Secondly, most states have shit ass custody laws. I have my son as much or more than his mom but she is the custodial parent by default and I'm paying HER child support. I supported her and her kids for years before we had my son and finally split, but I'm getting rammed in the ass financially every month when I would gladly raise my son myself. How fucking fair is that? I've talked to some attorneys and they say in my state (bleeding fucking heart liberal Washington) and my county that getting custody or even 50/50 would be next to impossible.
All a man has is his word and to keep himself free.
seriously. I feel badly for the kids in this soap opera.
"first we have some douche, who keeps shaving his pubes in our sink. then he takes off to bone some big titty bitch from the east coast. then some woman moves in, and suddenly we have two mommies. now she's gone, and we have some guy who breaks his bones for a living and mommy is writing keene/keener all over the house in little pink hearts. dear god, this is me Margaret. are you there?"
Females who wear heels emulate the gait patterns of wounded and/or compromised prey and thus inspire males to heights of predatorial chasse-a-tude. - Robb Wolf
I'll second Dano's welcome. So, Mr. Patdick, fuck yourself with a kettleball for time to increase your work capacity and power over several modalities while increasing your efficiacy .
Next, the reason @fitters OHS pumpkins is because they present no real challenge. Anyone can do it, but only @fitters can post idiotic pictures of themselves doing it for their 15 nanoseconds of glory on the @fit mainpage. They are truly a vain bunch. See discussion of ANYC.
Finally, I shit you not, I'm wearing my @fit shirt today for Halloween. I came to work as a British football hooligan and thought nothing says, "Asshole" like an @fit shirt. Of course, I'm wearing it under my Arsenal jersey.
WGM wrote:Fall off a chinup bar, drop a barbell on your head, or piss yourself at the bottom of a squat and the Internet will never forget you.
This is par for the course for ex-junkies. This chick needs to grow the fuck up and stop playing out this 90’s Tank Girl bullshit. These kids need a mom not some emotionally immature slut looking to self actualizes through some half assed fitness program. She gets dumped by one Peter Pan douchebag and dives right in with another who plays with motorcycles. The sad part is that these kids are gonna end up all fucked up and she gonna act like she didn’t know how they got that way.
Jake Patrick wrote:Hi all, I've been a lurker here, and I think this thread is hilarious. Like many of you, I think CrossFit offers some useful conditioning applications, but not much more.
Jeebus Kee-rist, get some kneepads, psychophant.
and there are CrossFitters overhead squatting pumpkins.
Are you sure? Were you there, Mr. Smarty-pants Pumpkin Inspector? Ever pick up a fully laden pumpkin? Over your head? Shit's heavy, man. Ever thrust your manhood into one while yelling, "This is for Charlie Brown, mother fucker, you great fucking pumpkin!!!" I bet you did. Not me, though. So don't ask.
Rant wrote:This is par for the course for ex-junkies. This chick needs to grow the fuck up and stop playing out this 90’s Tank Girl bullshit. These kids need a mom not some emotionally immature slut looking to self actualizes through some half assed fitness program. She gets dumped by one Peter Pan douchebag and dives right in with another who plays with motorcycles. The sad part is that these kids are gonna end up all fucked up and she gonna act like she didn’t know how they got that way.
=D> =D> =D>
One of the downsides of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to form communities, and sometimes those communities are stupid.
Jake Patrick wrote:Hi all, I've been a lurker here, and I think this thread is hilarious. Like many of you, I think CrossFit offers some useful conditioning applications, but not much more.
Jeebus Kee-rist, get some kneepads, psychophant.
and there are CrossFitters overhead squatting pumpkins.
Are you sure? Were you there, Mr. Smarty-pants Pumpkin Inspector? Ever pick up a fully laden pumpkin? Over your head? Shit's heavy, man. Ever thrust your manhood into one while yelling, "This is for Charlie Brown, mother fucker, you great fucking pumpkin!!!" I bet you did. Not me, though. So don't ask.
Christ, nayfud, that was fucking funny. And here I thought you were all hard and shit.
WGM wrote:Fall off a chinup bar, drop a barbell on your head, or piss yourself at the bottom of a squat and the Internet will never forget you.
nafod wrote: Ever thrust your manhood into one while yelling, "This is for Charlie Brown, mother fucker, you great fucking pumpkin!!!" I bet you did. Not me, though. So don't ask.
that's a cormac mccarthy character in the watermelon patch. those southerners know their pussy.
Really Big Strong Guy: There are a plethora of psychopaths among us.
Jake Patrick, first off suck a dick for not introducing yourself over in the FSF
Crossfit is gay and not many of us think it's useful outside of the drinking gin part, as far as the lifting pumpkins, maybe they all finally graduated from lifting the pvc pipe.
syaigh wrote: The thought of eating that giant veiny monstrosity makes me want to barf.
Crust Bucket wrote:Jake Patrick, first off suck a dick for not introducing yourself over in the FSF.
