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Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Ol' Zack will be ready to sell you some vids and a book about Hackenschmidt right there after his talk. After ZEE's vocal issues with couch, I'm surprised he's going.

powerlifter54 wrote:New Revision just out...

Join us at the annual Gathering of CrossFit Affiliates (a.k.a. FilFest 2010) in Miami Beach, Florida on Feb 19-20, 2010. Meet and mingle with the top minds and nakid bodies from the entire CrossFit community.

Listen to

CrossFit founder Greg Glassman,
motivational speaker Kyle Maynard,
Games Champ Tanya Wagner,
Successful affiliate stories from Dirt Diva, Sharibaby, Jeremy Thiel, Monique Ames, and others.

Learn new ideas for improving your business systems, building your community, running your affiliate, organic gardening, European Socialism, Celtic Mysticism, and Mathematical interpretation of the Torah by Barry Cooper. All day, just a lucky winner and Barry. Locked in a room with 1 Bullet.

Engage with special panel presentations on special populations, legal issues, Games prep, and more.

See hot new video from Jordan Gravatt, whose presentation last year of The Evolution [wmv][mov] brought the crowd to its feet, atl east those who could stand.

Agenda

Friday Feb 19:

* 8:00 am: Registration/Check-In/Tithes and offerings
* 9:00 am: Evolution Video / National Anthem/ Send Castro to Couch's Room to get him moving
* 9:15 am: Coach Greg Glassman: "State of the Union"
* 9:30 am: Break while Couch drinks pot of coffee after Castro holds him up in shower for 1 hour
* 11:30am Couch ramblings
* 12:00 pm: The CrossFit Games:"Maybe this year one of our Guys will win!"
* 12:30 pm: Certifications & Accreditation refunds
* 1:00 pm: Lunch / Level 1 Test Opportunity -Register Here
* 2:30 pm: Tanya Wagner of CrossFit Apex: "Firebreathing Success: You can fool some of the people all of the time"
* 3:00 pm: Panel: "Working with Special Populations, the "some of the people" you want" -Panel of: Jeff & Mikki Martin of CF Kids, Lamarr Smith of CF Next Level Performance & Kyle Maynard of No Excuses Athletics CrossFit
* 4:00 pm: Break
* 4:15 pm: Zach Even-Esh of CrossFit Underground: "Nutswinging ain't so bad!"
* 5:00 pm: WOD DL 315 max reps in 30 mins
* 7:00 pm: Dinner/Social/Offering of Kinfolk to the Couch

Saturday Feb 20:

* Midnight-8:00 am: Exposure
* 9:00 am: Opening Remarks
* 9:15 am: Jeremy Thiel of CrossFit Central: "Success by Moving the Goalposts"
* 10:15 am: Break
* 10:30 am: Kelly Starrett of San Francisco CrossFit: "Give me your hands, we will get you to the ER, stay with me Special boy" (Mobility and Recovery for Your Clients)
* 11:00 am: Panel: "Do It Your Way, becasue you're on your own legally"(Advice from the Veterans) - Panel with Skip Chase of Mount Baker CrossFit, Brian Yoak of CrossFit Legacy, Monique Ames of CrossFit Evolution and Andy Petranek of CrossFit Los Angeles
* 12:30 pm: Lunch
* 2:00 pm: CFHQ Updates (RRG, Trademark, Brand Protection) -Panel of: Jimi Letchford, Dan MacDougald, Dale Saran, Eric Black. Monitored by Dave Castro for purity.
* 3:00 pm: Kyle Maynard: "You Have NO Excuse, you know the Meltdown is coming"
* 3:30 pm: Final Q&A with all HQ staff present / Hopefully Greg Closing remarks

The "Don't-Miss" event of the year for CrossFit affiliates!

TomFurman should have wrote:This shit way past the sell-by date. Either she takes her clothes off or we find fresh meat.

* 5:00 pm: WOD DL 315 max reps in 30 mins

Crossfit Nutrition Eats its Young

Robb Wolf is an entrepreneur, a gym owner and a veteran nutrition blogger. I don’t know him personally, he does not link to my blog and he has no foreknowledge of this posting.

