The couch thread

[WildGorillaMan]

I see what the elite Crossfiters doing as advanced CrossFit.

Getting fed up and leaving the ranks? For time?

[kreator]

From the Twitter:

Everyone can swim.
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Kristan clever is a very good swimmer. Ruben rojas was lyin.
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Lucas Parker does not look comfortable in the water.
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Rich swims with his head out of the water.
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Folks, this is coming from a 25 yard swim test.


If you do not look comfortable in the water, or if you swim with your head out of the water, for 25 yards, then you CAN NOT SWIM.

[WildGorillaMan]

From the Twitter:

Kristan clever is a very good swimmer. Ruben rojas was lyin.

Folks, this is coming from a 25 yard swim test.

Who here thinks the swim was intended as a weasely (and slightly racist) attempt to weed Kris out of the Gaymes on Day 1? Looks like that's going to backfire. They may have to pull a Tonya Harding, or maybe even a T-1000 on her.

[kreator]

From the Twitter:

Kristan clever is a very good swimmer. Ruben rojas was lyin.

Folks, this is coming from a 25 yard swim test.

Who here thinks the swim was intended as a weasely (and slightly racist) attempt to weed Kris out of the Gaymes on Day 1? Looks like that's going to backfire. They may have to pull a Tonya Harding, or maybe even a T-1000 on her.

Interesting thought. Don't know what it's like on the West coast but where I am, Asians dominate the swimming lanes.

[Songjabong]

Interesting thought. Don't know what it's like on the West coast but where I am, Asians dominate the swimming lanes.

whities dominate swimming on the west coast, bro. and at the nationals level. you gotta get down to average/low D-1 before you see many chinamen. kinnalike how the mediocre D-1 basketball teams have the occasional mexican or even asian, but you never see 'em at the just-below-NBA level. fuck you even see nips and chinks doing okay on college track teams sometimes.

the swimming looks like just another stupid gimmick, like when they fucking hammered spikes into the ground. all y'all give 'em too much credit with the conspiracy theories and shit.

[Anon]

Swim Makes Perfect Sense

[TerryB]

Someone please to post Cultfitters whining and crying about being forced to do the "unknowable" and "untrainable" (??) at the Gaymes, plzthx.

[Mountebank]

The video of some of the non-swimming @Fers doing a 210m ocean swim in the first event will be hilarious.

Having to do a swim test actually shows how un-well-rounded the @Fers are for the most part.

[TerryB]

The video of some of the non-swimming @Fers doing a 210m ocean swim in the first event will be hilarious.

Hilarious how?? They utilize a methodology that expressly and ineluctably trains them for the unknowable with maximum efficiency. And they can do what you do almost as good as you do. You can't do what they do at all.

We'll see who laughs last.

[Yes I Have Balls]

Throw a couple reef sharks in the pool for added amusement

[Gin Master]

Throw a couple reef sharks in the pool for added amusement

They should have waterpolo for the team competition. Last team with a person still living wins.

The swim test was for HQ, not the exercisers. They wanted to see if they could implement a swimming WAD in next year's Gaymes without being embarrassed. With Rich Froning swimming like a Newfoundland, I think it's safe to say they'll stay on the land.

[Dan Martin]

Throw a couple reef sharks in the pool for added amusement

Fuck that. A plugged in toaster.

[WildGorillaMan]

Throw a couple reef sharks in the pool for added amusement

They should have waterpolo for the team competition. Last team with a person still living wins.

The swim test was for HQ, not the exercisers. They wanted to see if they could implement a swimming WAD in next year's Gaymes without being embarrassed. With Rich Froning swimming like a Newfoundland, I think it's safe to say they'll stay on the land.

Next year? Pay attention, they're doing it tomorrow.

http://games.crossfit.com/features/event-1-announced

[TerryB]

If you just looked at nothing but that first day's events, you'd have to agree it's a ball buster and legit test of your fitness. That is if you looked at nothing but that first day in a vacuum. When you consider that (a) Crossfit's methodology is still completely fucking retarded, (b) the participants will bastardize the pullups, etc, (c) the participants competed by video to get there, and (d) the whole thing is a giant moneymaking scheme, you have to conclude it's extremely retarded.

I would like to see a 405 squat and deadlift for reps on day 2. That would be a strong 2 day test.

[Damien]

I would like to see a 405 squat and deadlift for reps on day 2. That would be a strong 2 day test.

