The couch thread

[Herv100]

WGM plays both sides, like Drywall or Newt Gingrich

[Blaidd Drwg]

WGM is an ultra suspect narrator for sure.....Kanadian and really trying to profit like a vulture off the carcass of crossfit.

Every public crossfit persona i've met has been a piece of shit. Conversely most of the actual participants are harmless. For the most part they are just overly sunny dullards. Sort of like evangelical christians youth, Campfire girls and Amway salesman.

[Cave Canem]

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.

So maybe now he's learned his lesson....We've all had our come to jeebus moments. I was a mindless couch attack dog at one time, too. But then I met the man.

[WildGorillaMan]

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.

So maybe now he's learned his lesson....We've all had our come to jeebus moments. I was a mindless couch attack dog at one time, too. But then I met the man.

Who else here used to wade armpit deep in the Koolaid? Quack? Who else?

Further, who here wants to be permanently judged for the worst things they've ever said?

F Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, there are second acts in American life.

[WildGorillaMan]

WGM plays both sides, like Drywall or Newt Gingrich

Hardly. HQ/@bok has yet to extend me an offer, worthwhile or otherwise.

No idea if I've sold more shirts than @bok, but it's probably close.

[dead man walking]

Further, who here wants to be permanently judged for the worst things they've ever said?

F Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, there are second acts in American life.

fair points, apeman.

but i don't understand why you're giving joey a reach-around.

he's is still running an x-fit gym is he not? so just because he got crosswise with what'shernamethecunt, does it follow that we supposed to cut glassman's former henchman some slack?

perhaps when he repents.

[WildGorillaMan]

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy.

[Cave Canem]

Further, who here wants to be permanently judged for the worst things they've ever said?

F Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, there are second acts in American life.

fair points, apeman.

but i don't understand why you're giving joey a reach-around.

he's is still running an x-fit gym is he not? so just because he got crosswise with what'shernamethecunt, does it follow that we supposed to cut glassman's former henchman some slack?

perhaps when he repents.

If the narrative is true and his trainers and clients are back, and it harms the "Captain", how much longer before he is made outcast ?
I'll take a wait and see position on this and hope for another xfit train wreck. I'd gladly welcome him into the fold of the Church of Unrepentant Crossfit Heretics (CoUCH-Reformed).

[Mountebank]

I have thoroughly repented. Really thought about playing both sides, but I am just not that diplomatic and can't keep my mouth shut for long enough.

My original partner in starting an affiliate does strength bias stuff now, with lots of good movement teaching. He had a partner after I left, that guy was so deep in the kool-aid that he didn't see any need to take rests between "heavy" (ahem) sets of squats when they could just as easily fill that rest time with more metcon. Guy couldn't figure out why he kept getting weaker. They have since splintered. Since I know what goes on at that affiliate, I actually told someone I know to check it out when she moves there for school next semester.

I heard from a member that a local affiliate that has a Gaymes-team-in-training, that burnout and injuries are both in serious effect. I'm guessing this is happening all over the country (Kate Rawlings was obviously a high-profile case), with @F casualties higher than usual. It will be humorous to start seeing the evils of periodization and peaking creep back into @F after being vilified since the beginning.

[KingSchmaltzBagelHour]

Wow. You guys really get into this shit.
It's funny to see the dipshit stuff they do at some of the @fit affiliates, or hear whatever outlandish claims are made by the @fit powers that be, but some of you guys really take this shit seriously.
GAY.

[KingSchmaltzBagelHour]

Church of Unrepentant Crossfit Heretics (CoUCH-Reformed).

Whoa.

[Zombomatic]

I have thoroughly repented. Really thought about playing both sides, but I am just not that diplomatic and can't keep my mouth shut for long enough.

This isn't life or death, cold war espionage. It's just fucking exercise.

Plenty of companies engage everyday in much worse business practices than crossfit. I know for me the hatred stems not from that but from the fact that they are mutilating the concept of sportsmanship; they forget what every genuine athlete knows almost instinctively-let your actions speak for you. Don't point to the stands unless you goddamn know you can hit the ball there when you want to.

[dead man walking]

the butt-hurt quack has been bleeding out his ass about x fit for who knows how long.

the gorilla is a shifty fucking ape. he's also mastered tautological argumentation, which is impressive in a primate.

[Cave Canem]

Don't point to the stands unless you goddamn know you can hit the ball there when you want to.

Or at least be able to throw it in the general direction.

[Beer Jew]

You guys are a bunch of fucking faggots. Maybe if you got off the couch thread and threw a fucking softball for time then there wouldn't be so many threads about how to artificially raise your test levels.

The whole couch thread is just based on the general butthurt here at your inability to see your abs.

[Bobby]

Why would I want to see my abs? I thought that was for metrosexuals and teenaged boys...

[Beer Jew]

Really? I can name at least 5 guys off the top of my head who can see their abs on a daily basis and are stronger than anyone here.

[Blaidd Drwg]

what's yer point Jew? I can name 5 real life friends on this forum that are stronger than you. one's a woman and only two of them train.

[Beer Jew]

LOL.

I don't have a point. I'm just trying to stir shit up. Obviously.

[Blaidd Drwg]

oh...duh.

forgot which thread i was on.

[Holland Oates]

LOL.

I don't have a point. I'm just trying to stir shit up. Obviously.

Hahahaha

Excellent work my young friend.

I don't hate @fit anymore but I live juicy gossip and stories of backstabbing so I keep coming back to the Couch thread.

I wish more guys would do @fit. It means less competition in my weight class

[Beer Jew]

Yeah. I'm genuinely surprised sometimes by how much some people actually care about this stuff.

And I never bought that altruistic bullshit about them bashing crossfit in the hope that people won't get injured. My arse.

[Schlegel]

Yeah. I'm genuinely surprised sometimes by how much some people actually care about this stuff.

And I never bought that altruistic bullshit about them bashing crossfit in the hope that people won't get injured. My arse.

I have, IRL, told people not to do Crossfit exactly so they wouldn't get injured. Every relative or co-worker or friend of a friend that I actually knew to do Crossfit got fucked up. Hospitalization for Rhabdo in one case.

[SAR]

I'm thinking of joining the local affiliate after the new year

[Cave Canem]

Yeah. I'm genuinely surprised sometimes by how much some people actually care about this stuff.

And I never bought that altruistic bullshit about them bashing crossfit in the hope that people won't get injured. My arse.

This is from Freddy C. at xfit One World posted at CF Masters facebook page;

"I hate to put it bluntly ---- (and some of you other masters competitors), but have you ever considered the fact that CrossFit might not be good for you as you get older? Especially if you started CrossFitting within the last few years. The wear and tear on the joints and bones really fucks you up. Ask yourself how you got injured in the first place. I was fortunate that I was fighting competitively until I was 40, so I was used to high intensity training, but as I am getting older (46 now with 6 years of CF under my belt), my body is taking much more of a beating. My programming over the course of the year looks nothing like traditional CrossFit programming and over the next few years I see myself drifting even farther away to try and remain healthy. Trying to win $3000 a the CrossFit Games is not worth hobbling around with a walker later in life. Just my humble opinion bro."

And that's about as altruistic as you can get.