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Couch wrote:Finally, we are talking with our website designer about more visible warnings to catch any unsuspecting folks who may imprudently decide, despite our warnings, to tackle a workout full throttle and fully unprepared.

Damn, their web guy is slow as fuck. That article is 05 and I still don't see anything on their mainpage.

protobuilder wrote:

Couch wrote:Finally, we are talking with our website designer about more visible warnings to catch any unsuspecting folks who may imprudently decide, despite our warnings, to tackle a workout full throttle and fully unprepared.

Damn, their web guy is slow as fuck. That article is 05 and I still don't see anything on their mainpage.

Today's workout (Tuesday, 14 Oct) has a shit-ton of GHD sit-ups in it. This exercise has a tendency to induce Rhabdo for those not used to it, due to the extended range of motion.

Mickey,

Did do the wildland firefighting thingy for a number of years. Never had the privlage of jumping out of a perfectly fine working plane into a fire, however. I wish I had, though! It was fun, but hard, work.

Today's posting also has a vintage video of the slimmed up cooch talking to his first bunch of cultfitters.

You can really see the pronounced limp and disfigurement as he shambles around preaching to the sheeple.

Has anyone actually confirmed what the hell injury could cause this? It honestly looks more like disease than injury.

Some of you old guard clue me in here...

RPC wrote:Today's posting also has a vintage video of the slimmed up cooch talking to his first bunch of cultfitters.

You can really see the pronounced limp and disfigurement as he shambles around preaching to the sheeple.

Has anyone actually confirmed what the hell injury could cause this? It honestly looks more like disease than injury.

Some of you old guard clue me in here...

I think he slipped on an olive or something.

RPC wrote:Today's posting also has a vintage video of the slimmed up cooch talking to his first bunch of cultfitters.

You can really see the pronounced limp and disfigurement as he shambles around preaching to the sheeple.

Has anyone actually confirmed what the hell injury could cause this? It honestly looks more like disease than injury.

Some of you old guard clue me in here...

The official explanation is that it is a “gymnastics’ injury”. No one knows for sure and no one dares ask. Josh Hillis got campy with couch about it one time referring to his ailment as a “gangster limp”. Couch went ballistic on Josh beating him like the proverbial red headed step child. The more Josh started in with the “golly gee I’m sorry” shit the worse couch gave it to him. It was brutal. Certain things are simply not discussed at @fit and most of them revolve around couch or dumb shit he has said. The fact that he’s a gimp, never works outs, looks like shit and has drinking problem is never discussed under any circumstances. Oh yeah, mentioning the 750 pound deadlift is grounds for immediate and permanent banishment. There are many white elephants-and pink ones too-when contending with couch.

Rant speaks the truth....wheras we all like to give Hillis some shit because his kettlebell brides have bigger arms than he does, Couch basically took the unconscious Hillis, put his mouth against the curve, and smashed his teeth out.

Jeezus, watching cooch limp around in that clip I had flash backs, thinking I was watching Walter Brennan in the Real McCoy's for a moment there.

The official explanation is that it is a “gymnastics’ injury”.

Which is a complete joke. I know his past and couch was everything but a gymnast. He never did shit and he doesn't know shit. That's a fact and he damn well knows it.

"Gymnastics injury"

Translation: Couch was lurking around the local Gymastics Kids USA! facility (officially: "recruiting future Crossfitters"), and spilled his single-malt scotch on the mat. As one poor lad bent over to clean it up, Couch either (depending who you ask) "violently squeezed his palm around the boy's left cheek" or "checked for imbalances in the athlete's glutes," at which point the instructor proceeded to chase Couch from teh facility. Couch slipped on the spilled scotch and indubitably tore his left ACL, which he could not afford to have surgically repaired. Hence, the limp.

Rant wrote:
I think he slipped on an olive or something.

that's why he's ditched martinis in favor of gin an'juice.

LiftHeavyShit wrote:

The official explanation is that it is a “gymnastics’ injury”.

Which is a complete joke. I know his past and couch was everything but a gymnast. He never did shit and he doesn't know shit. That's a fact and he damn well knows it.

What's his past?

The genisis of the cooch:

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

Including this nugget:

I'm curious about your background. How did you get started in fitness and
how did your experiences gradually evolve into the Crossfit methodology?

My first training job was in 1974 as a gymnastics coach at the Pasadena, California Y.W.C.A. I wan an 18-year-old college student. Over the next fifteen years I trained in dozens of great Southern California gyms finding success with a highly efficient, high intensity workout and a celebrity/athlete clientele. It was my work with cops, though, that was so formative of my training. It was easy to see what was lacking in both body builders and endurance athletes when it came to the demands of arrest and control. Over the years it became abundantly clear that combining elements of traditional body building (curls, leg extensions, lateral raises, etc.) with extended aerobic efforts while producing results paled to mixing heavy fundamental movements with high intensity "cardio" efforts. Trainers, athletes, coaches, and gym goers watched in stunned disbelief as my athletes alternated heavy deadlifts with 400-meter sprints - that is, until they tried it. To this day you are about as likely to win the lottery as you are to find someone mixing heavy fundamental resistance movements with sprints in single workouts in a commercial facility. This won't be the case if strength and conditioning are going to advance.

