Don't forget the infamous douchebag shoulder position, the exact opposite of the pics PL54 posted.Ash Uber Alles wrote:Quack, not only do they not rest enough, I like the early pull as well.
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On a competition Eleiko set to boot. Fucking pearls before swine.
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Don't forget the lifting in front of a mirror!Jezebel Jones wrote:On a competition Eleiko set to boot. Fucking pearls before swine.
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I didn't even notice that the first time around I was so upset about the good barbell set.Quackmire wrote:Don't forget the lifting in front of a mirror!Jezebel Jones wrote:On a competition Eleiko set to boot. Fucking pearls before swine.
Gloves. He's wearing gloves. WTF.
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From the CrossFit Journal:
Holy stupid batman....With some of CrossFit’s top athletes in Lake Tahoe, Calif., for the Rogue Vs. Again Faster Throwdown, it was a great opportunity to throw the athletes into a room and get them talking with the cameras rolling.
Dave Castro opens this roundtable discussion with the topic of professional athletes becoming CrossFit athletes. Are we going to see more professional athletes take on CrossFit? Do they have what it takes, and could they eclipse the current stars?
The assembled CrossFitters agree that while some football players and other power athletes might be capable of moving more weight, moving their own mass at body-weight movements will exhaust them at high volume. According to Tommy Hackenbruck, that type of athlete just has “too big of an engine.”
Even if someone has the talent, there’s the issue of training and mental fortitude.
“None of these guys are going to come in and do well without any CrossFit training. That will never happen,” Castro says. “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”
Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around. Austin Malleolo adds that athletes follow the money, and athletes won’t seek it out until CrossFit becomes a professional sport.
Where will the evolution of CrossFit take the sport of fitness?
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Even after all this time, sometimes it just boggles the mind..........Ash Uber Alles wrote:From the CrossFit Journal:Holy stupid batman....With some of CrossFit’s top athletes in Lake Tahoe, Calif., for the Rogue Vs. Again Faster Throwdown, it was a great opportunity to throw the athletes into a room and get them talking with the cameras rolling.
Dave Castro opens this roundtable discussion with the topic of professional athletes becoming CrossFit athletes. Are we going to see more professional athletes take on CrossFit? Do they have what it takes, and could they eclipse the current stars?
The assembled CrossFitters agree that while some football players and other power athletes might be capable of moving more weight, moving their own mass at body-weight movements will exhaust them at high volume. According to Tommy Hackenbruck, that type of athlete just has “too big of an engine.”
Even if someone has the talent, there’s the issue of training and mental fortitude.
“None of these guys are going to come in and do well without any CrossFit training. That will never happen,” Castro says. “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”
Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around. Austin Malleolo adds that athletes follow the money, and athletes won’t seek it out until CrossFit becomes a professional sport.
Where will the evolution of CrossFit take the sport of fitness?
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that is beyond mind boggling into the land of fucking retarded.
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Holy fuck. I'm fucking speechless.
Why in the fuck would anyone rather be a badass at 135# cleans, air squats, and kipping pullups when you could do the same movements with heavy weight?
Why in the fuck would anyone rather be a badass at 135# cleans, air squats, and kipping pullups when you could do the same movements with heavy weight?
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=D>Ed Zachary wrote:Holy fuck. I'm fucking speechless.
Why in the fuck would anyone rather be a badass at 135# cleans, air squats, and kipping pullups when you could do the same movements with heavy weight?
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Fucking hell right. A big strong man would never be able to keep up with the all-star bodyweight strength of the board-short homos.Ash Uber Alles wrote:From the CrossFit Journal:Holy stupid batman....With some of CrossFit’s top athletes in Lake Tahoe, Calif., for the Rogue Vs. Again Faster Throwdown, it was a great opportunity to throw the athletes into a room and get them talking with the cameras rolling.
Dave Castro opens this roundtable discussion with the topic of professional athletes becoming CrossFit athletes. Are we going to see more professional athletes take on CrossFit? Do they have what it takes, and could they eclipse the current stars?
The assembled CrossFitters agree that while some football players and other power athletes might be capable of moving more weight, moving their own mass at body-weight movements will exhaust them at high volume. According to Tommy Hackenbruck, that type of athlete just has “too big of an engine.”
Even if someone has the talent, there’s the issue of training and mental fortitude.
“None of these guys are going to come in and do well without any CrossFit training. That will never happen,” Castro says. “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”
Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around. Austin Malleolo adds that athletes follow the money, and athletes won’t seek it out until CrossFit becomes a professional sport.
Where will the evolution of CrossFit take the sport of fitness?
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QFT. “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”. WTF? While I never played at the professional level I know how I pushed myself and I wasn't considered "elite". They need to spend some time on the field doing 2-a-days for a couple of weeks then go an entire season of football. See how Castro handles that.Ash Uber Alles wrote:that is beyond mind boggling into the land of fucking retarded.
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It's not even the arrogance of these people that I find upsetting anymore. It's that I'm starting to think that they actually believe in what they say, as if some sort of collective psychosis has gripped the whole of @assphat. When I first read the above paragraph I just sat there staring at the screen, my mouth opening and closing like a startled goldfish.
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It might intuit well that if you can deadlift 900 lbs + band tension from multiple positions, you might be strong enough to do some other things too.Jag Panzer wrote:Fucking hell right. A big strong man would never be able to keep up with the all-star bodyweight strength of the board-short homos.Ash Uber Alles wrote:From the CrossFit Journal:Holy stupid batman....With some of CrossFit’s top athletes in Lake Tahoe, Calif., for the Rogue Vs. Again Faster Throwdown, it was a great opportunity to throw the athletes into a room and get them talking with the cameras rolling.