Robb is a former protégé of Loren Cordain. Now, you’ve heard me mention some of my disagreements with Loren Cordain’s views. On Dairy ( He...evil Me....healthy for most ) and saturated fat (He.....suspicious Me....you can’t eat too much of it) we have some differences. You can also see that I link to a compilation of his academic papers and essays, and Cordain has undoubtedly made major contributions to the field of paleolithic nutrition. Cordain and a radiologist named Boyd Eaton are probably most responsible for the late 20th century re-introduction of the paleolithic principle – consideration of our evolutionary history – into considerations of diet and health. I can remember reading Eaton’s first paper about 25 years ago, but of course it had no impact until I read Taubes in September 2007. Eaton and Cordain first collaborated in 1997 with this.

Robb Wolf is passionately devoted to the study of nutrition and has been working with clients for years to help them achieve fitness and improve their health. Robb’s writing quite obviously and understandably reflects Cordain’s influence, but as I read him he is also obviously his own man. He does not have a PhD or MD but you cannot tell by his writing and in fact I find him more credible than the average MD on nutrition, even if I don’t agree with everything he says. He was one of the first additions to my blogroll. Do you think I link sources I don’t find credible?

It was really refreshing to find a fitness-oriented site that talked more about avoiding the Neolithic agents of disease than protein powder and supplements.

As my blog has grown, I have been gratified to note (using my trackback function) that a fair number of Crossfit affiliates link to me. I would estimate there are at least several dozen that do so, but it might be more. To see paleonutrition getting traction in the Crossfit community has been really encouraging and I do think aspects of Crossfit fit into a Paleolithic (Evfit, ancestral) training principle in a way complementary to our way of eating.

I hadn’t read that much on Robbs’ blog recently, as over the summer he seemed to be busy giving what Crossfit calls “nutrition certifications” – seminars on nutrition for Crossfit folks. Every time I would check in, there was a new group photo with Robb and a bunch of excited-looking mostly young and fit people – people who I imagined would never hear about the evils of wheat were it not for Robb Wolf being the Crossfit nutrition guy.

Things were looking good if you were a crossfit member.

You could get a workout that can reasonably be considered more ancestrally appropriate and in my view, healthier than chronic jogging or useless treadmills and stairmasters, and if you went to a “nutrition cert” you had a crossfit affiliate owner and coach telling you about this radical approach to eating called paleonutrition – eating real food and thinking about which other “foods” might be outside of our evolutionary experience.

But what was good for crossfitters apparently was not good for Crossfit TM.

In a spasm of abject stupidity, they fired Robb Wolf from his position as nutrition instructor.

Why?

Well, you can go over to Robb’s blog and read his posts and follow links on your own.

My interpretation, well researched but somewhat impressionistic, I grant, is that Robb and a few other soldiers were just showing a little too much initiative for the top brass. Meaning: The people in charge felt threatened by the expertise and talent of their underlings, to the point where the innovation and iconoclasm was simply seen as a threat to the business model of Crossfit. Crossfit TM is a business. Its business is selling a variety of levels of training certifications to it’s franchisees - sorry, affiliates.

Sidebar: Why do I care about this? It’s not so much wearing my hat as nutrition blogger as much as it’s my hat as an entrepreneur and innovator (yes, I just had the hubris to call myself that). I’ve seen this spectacle before and it has happened to me as well. The thing that disgusts me the most is when they start trying to destroy your reputation – saying things about Robb’s lack of training or implying he is an opportunist or liar – when 72 hours earlier -Robb still straining at the traces- he was their favorite sled dog. All in the sole interest of avoiding the admission that the organization is at core a lowest-common-denominator efficiency-over-quality marketing machine just like every other large, old, stupid and slow bureaucratic entity, whether public or private.

Crossfit also has some relationship to Barry Sears and and his Zone diet and empire. I have never understood the exact relationship between the two, but seeing the way Crossfit plugs Sears' books (13 of them!) I am guessing that there is some variety of co-branding or co-marketing agreement.

Apparently Robb’s suggestion that the quality and source of macronutrients might be more important than their precise ratios, and that measuring and weighing might not be so important, didn’t sit well with headquarters.