Banned wrote:The genisis of the cooch:

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

I love how the link gets truncated to say "assman.htm"

a grizzled old curmudgeon with a limp, a bad attitude, and a habit of self-medication?

Except House doesn't look like he is trying to shoplift a watermelon under his shirt.

Plenty of crips find a way to work out, not sit around swilling gin and beating off to nicole "demonstrating" a deadlift.

kitosho wrote:a grizzled old curmudgeon with a limp, a bad attitude, and a habit of self-medication?

From the two times I watched "House," some key differences are: 1) House is smart. 2) House is usually right. 3) Hotter chicks. 4) No Kool Aide.

Since he mentioned our beloved @fit in his post today, it's worth linking the MI to this thread once again.
http://www.moynihaninstitute.com/

Rant's observations are dead on and his observations of the claims made at @fit are accurate as well. I love the threads on the @fit boards when they talk about Lance Armstrong doing @fit. Quotes like, "Sure he can complete a 32km time trial in 1hr 20min, but his 5k time sucks." Or, "I bet Lance couldn't break 5 min on Fran." No, the dude is the greatest cyclist who ever sat his ass in the saddle. 7 times he rode an average of about 100 miles a day for a month and won the fucking race, but you decide to put your skill in doing a handfull of pull ups, handleball swings, and running 400m up against what he did with one ball and after beating cancer? Yeah, whatever makes you feel good Skippy.

Puhleez, this is just one of the many good reasons I self-banned myself from their "message board" and distanced myself from the cult. DJ Wood's decision to ban me later was just icing on the cake.

Back to Rant's point in the MI, I was just imagining how great of a bowler I could have been had I discovered @fit, or had @fit been around 15 years ago. I was bowling regularly with a high 170 average using a crappy plastic ball I got for $50 bucks at a pro-shop, bowling on crappy lanes, with a minimum of 4-5 beers a night in me. Yes, with a regular training program like @fit in my arsenal and I could have been making a whopping $4000 a week on the Pro Bowler's Tour getting all that good bowling alley tail from Piscataway to Milwaukee and all points in between.

Banned wrote:I love the threads on the @fit boards when they talk about Lance Armstrong doing @fit. Quotes like, "Sure he can complete a 32km time trial in 1hr 20min, but his 5k time sucks." Or, "I bet Lance couldn't break 5 min on Fran." No, the dude is the greatest cyclist who ever sat his ass in the saddle.

Bruce Jenner was making the exact same arguments today in my newspaper about why he's the World's Greatest Athlete (it is on his web page) and why guys like Michael Jordan and Lance Armstrong aren't. It's endless.

nafod wrote:

Banned wrote:I love the threads on the @fit boards when they talk about Lance Armstrong doing @fit. Quotes like, "Sure he can complete a 32km time trial in 1hr 20min, but his 5k time sucks." Or, "I bet Lance couldn't break 5 min on Fran." No, the dude is the greatest cyclist who ever sat his ass in the saddle.

Bruce Jenner was making the exact same arguments today in my newspaper about why he's the World's Greatest Athlete (it is on his web page) and why guys like Michael Jordan and Lance Armstrong aren't. It's endless.

As soon as CF'ers start winning decathalons they'll have an argument too.

Gotta admit, Jenner has Lance and Jordan beat in a couple of departments: good hair, bad plastic surgery.

Oh, and kids who are complete assholes.

with a regular training program like @fit in my arsenal and I could have been making a whopping $4000 a week on the Pro Bowler's Tour getting all that good bowling alley tail from Piscataway to Milwaukee and all points in between.

I love this quote.

Shaf wrote:

with a regular training program like @fit in my arsenal and I could have been making a whopping $4000 a week on the Pro Bowler's Tour getting all that good bowling alley tail from Piscataway to Milwaukee and all points in between.

I love this quote.

Bowling ball swings would probably be a good grip exercise

nafod wrote:

Shaf wrote:

with a regular training program like @fit in my arsenal and I could have been making a whopping $4000 a week on the Pro Bowler's Tour getting all that good bowling alley tail from Piscataway to Milwaukee and all points in between.

I love this quote.

Bowling ball swings would probably be a good grip exercise

Newest @fit benchmark: "Bowlie" (or the name of your favorite bowling alley skank)

For time:
21-15-9 of each movement:
Bowing ball swings
fist pumps (like you just got a strike)
ball return kicks (like you just missed the easy 5-pin pick-up)
beer guzzle

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Bowling ball throws would be good for some active recovery.