CrossFit BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! Is that ALL you talk about??
Anybody ever hear that? Have you ever been getting ready to sit down for a few drinks and dinner a with friends and somebody lays the ground rules for the event by saying something like, “Okay, NO talking about CrossFit!”
People ever tell you you’re in a cult? What about asking if you are ‘allowed’ to drink beer? Or eat cake because of your cra-AZY ‘Atkins’ diet?
Have people told you they don’t care how many rounds of ‘Cindy’ you finished? And since they don’t tell you about their workout you shouldn’t tell them about yours? (For some reason they don’t get it right? That you only did x rounds just a few short months ago.)
Do friends/relatives ask you if something you just picked up at the grocery store was with ‘proper form’? (Mocking your obsession with the deadlift)
Anybody ever roll their eyes when you get ready to tell them a CF story?
I know I’m kind of rambling a bit here, but I just wanted to let everybody know that this is okay. If you are passionate about something, and want to talk about it, go ahead and talk about it! If you’re proud of an accomplishment, talk about it! Is there a huge difference between having a good day at work and a good day at the gym? I don’t think so. Some people don’t talk much, they keep things to themselves and just come to the gym, bust their butts and leave. That’s great, but this blog isn’t meant for you. This is meant for the people that like to talk, probably too much at times (like me) that are sometimes made to feel guilty for talking about CrossFit too much. Ask anybody that knows me and they’ll probably tell you I’m a bit obsessed with this stuff. Is that a bad quality? Should I be embarassed? Nope! I’m not – and you shouldn’t be either.
So next time you’re out to eat and somebody tells you to stop talking about it, explain to them what a muscle-up is, then show them your deadlift pictures on Facebook from your cell phone. When they start to get really annoyed ask the waiter at the restaurant to keep the bread and double up your broccoli. While you’re eating your broccoli, explain what elevated insulin does to your body. Follow that up with how much you hate thrusters, can’t believe you ripped your hands again, almost beat Vinny, and that tomorrow is benchmark Saturday and you’re gonna do ‘Fran’!
Disgusting.
I agree. This motherfucker would be trying to figure out what broad modal domain my fucking salad fork was occupying if he pulled that shit while eating with me.
But I don't hang out with fucking @fitters so all is good.
POD wrote:Parkour and CrossFit are entirely different training methods. There is some overlap in the people who do both, but for the most part, its separate.
So basically what you're saying is that Couch invented Parkour. Noted.
I'm fairly certain that David Belle or Sebastian Foucan would eat Glassman alive if given the opportunity. And I mean that literally- 19th century Fiji style. Still seems like the Crossfitters would be all the fuck over free running. Odd that they're not. Could it be that there are no tshirts involved?
They aren't all over Parkour because it takes actual athletic ability.
So does Oly weightlifting, and that sure as fuck hasn't stopped them.
I see your point but I don't consider what they do Oly lifting.
Exactly. I'm sure they could gay up free running in a similar fashion, then make some tshirts about it and have a paleo family-friendly drinking event (which still blows my mind) to celebrate themselves.
OK, try to keep up. @fit did have "Parkour Certs" with Jesse Woody or some other bench jumper from American Parkour. They were all into it and thought it made them badasser than all. Suddenly, teh Couch pissed someone off and "poof" no more parkour.
Ed, I thought you knew this?
GDG may have more details. Maybe Shapes or Gramps. They're super-secret parkour ninjas.
WGM wrote:Fall off a chinup bar, drop a barbell on your head, or piss yourself at the bottom of a squat and the Internet will never forget you.
Sofa King wrote:
OK, try to keep up. @fit did have "Parkour Certs" with Jesse Woody or some other bench jumper from American Parkour. They were all into it and thought it made them badasser than all. Suddenly, teh Couch pissed someone off and "poof" no more parkour.
Ed, I thought you knew this?
GDG may have more details. Maybe Shapes or Gramps. They're super-secret parkour ninjas.
[quote="Skip "Skeletor" Chase"]We require our trainers to be zoners.[/quote]
Seriously? How can the "cult" accusation be denied when the boss requires his employees to eat a certain way?