Could that be because then you might have less need for a complex system that requires as many written volumes as the Oxford English Dictionary?

So after this cynical act of stupidity, where they summarily erased all hopes for future progress they had made in the hearts and minds of their affiliates and customers, they decided to go five gears in reverse and in a flourish of petulance and grandiosity they announced the following:

Barry Sears is now the official nutrition instructor for Crossfit.

Why is that a problem?

Well, it’s their company, but I think it’s a problem because the Zone is pseudoscientific nonsense. And Barry Sears is no more than a multi-level marketer with a PhD.

The central thesis of the Zone, that eicosanoid production depends most critically on macronutrient ratios, simply has no basis in peer-reviewed science. Eicosanoids and other products of n-3 and n-6 metabolism are critically important. But the ratios of these PUFAs in the diet is far more important in controlling relative cell membrane concentrations and hence, balance of these hormone-like compounds than some made-up magic macronutrient ratio someone pulled out of their- well, you know. (See Lands and search Lands on Stephan’s blog for useful discussion of n-3 and n-6)

40:30:30?

What crap. 40% carbs is only healthy relative to 55% if you get there by cutting sugar or wheat. That is the only sense at all by which the Zone can be considered healthy. Purely by accident. If the SAD did not have so much junk in it there would be zero advantage. If you add carbs from 25% to 40% you will gain weight and be relatively sicker, not "have perfect eicosanoids".

30% protein? Sweet Jesus, that’s about twice what any athlete needs, let alone the average person. Who are you going to believe, Sears or Kwasniewski?

According to Sears my 10:70:20 ratio is unhealthy. He has no idea what he is talking about.

So, Crossfit affiliates and members, save your money on Sears’ “cert” and his nonsense Zone books and buy some more workout gear instead.

You can still link to paleo blogs like mine and Robb's for free.

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

rjudo wrote:

powerlifter54 wrote:New Revision just out...

Join us at the annual Gathering of CrossFit Affiliates (a.k.a. FilFest 2010) in Miami Beach, Florida on Feb 19-20, 2010. Meet and mingle with the top minds and nakid bodies from the entire CrossFit community.

Listen to

CrossFit founder Greg Glassman,
motivational speaker Kyle Maynard,
Games Champ Tanya Wagner,
Successful affiliate stories from Dirt Diva, Sharibaby, Jeremy Thiel, Monique Ames, and others.

Learn new ideas for improving your business systems, building your community, running your affiliate, organic gardening, European Socialism, Celtic Mysticism, and Mathematical interpretation of the Torah by Barry Cooper. All day, just a lucky winner and Barry. Locked in a room with 1 Bullet.

Engage with special panel presentations on special populations, legal issues, Games prep, and more.

See hot new video from Jordan Gravatt, whose presentation last year of The Evolution [wmv][mov] brought the crowd to its feet, atl east those who could stand.

Agenda

Friday Feb 19:

* 8:00 am: Registration/Check-In/Tithes and offerings
* 9:00 am: Evolution Video / National Anthem/ Send Castro to Couch's Room to get him moving
* 9:15 am: Coach Greg Glassman: "State of the Union"
* 9:30 am: Break while Couch drinks pot of coffee after Castro holds him up in shower for 1 hour
* 11:30am Couch ramblings
* 12:00 pm: The CrossFit Games:"Maybe this year one of our Guys will win!"
* 12:30 pm: Certifications & Accreditation refunds
* 1:00 pm: Lunch / Level 1 Test Opportunity -Register Here
* 2:30 pm: Tanya Wagner of CrossFit Apex: "Firebreathing Success: You can fool some of the people all of the time"
* 3:00 pm: Panel: "Working with Special Populations, the "some of the people" you want" -Panel of: Jeff & Mikki Martin of CF Kids, Lamarr Smith of CF Next Level Performance & Kyle Maynard of No Excuses Athletics CrossFit
* 4:00 pm: Break
* 4:15 pm: Zach Even-Esh of CrossFit Underground: "Nutswinging ain't so bad!"
* 5:00 pm: WOD DL 315 max reps in 30 mins
* 7:00 pm: Dinner/Social/Offering of Kinfolk to the Couch