This is where it will probably fall apart.

The first day's challenge looks great as a test of endurance and strength-endurance.

The maximal strength part is missing, as are jumps and throws...

[Mountebank]

If you just looked at nothing but that first day's events, you'd have to agree it's a ball buster and legit test of your fitness. That is if you looked at nothing but that first day in a vacuum. When you consider that (a) Crossfit's methodology is still completely fucking retarded, (b) the participants will bastardize the pullups, etc, (c) the participants competed by video to get there, and (d) the whole thing is a giant moneymaking scheme, you have to conclude it's extremely retarded.

I would like to see a 405 squat and deadlift for reps on day 2. That would be a strong 2 day test.

The whole thing is likely to be a metcon orgy. The programming is retarded, the gaymes have become even more retarded towards "metcon specialists", since that's the only thing @Fers are good at.

I'd be amazed if there's anything like a 1RM max on any lift contested in real "strength sports"...ie. the thruster ladder event instead of the @F Total.

@Fers would hate to have to debate with others that actually have measureable and repeatable competitions.

[WildGorillaMan]

Did you say "orgy"?

[Mountebank]

Did you say "orgy"?

I did.

Orgy: Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.

Other definitions could apply with the @F STD crew, but will likely not make it onto "The Ocho's" streaming broadcast.

[friedquads]

210 meter swim? That use to be MY warm-up when I trained in triathlon a few years ago. Someone call the Coast Guard and alert them of the massive amounts of drowning douchebags in the ocean.

And I am laughing at the comments on the @Fit gheymes site. It's obvious that none of them have any experience with open-water ocean swims. They're not the same as a pool and it is fucking hard to see and learning how to swim in current is very different than swimming in a pool. A triathlon swim-start is painful as hell due to everyone swimming on top of each other and kicking/slapping each other in order to gain position in the water. This event's swim-start is going to end up having people getting knocked-out cold.

[Freki]

210 meter swim? That use to be MY warm-up when I trained in triathlon a few years ago. Someone call the Coast Guard and alert them of the massive amounts of drowning douchebags in the ocean.

And I am laughing at the comments on the @Fit gheymes site. It's obvious that none of them have any experience with open-water ocean swims. They're not the same as a pool and it is fucking hard to see and learning how to swim in current is very different than swimming in a pool. A triathlon swim-start is painful as hell due to everyone swimming on top of each other and kicking/slapping each other in order to gain position in the water. This event's swim-start is going to end up having people getting knocked-out cold.

So you're saying this could be WKRP/Turkey's-out-of-the-helicopter-esque?

"As God is my witness, I thought @fitters could swim."

[lasalle]

So you're saying this could be WKRP/Turkey's-out-of-the-helicopter-esque?

"As God is my witness, I thought @fitters could swim."

=D> =D> =D>

[friedquads]

So you're saying this could be WKRP/Turkey's-out-of-the-helicopter-esque?

"As God is my witness, I thought @fitters could swim."

=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Best reference ever!!!

[Holland Oates]

I ain't gonna bullshit. I can't swim for shit. Actually I can swim but I sink like a rock and so I am afraid of open water. I'd love to do a tri but I have to get some serious swim training first.

LOL

Freki is a genius.

[powerlifter54]

210 meter swim? That use to be MY warm-up when I trained in triathlon a few years ago. Someone call the Coast Guard and alert them of the massive amounts of drowning douchebags in the ocean.

And I am laughing at the comments on the @Fit gheymes site. It's obvious that none of them have any experience with open-water ocean swims. They're not the same as a pool and it is fucking hard to see and learning how to swim in current is very different than swimming in a pool. A triathlon swim-start is painful as hell due to everyone swimming on top of each other and kicking/slapping each other in order to gain position in the water. This event's swim-start is going to end up having people getting knocked-out cold.

THIS IS GOING TO BE LIKE THIS THE NEXT DAY!

[Mountebank]

Also, talk about a great way to shred some people the first day. The swim is dumb enough. Add 3000m of beach sand (POSE, of course!) running to people who only ever train on concrete will be a perfect way to set up some Achilles blowouts with box jumps on the following days. This will be epic.

BTW, we now have evidence of the transformative power of @F training, no more debate is needed...

This is me about 11 years ago:

I was a newbie CrossFitter, but I wasn’t new to training and – most importantly – I wasn’t new to effective training.

This is obviously.

Sign me up. Can't believe I ever quit.