Originally Posted by Sean Dunston
let's not forget that CrossFit is first and foremost a fitness program.
Plain and simple: people come to CF to get fit.
Come now, do you really believe this? When most Crossfitters are pictured shirtless? When the women wear tiny short-shorts, high socks, and push-up sports bras--and the sheer number of boob-shot, ***-shot, and whatever-shot photos there are of women on the front page? It can be the middle of the winter and Crossfitters will find a reason to be naked, whether it makes sense or not.
Let's be real here. When people visit Crossfit they don't see performance times. They see the half-naked people and they want to look like that.
If Crossfitters were interested solely in performance, many Crossfitters would be a good deal fatter (as being totally ripped is not conducive to performance gains), the women a good deal bigger (as they would actually be eating a good deal of food in order to gain strength), and a ridiculous hypocaloric diet like the Zone would not be the #1 recommended Crossfit diet.
To mean vertical jump, since that's the only standardized fitness test of jumping in an upwards direction, unless he means high jump (and CF'ers don't do sports).
Spells, you must have hit the gin early this morning to think @Fers would want anything to do with a standardized fitness test.
Can't clean 100kg? Clean 60kg a whole bunch. Can't press bodyweight? Throw some PVC around like it owes you rent.
The sad part is that most @Fers equate box jumping to vertical jumping. The few who know a little better still try to extrapolate vert from box jumps.
@F has been confusing "necessary but not sufficient" conditions since its inception.
Seriously, when barky burns off her tits and replaces them with tats she'll no longer be that fresh faced CF virgin-slut. She'll be just one more "been there, done that" in B-boi's belt, and a has-been to this thread.
Seriously, when barky burns off her tits and replaces them with tats she'll no longer be that fresh faced CF virgin-slut. She'll be just one more "been there, done that" in B-boi's belt, and a has-been to this thread.
Well, then she will be liquefied and fed to others still in the Matrix.
Like most of cultfit's rantings, this wreaks of being written by a fresh-faced freshman who has just discovered Proust or Shakespeare or Pascal and suddenly thinks he's a noble explorer crossing mysterious and unknown lands, on the cusp of a grand discovery, doing something no one has done before!
Um, no.
To wit this from comments on cumguzzlergilson's article:
It is very exciting, still, to think about how our standards of fitness will be blown away by the next crop of CrossFitters. I remember when a 3 minute Fran was world class, 50 pullups was insane, and deadlifting over 400 meant you were strong.
WTF? Are we talking about 9th grade boys or grown men? And when was Fran ANYTHING considered world class?
Apparently I'm the only one that didn't realize "fran" contested worldwide, thus making fast time truly "world class".
When will fran be in the Olympics so whole world can witness an athlete of such high level someone had to invent an event other than a normal sport for them to compete in.
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For the first time, we’re seeing the strong, the fast, the enduring, occupying the same space. The guy with the 5-minute mile is deadlifting 500 pounds. He’s putting out half a horsepower for ten straight minutes. He’s jumping four feet in the air. He’s running eighty miles. He is world class; his accomplishments are not a compromise.
To say shit like this and not even be able to put a name to it, that proves what a joke it is. WHO is this person that was SEEN? Where did this happen (because it sure wasn't at the Gaymes)? Were these numbers put up in REAL comps with REAL rules (not some faggoty backyard gym bullshit)?
Amundson ran 80 miles (didn't pull the full 100). Is this supposed to be him?
Jeebus, a little Googling comes up with the guys doing the fastest Fran (aka the guys getting laid everywhere they go in @F-land) putting out 1/2 HP for *2* minutes. Who's putting that out for 10? Not that I wanted to get into the faggotry that is Fran, but Gilson can't even get @F-centric metrics right!
Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I just read John Velandra died. I think he was an all right cat. Fucker in a stolen pick up truck smashed into him while being chased by police.
A fucking shitty and random death.
He seemed alright to me too. That sucks. Scary stuff, I remember when I realized that I was driving the opposite way of this cop chase...
Call me old and suffering diminished test levels, but anyone else notice the barbell in the Ring behind TitsNYC as she's performing what looks to be an double overhand deadlift? I found that odd.
The cool thing about training is that becoming more sexy is just a side effect........
Quack Attack wrote:
Amundson ran 80 miles (didn't pull the full 100). Is this supposed to be him?
That's who I thought it was. I dunno how fast he ran it, but I'm sure his pace was suck for an ultramarathon. Yet another example of being all around mediocre.
"If I can't win, I'll make up my own game" - Assfist
Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I just read John Velandra died. I think he was an all right cat. Fucker in a stolen pick up truck smashed into him while being chased by police.
Quack Attack wrote:
Amundson ran 80 miles (didn't pull the full 100). Is this supposed to be him?
That's who I thought it was. I dunno how fast he ran it, but I'm sure his pace was suck for an ultramarathon. Yet another example of being all around mediocre.
"If I can't win, I'll make up my own game" - Assfist
Amundson is the rare 200+ body weight machine. His lifts aren't that high, though.
The first person that comes to mind when reading Gilson's screed is Joe Decker, and he's not a damn @Fer.
T200 wrote:That too obviously but Spells specified a 48" vertical.
The vert is vastly, disproportionately more difficult than the rest of that crap. The rest pretty much anyone could train to (all at once would take some work, but still). The average dude with a 22" vertical is never, ever jumping four feet. Bragging that a program got someone there is like suggesting that Yao Ming lifted his way to 7' 6".
Despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human. Hippos have been clocked at 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances. The hippopotamus is one of the most aggressive creatures in the world and is often regarded as the most ferocious animal in Africa
The negro is gonna die.....
food is medicine. that's why i'm drinking dr. pepper.
Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I just read John Velandra died. I think he was an all right cat. Fucker in a stolen pick up truck smashed into him while being chased by police.
A fucking shitty and random death.
Damn. I knew John when he worked at the World Gym in Fayetteville, and did crossfit for awhile with his PT service Designs in Fitness. A very good guy. What a waste. I hope the turd who killed him fries.
Rest in peace, buddy.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
See how fucking hard these retards work to legitimatize their 'athletes!' They make shit up about their champion Mikko Salo - claiming that he played soccer in the English Premier League! What a fucking joke - isn't being good at @fit good enough?
Ass face 1 wrote:And all stopped and watched Mikko, which was awesome.
assface2 wrote:Mikko is this man! He played 4 years of soccer in England's Premier League
assface3 wrote:Seriously? If that's true that's about as impressive as Welbourn.....
Who coincidentally used steroids to achieve that "impressive" feat of playing in the NFL
assface4 wrote:He [Salo] states this himself in the documentary….