Fuck that. I didn't say shit in the FSF, and I still haven't. I came here with a gut full of hate, and I wasn't going to diminish that by a "hey everybody, i like to lift weights, get pussy, etc." Maybe I'm just easily distracted, but I want to keep the hate pure.
Some of the men dressed up like scary transexuals look more feminine than your average @ft Cert. attendee. At least on Halloween you can tell if someone is playing at being the other gender. Some of these pics from @ft that are posted here leave me scratching my head as to what I just saw...
All a man has is his word and to keep himself free.
This is just a thought that has been rattling around in my brain for a while now and I really began dwelling on it after attending the Cert. this past weekend in San Diego. Before any of the CF elite start jumping on my back with shouts of "BLASPHEMY"!! just hear me out. I'm looking for discussion , not argument. Are we really specializing in not specializing? How many times have you been asked what your Fran time is , or what your last FGB score was? If I do Fran today in 3 minutes and in two weeks I do it in 6 minutes, does that mean that I have receded in conditioning in two weeks? Does that really measure my progress? Or did I not eat a good breakfast that day, am i stressed about family issues, did I not get adequate rest the night before, did someone replace my White Zombie cd with Depeche Mode in the middle of my WO? What about the guy that does Fran once a week because he wants to get a better time, has he not specialized at Fran? I really started thinking about this at the cert after listening to several people talk about their Fran time from the week before and the week before that. Also while listening to fellow CFrs talk about certain WOs that they repeatedly do in order to improve at that specific WO. Haven't some of us missed the point? I know the intention is for the benchmarks to only pop up every now and then as a test of sorts, but I think that concept has gotten away from us. Also there were some guys at the cert that had very impressive time when we did Fran, they have also done Fran many , many times. What impressed me more was a guy that had never heard of Fran (believe it or not) and knocked it out in just over four minutes. I propose that in order to truly not specialize that we never do the same WO twice, ever. If you love doing Fran , next time do kettlebell thrusters and strict pullups, the next time do 50-30-10 with lighter weight instead of 21-15-9, the next time go heavy with 135 and weighted pullups... the possibilities are endless. Although the measurability of each workout is lessened if not removed due to the constant variable changes; wouldn't this make us more well rounded athletes who truly do not specialize? I'm just using Fran as an example because of it's popularity, but even for those of us that create our own WODs this would be a good practice. This is all purely my opinion and an idea I wanted to bounce around the community and see what others thought on this subject. It just seems to me that in our quest to be truly non-specialists we have become specialists, and at times fallen into actual routines. With all the exercises and possible combinations of rep schemes and loads, and endless variations of equipment and body weight movements it would take years or more to ever have to repeat WO. I know that many use benchmarks to measure progress, but does it really? I'm really asking here, I'm not being a smart ***. We all know if we are improving or not, we know if we feel better, feel stronger, have more energy , more endurance in our WOs, if we are losing fat or gaining muscle. Does a sub three minute Fran really tell us if we are improving as athletes or did we just have a great day? Maybe all the pieces just happened to fall into place that day, good nights sleep, no stress, good meals, perfect climate, adequate hydration, and good motivating buddies cheering you on! Are we putting to much stock in our "times"? Have we become what we set out so intently on not becoming..... specialists?!! I know Helen was one of my favorites for a long time, I actually had to make myself stop doing Helen because i was neglecting other variables and using to many training days to do a WO that I had already become familiar with and comfortable with. Sure, I could get better Helen times if I did it more often. But then other aspects of my training would probably suffer and get neglected. So I still do "Helen -like" WOs such as: Row 500meters/KB snatches/ weighted pullups, different but still a great WO. I know that there must still be some form of progress measurements and tracking but I would think that some sort of quarterly or even bi-yearly assessment would be enough to figure out where we are at. Again, I am not doubting or denying anything that CF is about or the program we follow, I am just opening a discussion here to maybe stimulate some thoughts and ideas on how we can constantly improve and be better. I am hoping to get some great feedback from those with more experience and knowledge in this game and see what we can come up with ourselves. I know that someone will respond that if we just follow the WODs on the main page then we will be OK. Yes I understand that but even in the main page WODs some WO's and movements pop up more often then others. My point in all of this is, are we training ourselves completely with all possible modalities and equipment options? Or are we doing what we have found to be comfortable and become accustomed to? I know I myself am VERY guilty of looking at the main page some mornings and saying, "run a 10K!! are you crazy!!"
