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Jonny Canuck wrote:While we were all watching football there was another overpriced, unorganized @fit competition. Check out the facebook page for the OC Throwdown https://www.facebook.com/pages/OC-Throw ... 7733136609 and how all the spectators and athletes were complaining about it being a complete shit show. The standard bullshit cult members are also on the board trying to defend the complete amateurism that is to be expected at a @fit event.

WildGorillaMan wrote:It seems like competitive events, or even entire series of events are popping up faster than training eBooks lately. Like being an eBook author, suddenly everyone wants to be a meet director. Too bad it takes more to pull off a meet than just the moxie to declare "Hey gang, let's put on a SHOW!"

Dave Chesser wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:It seems like competitive events, or even entire series of events are popping up faster than training eBooks lately. Like being an eBook author, suddenly everyone wants to be a meet director. Too bad it takes more to pull off a meet than just the moxie to declare "Hey gang, let's put on a SHOW!"

It's not always from the top down. I'm getting multiple requests for some sort of competition. Awareness of the comps seems to be making more people want to do them. Thing is, comps are difficult to pull off and are total money pits.

Except this comp above had folks paying $122 to compete and between $22-45 to watch?!? No wonder those folks were upset. Like one guy said, "$45 to watch kids do pullups."

Jonny Canuck wrote:^^^^^ They will see the strict pullups and lack of logo-wear and figure out something is not right.

Reebok has quietly built up a steady relationship with CrossFit, which has gone from 18 gyms in 2005 to more than 3,000 gyms today. So far 43 of those gyms have been branded Reebok CrossFit boxes and the brand aims to have more than 150 branded CrossFit gyms by the end of 2012.

Reebok will also fold in the alliance with its bread and butter, making specific shoes and apparel. A Reebok CrossFit box will open on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in April with a retail location right next to it.

To be blunt, Peggy Baker is an overweight, middle-age diabetic. Until last year, she had never lifted a kettlebell or done a box jump in her life.

The 54-year-old is also a Reebok employee and the poster child for the company’s new mission: to get consumers moving by setting an example with its own workforce.

Baker is one of about 425 employees at Reebok who are taking part in a new fitness program that is transforming the sneaker maker’s Canton headquarters. Participants lost over 4,000 pounds collectively during 2011 - roughly the weight of an small SUV...

The success in Canton - about 35 percent of the workforce is regularly taking CrossFit classes - prompted Reebok to launch these programs at 20 offices around the world. Other companies, such as Google, have expressed interest in setting up corporate CrossFit programs.

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:I'm feeling good today, so I'm going to come at this from a different angle. What if @fitBok is a huge net bonus for fitness in America? Take the few good basic premises at the very root of @fit, remove the Spartan-"athlete"-eeellleeeeetteee-warrior-tactical-douchebag-pukie-rhabdo bullshit, and feed it to the gen pop.

What you could be left with is a circuit training system using free weights, BW and conditioning with a strong dose of getting off of processed food.

No way it'll go down like that, but it would be nice if it did.

Jonny Canuck wrote:I believe @$$fit is great for all the fatties in America but it is not a program for "elite" athletes. I can pretty much guarantee that none of the @Fit atheletes at the games follow the main-page programming.

Crossfit Is Over

Did you get a chance to do Crossfit when it was still hardcore? Did you get a chance to do 15 body weigh overhead squats followed by 400-yard sprints for time until you puked, or Tabata intervals until you puked, or sled pulling followed by burpees followed by box jumps followed by muscle-ups, until you puked? If you haven't done it already, it's too late. Crossfit is over.

Yeah, it's in a Reebok commercial. Yeah. Not even one of the cool shoe brands. Crossfit was, until now, a sort of underground-ish worldwide cult of mild-mannered regular people who left work and went to some stylishly dirty garage cave gym to morph into INSANE FITNESS FANATIC FREAKS that you wouldn't really want to be around or (god forbid) talk to about working out, but at least they did good workouts, kept it hardcore, not your bullshit Equinox gym personal trainer trapeze yoga shit, you know? At least they did keep it hardcore, so you could overlook their scary level of similarity to a cult, not that this is a topic I want to ever discuss further with any Crossfit aficionados.

And now it's in a Reebok commercial. Next thing you know Crossfit gyms will be popping up at every suburban strip mall from here to San Diego, and wealthy stay at home moms will start showing up after their yoga classes, and Jillian Michaels will make a Crossfit DVD, and there will be a Crossfit reality show and some MTV kid will get MADE, into someone who can do 20 pullups. And then there will be the inevitable Under Armour-Reebok-Nike Crossfit sneaker wars, until every Crossfit club is owned and branded, and there will be a pro tour and youth leagues and fashion shoots and celebrity endorsements and doping scandals and cheating.

And Crossfit will be full of assholes. Too bad. Time to ask old Santa for a squat rack.

Cave Canem wrote:Once you remove the skulls, daggers, "Your workout is my warm up", smug , superior , holier than thou attitude from @fit. You're left with just another circuit training program with as much appeal (and probaby the lifespan) of Curves.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I care less and less. I'm only interested in the nasty, disgusting things that are continually being done by the founders and the HQ staff.

You like Crossfit, knock yourself out. If you get HPV/herpes from your box, it's your own fault. If you injure yourself, you've been warned. Eyes wide open, people.

Frogster wrote:I took the level 1 this weekend in Copenhagen, and they were a pretty laid back bunch, non confrontational. The instructors were friendly and good at spotting/ correcting, even if it was only broomsticks ;-)
We did 2 AMRAP of 10 minutes over the weekend, nothing as overly silly as I expected.
The main lecturer didn't force the paleo diet down our throats, and advised to only train 3 times a week.
I didn't feel like in a cult or that they were trying to convert me. They do have some weird ideas, that's for sure, but I can choose what to absorb. On the other hand, if a person doesn't have a background in sport science, they'd probably swallow it all up.

That said, half of the xfitters coming to my KB courses, are weak, stiff and move poorly. And I am far from strong by any means, so it is scary.

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:I'm feeling good today, so I'm going to come at this from a different angle. What if @fitBok is a huge net bonus for fitness in America? Take the few good basic premises at the very root of @fit, remove the Spartan-"athlete"-eeellleeeeetteee-warrior-tactical-douchebag-pukie-rhabdo bullshit, and feed it to the gen pop.

What you could be left with is a circuit training system using free weights, BW and conditioning with a strong dose of getting off of processed food.

No way it'll go down like that, but it would be nice if it did.