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Quackmire wrote:Damn. I'm amazed that the specialized insects in @FE hate haven't caught this already.

In Ferriss' "Four Hour Body" he does the written fellatio of @FE and BMacNCheez. Talks about from "5k to 50k" in 12 weeks.

There's a short bit at the end of those two chapters along the lines of, "well, we were on a tight publishing schedule and we weren't able to include the ending to this portion, so there's a cliffhanger...check this website http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ultra/ for the end of the story."

Could this be @FE's most famous DNF to date? Stay tuned, true believers!

I saw that. The shit in the book had no mention of what 50k Ferriss was even doing. My guess is that he never signed up for anything and/or he pussied out. Another possibility is that the entire book is just pure bullshit.

TheCoug wrote: You guys can spend your lives hating Glassman and the HQ but I guess my point is that there are tens of thousands of us down here who REALLY don't give a shit. And not to belabor the same point...

Thank fucking christ you're not going to belabor this board with your not giving a shit about others' takes on Xfit.

I have learned from reading these threads and reading some of the more well-thought-out critiques of crossfit. I take some of you VERY seriously and take the information and use it.

I just think that now it's like walking into that corner bar. The same angry, pissed-off guys are there every day, saying the same things over and over... and over. It doesn't mean these guys are wrong... or right... just... ok.. now what?

MarcoFP wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:I'd like to take this moment to point out that Dirt Diva just ran some insane ultra race and finished 2nd among ladies and 11th overall, and she did it while flirting with hypothermia.

She's a goddamn savage and even when she's hurting she not only finishes races, she places in them.



She needs to break loose and start her own enduro guru thing. People would follow her. The fact that she doesn't want to be a guru only further qualifies her for the role.

Diva > MayorMcCheese

FACT!

Addendum, not only did she finish the race on the verge of hypothermia, she did it while oozing blood from her ribcage from her sports bra chaffing her raw.

Never mind nearly freezing to death, if BMac even thought for a moment that he might chafe he'd turn the ringer off his phone and stay in bed under the covers all day.

WildGorillaMan wrote:

MarcoFP wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:I'd like to take this moment to point out that Dirt Diva just ran some insane ultra race and finished 2nd among ladies and 11th overall, and she did it while flirting with hypothermia.

She's a goddamn savage and even when she's hurting she not only finishes races, she places in them.



She needs to break loose and start her own enduro guru thing. People would follow her. The fact that she doesn't want to be a guru only further qualifies her for the role.

Diva > MayorMcCheese

FACT!

Addendum, not only did she finish the race on the verge of hypothermia, she did it while oozing blood from her ribcage from her sports bra chaffing her raw.

Never mind nearly freezing to death, if BMac even thought for a moment that he might chafe he'd turn the ringer off his phone and stay in bed under the covers all day.

BMac & cheese is a bitch. Fucking just like Couch.

WildGorillaMan wrote:

MarcoFP wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:I'd like to take this moment to point out that Dirt Diva just ran some insane ultra race and finished 2nd among ladies and 11th overall, and she did it while flirting with hypothermia.

She's a goddamn savage and even when she's hurting she not only finishes races, she places in them.



She needs to break loose and start her own enduro guru thing. People would follow her. The fact that she doesn't want to be a guru only further qualifies her for the role.

Diva > MayorMcCheese

FACT!

Addendum, not only did she finish the race on the verge of hypothermia, she did it while oozing blood from her ribcage from her sports bra chaffing her raw.

Never mind nearly freezing to death, if BMac even thought for a moment that he might chafe he'd turn the ringer off his phone and stay in bed under the covers all day.

Because she puts in the miles necessary to finish a race like this. She trains for ultras, she doesn't train using 5k's and tabata sprints in the hopes that they will translate to a better 50 mile time.

Once you learn to tolerate discomfort like she does, you learn to block it out.

Props to her.

I am not a fan of distance running but I do respect those ultra runners a ton.

TheCoug wrote:I have learned from reading these threads and reading some of the more well-thought-out critiques of crossfit. I take some of you VERY seriously and take the information and use it.

I just think that now it's like walking into that corner bar. The same angry, pissed-off guys are there every day, saying the same things over and over... and over. It doesn't mean these guys are wrong... or right... just... ok.. now what?

If you had any clue about strength and conditioning outside of what you were taught in your favorite box, you'd know that you really do not like crossfit.
You like training and you like the douchebag community.
That you still hold on to the thought of liking crossfit just shows how deep you are in the peer-group/cult.

Ash Uber Alles wrote: I am not a fan of distance running but I do respect those ultra runners a ton.

Agreed. Just because I both can't and wouldn't doesn't mean I won't give them their props for crazy badness.