Saturday Feb 20:

* Midnight-8:00 am: Exposure
* 9:00 am: Opening Remarks
* 9:15 am: Jeremy Thiel of CrossFit Central: "Success by Moving the Goalposts"
* 10:15 am: Break
* 10:30 am: Kelly Starrett of San Francisco CrossFit: "Give me your hands, we will get you to the ER, stay with me Special boy" (Mobility and Recovery for Your Clients)
* 11:00 am: Panel: "Do It Your Way, becasue you're on your own legally"(Advice from the Veterans) - Panel with Skip Chase of Mount Baker CrossFit, Brian Yoak of CrossFit Legacy, Monique Ames of CrossFit Evolution and Andy Petranek of CrossFit Los Angeles
* 12:30 pm: Lunch
* 2:00 pm: CFHQ Updates (RRG, Trademark, Brand Protection) -Panel of: Jimi Letchford, Dan MacDougald, Dale Saran, Eric Black. Monitored by Dave Castro for purity.
* 3:00 pm: Kyle Maynard: "You Have NO Excuse, you know the Meltdown is coming"
* 3:30 pm: Final Q&A with all HQ staff present / Hopefully Greg Closing remarks

The "Don't-Miss" event of the year for CrossFit affiliates!

Nicely done, sir! This winter season is bringing some of your best work. =D> =D> =D>

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

T200 wrote:

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

LOL at the snatching. Seriously crazy that that is a contest of some sort. Looks stupid dangerous to even be in the vicinity of that faggot.

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

Jag Panzer wrote:@F doesn't get people hurt either. http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=54478

Herniated L4/l5 disc.
So I herniated my l4/l5 disc a few weeks ago during a wod. I had run the marathon a few weeks prior and im guessing that made me weaker than normal. I had an MRI done which confirmed it is a herniated disc. I have terrible pain hip radiating down to my ankle. My doctor says I can't do anything for awhile which is obvious since I can barely function.

Are there any guys/gals out there who have recovered and returned to crossfit from this injury who have any advice on recovering? About the only thing I can do without pain now is swim.

Even though Im in pain all I can think about is getting back to crossfit.

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

Just because he herniates a disc doing a deadlift, doesn't mean that is what "caused" his injury. Short of big traumas(car accident, football/rugby/hockey collisions), these injuries can happen doing virtually anything. A sneeze or or picking a pencil from the floor has brought many people into the doctors office for disc herniations, as had the deadlift...probably more.

upsideyahead wrote:Part II: 2 Crossfitters 1 Chalk Bucket

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

fucking retard wrote:Did a round of 100 over-head squats on Monday night (my first time doing OHS's and was just using the bar with no added weight) and now, 72 hours later, the outer half of my left thumb and about a 1" wide strip up my forearm are still partially numb. I know, through searching, that this isn't all that uncommon, however usually it gets better after a day or at most two. Has anyone experienced this numbness for this long? Is it something I need to see my Dr about yet?

lasalle wrote:

T200 wrote:

Oscar wrote:http://www.vimeo.com/8788244

30 seconds in, crossfit oly lifter demonstrating elite work capacity with 20% slop. fucking idiots

LOL at the snatching. Seriously crazy that that is a contest of some sort. Looks stupid dangerous to even be in the vicinity of that faggot.

That's a SNATCH? Whatever it was, it sucked. If that fuck had real weight on the bar, his back would have cracked. As it is, he'll just have persistent, nagging back pain for the rest of his life. And he'll wonder what caused it.

Lurkers: look at that video. The form is fucking horrible and dangerous. And this "box" glorifies it as elite athleticism. It is slop. Who is teaching this crap? What are the standards set for "coaches"? You are trusting your health and body to someone who paid $1,000 to play with PVC pipe and a medicine ball for 48 hours, and then gets to call themselves a "certified CrossFit trainer". There isn't even a test given before they allow someone to open a gym and coach. Look at that video, and then look around you during your next "WOD". How many rounded backs? How much slop?

Jesus Christ. My hate tank has been topped up again.

upsideyahead wrote:Part II: 2 Crossfitters 1 Chalk Bucket