The couch thread

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:27 pm

Regarding @FE: Even Methclaves and his sub 14 mile runs haven't made it work.

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:35 pm

Fat Cat wrote:Fucking ay @ Aleksanyan at ~4:30...he meditates on it and then he makes that bar float. Crazy strong guys.

His snatch does much the same. Although, Chigishev has some beautiful technique.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:42 pm

how, for the life of me, is BMac so revered in the CF community when his "science" is unfounded, he DNF's so many races and CF Endurance is nothing more than middle distance training which is quite simple to accomplish without killing yourself using CF? Not to mention his insane cockiness about that goddamn magazine article....

Is it the badassness lookingness of him (joke), maybe the fact that he rips off his shirt for every photo op and has that retarded tattoo on his hand that means who knows what...

I don't get it at all... he is like the crazy gym guy who is trying to tell everyone that because he took Smilax he got hyuge.

syaigh · Post by **syaigh** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:07 pm

Ash Uber Alles wrote:how, for the life of me, is Couch so revered in the CF community when his "science" is unfounded, he doesn't do his own workouts, and CF is nothing more than a shitty method that takes advantage of the novice training effect which is quite simple to accomplish without killing yourself using CF?

Revised.

Cowboys and Aliens · Post by **Cowboys and Aliens** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:22 pm

Jezebel Jones wrote:

Steiner may be a fat fuck, but he surely got himself a nice piece of pussy:

Someone needs to tell the "male" @fitters (like this piece of shit getting carried around by a girl: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/Gam ... Ricky.html) that you don't need to look like a gay Holllister model to get some tail. Actually being a good at something like real sports and winning an Olympic medal will get you plenty.

Ash Uber Alles wrote:how, for the life of me, is BMac so revered in the CF community when his "science" is unfounded, he DNF's so many races and CF Endurance is nothing more than middle distance training which is quite simple to accomplish without killing yourself using CF? Not to mention his insane cockiness about that goddamn magazine article....

Is it the badassness lookingness of him (joke), maybe the fact that he rips off his shirt for every photo op and has that retarded tattoo on his hand that means who knows what...

I don't get it at all... he is like the crazy gym guy who is trying to tell everyone that because he took Smilax he got hyuge.

Poor little B-Mac is trying hard to be like Couch, spewing pseudo-scientific nonsense in front of dumbfounded @fitters. You have to give him credit for upping the doucheness factor to previously unknown highs, but he's still just a skinny faggot only good at DNF'ing.

No one can top Couch when it comes to drunken, senseless ramblings in front of whiteboards. Which brings me to the important part of this post: where is our beloved Couch? Is he still laying low, setting up an ingenious plan to claim back his empire?

Where are all the other @fit apostle like Bony Pudding? We need some drama!

stosh · Post by **stosh** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:25 pm

News flash: There is officially no inherent difference between male and female in @F-land:

CJ (#24),
There is no Rx for women because there is no inherent reason to use less weight. I addressed this on the Games site a few days ago:
http://games2010.crossfit.com/blog/2010 ... elite,775/

Comment #27 - Posted by: Tony Budding at August 31, 2010 8:37 AM

and

4. Tony Budding wrote...
I'll explain some of the rationale for why we don't "post the women's Rx" on the main site. The reason is because there is no women's "Rx" separate from what is posted. I know that there is a broad misconception out there that we do in fact have official women's weights. Instead, there are common scales that people use for comparison purposes (such as Fran at 65lbs), but these are not sanctioned official by us. Now, you might think this is sexist, but it's not. Most of the top women can do Fran as Rx'd (meaning 95lbs) faster than most average male CFers. Kelly Moore, a woman in her 40s, can do Diane as Rx'd faster than almost every male CFer.

In the Games, we assign different weights (and sometimes different reps or other modifications) for the women because we believe it will make a better competition that day for those women. But that is just for the sake of that one competition. For example, in the Clean/HSPU event at the Games this year, we debated what the women's weight should be. We settled on 135lbs, but after watching the event, I think we went too light. It should have been 145 or 150lbs.

To presume that women, or any other population, are limited to some percentage of anyone else is simply wrong. It's probably even sexist.

Grandpa's Spells · Post by **Grandpa's Spells** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:29 pm

Holy shit that is dumb.

Cowboys and Aliens · Post by **Cowboys and Aliens** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:59 pm

stosh wrote:
4. Tony Budding wrote...
Most of the top women can do Fran as Rx'd (meaning 95lbs) faster than most average male CFers. Kelly Moore, a woman in her 40s, can do Diane as Rx'd faster than almost every male CFer.

LOL! =D> =D> =D> =D>

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:03 pm

To presume that women, or any other population, are limited to some percentage of anyone else is simply wrong. It's probably even sexist.

But, for the most part true? If the majority of men are stronger, faster, have more endurance than most women, is that sexist?

