IGX

Day 1: [...] My hands are bleeding from the pull-ups, of which I can only do two before needing a green band to assist me getting over the bar.

Day 8: I am troubled by how much I now look forward to my “off” days. Am I not supposed to fall in love with working out?

Day 18: [...] Who the hell invents this stuff? I manage to clock in at just under a half hour. I think I have figured out what they were making the prisoners do at Abu Graib.

Day 19: Off. I eat some melon. I certainly feel better, but the whole sell of @Fit is that (a) it’s short and (b) it’s addictive. I concede it’s shorter than most workouts, but addictive? Chocolate chip cookies are addictive. Martinis are addictive. This, not so much.

Days 24-30: As anyone facing the gym the day after New Year’s can attest, getting back on the horse — or in this case, Fran — after drifting away from your workout routine is, shall we say, a challenge. I do my best, and Dan adopts a patient, Mike Brady-ish “Kid, you can do it” attitude, but as I limp to the finish line of my month of @Fit, I feel…eh. [...] But I fall short of the @Fit cult that has sprung up in Philly.

Resident Quack wrote:This gives Burgener's favorite slogan of "Born Again Hard!" a whole new twist.
http://www.divinemercyfitness.com/divin ... e-are.html

We train with God on our minds and in our hearts. Without his presence, can there be any real everlasting change to our lives?

http://www.divinemercyfitness.com/divin ... hrist.html

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Resident Quack wrote:Another news article with a comments section ripe for IGx, some highlights:
http://www.phillymag.com/health/article ... tch_a_fit/

GoDogGo! wrote:

Resident Quack wrote:This gives Burgener's favorite slogan of "Born Again Hard!" a whole new twist.
http://www.divinemercyfitness.com/divin ... e-are.html

We train with God on our minds and in our hearts. Without his presence, can there be any real everlasting change to our lives?

http://www.divinemercyfitness.com/divin ... hrist.html

Contribute to Companions of Christ Fitness Fund

Several Seminarians work out consistently here at CrossFit Divine Mercy Fitness. It is my aim to get one hundred Priests and Seminarians fit. Yes, this is a big goal.

Everything new is old, again. "Muscular Christianity" is back.

GoDogGo! wrote: Everything new is old, again. "Muscular Christianity" is back.

Crossfit is a tool for thinking, precisely because the WOD acts ritually to increase the
capacity for the rejection of self pity and perseverance. It is literally the case that anyone
who does the WOD creates for themselves at least the potential to think better. That
latent capacity, though, needs to be supplemented with a heuristic like the Cross, and if I
have done this thing properly, it contains all the latent capacities of human ratiocinative
capacity and intuition.

powerlifter54 wrote:

GoDogGo! wrote: Everything new is old, again. "Muscular Christianity" is back.

No it is not. While not quite an Ab god or even THE ab god, i am muscular and i am a christian and they have nothing to do with each other. i did scare the crap out of a teenager though last night at a Holiday Inn Express.

WildGorillaMan wrote:Do you want to touch my monkey?




Buncha fuckin' bandwagon jumpers, the lot of them! One fucking guy abuses a tortoise on the mainpage and suddenly everyone's got an animal act.

protobuilder wrote:Naw, you could freak them out pretty easily.

Workout of the Day 10/13/09

"Poundstone"

Pause Squat: 3x3x405 + 80 lbs chain
Deadlift from 3" deficit: 3x3x495 + 80 lbs chain
Push Press: 225x1 on the minute for 10 minutes
foam roll

Post time to comments.

Brandon Oto wrote:

Crossfit is a tool for thinking, precisely because the WOD acts ritually to increase the
capacity for the rejection of self pity and perseverance. It is literally the case that anyone
who does the WOD creates for themselves at least the potential to think better. That
latent capacity, though, needs to be supplemented with a heuristic like the Cross, and if I
have done this thing properly, it contains all the latent capacities of human ratiocinative
capacity and intuition.

WildGorillaMan wrote:That's just magnificent in its absurd, meaningless pomposity. A Harvard professor of womyn's studies would weep tears of awe at the paradigm contained in that dialectic.

What a fucking wanker.

Bible Thumper wrote:We all know how being fit improves the mind and overall health. We need these guys healthy. Our salvation depends on it. This is really important to each of us.