This is just a thought that has been rattling around in my brain for a while now and I really began dwelling on it after attending the Cert. this past weekend in San Diego. Before any of the CF elite start jumping on my back with shouts of "BLASPHEMY"!! just hear me out. I'm looking for discussion , not argument. Are we really specializing in not specializing? How many times have you been asked what your Fran time is , or what your last FGB score was? If I do Fran today in 3 minutes and in two weeks I do it in 6 minutes, does that mean that I have receded in conditioning in two weeks? Does that really measure my progress? Or did I not eat a good breakfast that day, am i stressed about family issues, did I not get adequate rest the night before, did someone replace my White Zombie cd with Depeche Mode in the middle of my WO? What about the guy that does Fran once a week because he wants to get a better time, has he not specialized at Fran? I really started thinking about this at the cert after listening to several people talk about their Fran time from the week before and the week before that. Also while listening to fellow CFrs talk about certain WOs that they repeatedly do in order to improve at that specific WO. Haven't some of us missed the point? I know the intention is for the benchmarks to only pop up every now and then as a test of sorts, but I think that concept has gotten away from us. Also there were some guys at the cert that had very impressive time when we did Fran, they have also done Fran many , many times. What impressed me more was a guy that had never heard of Fran (believe it or not) and knocked it out in just over four minutes. I propose that in order to truly not specialize that we never do the same WO twice, ever. If you love doing Fran , next time do kettlebell thrusters and strict pullups, the next time do 50-30-10 with lighter weight instead of 21-15-9, the next time go heavy with 135 and weighted pullups... the possibilities are endless. Although the measurability of each workout is lessened if not removed due to the constant variable changes; wouldn't this make us more well rounded athletes who truly do not specialize? I'm just using Fran as an example because of it's popularity, but even for those of us that create our own WODs this would be a good practice. This is all purely my opinion and an idea I wanted to bounce around the community and see what others thought on this subject. It just seems to me that in our quest to be truly non-specialists we have become specialists, and at times fallen into actual routines. With all the exercises and possible combinations of rep schemes and loads, and endless variations of equipment and body weight movements it would take years or more to ever have to repeat WO. I know that many use benchmarks to measure progress, but does it really? I'm really asking here, I'm not being a smart ***. We all know if we are improving or not, we know if we feel better, feel stronger, have more energy , more endurance in our WOs, if we are losing fat or gaining muscle. Does a sub three minute Fran really tell us if we are improving as athletes or did we just have a great day? Maybe all the pieces just happened to fall into place that day, good nights sleep, no stress, good meals, perfect climate, adequate hydration, and good motivating buddies cheering you on! Are we putting to much stock in our "times"? Have we become what we set out so intently on not becoming..... specialists?!! I know Helen was one of my favorites for a long time, I actually had to make myself stop doing Helen because i was neglecting other variables and using to many training days to do a WO that I had already become familiar with and comfortable with. Sure, I could get better Helen times if I did it more often. But then other aspects of my training would probably suffer and get neglected. So I still do "Helen -like" WOs such as: Row 500meters/KB snatches/ weighted pullups, different but still a great WO. I know that there must still be some form of progress measurements and tracking but I would think that some sort of quarterly or even bi-yearly assessment would be enough to figure out where we are at. Again, I am not doubting or denying anything that CF is about or the program we follow, I am just opening a discussion here to maybe stimulate some thoughts and ideas on how we can constantly improve and be better. I am hoping to get some great feedback from those with more experience and knowledge in this game and see what we can come up with ourselves. I know that someone will respond that if we just follow the WODs on the main page then we will be OK. Yes I understand that but even in the main page WODs some WO's and movements pop up more often then others. My point in all of this is, are we training ourselves completely with all possible modalities and equipment options? Or are we doing what we have found to be comfortable and become accustomed to? I know I myself am VERY guilty of looking at the main page some mornings and saying, "run a 10K!! are you crazy!!"
Sometime you look in the mirror and see what you have been avoiding for a long time...trick is trying to get out without being scared to start the car in the morning or step on the brakes in the mountains...
"Start slowly, then ease off". Tortuga Golden Striders Running Club, Pensacola 1984.
"But even snake wrestling beats life in the cube, for me at least. In measured doses."-Lex
For once, let me be a tad serious about that post.
When Dan introduced me to x-fit, what he liked about it, was that he didn't have to come up with a workout schedule. So, it became a tool he used. Not a religion.
Dan also is the kind of guy that gives lots of feedback. So, what he did or didln't like, he communicated with Glasshole. With that came the friendship, the long boring discussions that Dan likes......
Now, I go spend a day with this group and come back with kind of a different take. I think I did one or two WODs ever. Cuz, one, I'm the horrible about being coached. Two, I get into a "what the fuck" mode real easy. I was just learning to throw, so if the discus didn't go farther, it got tossed. However, my first internet posting was at the x-fit message board. So, that part wasn't so bad. This is when Shaf was still there, Dan would post and being a "true believer" wasn't necessary.
But, then Shaf turned me on to P&B. There, things were a little different. A little more raw, but my lifts exploded.
Bringing this all back home. You have to decide where you are going and what you want to do. Your Fran time will be all over the place, cuz no workout is exactly done in the same physical condition. Like the days you want to pull a gym max and the bar is glued to the floor at a 90% 1RM. It ain't always going to happen
I think x-fit can get you to a place and keep you there, until you decide what you want to get good in. Then, you need to find a more specific program.
Me, I make it up as I go along. Still getting PRs in lifting and throwing, so it is working for me.
So, you're saying that because you kept catching your nipple rings on the bar during the clean?
Bad form. The catch should be right on the clavicles. <<<<q
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It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
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