Damien wrote:

TheCoug wrote:I have learned from reading these threads and reading some of the more well-thought-out critiques of crossfit. I take some of you VERY seriously and take the information and use it.

I just think that now it's like walking into that corner bar. The same angry, pissed-off guys are there every day, saying the same things over and over... and over. It doesn't mean these guys are wrong... or right... just... ok.. now what?

If you had any clue about strength and conditioning outside of what you were taught in your favorite box, you'd know that you really do not like crossfit.
You like training and you like the douchebag community.
That you still hold on to the thought of liking crossfit just shows how deep you are in the peer-group/cult.

I really am not threadjacking to make this about "me". I am, however, a representative of a crossfitter here who truly loves crossfit so I'll answer one more time.

Calling it all kinds of names is fine. Having real reason to drag HQ through the mud is great. However, all of that notwithstanding, there are tens of thousands of people out here, like me, who have found something that makes us happy.

We like the workouts. We love and adore the community. We are stoned out of our minds with all those cool chemicals we are producing, meeting new people we really like, and if we never, ever, go to a competition in our lives, never win a meet or make a name for ourselves, wake up two years later surrounded by people we like who share a passion, feeling better than we did two years ago. I've been doing it for two years. I still love it.

There are also many who get injured, hit plateaus, get pissed and angry for REAL and VALID reasons, decide the whole thing is bullshit and do something else.

So. If it makes the people who love it douchebag moron idiotic assholes to you.. it's all good. The people who are happy obviously don't need your approval, just like you don't need theirs.

So.. that's it. Sorry WGM. Back to the runners.

TheCoug wrote:I really am not threadjacking to make this about "me". I am, however, a representative of a crossfitter here who truly loves crossfit so I'll answer one more time.

Calling it all kinds of names is fine. Having real reason to drag HQ through the mud is great. However, all of that notwithstanding, there are tens of thousands of people out here, like me, who have found something that makes us happy.

We like the workouts. We love and adore the community. We are stoned out of our minds with all those cool chemicals we are producing, meeting new people we really like, and if we never, ever, go to a competition in our lives, never win a meet or make a name for ourselves, wake up two years later surrounded by people we like who share a passion, feeling better than we did two years ago. I've been doing it for two years. I still love it.

There are also many who get injured, hit plateaus, get pissed and angry for REAL and VALID reasons, decide the whole thing is bullshit and do something else.

So. If it makes the people who love it douchebag moron idiotic assholes to you.. it's all good. The people who are happy obviously don't need your approval, just like you don't need theirs.

So.. that's it. Sorry WGM. Back to the runners.

It's been asked before, so it has to be asked again: Why are you here then? You CrossFit, there are other places you can go for that. IGx isn't about being anti-Crossfit, it's about being anti-bullshit. The Couch Thread just gets the most attention because CrossFit produces the most bullshit around. You go on about the loving the community and the workouts and blah blah blah. What the fuck do you think we're going to do? Everything said and done is up for critique or have you forgotten what the front door said?

friedquads wrote:

TheCoug wrote:I really am not threadjacking to make this about "me". I am, however, a representative of a crossfitter here who truly loves crossfit so I'll answer one more time.

Calling it all kinds of names is fine. Having real reason to drag HQ through the mud is great. However, all of that notwithstanding, there are tens of thousands of people out here, like me, who have found something that makes us happy.

We like the workouts. We love and adore the community. We are stoned out of our minds with all those cool chemicals we are producing, meeting new people we really like, and if we never, ever, go to a competition in our lives, never win a meet or make a name for ourselves, wake up two years later surrounded by people we like who share a passion, feeling better than we did two years ago. I've been doing it for two years. I still love it.

There are also many who get injured, hit plateaus, get pissed and angry for REAL and VALID reasons, decide the whole thing is bullshit and do something else.

So. If it makes the people who love it douchebag moron idiotic assholes to you.. it's all good. The people who are happy obviously don't need your approval, just like you don't need theirs.

So.. that's it. Sorry WGM. Back to the runners.

It's been asked before, so it has to be asked again: Why are you here then? You CrossFit, there are other places you can go for that. IGx isn't about being anti-Crossfit, it's about being anti-bullshit. The Couch Thread just gets the most attention because CrossFit produces the most bullshit around. You go on about the loving the community and the workouts and blah blah blah. What the fuck do you think we're going to do? Everything said and done is up for critique or have you forgotten what the front door said?

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Soooooo. OK. Your point is to have a place where you can be all anti bullshit, and if someone appears who wants to represent the other point of view...what the FUCK are they doing here? Cuz that's free speech, and "everything" being up for critique..

