The couch thread

TomFurman · Post by **TomFurman** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:04 pm

When you are ready, the master will come.

Pinky · Post by **Pinky** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:07 pm

TomFurman wrote:When you are ready, the master will come.

According to most of the women in @fit, the couch comes long before they are ready.

powerlifter54 · Post by **powerlifter54** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:39 am

Met a serious @fitter ver the holidays, nice guy and an aquaintance of the Couch and many of the apostles. i told him how much we enjoy the rantings of the Couch and how many of you remeind me frequently of just waht a weak performer i really am.

Ed seemed perplexed.

He did leave me a lot of @fit journals to read

If it wasn't for the pukie and rhabdo and cult issues, and that X-games flavor in the penumbra, i might be convinced it is good general fitness work.

On second thought, nah....

bill fox · Post by **bill fox** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:25 am

Robb Wolf, former #1 trainer and sanest of the CF crew, has dropped CF from his facilities name. Wanna guess why?

http://www.norcalsc.com/info/resources.php

nafod · Post by **nafod** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:04 pm

Marc (rhymes with dork) wrote:I am the load my mother should have swallowed.

nafod · Post by **nafod** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:06 pm

bill fox wrote:Robb Wolf, former #1 trainer and sanest of the CF crew, has dropped CF from his facilities name. Wanna guess why?

Because he hates kipping pullups?

Oh my god, he actually has a page where you can calculate the total energy required for a workout and also the <gasp> average POWER expressed. You must be preparing your belittlement even as I type. Heh.

http://www.performancemenu.com/resource ... Output.php
To calculate the approximate work and power output of a workout, fill out the form below. To read about the development of the calculator, see the accompanying article by Greg Everett and Eva Twardokens in Issue 14 of The Performance Menu.

bill fox · Post by **bill fox** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:40 pm

Yeah I saw a draft of that before it came out. Pretty cool.

Greg's Big kipping pullups are awesome. Helped me get the bar muscle up.

wanna guess again?

rjudo · Post by **rjudo** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:44 pm

Interesting, Robb was the posterboy and biggest fan for a long time. Back in the bad old days at DD, I always enjoyed his posts. He seemed like a pretty smart guy. Glad to see he's divorcing himself from caoch's foolishness.

Rick

szczepan · Post by **szczepan** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:10 pm

nafod wrote:
http://www.performancemenu.com/resource ... Output.php
To calculate the approximate work and power output of a workout, fill out the form below. To read about the development of the calculator, see the accompanying article by Greg Everett and Eva Twardokens in Issue 14 of The Performance Menu.

what possible use could this calculator have?

nafod · Post by **nafod** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:42 pm

bill fox wrote:Yeah I saw a draft of that before it came out. Pretty cool.

Greg's Big kipping pullups are awesome. Helped me get the bar muscle up.

wanna guess again?

Oh, I imagine it was either some kind of ugly car wreck, or just a slow parting of ways. Whatever it was, it didn't happen in public, which is a good thing.

I'd be genuinely curious to see the algorithms they use to calc power. Maybe I'll snag Issue 14.

szczepan · Post by **szczepan** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:11 pm

bill fox wrote:Yeah I saw a draft of that before it came out. Pretty cool.

Greg's Big kipping pullups are awesome. Helped me get the bar muscle up.

wanna guess again?

Bill, you forgot to mention the 144lb pullup.

bill fox · Post by **bill fox** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:36 am

Macacawitz wrote:
bill fox wrote:Yeah I saw a draft of that before it came out. Pretty cool.

Greg's Big kipping pullups are awesome. Helped me get the bar muscle up.

wanna guess again?
Bill, you forgot to mention the 144lb pullup.

Oh yeah, thanks.

szczepan · Post by **szczepan** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:04 pm

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:19 pm

Wow. 70k. Proof that humans really are worthless.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:21 pm

and that they are bored to death

johno · Post by **johno** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:57 pm

70k has nothing to do with our witty banter.
The average joe reads a newspaper article on Xfit, and googles for more info. Then innocently falls into this rancid vat of foulmouthed ignorance.

Some stay for the NSFW.

Ross Hunt · Post by **Ross Hunt** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:50 pm

Don't flatter yourself too much, guys. This thread doesn't even come up on the first ten pages of google entries.

I think people just come back here hoping to be amused. So if this thread proves anything, it's that clueless hope springs forth eternal.

johno · Post by **johno** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:22 pm

Google "Coach Glassman" to find IGx on pg. 3.
And "Couch Glassman" = Page 1.

Pinky · Post by **Pinky** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:23 pm

We're also on the first page if you Google "Glassman Asswhore".

___________ · Post by **___________** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:26 pm

Pinky wrote:We're also on the first page if you Google "Glassman Asswhore".

I believe if you replace Glassman with anything coupled with Asswhore, you'd likely get an IGX thread on the first page.

johno · Post by **johno** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:43 pm

In this way, Garm continues his contribution to IGx and the world.

nafod · Post by **nafod** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:16 pm

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/489ss.wav

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:54 pm

New comments

http://www.crossfit.com/cgi-bin/moveabl ... ry_id=1562

Target: Mike Boyle

Trigger: Some vague and random comments at a conference which were probably taken out of context.

dalexan242 · Post by **dalexan242** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:12 pm

Of course it's dangerous. You might actually be in danger of getting fit. And you might be in danger of having to learn to be efficient instead of accepting the same flaws in your form that you can get away with when only performing a few reps.

Silly O-lifters hiding their inefficiencies by doing singles, doubles and triples...

GoDogGo! · Post by **GoDogGo!** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:56 pm

I have never seen a sport where performance via a "lack" of intensity, or trained focus has been the order of the day. For an event as intense as Olympic Lifting, how could it be even remotely possible to achieve the movements of such poundage in bursts of action without, high, hard, intense reps ?

-head-poundy on desk-

GDG!