The couch thread

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Thu May 14, 2015 12:32 pm

Even if he wasn't immunized, there was almost no chance of his contracting polio because of the "herd immunity". If no one around you has the disease it is really hard for you to get it.

Of course, if Glass Glass was not immunized and still sent as a child assassin on various covert missions as a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command (SEAL TEAM SIX BUDS FROGMAN WARRIOR) to regions where polio was still present then....

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu May 14, 2015 3:47 pm

I was told the polio story years ago by folks in the early 'inner circle' at the time.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Thu May 14, 2015 7:03 pm

Shit Steven in ought four I told you Gummi Bears had the anabols and look what happened.

People lie to people like you all the time.

It is amusing.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Thu May 14, 2015 11:50 pm

Polio? Yea no

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Fri May 15, 2015 5:44 pm

Jail Time for Air Squats? USREPS’ Scheme to Stop CrossFit

http://therussells.crossfit.com/2015/05 ... -crossfit/

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Fri May 15, 2015 6:02 pm

This is what I got when I googled Fred Hahn and Crossfit:

DrDonkeyLove · Post by **DrDonkeyLove** » Fri May 15, 2015 7:50 pm

Yes I Have Balls wrote:Jail Time for Air Squats? USREPS’ Scheme to Stop CrossFit

http://therussells.crossfit.com/2015/05 ... -crossfit/

I just skimmed it but it was fun. First rate modern style fear mongering. Of coarse, barriers to entry in the interest of public safety are a tried and true tactic.

I wonder if this could be a set up for affiliates funding CF lobbying/lawyering efforts. GG can't want all the legal costs he's incurring on his books if he can avoid it.

Fuzzy Dunlop · Post by **Fuzzy Dunlop** » Sat May 16, 2015 3:07 pm

Blaidd Drwg wrote:The WOD is the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 100 years. Period. The WOD is every bit as crippling and corrosive to American Values as slavery.

Stillwater · Post by **Stillwater** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:59 pm

So only HQ has the right to take people to court for exercising the wrong way? Gotcha.

I think they're afraid if their "trainers" actually learned something they might realize CF is bullshit.

Not that a "certification" of any kind make someone fit to be a trainer.

Blaidd Drwg · Post by **Blaidd Drwg** » Wed May 20, 2015 7:36 pm

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:The WOD is the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 100 years. Period. The WOD is every bit as crippling and corrosive to American Values as slavery.

Somehow, the shift in context changes nothing...I stand by this.

Alfred_E._Neuman · Post by **Alfred_E._Neuman** » Wed May 20, 2015 10:24 pm

Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:The WOD is the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 100 years. Period. The WOD is every bit as crippling and corrosive to American Values as slavery.

Somehow, the shift in context changes nothing...I stand by this.

Fuck dude, I hate to say it, but I've just about come full circle on the @fit. If following the W@D from the mainsite at home gets more people up and moving I say good for them. If taken as good daily dose of sweat at a non-full-retard effort I don't see anything wrong with it. Scale it waayyyyy back to match ability levels and go for it, especially if the alternative is sitting on their ass.

Sure, nobody would train a legitimate athlete for any kind of sport using those methods. And there are certainly better ways to get the "look good nekkid" goal that most people who start @fit are looking for. But if feeling like they're part of the community and having that small bit of accountability gets them into fitness, more power to them.

My hate is waning. Must be the heat.

Blaidd Drwg · Post by **Blaidd Drwg** » Thu May 21, 2015 12:46 am

Damn you, Alfred.

syaigh · Post by **syaigh** » Thu May 21, 2015 12:47 am

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:The WOD is the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 100 years. Period. The WOD is every bit as crippling and corrosive to American Values as slavery.

Somehow, the shift in context changes nothing...I stand by this.
Fuck dude, I hate to say it, but I've just about come full circle on the @fit. If following the W@D from the mainsite at home gets more people up and moving I say good for them. If taken as good daily dose of sweat at a non-full-retard effort I don't see anything wrong with it. Scale it waayyyyy back to match ability levels and go for it, especially if the alternative is sitting on their ass.

Sure, nobody would train a legitimate athlete for any kind of sport using those methods. And there are certainly better ways to get the "look good nekkid" goal that most people who start @fit are looking for. But if feeling like they're part of the community and having that small bit of accountability gets them into fitness, more power to them.

My hate is waning. Must be the heat.

Until your supposedly drug-free clients enter drug-tested competitions on a shit-load of drugs which they needed to qualify for said competition. For example, the USAW American Open when they claim to increase their total by 40 lbs in two months by eating cheeseburgers. And then go on to bray about how their success is all due to their gym's programming and coaching when NONE of them know anything about actual programming or coaching or how to not be a douchebag.