Resident Quack wrote:Yeah, yeah...but who will help save cooch from himself?

Ed Zachary wrote:

protobuilder wrote:Naw, you could freak them out pretty easily.

Workout of the Day 10/13/09

"Poundstone"

Pause Squat: 3x3x405 + 80 lbs chain
Deadlift from 3" deficit: 3x3x495 + 80 lbs chain
Push Press: 225x1 on the minute for 10 minutes
foam roll

Post time to comments.

Bwahahahaha

That is fucking magnificent.

Shafman wrote:That was a bit long winded on that dude's part. @F has always been rampant with douchbaggery and idiocy. Did it just now get too much for him?

@FHQ has always been about control, at least after Glassman moved away. The kids there are like the local school board, drunk on power.

Why doesn't he just man the fuck up and say he got affiliated for the name recognition and money. A @F affiliate, if you are not a stupid douchbag, is almost a liscense to print money.

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:But once you do that, how do you distinguish yourself from the 10 other shitty "boxes" in a 4 block radius?

Resident Quack wrote:For anyone who is familiar with @F workouts, this trainer had the writer repeat several different workouts up to 3-4 times in the 30 days. Um, that's not @F...that's called specificity. Somehow this trainer knew that if he wanted to get the writer to effect the most change in specific workouts/movements, that they have to be repeated often to improve quickly?!?!

Day 1: ...my first is Fran: 21 “thrusters” (thrusting a 35-pound weight bar above my head) and 21 pull-ups, followed by rounds of 15 and 9, respectively, which you’re supposed to do as quickly as you can. My hands are bleeding from the pull-ups, of which I can only do two before needing a green band to assist me getting over the bar. Memories of Ms. Whitman, my drill sergeant gym teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High, flood my brain. I end up with a final time of 28 minutes.

Day 2: I am assigned 150 “wall balls,” squatting and then throwing a 8-pound medicine ball above my head, against a wall, 150 times...

Day 3: I have to do as many sets as possible of 5 squats, 10 push-ups, and 15 sit-ups in 10 minutes. How can 10 minutes today feel longer than the 16 minutes I did yesterday?

powerlifter54 wrote:

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:But once you do that, how do you distinguish yourself from the 10 other shitty "boxes" in a 4 block radius?

Pay attention Alfie.

Here is what you do. You invite 12-18 IGx members to do a seminar. You will get 6-10 for your seminar. If you just pay expenses and a small honorarium (plus a couple buffet coupons for Peach) you will more than break even and you will generate huge buzz.Advertise the crap out of it and the shear wow factor of our foulmouthed ignorance and reputation on the douchebag net will pack your box with @fitters and the intellectually curious who want to see and hear the Seminar that IS IGx.

Just imagine their tatted up arms and shaved heads shaking in anticipation of confronting me and all the others. Why their piercings would jingle like the gooks in the wire. We could even get The Ab God to do a sidebar on the legal shammockery that is @fit legal risk mitigation.

Then afterward a huge meat and beer fest before the evening's mandatory grappling tournament.

BIG, Very BIG.

Think about it.

Gin Master wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:But once you do that, how do you distinguish yourself from the 10 other shitty "boxes" in a 4 block radius?

Pay attention Alfie.

Here is what you do. You invite 12-18 IGx members to do a seminar. You will get 6-10 for your seminar. If you just pay expenses and a small honorarium (plus a couple buffet coupons for Peach) you will more than break even and you will generate huge buzz.Advertise the crap out of it and the shear wow factor of our foulmouthed ignorance and reputation on the douchebag net will pack your box with @fitters and the intellectually curious who want to see and hear the Seminar that IS IGx.

Just imagine their tatted up arms and shaved heads shaking in anticipation of confronting me and all the others. Why their piercings would jingle like the gooks in the wire. We could even get The Ab God to do a sidebar on the legal shammockery that is @fit legal risk mitigation.

Then afterward a huge meat and beer fest before the evening's mandatory grappling tournament.

BIG, Very BIG.

Think about it.

You know I'm just a short drive away. @F Dallas gets big turnouts for their stuff. There are several IGxers around DFW that would be proud to carry our banner. I'd be more than happy to "share our culture" with those fools.