The couch thread

[Blaidd Drwg]

Jay is going to kick motherfuckers to death with his steel toed Docs while the Pogues play in the background.

aaaahh yes. Option 3.

[Holland Oates]

[KingSchmaltzBagelHour]

the appeasement of Crossfit by 70's big will not stand, Man...


option 1. overhead squat Christmas tree.

option 2. TOTALWAR!!!!!!!!!

[Shafpocalypse Now]

I don't mind the 70s Big guys, overall. I know exactly what Jay is talking about though. Rip's 5x5, the Texas Method...all that shit is mediocre programming at best, and generally of use for beginners.

It's like a moped or a fat girl with little tits.

[Beer Jew]

You guy's are just jealous that no-one calls you the shrug thug.

[Mountebank]

Instead of starting their affiliate takeover in the US right off, R@@bok branched out to NZ first.

[sanchezero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzyzt5r ... embedded#!

it's lulu lemon day! i have to admit to only watching a small portion of this video.

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[j-cubed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzyzt5r ... embedded#!

it's lulu lemon day! i have to admit to only watching a small portion of this video.

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At $125-150 per month, that was a lot of coin brought in for that assfaggotry.

[TerryB]

a fat girl with little tits.

even the idea causes deep pain in my soul

[Holland Oates]

even the idea causes deep pain in my soul

I don't know. I like wide hips and little tits.

[The Crawdaddy]

even the idea causes deep pain in my soul

I don't know. I like wide hips and little tits.

I am Jack's total lack of surprise.

[Drew0786]

It's like a moped or a fat girl with little tits.

Never let your friends see you riding either one!

[Freki]

Instead of starting their affiliate takeover in the US right off, R@@bok branched out to NZ first.

I did the Bug Sur 1/2 in Monterey, CA a few weeks ago and the course took us right by a box that looked like it had a Reebok clothing store attached. Definitely had that big Reebok symbol next to it.

http://www.crossfitmonterey.com/

[Shafpocalypse Now]

So...what ever happened between Bingo and Ms Couch, who stole his business?

Did Saran ever weigh in on this, commenting on how it was perfectly legal and ethical to do so?

[Blaidd Drwg]

I think 70's Big dropped their backpack...




TOTALWAR

[Mountebank]

So...what ever happened between Bingo and Ms Couch, who stole his business?

Did Saran ever weigh in on this, commenting on how it was perfectly legal and ethical to do so?

Not Bingo, it was CCT Joey.

[Gin Master]

So...what ever happened between Bingo and Ms Couch, who stole his business?

Did Saran ever weigh in on this, commenting on how it was perfectly legal and ethical to do so?

Not Bingo, it was CCT Joey.

Mrs. Couch sold her Porsche, and they were doing Body Pump classes in her 15,000 sq ft. gym. Joey and his wife weathered the storm, got their legs back, and re-opened their gym. All the trainers and clients who bolted for Mrs. Couch are now back. In business, the best revenge is winning.

http://www.crossfitprescott.com/about/program-history/

Unfortunately, Joey and Andrea were relieved of their positions (fired) on August 2nd, within one month of opening the new facility. Coldly, they were notified the night before Andrea was to give birth to their second son, by a FaceBook message, that they were “not needed” any further at the new facility. Devistated by the news, the situation only grew worse as they were denied payment of promised back salary and severance pay. To further muck-up the situation, the new facility did not tell Joey and Andrea’s clients they were fired and why, and retained Crossfit Prescott client data for its own purposes. Instead, it continued along as business as usual, misleading CrossFit Prescott’s clients by claiming that Joey and Andrea “left” and propositioning CrossFit Prescott’s business trades. Andrea and Joey lost their business’s momentum and thousands upon thousands of dollars to the treacherous actions leveled at them.

Desperate, Andrea and Joey began to formulate a plan how to get Crossfit Prescott’s facility off it’s back and on it’s feet. Trainers and clients who knew what had happened, came out of the woodwork to support. Classes were taught in a nearby park as the facility was refurbished. Ackwardly, trainers and their families would train with Joey in the park, but would work at the new facility.

