The couch thread

Freki · Post by **Freki** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:55 pm

baffled wrote:I feel like this one would fuck me up.

Nice loins.

The Crawdaddy · Post by **The Crawdaddy** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:57 pm

baffled wrote:I feel like this one would fuck me up.

Indubitably! (check off 5ct word of the day usage)

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:59 pm

Great, now I've got to ask: is it left vs right or front vs back?

Also, that's a great picture. HSPU blow vacation?

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:50 am

Drywall wrote:
WildGorillaMan wrote:
Drywall wrote: Fuck this motherfucker. Goddamn fence sitter, licking both sides of the cock...
Wait, I'm confused by that slur. So it's okay if you only lick one side of the cock?
Fuck if I know. That was always my favorite Jay-ism. This is the Internet, nothing needs to actually make any sense.

Glad my asinine quotes became legend

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:26 pm

@F lurkers, you should know your new corporate masters (Reebok and Adidas) support SOPA.
http://maddox.xmission.com/
Since @F is admittedly just a rip-off schmorgasbord of other exercise methods, any bets as to how long it would be before @F.com was blacked out?

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:49 pm

HAHAHAAH

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:50 pm

Fitness Marketing 101: Writing Linkbait

Step 1: Publish a blog post that disses Crossfit

Example:

http://www.trifuel.com/training/triathl ... fe-program

4. Crossfit Endurance is a very poor selection of strength work for endurance athletes. Multi-sport athletes are some of the most driven and hardest working athletes. They will do almost anything to improve their performance. Well, Crossfit should not be on that list. As an endurance athlete, strength work should be spent on clean and functional movements that will enhance balance, symmetry, stability and bio-mechanical movement in their specific sports. With the high amounts of volume for any endurance athlete, overtraining becomes very prevalent. We should not exacerbate that training load anymore with high repetition and erratic CF workouts. Time in the gym should be spent building the body back to take on the demands of the sport or sports.

Step 2: Get half a million hits and two thousand angry comments in a single day.

Step 3: Reap the ad revenue from all those new eyeballs.

Step 4: Laugh at the two thousand butt-hurt rebuttals from people who'd never even heard of you until today.

Step 5: Congrats, you're now a minor fitness celebrity!

It worked for The Gorilla, it's working for this triathlete guy, and it can work for you!

Chessman · Post by **Chessman** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:53 am

Wow.

http://www.wellandgoodnyc.com/2012/01/1 ... sfit-gyms/

Reebok creates 50 mobile CrossFit gyms

CrossFit gyms (called “boxes” by those obsessed with the killer, cult-favorite workout) are a fitness fixture in most major U.S. cities. But that’s not stopping Reebok from getting in on the game. (Check out the movie-trailer-style commercial here.)

According to Ad Age Magazine, the company plans to trick out shipping containers as mobile CrossFit gyms—they’re typically super rustic, garage-y warehouse locations anyway—and “deliver them to 50 locations around the world, as a means of encouraging people to try CrossFit.”

Viktoria Wallner, VP-brand marketing communications at Reebok, told Ad Age that the aim is to make CrossFit more accessible, rather than fully mainstream.

Whatever its goal, Reebok will certainly share credit for giving the gladiator-worthy workout global presence, and for making it harder for more people around the world to walk the next day.

Kraj 2.0 · Post by **Kraj 2.0** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:52 am

Question: WTF is Reebok Crossfit? Did Reebok buy up Crossfit or something? Reebok.com goes straight to Reebok-Crossfit. I caught a commercial for "the sport of fitness" and couldn't believe this stuff's actually gone mainstream now. WTF is "the sport of fitness" anyway? Crossfit doesn't measure how fit you are. What's "fitness" anyway? If anything, Crossfit is "the sport of unfocused interval gym training". Now they got a deal with Reebok? The Mayans really were on to something.

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:52 am

Irony (a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea) or hypocrisy (the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc., contrary to one's real character or actual behavior)?:
The "Specialized @F Shoes". Cast your vote.

and

Beer Jew · Post by **Beer Jew** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:54 am

The blue ones look pretty decent. I'd wear them. The red ones aren't too bad either.

