The couch thread

[WildGorillaMan]

A Reebok product that sucks? Shocking.

[kreator]

Interestingly, that dude's clean at 1:09 was one of the best looking cleans I've ever seen in an @fit video.

That's because it's like 80 kilos, if that.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

The short review on the Minimus trail version from New Balance.

1. Lightweight.
2. Not a zero heel to toe drop. Something like 4mm.
3. Good so far for kettelballin', deadliftin', front squattin', box jumpin', battlin' ropin'. etc

Beats the shit out of my old chucks for everything but deadlifting and box squatting.

I haven't squatting much over 400 in them, there was some compression, but not much.

[Cave Canem]

This can't possibly end well..........

[DrDonkeyLove]

This can't possibly end well..........

Milo personified!

[The Ginger Beard Man]

this would be much more impressive if the building was on fire

That is so embarrassing. However, it would be cool if he was on fire.

Don't give them any ideas. Next thing you know it could be a wod.
@fitters, if any of you are that stupid please be sure to get it on video.

[WildGorillaMan]

This can't possibly end well..........

Milo personified!

Honestly, that's far from the dumbest thing I've seen this week, and since I routinely use my kids for 1-arm clean and press, it's not that unusual either. You need to find something truly lulz-worthy.

[Cave Canem]

This can't possibly end well..........

Milo personified!

Honestly, that's far from the dumbest thing I've seen this week, and since I routinely use my kids for 1-arm clean and press, it's not that unusual either. You need to find something truly lulz-worthy.

I was thinking long term... like 16 years from now when the kid is all emo or goth and ready to cut itself if mom doesn't let it have a slice of bread. Either that or the kid becomes a @fit nazi and can't speak a sentence without mentioning bored time and scrotal domains.

[powerlifter54]

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_art ... r_training

This is good stuff.

[Batboy2/75]

@fit can be summed up simply as, "A program consiting of physical masterbation, masquerading as fitness, that is marketed to low self esteem attention whores."

[Mountebank]

She wrote this:
Why CrossFit Annoys Me

[WildGorillaMan]

She wrote this:
Why CrossFit Annoys Me

If adoring her is wrong, I don't want to be right.

[Mountebank]

http://games.crossfit.com/features/thin ... xics-story

Slipping Back Into Obsessive Eating

Soon after joining CrossFit, Emma‘s trainers recommended she try the Zone Diet. Although the diet has worked for many CrossFitters, Emma found that weighing and measuring, and “cheat days” brought her back into her disordered eating behaviors and thinking.

“It was the Zone that started to get me in trouble,” Emma says. “I was in transition at the time — no longer starving myself, but trying to eat at least a bit throughout the day without obsessing about exactly how much I was eating, but the Zone told me that it was time to go back to doing that.”

The Zone diet didn’t help Emma because it refocused her attention on quantities of food. Many people who have suffered from anorexia have obsessed about calories and quantities, and may find it hard to weigh and measure without returning to obsessive thinking, or over-control.

“I tried it for a bit, counting every almond, weighing my deli meat to the exact right amount of blocks,” Emma explains, “but I started to feel some old thinking creeping back in.” Once again, she started to feel herself, “Needing to control and account for every calorie, and trying to delay gratification by eating all of by blocks at one time in the evening (i.e. binging).” The Zone triggered Emma’s eating disorder, but fortunately she changed course and tried another approach to eating.

Next, Emma tried intermittent fasting, but without any luck. Emma found that intermittent fasting allowed her to return to a “full blown eating disorder” behavior that she could disguise as a health-based regimen. After her struggles with intermittent fasting, Emma strongly suggests that no trainer recommend this diet to an athlete with a history of eating disorders.

Greg Glassman believes that, “You can’t get over addictions, but you can get new ones.” For many, CrossFit is that new addiction.

LULZ.

We’ve seen it before. Dan Tyminski, who is ranked 6th worldwide at the end of the Open, struggled with an addiction to heroine just two years ago. Now, he endorses the motto, “Fuck Drugs, Do CrossFit.”

Emma sees CrossFit as her first healthy addiction. “I have an addictive personality,” she says, “I need something to obsess about. When I was a teenager, it was illegal drugs, then it was food, and now it’s CrossFit.”