Across the board, male elite Ironman winners are 10-20% faster than the female winners. The 100m winners are separated by about 10+%. The totals for Oly at +/- 75kg for men and women are separated by 25%!

Sorry Tony, you're teh fail.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:08 pm

A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:34 pm

Gary wrote:A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.

HAHA! =D> =D> =D>

I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:41 pm

Jezebel Jones wrote:
Gary wrote:A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.
HAHA! =D> =D> =D>

I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.

Whaddya mean 'unappealing?' These guys work long and hard every day to look like they don't workout.

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:50 pm

Yes I Have Balls wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote:
Gary wrote:A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.
HAHA! =D> =D> =D>

I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.
Whaddya mean 'unappealing?' These guys work long and hard every day to look like they don't workout.

I was doing cleans yesterday and on the platforms next to me were two 115lb @fitters in fucking vibrams (sorry Ed) and @fit shirts doing sumo high pulls with 65-fucking-pounds. I defy you to find a stupider goddamn exercise. They both looked like limp-wristed vegan faggots, and Zone or Paleo or whatever isn't going to make them gain weight if they don't touch a barbell over 100lbs ever. After they got done with the sumo retardedness, they started overhead squatting a fucking jump rope. I don't find women that small and weak attractive, much less men... for fuck's sake. The lone female @fitter we have in the gym probably outweighs them by a good 40lbs and she was deadlifting 225 the last time I saw her.

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:52 pm

I'm pretty sure they used to indicate a women's weight...

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:53 pm

syaigh wrote:
Ash Uber Alles wrote:how, for the life of me, is Couch so revered in the CF community when his "science" is unfounded, he doesn't do his own workouts, and CF is nothing more than a shitty method that takes advantage of the novice training effect which is quite simple to accomplish without killing yourself using CF?
Revised.

I stand corrected, my bad

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:13 pm

I'm glad to see that Bony Pudding is still making the same old tired excuses that couch made.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:29 pm

Jezebel Jones wrote:
Gary wrote:A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.
HAHA! =D> =D> =D>

I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.

We covered this probably 400 pages ago. When men and women are told to lift the same weights AMRAP, the women get strong and hawt and the men get skinny and tired.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:32 pm

Cowboys and Aliens wrote: Which brings me to the important part of this post: where is our beloved Couch? Is he still laying low, setting up an ingenious plan to claim back his empire?

Where are all the other @fit apostle like Bony Pudding? We need some drama!

And you'll get it. I've already said that there is malice in the palace. I was wrong about a coup d'etat at the Games, but I'm sticking to my story that half the reason they seem so out of touch at HQ is because when they're supposed to be doing actual work everyone there spends half their time guarding their turf and the other half sleeping with one eye open to avoid being backstabbed and replaced by an ambitious up and comer.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:39 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote:
Gary wrote:A system of training that results in women outperforming men is like a school system that turns out blacks with better grades than Asians. Its reversal of the natural order is at least highly suspect and perhaps morally criminal.
HAHA! =D> =D> =D>

I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.
We covered this probably 400 pages ago. When men and women are told to lift the same weights AMRAP, the women get strong and hawt and the men get skinny and tired.

Bears repeating every now and then, no?

Ladies, strength-endurance work turns otherwise unappealing skinny white chicks into the vaguely masculine she-hulks that can turn a brotha's head away from the soft, chubby white chicks.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:50 pm

Gary wrote:
Ladies, strength-endurance work turns otherwise unappealing skinny white chicks into the vaguely masculine she-hulks that can turn a brotha's head away from the soft, chubby white chicks.

Hardbodied butterfaces FTW. I prefer manotaurs to manatees, but that's just me.

SAR · Post by **SAR** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:04 pm

Jezebel Jones wrote: I had never taken note that they didn't do separate workouts for men and women, that explains why their men are so unappealing.

Being a lesbian might contribute to that as well (or given the way they are, it should make them MORE appealing to you-fuck it, I'm confused)

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:01 pm

Pretty sure this has not been brought up. Ole' BMAC'n'CHEEZY and CFE get put through the ringer about their specious claims and the people in charge of CFE (just like CF) come back with:

1) You're haters;
2) Go to a Cert
3) You're haters.

http://www.crossfitendurance.com/forum/ ... &hilit=DNF

Sounds a lot like:

1) DNF
2) ???
3) Profit!!!!

lasalle · Post by **lasalle** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:10 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote: When men and women are told to lift the same weights AMRAP, the women get strong and hawt and the men get skinny and tired.

http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/Gam ... Ricky.html

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:20 pm

Holy shit that is embarrassing.

Dude even has a mohawk. LOL

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:23 pm

lasalle wrote:
WildGorillaMan wrote: When men and women are told to lift the same weights AMRAP, the women get strong and hawt and the men get skinny and tired.

http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/Gam ... Ricky.html

Caption Contest, I'll start:

"Sometimes I just feel fragile. Hold me."

You've got to look at the full size image to see the pain in his eyes.

IGX

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