Then you might start to hate it a little bit.

Especially when they brag about how they are better than your CF clients who ARE drug-free and just work their asses off. Let me tell you how this looks in the Open scores, 35 vs 250 in the region. :) (not an actual representative of my clients, for real, but the spread is real)

so, no, its not horrible, but you have to do drugs to do well in competition. And there's no getting around it. The only person I know of to get busted for drugs was an affiliate that was speaking out about programming. Since then, they've kept their damn mouths shut and made a lot more money staying with the franchise instead of burning it down.

Crossfit is only good if you are on drugs or your trainer/gym owner is especially intelligent (I know a few who are, many of them are members here). Otherwise, its like pissing in the wind.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu May 21, 2015 4:31 am

USAW's drug testing budget has to have increased, no?

Protobuilder · Post by **Protobuilder** » Thu May 21, 2015 5:56 am

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:The WOD is the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 100 years. Period. The WOD is every bit as crippling and corrosive to American Values as slavery.

Somehow, the shift in context changes nothing...I stand by this.
Fuck dude, I hate to say it, but I've just about come full circle on the @fit. If following the W@D from the mainsite at home gets more people up and moving I say good for them. If taken as good daily dose of sweat at a non-full-retard effort I don't see anything wrong with it. Scale it waayyyyy back to match ability levels and go for it, especially if the alternative is sitting on their ass.

Sure, nobody would train a legitimate athlete for any kind of sport using those methods. And there are certainly better ways to get the "look good nekkid" goal that most people who start @fit are looking for. But if feeling like they're part of the community and having that small bit of accountability gets them into fitness, more power to them.

My hate is waning. Must be the heat.

Your logicals have no place on this bored.

Stillwater · Post by **Stillwater** » Thu May 21, 2015 6:21 pm

Yale Graduate Who Promoted CrossFit Investments Is Arrested

Federal authorities in New Jersey on Thursday arrested Joshua B. Newman, a serial entrepreneur who has positioned himself as something of a local spokesman for the CrossFit training movement, and charged him with defrauding more than a dozen investors.

Mr. Newman, 35, a Yale University graduate, was arrested in his Manhattan apartment and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in federal court in Newark on two counts of wire fraud. In a 13-page criminal complaint, federal authorities contend Mr. Newman defrauded investors out of at least $2 million over a three-year period. They also say he was trying to “solicit money from new investors” up until the time of his arrest.
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Mr. Newman appeared in a YouTube video for CrossFit NYC, a gym. Its partners dismissed Mr. Newman from the company last year.
A Yale Graduate Leaves a Trail of Ventures and DebtsAPRIL 16, 2015

Over the last five years, Mr. Newman has left behind a trail of unpaid debts to investors, many of them either Yale graduates or investors who specialize in investing in Internet start-ups. In April, The New York Times reported on some of the investors who claimed that Mr. Newman had a history of bouncing checks, not paying debts and misrepresenting intentions.

The charges against Mr. Newman focus on his efforts to raise money from investors in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere in order to own and operate a number of CrossFit training gyms in New Jersey and Manhattan. The complaint contends that much of the money raised by Mr. Newman for the high-intensive workout regime that has become popular across the United States was used to pay off debts to other investors and personal expenses. He is not affiliated with CrossFit Inc., a fitness consulting firm based in Washington.

Last December, for instance, the complaint said Mr. Newman transferred a $55,000 payment from one investor to his personal checking account at Santander Bank. Authorities said that before the money transfer, Mr. Newman’s account had a balance of just 67 cents. The complaint said Mr. Newman used that money to pay back an earlier investor he owed money to and to pay for restaurant bills, grocery store purchases and a gym membership.

“Josh is a very bright, energetic and creative entrepreneur. All of his business ventures have been legitimate and well-intentioned,” said Priya Chaudhry, a lawyer for Mr. Newman. “While his ventures were not always as successful as he hoped they would be, he never did anything to justify the overreaching charges issued against him today. Josh intends to vigorously defend himself against any notion that he ever did anything criminal.”

A call to a cellphone owned by Mr. Newman, who lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Jessica, went to voice mail.

Mr. Newman, who graduated from Yale in 2001, has fashioned himself as something of an Internet guru, raising money while a student for a fund that invested in online start-ups. After graduating, he founded an independent movie production company called Cyan Pictures that soon ran into money trouble, and he began racking up a list of unpaid judgments to investors in that venture.

