The couch thread

[Mutant]

Do you think it's Cotter's alcoholism, coke addiction or heart break at losing Pavel Penis that keeps him from good GS numbers?

[powerlifter54]

Ahem...

This is "The couch thread", not the Cotter thread. We have one, go find it.

Focus bichos...FOCUS!

[Shapecharge]

I feel that Shari is slipping away from us. She's posting pictures of her "awesome" clients now. If we were going to get her post some snatch shots here we're wasting precious time and short attention spans on other bullshit. We need an internet IGx brokered intervention stat!

[Hank Scorpio]

Ahem...

This is "The couch thread", not the Cotter thread. We have one, go find it.

Focus bichos...FOCUS!

That's right men, stay on target. Oh, and Wilkens is getting into the book business:

[Crust Bucket]

To get back on track here.....

COOCH! You draw like a three year old ya fat asswipe!!!!

[Bukaki On Dumbass Cotter]

Ahem...

This is "The couch thread", not the Cotter thread. We have one, go find it.

Focus bichos...FOCUS!

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[Anon]

New Couch workouts available:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fit ... index.html

[GoDogGo!]

New Couch workouts available:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fit ... index.html

Do y'all think I could safely do that, what with my old rings injury and all?

[Anon]

Yea, just scale

[Crust Bucket]

Not only does this guy drink from a bottle in a paper bag, I think he's a limping midget also.

[Kraj]

That's who everyone is taking their fitness advice from? That's like taking a course called "How To Attract A Man, 101" taught by Rosie O'Donnell.

[Tackleberry]

Founding Farther lays the smack down on David Wood (and more).

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthrea ... 32&page=10

[Stillwater]

In one we've been asked to work with the plaintiffs lawyers as experts.

So couch is testifying against the affiliate?

[Guiseppie]

Founding Farther lays the smack down on David Wood (and more).

What a load of crap. Yeah, why bother using the private message function when you can criticize someone in public. IMO, David is one of the few sensible people remaining on that board.

On a related note, this guy had a nice exit:
http://www.board.crossfit.com/showpost. ... tcount=237

[nafod]

On a related note, this guy had a nice exit:
http://www.board.crossfit.com/showpost. ... tcount=237

OK, can someone fill me in on the sad history of the Heimlich maneuver????

Its kind of like the sad history of the Heimlich maneuver.

[Guiseppie]

OK, can someone fill me in on the sad history of the Heimlich maneuver????

Hahaha. He kind of lost me on that one as well.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthrea ... 32&page=10

This shit is awesome. Vintage!

George,

There was a pro NFL lineman at the games and several notable pro T&F athtletes who trained towards the games and decided not to come - even when offered to have their expenses paid.

Irv Ray, the elite US Decathlon coach said that the winner of the CrossFit games deserves to be called fittest man/woman on earth and that no decathlete past or presence has/had the mental toughness to succeed at CrossFit. He very deliberately included past and present competitors.

George, you have it wrong.

Moderators, when the knee-jerk response to controversy, discussion, and heated debate become Pukie's Bucket we're very close to shutting down the message board. I'm finding it increasingly hard to draw the brightest from our community over here and heavy handed moderation is always given as an issue. It's kept me away.

There are two lawsuits involving CrossFit. In one we've been asked to work with the plaintiffs lawyers as experts. Our Rhabdo awareness pieces are listed among the expert witness documents for the case. This is the one that Boyle and friends are referring to. Mike Boyle's insinuation that this is a case against CrossFit is unethical, incorrect, uneducated, and irresponsible. It's also typical of Mr. Boyle. (As an aside, I also suspect that the case is fraudulent and entirely inspired by the NY Times article.)

The second case involved a kid who hurt his knees doing back flips off of a gym wall in a Marin County owned gymnastics super-gym. We were included in that suit for reasons that the plaintiffs atty. says were due entirely to his misunderstanding of CrossFit. The plaintiffs atty. has removed CrossFit Inc. from the suit - before we filed our motion for summary dismissal.