Dave Castro opens this roundtable discussion with the topic of professional athletes becoming CrossFit athletes. Are we going to see more professional athletes take on CrossFit? Do they have what it takes, and could they eclipse the current stars?
The assembled CrossFitters agree that while some football players and other power athletes might be capable of moving more weight, moving their own mass at body-weight movements will exhaust them at high volume. According to Tommy Hackenbruck, that type of athlete just has “too big of an engine.”
Even if someone has the talent, there’s the issue of training and mental fortitude.
“None of these guys are going to come in and do well without any CrossFit training. That will never happen,” Castro says. “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”
Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around. Austin Malleolo adds that athletes follow the money, and athletes won’t seek it out until CrossFit becomes a professional sport.
Where will the evolution of CrossFit take the sport of fitness?
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Now, now Jag Panzer, you know that Konstantinov is a man among men. It's like pointing to some 45 year old 5'6" black dude playing basketball and saying "He's no Michael Jordan".
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http://dangerwod.blogspot.com/?zx=c7646f2b786a1bee
This brings me to something I like to call M.O.D. Margin Of Danger. Basically some people are born to live dangerously. They don't need danger training, danger finds them and by virtue of the fact that they are still alive they are pretty good at handling it. Other people live relatively safe lives, typically, when making decisions they choose well. When confronted with true danger however they're in trouble, they panic. Guess what, when the shit hits the fan in a couple years and roving bands of post apocalyptic cannibals force you into a pit fight to the death with a puma you're going to be fucked if you can't keep your shit together. So back to M.O.D., by living in a constant state of danger the average person can reduce the gap or margin between themselves and the naturally danger inclined.
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Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around.
Yeah, because that's happened already. Time and again.
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I didn't watch the video, refuse to.... but I know that people have and they are appalled at what Barber said and how arrogantly he says it.WildGorillaMan wrote:Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around.
Yeah, because that's happened already. Time and again.
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Yeah, man, there are all these competitive crossfitters who then go on to trounce at div I or at least div III levels with only a little more than a year in the sport, it's pretty rad.WildGorillaMan wrote:Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around.
Yeah, because that's happened already. Time and again.
Oh, wait, it's the other way around. For those who are extra slow.
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Silly gorilla, what was I thinking?tzg wrote:Yeah, man, there are all these competitive crossfitters who then go on to trounce at div I or at least div III levels with only a little more than a year in the sport, it's pretty rad.WildGorillaMan wrote:Pat Barber thinks it’s more likely that CrossFit-trained athletes will transition easily into other sports and dominate the playing field rather than the other way around.
Yeah, because that's happened already. Time and again.
Oh, wait, it's the other way around. For those who are extra slow.
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The collective stupidity is staggering.Yes, I'm drunk wrote:It's not even the arrogance of these people that I find upsetting anymore. It's that I'm starting to think that they actually believe in what they say, as if some sort of collective psychosis has gripped the whole of @assphat. When I first read the above paragraph I just sat there staring at the screen, my mouth opening and closing like a startled goldfish.
I agree with Shave on this one. I'm no pro, but I admit not having the mindset of a @Fer.Castro: “They don’t have that mindset to push like CrossFitters do.”
I play a sport that measures itself in wins and losses, not by beating Harold from Accounting on some randomly selected movements. If I get injured, it's because another player threw me on my head or shoulder, kicked my ankle, or broke my arm; not because I fell off a pullup bar. If I lose, it's because another 220-pounder threw me flat on my back, not because a tire came off my wheelbarrow. Even the indignity of being knocked out is preferable to sitting on the ground and pissing on the floor while tape is rolling.
If I throw up it's because it's because I drank too much the night before, not because a 95-pound bar got the best of me. And when I'm injured in training, I stop and take care of it rather than sacrificing my bones, joints, or kidneys to the whims of an incoherent cripple who went on a vision quest at the bottom of a Beefeater bottle.
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When I read that, I thought it was real because @Fers actually think that way. Upon further review, this guy may have a little something.WildGorillaMan wrote:http://dangerwod.blogspot.com/?zx=c7646f2b786a1bee
This brings me to something I like to call M.O.D. Margin Of Danger. Basically some people are born to live dangerously. They don't need danger training, danger finds them and by virtue of the fact that they are still alive they are pretty good at handling it. Other people live relatively safe lives, typically, when making decisions they choose well. When confronted with true danger however they're in trouble, they panic. Guess what, when the shit hits the fan in a couple years and roving bands of post apocalyptic cannibals force you into a pit fight to the death with a puma you're going to be fucked if you can't keep your shit together. So back to M.O.D., by living in a constant state of danger the average person can reduce the gap or margin between themselves and the naturally danger inclined.
There are some training programs out there which I won't name such as Crossfit which claim to prepare you for the unknown and unknowable. That's bullshit, their WODs have never included a live animal, poison or any of the dramatic arts. With Danger WOD we prepare for the unknown and unknowable by constantly having no idea what we are doing. Today's WOD is multiple choice, pick one and go with it. Will it help you become more fit? Maybe...
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Option A) Hunt and Kill Osama Bin Laden with a knife.
For this WOD you will need a knife and Airfare to Pakistan. If you don't already have a beard you should grown one, this will help you blend in...
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Option B) Steal a baby gorilla. I have no idea how this will end up, truly unknown and unknowable...
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Option C) Stab a hobo for time.
? I dunno, seems like a good idea.
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Stabbin' a hobo for time is tougher than pounding a bit stake in the ground.
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Fuck Crossfit. Bitches.