While at Yale, Mr. Newman gained a bit of notoriety for being a founding member of a group that called itself “Porn ‘N Chicken” and claimed to get together on Friday nights to watch pornographic movies and eat fried chicken. The group also announced plans to make a pornographic film of its own amid the Yale library stacks featuring real students. The movie was never made, but Comedy Central made a cable television movie in 2002 based on the incident.

Mr. Newman wrote about his involvement with “Porn ‘N Chicken” on the blog on his website, which includes quotes from various news articles over the last decade that has called him a “Silicon Valley pro” and an “Internet elder statesmen.”

The sums of money that federal prosecutors in New Jersey contend Mr. Newman raised and misappropriated is relatively small compared to other white-collar frauds. But federal prosecutors contend he would repeatedly deceive investors by misrepresenting his intentions and presenting them with “doctored or bogus” investment documents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/busin ... ested.html

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Tue May 26, 2015 7:22 pm

Bartek Czernikiewicz supposedly passed away during a CF workout the week after he completed an Ironman tri. RIP and condolences to his friends and family.

dead man walking · Post by **dead man walking** » Wed May 27, 2015 4:23 pm

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:

Bartek Czernikiewicz supposedly passed away

did he vaporize and disappear into the ether, did he die?

euphemisms on irongarm are like anal sex in a nunnery

Bud Charniga's grape ape · Wed May 27, 2015 5:13 pm

dead man walking wrote: euphemisms on irongarm are like anal sex in a nunnery

A welcome surprise?

DARTH · Post by **DARTH** » Wed May 27, 2015 6:38 pm

As I am thinking about getting back into PT, I fear that as eventually it will be hard to ignore the negatives of Crossfit that any of us that use KBs, bodyweight and 2-4 drill circuits at a brisk pace a lot will be thought of as doing CF and have a negative impact on our businesses and the idea that there is more to training then just machines, bench pressing, Elliptical machines and Bosu balls.

Before I left the commercial gym I worked out of I was already getting a lot of "Hey, CrossFit!" when they saw me train clients with KBs and the Jungle Gym.

DARTH · Post by **DARTH** » Wed May 27, 2015 6:45 pm

All though now CF is looked on positively by a lot of people I bet in 3-5 years it will be looked at as dangerous and stupid and people being people, many are going to lump any drill or tool used by CF incorrectly as CF.

I like that more and more people like the idea of training in a Spartan environment with low frills and no fucking TV and CF can take some credit with that perception but I can see me having a warehouse gym in a couple years or so but having people once again look down at that and rather going to a Globo Gym.

Darth's Were-Hause Fitness Center does not need that bullshit! $\:D/$

syaigh · Post by **syaigh** » Wed May 27, 2015 7:00 pm

There is a very large market of people who want more than the globo has to offer but really dont like the idea of cf. Thats my client base and I think its pretty large. They want to be trainEd. They already know how to exercise.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Wed May 27, 2015 9:56 pm

Bud Charniga's grape ape wrote:
dead man walking wrote: euphemisms on irongarm are like anal sex in a nunnery
A welcome surprise?

YOU HAVE DEFEATED THESE OUR INTERNETS!

CONGRATULATIONS>

GAME OVER

DARTH · Post by **DARTH** » Wed May 27, 2015 10:54 pm

syaigh wrote:There is a very large market of people who want more than the globo has to offer but really dont like the idea of cf. Thats my client base and I think its pretty large. They want to be trainEd. They already know how to exercise.

I like how you put it, trainEd. That I always thought was my responsibility, to not only work them out but to educate them to the hows and whys of what we were doing. I knew other trainers who thought I was nuts for doing that, "Just work them out, don't tell them all that or they won't need you." was a common attitude.

Sure, there were some who trained for a few months and then went on their own but when you saw them doing what you trained them to do it still made me feel good. I might not have been making money from them any more but many times their example would get me new clients.

Any idiot can work someone out, training and teaching them is another thing.

syaigh · Post by **syaigh** » Wed May 27, 2015 11:20 pm

DARTH wrote:
syaigh wrote:There is a very large market of people who want more than the globo has to offer but really dont like the idea of cf. Thats my client base and I think its pretty large. They want to be trainEd. They already know how to exercise.
I like how you put it, trainEd. That I always thought was my responsibility, to not only work them out but to educate them to the hows and whys of what we were doing. I knew other trainers who thought I was nuts for doing that, "Just work them out, don't tell them all that or they won't need you." was a common attitude.

Sure, there were some who trained for a few months and then went on their own but when you saw them doing what you trained them to do it still made me feel good. I might not have been making money from them any more but many times their example would get me new clients.

Any idiot can work someone out, training and teaching them is another thing.

Exactly. :)

IGX

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