“Is it a flaw that I’m an addict? Absolutely. However, as long as I am addicted to something that does not hurt me or others, I’d say it’s a pretty good flaw to have.”

The couch agrees.

Another case of anorexia athletica.

[GoDogGo!]

She wrote this:
Why CrossFit Annoys Me

If adoring her is wrong, I don't want to be right.

That pic on the bottom right makes me want to eat her entire back half. Nom nom nom.

[Shapecharge]

No doubt if that was a dude you'd say you'd want to eat the entire front half.

[GoDogGo!]

No doubt if that was a dude you'd say you'd want to eat the entire front half.

Sorry to crush your dreams Shapey, but no.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

I feel a rekindling of an active hatred towards @F again.

Like Don Quixote, I'm tilting at windmills.

[GoDogGo!]

And now I have local reasons to hate!

http://crossfitdurham.com/fee-schedule/

[Cave Canem]

And now I have local reasons to hate!

http://crossfitdurham.com/fee-schedule/

And if they could do the math, someone would realize that for less than 10 months "dues", they could outfit their garage with all NEW equipment from Roque or MuscleDriver that would allow them to do any @fit workout except the embarrassing, post workout, narcissistic flop around on the floor in front of their comrades and cameras.

And maybe, just maybe, they'd treat the equipment with a little more respect and stop throwing down expensive bars after a mighty 100 lb C&J or stop flinging costly KBs from the top of their silly swing.

But I digress.....It's a lot of bucks with very little bang. There are a few boxes around here that are in need of more members to make their nut. A function of not being a protected franchise (more boxes opening in close proximity to cash in). They'll try anything EXCEPT lowering their exorbitant fees because they don't want to "devalue" their "product".
Couch is running the P.T. Barnum school of business. But suckers eventually wise up.

[Steggy]

But I digress.....It's a lot of bucks with very little bang. There are a few boxes around here that are in need of more members to make their nut. A function of not being a protected franchise (more boxes opening in close proximity to cash in). They'll try anything EXCEPT lowering their exorbitant fees because they don't want to "devalue" their "product".
Couch is running the P.T. Barnum school of business. But suckers eventually wise up.

If I was running a CF box with others in the area first thing I would do is drop my prices to $50 a month.

[tzg]

But I digress.....It's a lot of bucks with very little bang. There are a few boxes around here that are in need of more members to make their nut. A function of not being a protected franchise (more boxes opening in close proximity to cash in). They'll try anything EXCEPT lowering their exorbitant fees because they don't want to "devalue" their "product".
Couch is running the P.T. Barnum school of business. But suckers eventually wise up.

If I was running a CF box with others in the area first thing I would do is drop my prices to $50 a month.

Troof. But will Couch have an intervention?

[Shafpocalypse Now]

When Glassman gave barky and bboi about $100K worth of affiliate, he set the precedent that he didn't give a fuck about affiliates.

[Jay]

When Glassman gave barky and bboi about $100K worth of affiliate, he set the precedent that he didn't give a fuck about affiliates.

Exactly....

[Gin Master]

But I digress.....It's a lot of bucks with very little bang. There are a few boxes around here that are in need of more members to make their nut. A function of not being a protected franchise (more boxes opening in close proximity to cash in). They'll try anything EXCEPT lowering their exorbitant fees because they don't want to "devalue" their "product".
Couch is running the P.T. Barnum school of business. But suckers eventually wise up.

If I was running a CF box with others in the area first thing I would do is drop my prices to $50 a month.

Troof. But will Couch have an intervention?

If we're going to have Intervention Talk, let's start with the best intervention ever.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_peSCECc4I[/youtube]

[powerlifter54]

But I digress.....It's a lot of bucks with very little bang. There are a few boxes around here that are in need of more members to make their nut. A function of not being a protected franchise (more boxes opening in close proximity to cash in). They'll try anything EXCEPT lowering their exorbitant fees because they don't want to "devalue" their "product".
Couch is running the P.T. Barnum school of business. But suckers eventually wise up.

If I was running a CF box with others in the area first thing I would do is drop my prices to $50 a month.

Troof. But will Couch have an intervention?

If we're going to have Intervention Talk, let's start with the best intervention ever.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_peSCECc4I[/youtube]

i don't think even a talk from Tony and Patsy being a half mile away would solve the @fit @ddiction for the true believers.