I'm not gonna be paying more for shoes than I do for my gym membership though.

Alfred_E._Neuman · Post by **Alfred_E._Neuman** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:03 pm

Beer Jew wrote:The blue ones look pretty decent. I'd wear them. The red ones aren't too bad either.

I'm not gonna be paying more for shoes than I do for my gym membership though.

If you workout at @fitbok, you'll never have that problem unless you plan on working out in a pair of vintage Jordans.

On another note, the infiltration is nearly complete. This month's Runner's World showed up with a huge @fit endurance article and I just picked up the new Competitor magazine at the running store and on the cover is Annie Sakamoto swinging a KB with an accompanying article on @fit, plus an article about Amundson.

powerlifter54 · Post by **powerlifter54** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:05 pm

The Circle of Life. LOL

buckethead · Post by **buckethead** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:54 pm

"world record" CrossFit box jump

Olympic bobsledder

Credit, Rafe Kelley

Cave Canem · Post by **Cave Canem** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:48 pm

The bobsledder doesn't count because he didn't get full extension at the top. Unless of course, he's a crossfitter, then he just has a lousy publicist. Just like the WODs, rules are constantly variable.

The Nightman · Post by **The Nightman** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:13 am

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:50 am

Maybe the bobsledder is more focused on records THAT COUNT.

Hymen Asshole · Post by **Hymen Asshole** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:34 am

But the XF douche says at 50s that he implements Westside Barbell stuff so so he's leet compared to that sledder

Chessman · Post by **Chessman** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:24 am

So what does it mean to CF circa January 2012? I ask because on the forum I see a Smolov support thread that's a whopping 56 pages long and half of the fitness section is about Westside, 5/3/1, Olympic lifting, GSLP, Starting Strength, 70's Big, etc. It seems like strength training is the new CF.

So what does this mean? Are we all doing CF now?

I'd ask over there but I'm afraid it would get deleted.

Alfred_E._Neuman · Post by **Alfred_E._Neuman** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:14 am

I knew Rafe when we lived in Bellingham. He was into @fit slightly at the time but quickly got away from it. He was always a big MoveNat/Parkour guy. Didn't know he was an Olympic bobsledder

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:09 pm

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:I knew Rafe when we lived in Bellingham. He was into @fit slightly at the time but quickly got away from it. He was always a big MoveNat/Parkour guy. Didn't know he was an Olympic bobsledder

From the YouTube video description:

62" Standing Box Jump, Steve Langton, USA Bobsled

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:47 pm

If this has not been mentioned in this thread, I am surprised. I have nothing but respect for the young lady taking the initiative to get in shape, but she has chosen the wrong approach in my humble opinion.
Edit: I hesitated to put this here - I don't like the way she has been used on both sides of the CF fence. I don't know if putting it here was the right thing to do or not, but I'm pretty sure there would not be any kind of open discussion at the CF forum about it either.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:52 pm

Boris wrote:If this has not been mentioned in this thread, I am surprised. I have nothing but respect for the young lady taking the initiative to get in shape, but she has chosen the wrong approach in my humble opinion.

Uploaded by CrossFitHQ on Dec 23, 2010

Serious question: is this young lady still training today? If so, how is she doing?

Beer Jew · Post by **Beer Jew** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:49 pm

Good for her for having the balls to sign up and have to start from scratch.

Good for that trainer as well. Taking her on can't have been an easy decision. Looks like she's having fun and making progress, provided that trainer is intelligent enough not to injure her too badly.

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:53 pm

These two comments pretty much say it all.

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Even with her handicap she has the same form as everyone else ive seen doing crossfit, including trainers.

Thats saying alot about crossfit.

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I have been a trainer for 10 years. I specialize in corrective exercise and pre/post rehab. THIS IS THE MOST APPALLING OFFENSIVE AND IGNORANT THING I HAVE EVER SEEN SOMEONE IN THE FITNESS INDUSTRY DO.

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