Got it. I wont let the door slam on my ass... now that I truly understand free speech, being emotionally stable enough to handle critique and having a place where nothing is sacred.

coug... as a former @fitter myself I understand what you are saying and how you people get entrenched in the community and the endorphin rush of kicking the shit out of yourself.

Here is a great blog you can read, one that I linked on my FB page that sums it up in an excellent fashion:

http://jasonferruggia.com/it-aint-stren ... in-strong/

Jesus fucking Christ, is this really about your uterus crying out to be filled with child?

On JayFrug:

Despite the common sense he's spouting lately, there's still just one thin layer of latex between it and general dickwad douchiness.

I'd like to ask you this, what will fuck you up more: 15 minutes of hill sprinting or 15 minutes of kettlebell swings? (just keep the work similar in nature, not like 5 hill sprints and 20000 swings, but a reasonable amount of each in 15 minutes). Because Ferrug thinks the swings will mess up your training.

In addition, his Fit To Fight book was not only garbage, but it was, probably 85%, cut and pasted from his previous ebooks. And lets not talk about how he ripped off the whole "Twitching" essay from Mark Twight to publish it for himself on EliteFTS.

So you are representing the bullshit side of the arguement. Makes perfect sense now.

Here's the thing genius. We all understand why you love @fit. But you insist on defending it as a whole when it's rotten to the core.

And quit threatening to leave so someone can allegedly beg you to stay.

Either toughen up or fucking go away but for gawds sake quit your fucking whining.

Coug,

Look! Keep doing what you like and want because we all certainly will. Just grasp the fooishness of hurting yourself and the foolishness of hurting others either knowingly for cash or by mistake since you don't know any better.

It's about her uterus. It's very apparent we're dealing with madness.

JR has a good point:

@F has already hurt you once. You're not a spring chicken. Slap tears are a motherfucker in the older athlete.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Jesus fucking Christ, is this really about your uterus crying out to be filled with child?

On JayFrug:

Despite the common sense he's spouting lately, there's still just one thin layer of latex between it and general dickwad douchiness.

I'd like to ask you this, what will fuck you up more: 15 minutes of hill sprinting or 15 minutes of kettlebell swings? (just keep the work similar in nature, not like 5 hill sprints and 20000 swings, but a reasonable amount of each in 15 minutes). Because Ferrug thinks the swings will mess up your training.

In addition, his Fit To Fight book was not only garbage, but it was, probably 85%, cut and pasted from his previous ebooks. And lets not talk about how he ripped off the whole "Twitching" essay from Mark Twight to publish it for himself on EliteFTS.

hell every fitness pro can be picked apart, I am sure people can find problems with my approach as well. Nobody is perfect that way, but I am not judging his ebooks or his articles, just that blog post... which does make sense.

Trouble is that stupid shit is never retracted, it's always in the process of being swept under the rug.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Trouble is that stupid shit is never retracted, it's always in the process of being swept under the rug.

Not always. Sometimes it's made into a journal article.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Trouble is that stupid shit is never retracted, it's always in the process of being swept under the rug.

Not many people admit when they are wrong.

TheCoug wrote: Soooooo. OK. Your point is to have a place where you can be all anti bullshit, and if someone appears who wants to represent the other point of view...what the FUCK are they doing here? Cuz that's free speech, and "everything" being up for critique..

Got it. I wont let the door slam on my ass... now that I truly understand free speech, being emotionally stable enough to handle critique and having a place where nothing is sacred.

Yes, after all the lines of replies to your gibberish (with mostly good intent), this is EXACTLY the lesson you were supposed to learn.
Good job.

cougie sounds like a female, unmedicated rant. but without intelligence to balance the derangement.

I've gotten a bunch of invites to our crossfit box here. But the programming seems different (3X/week-intermittent low rep heavier workouts) than what I normally think of crossfit.

and coug-I like your rack....and don't get hurt doing xfit.


carry on folks.

I think the franchise has dropped a bollock with this @FE lark. It's not like their retarded met-con bullshit where you can have some overweight, middle-aged accounts-manager flailing about for 30 mins trying to finish a workout that most can do in under 5. As someone pointed out earlier, to even make it to the start-line on an ultra distance or hope to post a decent time in a marathon you have to bring a base-level of endurance fitness with you, and be wise enough to know how to proceed to improve.

Base-level fitness and wisdom to program sensibly just aint @F's style. No wonder we're seeing "Did Not Finish" and "Did Not Even Fucking Start" so often nowadays.

[quote="powerlifter54"]Coug,

I'm going to answer this on the Free Speech Thread. It's becoming about "me" again and that's not what this thread is about.