The couch thread

[Kazuya Mishima]

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Well, there went my late morning wood.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

You need to share the source, WGM.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Yeah, that last chick is XF Beef JERKAH!

[WildGorillaMan]

Who the fuck IS that thick little piece of crossfit bikini meat?

Cuz that is exactly the flavor of pussy that I like.

Are you talking about the winnied-up Fergie lookalike from TC @fit? She is special, isn't she?

http://picasaweb.google.com/tcleadingedge

[WildGorillaMan]

My sources tell me that Traverse City is not far from where a certain pajama-clad fitness postulator resides. I think he should make a road trip and report back.

[Kazuya Mishima]

Are you talking about the winnied-up Fergie lookalike from TC @fit? She is special, isn't she?

That's the one. The first pics were cuter, but the meat on those thighs tells me me she can make a man scream with her scissor hold.

[Beelzebub]

I just threw up in mouth. What is up with the guy in the last shot with long hair? He looks like he has down syndrome.

[T200]

That's the one. The first pics were cuter, but the meat on those thighs tells me me she can make a man scream with her scissor hold.

[Mountebank]

I just threw up in mouth. What is up with the guy in the last shot with long hair? He looks like he has down syndrome.

That's Gillian, @F's favorite handstand poser.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

I got a standing invite at that TC facility to come and check it out. That's not really even an affiliate, he's just a XF level 1 trainer with his own little studio. I met him at the IKFF thing I did in August of last year.

[sanchezero]

Who the fuck IS that thick little piece of crossfit bikini meat?

Cuz that is exactly the flavor of pussy that I like.

Are you talking about the winnied-up Fergie lookalike from TC @fit? She is special, isn't she?

http://picasaweb.google.com/tcleadingedge

NOICE!

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Middle of september in the water is probably not warm. Lake Michigan tends to be cold. I should send Blobert over the check it out if his anxieties are under control.

[Kazuya Mishima]

Who needed the glass cutters?

[T200]

Barry Cooper on that awesome foundational movement, the med ball clean:

Medicine Ball Cleans
Appropo of nothing, I thought I might make a brief comment on Medicine Ball Cleans.

What is taught, in my understanding, with the balls is that you generate power with your legs through the scoop, finish with a strong shrug (aiming for your ears), then drop into the receiving position, while rotating your elbows under the ball.

Now, this movement does not exactly mimic a barbell clean. The size of the ball forced the center of gravity out just a bit on both the pull and the receiving position. The weight does not rest on your shoulders. Your hands are not parallel to the ground exactly.

Moreover, you will never see a shrug with heavy weights like what you can generate with a much lighter ball. O-lifters do jump shrugs all the time to work that combo, but the simple fact of the matter is that with max lifts, you are wasting energy if you let the bar get that high before jumping under.

The argument has been made, and is probably valid, that the shrug is part of both the second and the third pulls. This means it participates both in developing height and acceleration on the bar, AND in catapulting a skilled lifter under the bar faster than would gravity alone. When someone says they "go back and forth on this", what I hear them as saying is that it's hard to say which element is more important, but that a credible case can be made that the shrug is MAINLY an effect of using the barbells' acceleration to set up a rapid jump under the bar.

To the extent, then, that the shrug is taught as mainly a part of the second pull, this teaches slightly improper biomechanics.

What can one say, then, in defense of the medicine ball clean as it is taught currently? First, that it is an intermediate position between having no weight, and using a full barbell. It would be possible to use those 15 pound stick things they use in Aerobics classes, but it would also then be necessary to buy a bunch of them, for just one purpose.

Secondly, medicine balls are less intimidating. You can't hit your throat with them, and they are soft, where bars are hard. A lot of the people we are teaching are NOT hardened athletes, and there is considerable psychological value in keeping things simple and unintimidating. If you think about it, teaching middle aged men and women who have never O-lifted in their lives how to do it is pretty audacious to begin with. These are not members of a high school Football team (most of whose coaches, by the way, seem to teach them crap technique, from what I can tell).

Third, the shrug adds to the range of motion. Clearly, the shrug potentially adds momentum to the lift, even if in elite athletes its role changes somewhat. You need to have this aspect keyed in neurologically, and exaggerating the motion is a good way to do that. Most of the people who come to seminars are NEVER going to be good, much less elite weightlifters. Some will, and they will seek out advanced instruction.

Finally, the main point of the Level 1 Cert's is to teach people functional movements in sufficient detail that they know how to perform them safely. The importance of the lordotic arch, and of tracking your knees over your feet are stressed. Given this, it is not unreasonable that a basic course, covering two days, would not concern itself with exactitude in the finer points of detail. People that want to master those details can do so through long term practice, and further coaching, which is provided in Cert's designed for just that purpose.

Medicine ball cleans are a relatively safe, easy, and unintimidating way to get people used to the idea of jumping under an object in motion. That is the key point.

Honestly, I only read the first couple sentences. How can a nigga write so much on something so useless?

Although he did manage to troll Greg Everett into his thread with that post.

[TerryB]

So many words.

And so much insight.

What's Barry's best C&J?

[KingSchmaltzBagelHour]

Barry sez, "Secondly, medicine ball cleans are less intimidating. You can't get hit in the throat with them..."
Obviously Barry has forgotten that the point of @fit training is to INDUCE injury, not avoid it!!!
What a dumb fuck.
Also, could we get a list of Barry's lifters competing in Alabama next week? No? Oh, OK.

[Beelzebub]

I heard that Barry loves it from the receiving position. He can shrug his shoulders up towards his ears thus creating hip drive. And if what I hear about Barry is true, he loves to create hip drive in the receiving position. Take a look at that trap development and tell me I am a liar.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

'bub, you need some practice.

For example, instead of some freak wearing bad make-up, you need to show some affiliate honeypot with her hips cocked back in the receiving positions.

[WildGorillaMan]

'bub, you need some practice.

For example, instead of some freak wearing bad make-up, you need to show some affiliate honeypot with her hips cocked back in the receiving positions.

This.

[Alfred_E._Neuman]

Barry Cooper on that awesome foundational movement, the med ball clean:

blah blah blah

lots of blah blah blah

a fucking shitloat of blah blah blah

functional movements

Honestly, I only read the first couple sentences. How can a nigga write so much on something so useless?

Although he did manage to troll Greg Everett into his thread with that post.

It those bitches wanted to teach something truely "functional", they'd show people how to shoulder an object like a sandbag rather than "clean" and object like a huge soft med ball. There's been tons of times I've had to pick a heavy bag of something up and toss it over my shoulder to carry it. Cleaning something like that, not so much.

[The Ginger Beard Man]

Appropo of nothing, I thought I might make a brief comment on Medicine Ball Cleans.

Brief comment, my ass. If you waterboarded Barry Cooper, who would be the torturer, and who the torturee?

edit: that was Coach Copper, not T200.

[Beelzebub]

Sorry Shaf. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I offer these.

[Holy Cow]

'bub, you need some practice.

For example, instead of some freak wearing bad make-up, you need to show some affiliate honeypot with her hips cocked back in the receiving positions.

Take your choice of receivers

[steelydan]

LOL at Appropo.

Barry, if you want to use smart person words, get an actual smart person to proofread your post before submitting.

[Crust Bucket]

WTF!? Is it Friday already, I missed a day somewhere.....KEYRIST!