The couch thread

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:00 pm

Couch on Ball Slams:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTwAXDS-1GE[/youtube]

Couch wrote:"I don't like it because it's an enormous enticement to cheat."

Kazuya Mishima · Post by **Kazuya Mishima** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:29 pm

LOL at Tony Budding and his fucking first world problems...COUCH HOW CAN WE IMPROVE WHITE PEOPLE'S SLEDGE HAMMERING ABILITIES?

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:44 pm

Cue @Bok coming out with a force plate with a bullseye on it...every gym must have one!!! Only $5000 through the @FHQBok store!

Beer Jew · Post by **Beer Jew** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:54 pm

Am I to understand from what Couch said that a ball thrown at the ground with force will not hit the ground any faster than a ball dropped?

Alfred_E._Neuman · Post by **Alfred_E._Neuman** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:57 pm

Beer Jew wrote:Am I to understand from what Couch said that a ball thrown at the ground with force will not hit the ground any faster than a ball dropped?

You have to understand that physics isn't couch's strong point. It was Abby's handing couch a plate full of his ass over couch saying the KB swing does not develop the same hip opening power as a clean of equal weight moved an equal distance that started this whole thread.

KingSchmaltzBagelHour · Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:08 pm

lol at Pudding's reaction at the end. "Right, right"...he's shocked at the genius of it all.

edit: I love watching Gl@ssm@n pontificate shit. He's great.

Gin Master · Post by **Gin Master** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:16 pm

Beer Jew wrote:Am I to understand from what Couch said that a ball thrown at the ground with force will not hit the ground any faster than a ball dropped?

Don't you know anything? A ball simply dropped onto the ground moves at the same speed as a ball thrown down really hard, assuming there is no force plate. But if you add a force plate, the thrown ball will move much faster. It is obviously that the force plate creates this speed, thus making it impossible to get positive metabolic benefits from a plateless slam ball workout.

The target is a revolutionary idea. Initial @bok studies observed that 17% of @Fers who threw a ball at the ground actually missed. Not only did the added target cut that number down to 12%, it also made the workout even more functional. What if there is a zombie fire ant outbreak and all you have is a slam ball? What if you are playing Whack-a-Mole and the Mexican kid before you stole the mallet? How will you get your tickets? Answer me.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:26 pm

It was Abby's handing couch a plate full of his ass over couch saying the KB swing does not develop the same hip opening power as a clean of equal weight moved an equal distance that started this whole thread.

Au contraire...Dog_Ba's assertion was that a kb snatch developed the same forces at the hip joint that the barbell snatch did.

The kb snatch does NOT develop the same forces at the hip joint that the barbell snatch does, even if you go out on a limb and equalized the load and pull the kb off the floor. When you take into consideration the dramatic difference in load that a barbell vs db or kb has, and that the specifics of the barbell snatch as a movement has significant requirements for explosive strength vs the pendulum nature of the regular kb snatch, it pans out that couch was right and abby was wrong.

So, basically couch has a stronger understanding of biomechanics as related to human movement than abby.

Truth.

Kazuya Mishima · Post by **Kazuya Mishima** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:38 pm

Yes, but in a casino elevator shoving match, the Ab G-d would fucking own Teh Couch.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:41 pm

You know it. Especially if the opponent was on crutches or in a wheelchair.

Kazuya Mishima · Post by **Kazuya Mishima** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:50 pm

Or, a gin soaked gimp.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:46 pm

We don't have the tools to "quantify" the sledgehammer & bell gizmo at the county fair?

Isn't it if the bell rings, you win, and if it doesn't, you're a pussy?

I guess that's not complex enough. It doesn't account for the 4th dimension of fitness that Couch inverted on its axis.

Beer Jew · Post by **Beer Jew** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:50 pm

What was that post Shaf once made about a pie and fitness? That was brilliant.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:52 pm

Crossfit?

Hymen Asshole · Post by **Hymen Asshole** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:31 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote:Couch on Ball Slams:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTwAXDS-1GE[/youtube]

Couch wrote:"I don't like it because it's an enormous enticement to cheat."

starting at :25 he asks the couch what can be done to improve peoples use of a hammer

answer is simple, hire a fucking mexican because apparently they can do this without training

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:40 pm

Kazuya Mishima wrote:LOL at Tony Budding and his fucking first world problems...COUCH HOW CAN WE IMPROVE WHITE PEOPLE'S SLEDGE HAMMERING ABILITIES?

Here's a suggestion: Be really fucking strong. Hell, you only have to be pretty fucking strong.

Who here can't ding the bell at the carnival hammer event with one hand?

Kazuya Mishima · Post by **Kazuya Mishima** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:43 pm

Couch...how can we improve people's capacity at RenFair fighting?

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:45 pm

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Couch...how can we improve people's capacity at RenFair fighting?

Real swords. Next question.

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:33 pm

Hymen Asshole wrote:
starting at :25 he asks the couch what can be done to improve peoples use of a hammer
answer is simple, hire a fucking mexican because apparently they can do this without training

Hymen Asshole · Post by **Hymen Asshole** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:35 pm

Words elude me

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:44 pm

"It is rewarding to watch my kids willingness to sweat and bleed to finish a workout."
- Amy Kline-Rodriguez

Brutal Bajan · Post by **Brutal Bajan** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:49 pm

So here we're going, we're talking about primal fitness, the ability to accomplish some task of life. And uh, do you think there's anything that we can do from a Crossfit standpoint, from mainsite WOD to journal articles, to, perhaps, improve folks' ability with a hammer, with a sledge hammer?

Really? Really!?

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:52 pm

Hymen Asshole wrote:Words elude me

Arrrgh, this bitch is in Hawaii. Fuuuuuuuuuuu.

http://www.lahainacrossfit.com/

CultBuster · Post by **CultBuster** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:05 am

The "problem" with hammer and slam ball work is that the @fiy assholes fuck everything up by making a simple workout into a contest/sport. Pick up a heavy ball and slam it down as hard as you fucking can until you almost puke...now drag something heavy across the ground untill your legs and lungs burn. Rest until you can see straight and do it again and again. Keep doing shit like this and the next time you have to do something real you won't be such a pussy and you will get calls from friends to help them move heavy shit. An aside though..couch looking leanish and almost healthy..zone or rehab?

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:12 am

CultBuster wrote:The "problem" with hammer and slam ball work is that the @fiy assholes fuck everything up by making a simple workout into a contest/sport. Pick up a heavy ball and slam it down as hard as you fucking can until you almost puke...now drag something heavy across the ground untill your legs and lungs burn. Rest until you can see straight and do it again and again. Keep doing shit like this and the next time you have to do something real you won't be such a pussy and you will get calls from friends to help them move heavy shit. An aside though..couch looking leanish and almost healthy..zone or rehab?

Here is your scientifical answer.
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/ ... 51-160.htm

Alcoholism and eating disorders frequently co–occur and often co–occur in the presence of other psychiatric and personality disorders.

IGX

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