CrossFit has never been sued. Our insurance brokers deal exclusively with health clubs and gyms. They are the largest writers of sport and exercise liability policies in the world. They claim we have an unmatched record of revenue (and reach) to litigation.

Mike Boyle is happy in a world where he makes his 50K/yr helping a few hundred people each year become a bit fitter. His work is not taken seriously at professional sporting levels and his reach with the general public is very, very limited. He's sees the CrossFit juggernaut wherever he goes and he can't stand it. We've spoken with the hockey players who claims he gave them their worst season ever, we've met the Army guys who were told they needed to do push-ups from their knees. (You can find reference to both of these instances from the comments on the first Boyle/CrossFit WOD post)
My issues with Mike Boyle that aren't about ethics, jealousy, competency, and professionalism are about risk analysis - cost benefit analysis.

Is fitness important enough to accept some risk in teaching and training people? Is CrossFit as dangerous as ANY sport? Does Boyle et al recommend that no lifelong trained athletes engage in sport?

Boyle doesn't have the educational, professional, or intellectual background to support his charges. I've given him a forum to do so and his response was like that of a drunken nine year old. We even reprinted our exchange regarding his attacks on CrossFit at the SOMA conference and his response to me in a CrossFit Journal article. Were he of average intelligence he'd have left well enough alone after that. Read the CFJ article, it's proof enough that the man doesn't have the capacity for serious thought and discussion. It may be hard for some of you to see that from a textual frame of reference. So....we're going to give you a radio show. There I, Robb Wolf, Lon Kilgore, Mark Rippetoe, and Tom Delong, are going to respond to Boyle, Cook, and Cosgrove point by silly point.

[Mickey O'neil]

I hate that motherfucker. Boyle has more professional credibility in his pinky that Gin Couch will ever have. Fuck I hate @fit and the @fit community. They're all a bunch of delusional, self-involved phaggots. Except for Scrapper. I hate he got involved with them.

[johno]

On a related note, this guy had a nice exit:
http://www.board.crossfit.com/showpost. ... tcount=237

OK, can someone fill me in on the sad history of the Heimlich maneuver????

Its kind of like the sad history of the Heimlich maneuver.

Gays turned it into something dirty.

[Anon]

Yea, the point is to get the fudge your choking on - out, not to pack it.

[Stayfq]

Amazing how a response like that- uncouth, offensive, and borderline retarded- will get nothing but applause. He outright shits bricks on Boyle, questioning everything but his sexuality, and I can forsee nothing but praise from the cultfitters for the tasteless response. The guy is a fucking asshole. Holy shit, what a fucking asshole.

Had anyone ever spoken about Crossfit or that jackass glassman that way, the board would launching themselves, complete with bombs strapped to chest, into whomsoever had the audacity to question their way's front door. Fuckwads.

[Mickey O'neil]

Amazing how a response like that- uncouth, offensive, and borderline retarded- will get nothing but applause. He outright shits bricks on Boyle, questioning everything but his sexuality, and I can forsee nothing but praise from the cultfitters for the tasteless response. The guy is a fucking asshole. Holy shit, what a fucking asshole.

Had anyone ever spoken about Crossfit or that jackass glassman that way, the board would launching themselves, complete with bombs strapped to chest, into whomsoever had the audacity to question their way's front door. Fuckwads.

This is truly. A bunch of mindless, ball sucking pricks. And Glasshole is the biggest of them all, of korse. Fucking cock knuckle.

[Crust Bucket]

COOCH, here's one for ya you fat gin bag of shit, suck on it slow

[Gary John]

Irv Ray, the elite US Decathlon coach said that the winner of the CrossFit games deserves to be called fittest man/woman on earth and that no decathlete past or presence has/had the mental toughness to succeed at CrossFit. He very deliberately included past and present competitors.

According to all the info on Irv Ray, he's a pretty good cross country coach and also coached some famous runners. Elite decathlon coach, with helping them run the shitty 1,500 times at the end of the second day.

Very x-fit of Glasshole to get it fucked up.

[LiftHeavyShit]

I've given him a forum to do so and his response was like that of a drunken nine year old.

Only Glassdick would actually know the response of a drunken nine year old.