steamboatwillie wrote:Ross Enamit's stuff is oriented towards the Ultra-GPP inclined and is scalable to the trainee. Furthermore, he is not an asshole or a cultist. In fact, he is very responsive over email and seems to be all around good guy.
In the past, whenever one of my buddies was telling me about this cool Matt Furey faux-kombat shit they were psyched about, I would always tell them to borrow my Enamiat boook instead. Now when they tell me about how they just heard that XFit is badass, I'll lend them the same book. Fuck those psychos.
SBW,
Totally agree. Ross is the man.
davidc wrote:I've found standing on my head to be particularly useful
It all comes back around, as it always does, to the fit for what question.
If you decide CF is your sport and you work hard at it for a year you'll get good at it. But you won't be particularly good at anything, Oly, PL, track, gymnastics....pullups isn't a sport.
WIth Pavel the first question is always - what are you trying to do? Then you pick tools, and the first advice is always skill practice first. It's the assertion, without any proof at all (despite the other assertion that everything at CF is tested in the real world) that that it's the best way, sometimes with minor modification to train, period.
Rob Wolf, in the last Performance Menu, talked about how much strength he lost since he started CF. I think that's why the girls actually look so good - it's a great way to train to lean out and loss BF. Matt G., one of the guys who always has the top times, weighs about 165. But in that sense, i.e. if that's your goal, you don't need all those tools, one KB or one DB, HOC, some Maxwell circuits, Ross' stuff, Scrappers, go to the beach and run and do pushups, whatever.
The "fitness is a sport" marketing is a good idea and they do a good job with posting the WOD and times so that you can be working out at home and still be "competing". When they go beyond that and claim huge chunks of sport are subsets of their "grand ultimate supreme" black box system (which we now know is watered down from the ninja secret experimental workouts Coach does) it's just silly.
Jeff may not be, shall we say, "getting it". Glassman swoopes in after hearing that a SRKC resigned and invites him to be the "KB" representative at CF. Glassman is "open minded" as long as your of one mind with him. I wonder if Jeff has seen Glassman's latest veiws on KBs.
And my understanding was that the "hardline" was JDCs who gave him an ultimatum when he refused to stop offering a competing KB to his students at DARC. I was not going to post about this but since he is, why not.
Jeff's a REALLY nice guy but he's being used by a REALLY not nice guy.
It's a mescaline tripping kabuki theatre clusterfuck where everybody over there is trying to ignore the crazy oompa loompa masturbating in the middle of the cocktail party.
ROFL. That's beautiful. If you could have fitted the word "Mongolian" in there somehow I would have had it cast on a bronze plaque for my office.
GDG!
The flesh is weak, and the smell of pussy is strong like a muthafucka.
Pukie is great. Although I haven't met him personally yet, I have made acquaintance with his less evil twin. I printed a copy of his picture off your site and posted it on the bulletin board in my basement gym. He is now a reminder for me to "be all I can be and give all I've got" during workouts.
- Terry Miller, RCMP
How many Keynesians does it take to replace a lightbulb? 2, 1 to screw it in and another to have broken it in the 1st place.
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The physiology of the whole process is pretty interesting and involves a lot of factors (including psychological). Hypoxia, acidosis and electrolyte abnormalities come to mind as triggers of the chemoreceptor trigger zone that may conceivably occur during a tough workout. There is certainly shunting of blood from the GI tract to skeletal muscle during exercise but food in your stomach + exercise doesn't necessarily = pukie. However, overdistending your stomach during exercise (fluids, etc.) can predispose it to happening.
How many Keynesians does it take to replace a lightbulb? 2, 1 to screw it in and another to have broken it in the 1st place.
As I must confess to having that "rubber necking at a car accident on the side of the road" kind of fascination with all this CF-IG-DD interaction, yet I simply don't have the time to read huge threads on different sites, various blogs, "deadend" ( ie; deleted ) links, etc... would someone please post a link to the Glassman on Josh material.
While I'm at it, just one more question. Several months ago, Bill Fox was, I thought, enjoying CF work. In a nutshell, what happened ?
[quote="ultracool"]I’m sure this has already been covered. Did you see the blog on 1.4.06 where Glassman goes after that Josh Hillis ? (You have to scroll down. )
Renegade Doughboy wrote:Bill is a fitness butterfly.
True knowledge.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
I have been a "dialtante" over the last few years - learned alot both good and stupid. Oodly enough have wound up right beack where I was 15 years ago working at maxcercise - go figure.
"my body stayin' vicious, I be up in the gym, just workin' on my fitness"
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
I have been a "dialtante" over the last few years - learned alot both good and stupid. Oodly enough have wound up right beack where I was 15 years ago working at maxcercise - go figure.
Hello,
New to CrossFit. I've been studying the site for almost a month now and I have two questions.
1) What do the references to Koolaid mean?
2) I've recently read a few references to "Painstorm 7". I put it in the search engine, but I couldn't make sense of what I was reading. What is Painstorm 7?
William,
Your warning has been taken to heart. At my current level of conditioning I think the Painstorms would send me skipping along, holding hands with Pukie while we searched for the wonderful wizard of Rhabdo. Thanks
How many Keynesians does it take to replace a lightbulb? 2, 1 to screw it in and another to have broken it in the 1st place.
GoDogGo! wrote:Andy, my guess is that his claim comes from the stabilization provided by the bar. With the bar you can lose the weight to the front or back, but the sides are largely stabilized by holding the bar. Not so with KBs.
But still, no studies of such, and there aren't a lot of seriously heavy KBs laying around to do it with, either. A more realistic comparison would be between power cleans/snatches and KB lifts, since that's really what the KB lifts are as commonly performed.
GDG!
I understand. I don't see why it would be any different with 2 big ass dumbells insofar as the stabilization factor goes. They could test the theories with a group of Oly lifters. Trouble with me proving anything is that I have zero Oly BB snatch training or knowledges.
It blows me away to see those freaky guys snatching 400+ pounds with their asses nearly touching the floor to get under it then standing up with it OH from there. Then listen to PLers talking about squatting to just below parallel and how tough it is. Or for that matter, how about damn strong individuals who are still trying to work up to a 400# DL.
Obama...'I burned your house down and saved you from slipping in the bathtub." ...Greg Gutfeld.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