Hope abounded, in the group of trainers, that the new facility would reconsider its actions and do right by Joey and Andrea. Joey extended an olive branch in an email on August 15th, only to quickly have the hope of an honorable settlement scorched in a response email to one of the trainer in the middle that was trying to negotiate both sides in good faith. Outfitting the new facility with more new toys was more important than the family it had stripped of its livelyhood and income.

Sadly, the treachery would continue, this time for Crossfit Prescott’s former trainers still at the new facility. They were caught in a trap of believing in Joey and Andrea rebuilding CrossFit Prescott from the ashes or staying onboard the leviathan with safe work and pay. For sure, this was not easy place to be. After all, how could Joey and Andrea get CrossFit Prescott up and running after all of this? How could the small community of Prescott, AZ support two similar facilities?

The new facility interviened and on August 30th, just 3 days after the grand opening, with no notice, and simply because they were friends with Joey and Andrea, the bulk of the former Crossfit Prescott trainers were discarded by an impersonal email. Instantly the new facility knew it had made a mistake as half of the few remaining Crossfit Prescott clients bolted (and several clients who did not initially belong to CrossFit Prescott) as the truth circulated. The new facility had finally gone a bridge to far, by heartlessly tossing out all of those who volunteered those six months, countless hours of effort, and time away from their families to get the new facility up and running. Good faith, again, was erased by treachery.

With open arms, the trainers were asked to come home to CrossFit Prescott and help Joey and Andrea with physically and emotionally putting the whole affair behind them. With all hands on deck, Crossfit Prescott reopened on September 5th, largely whole, and with the facility updated.

Happily, within two months, almost all the trainers and clients were back. When the final count was settled, at a 9-1 ratio the clients who trained at Crossfit Prescott came back home. It appears that when people tried both concepts, they over-whelmingly chose CrossFit Prescott and its quality training, superb trainers, and humble atmosphere.

[Herv100]

Fuck, whoever wrote that needs to take a few fucking English classes.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Heh. Look at that. What comes around goes around. Why the fuck is Prescott, AZ, full of training facilities? Is it because athletes winter there?

[Mountebank]

Heh. Look at that. What comes around goes around. Why the fuck is Prescott, AZ, full of training facilities? Is it because athletes winter there?

What gives you the impression it is full of training facilities, or that because there are two competing @Fs that there are any athletes there at all?

Prescott isn't far from Flagstaff, where a lot of athletes are, but IIRC they are an hour apart at least.

There was never any way that Prescott could support a 15,000 sq ft @F, ever.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

I guess I'm seeing there's a lot of facilities, in general, in Arizona.

[Mountebank]

I guess I'm seeing there's a lot of facilities, in general, in Arizona.

If you mean @F facilities, the big centers are the (entire) Phoenix and Tucson areas, any city outside of those has two at most.

Tucson's most recent @F addition started as a local personal training chain location (one of their other locations was already a @F). The trainers staged a coup against the owners, with all the trainers threatening to quit en masse if the business was not sold to them. Owners folded and sold it.

@F...treachery for time.

[T200]

I was in Prescott just yesterday and go through there pretty frequently.

There is ZERO chance a mega-gym would succeed. It is a small town...like a college town but without a major university. Cool, hippies-with-money-and-old people-type place.

I'd call it equidistantly far from Phoenix or Flagstaff in terms of travel time.

[WildGorillaMan]

I know I've busted Joey's nuts before, but KoolAid aside he is a genuinely good dude. I'm glad things have turned out in his favor and I hope he's learned something from this.

Remember, when people show you who they really are, you need to believe them.

[dead man walking]

but KoolAid aside

koolaid aside? how does that work?

the asshole was a mindless glassman attack dog. that and "good guy" are incompatible concepts. it may be time to take wgm to a rural retraning camp to get his head right.