Part of the Parkour issue is that it is about efficiency, as little wasted power and movements as possible. That is DEFINITELY not @F. As EZ said, Parkour requires skillz, and OMG, ***practice***.
protobuilder wrote:Wannabes always run around doing a bunch of talking. People who "do" don't really talk about their stuff that much.
Tooth.
I followed the mainpage WAD for almost 2 years; sometimes skipping "rest days" because I, too, wanted to be hardkore.
One thing I never did was go around preaching how @fit saved my fat ass; mainly because it didn't. Shit, and I'm not kidding here, I couldn't even say the word "kross fit" in a sentence. That right there should've told me it was some ghey-ass shit. But, alas, the kool-aid is strong. Hell, I even thought Matt Gag-li-ardi was an alright guy at one point.
WGM wrote:Fall off a chinup bar, drop a barbell on your head, or piss yourself at the bottom of a squat and the Internet will never forget you.
What happened to him? Wasn't he lying about workouts or something?
Exactly. Dude got called out on his times as being near impossible and for always having some lame excuse for not going to a cert. . .for free. Couch played cockgobbler to him, begging him to come to cert. Matt was always "on the road" and doing his WAD's in hotel gyms. His undoing was his claim of sub :45 400m times. IIRC, he claimed an average :41 on 4 400's. In other words a sub 4 min mile.
He claimed he was tired of all the "shit talking" on rest days. I know of some who maintain contact with him.
I'm sure he lurks here.
WGM wrote:Fall off a chinup bar, drop a barbell on your head, or piss yourself at the bottom of a squat and the Internet will never forget you.
The Parkour thing just kind of disappeared like the gymnastics thing.
That's not all. Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
I out ran a hippo, and I all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Gin Master wrote:Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
LMFAO! Where are all the nutrition certs????? What a fucking joke.
Gin Master wrote:You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
I did notice something interesting when it came to comparing Sears and Cordain.
Stop by a used book store or a thrift store's donated book area.
Try to find "The Paleo Diet" book and chances are you'll come up with nothing.
Look for anything from Sears and you'll find about 5-10 books (some in the original packaging).
Jay wrote:BTW, warriors kill shit. The only things you kill are exercise science and the board short display at Target.
I choose to kill people with kindness. Oh, I should also mention "kindness" is the name of my samurai sword.
Gin Master wrote:Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
LMFAO! Where are all the nutrition certs????? What a fucking joke.
Gin Master wrote:Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
LMFAO! Where are all the nutrition certs????? What a fucking joke.
Sears probably tried to shake down HQ for a bigger piece of the action. Couch of course shot his mouth off very publically before the deal was signed, and now they need to sweep the whole fiasco under the rug and have Pitts ruthlessly delete anyone who asks "Hey, what happened to Dr Sears?"
The Parkour thing just kind of disappeared like the gymnastics thing.
That's not all. Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
I out ran a hippo, and I all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Damn Gin Master, I was pretty fuckin sure the negro died..............
food is medicine. that's why i'm drinking dr. pepper.
Honestly, up to this point, my exposure to Crossfit consisted of seeing Crossfit Bill at IronSport Gym (he now runs Crossfit Renaissance in Philly) train at IronSport in those weird fucking monkey shoes. He and I invented the Super Bear just to be assholes, and did that until I threw up - not from the difficulty, but from a brutal hangover. If you're curious, the super bear just adds overhead squats to any overhead pressing movement in the bear. It sucks something awful. Anyway, he was a nice enough guy, but we all thought his training style was odd, at best.
Gin Master wrote:Try to find a nutrition cert to attend. Nada.
You'd think Sears would have some material ready to go since he wrote several books about it. I guess he's been sequestered in the inner chamber for some auditing.
LMFAO! Where are all the nutrition certs????? What a fucking joke.
Sears probably tried to shake down HQ for a bigger piece of the action. Couch of course shot his mouth off very publically before the deal was signed, and now they need to sweep the whole fiasco under the rug and have Pitts ruthlessly delete anyone who asks "Hey, what happened to Dr Sears?"
Not a single Journal Article about the Zone with Dr. Sears in over a month. The only nutrition piece was the fuck monkeys showing you how to zone Applebee's or some other equally ridiculous notion.
