who alleged that the program led to permanent disability from rhabdomyolysis, the breakdown of muscle fibers that can cause kidney failure.

Pain and suffering, though, have become something of a calling card among dedicated CrossFitters. “It can kill you,” program founder Greg Glassman told the New York Times in 2005. “I’ve always been completely honest about that.” The program’s own mascots include “Pukey” the clown and “Dr. Rhabdo,” whose kidneys are spilling out of his abdomen (T-shirts $32.00, S-XXXL).

Online, though, mobs of troops and veterans are quick to endorse the practical war-zone benefits of CrossFit and these other intense workout regimes. P90X’s “focus on push-ups, pull-ups and dumbbell training translated into the strength I needed to pull myself over walls and other obstacles downrange,” Army Lt. Col. Paul Cravey tells Air Force Times.
Already, CHAMP researchers have spent two days meeting with military leaders, fitness experts and members of the American College of Sports Medicine, to establish a research agenda. O’Connor anticipates published results and recommendations within 2-3 years, and expects subsequent studies on key issues.

And while the high-intensity fitness craze is relatively new, it coincides with another trend that makes the CHAMP review even more relevant: the lagging fitness levels of new recruits as a whole. Thirty-five percent of American youth are unfit to serve because of health problems. Compared to the Army’s new training regime, which wants troops to embrace yoga and calisthenics, start slow to avoid injury and sweat their way to basic fitness levels, CrossFit’s standards seem all the more extreme.

“Certainly, we are addressing a perceived lack of fitness among recruits,” O’Connor says. “People are doing too much, too soon, too fast. Participants [in high-intensity programs] need baseline strength and flexibility, and they simply aren’t prepared.”

And while O’Connor’s team is interested in evaluating the physiological pros and cons of the programs, they’re also trying to figure out why troops are so gung-ho about the grueling, exhausting, physical fitness puke-fests. O’Connor, for one, has his own theory.

“What attracts people to these programs?” he asks. “Frankly, I suspect that in some cases it’s because the commercials really do make them look sexy.”

If it takes P90X or @fit to get you to do a pullup or pushup then so be it. But prepare to reap the whirlwind of explosive movements and balls to the wall cardio all the time for less than top shape people.

[TerryB]

A program created by a complete moron, administered by gung ho sergeants who know nothing about sensible physical training other than what they learned in PDC...

What could be better?

[Yes I Have Balls]

I think that the kid would be better of being stuffed into a heavy bag at a boxing gym on training day.

His mea culpa:

you are correct it was my mistake to state that all athletes other than crossfitters are simpletons. Crossfit is a good system but not the only one. I let my frustrations of being so picky for technique get the better of me. I should be helping instead of doing the opposite.Thank you for your advice sir.

I'd LOVE to see a 5'7 145lb assfitter walk over to the wrestling team in the middle of a workout and tell them "Ya'll are doing those squats wrong. I'm an @fitter and I can help!"

I'd like to see the kid even get 405lbs off the pins.....

QED.

[lesser_rebelangel]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

[Holland Oates]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

Your shit is weak. Go back the @fit forums faggot.

[lesser_rebelangel]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

Your shit is weak. Go back the @fit forums faggot.

[Holeyfraggaroley]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

Your shit is weak. Go back the @fit forums faggot.

No really its weak. Go do something constructive like shit in a clown's mouth for time.

[Holland Oates]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

Your shit is weak. Go back the @fit forums faggot.

Why do all these new faggots try so hard?

[Yes I Have Balls]

C'mon, most of ya'll trailerpark-dwelling neckbeards would kill to be under 30 % bodyfat.

Your shit is weak. Go back the @fit forums faggot.

^^this

[lesser_rebelangel]

Listen, I don't know how come you're calling my shit weak. I've only been doing CrossFire for two months & already I've got my deadlift up to 125 pounds X 20 (BW's only 145, faggots!). I'm thinking I'm about ready for Westside for Skinny, Sexy Basterds; after that I'll be ready for my cut.

[Holland Oates]

Listen, I don't know how come you're calling my shit weak. I've only been doing CrossFire for two months & already I've got my deadlift up to 125 pounds X 20 (BW's only 145, faggots!). I'm thinking I'm about ready for Westside for Skinny, Sexy Basterds; after that I'll be ready for my cut.

Now that's much better.

More of that and less of the chest beating faggotry.

[Anon]

Functional:

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[Gary John]

On weak trolling.

It is better to have your troll be female. That way, you can say stupid stuff and nobody notices.