The couch thread

[Kraj]

If the two brothers are former collegiate football players who are now training to become boxers, how are they considered PRO athletes? Where I come from, a "pro athlete" is one that gets paid to perform. College athletics are considered amateur, and training for a sport does not equate to getting paid for it. As far as I can tell, those guys aren't pro. The CF assholes are just making that up to feel better about themselves. "I beat a pro athlete!" sounds a lot better than "I beat a former college football player who takes boxing classes."

BTW, doing any workout, muchless a CrossFit fuckfest, after 4 hours of physical training earlier in the day is just pointless.

It's unfortunate that people don't realize that a 41" or 45" or 50" box jump doesn't equate to a 41", 45", or 50" vertical leap. Two completely different ball games.

Yeah, a 60" box-jump is probably no more than a 30" vertical leap.

[Freki]

Capes aren't TACTICAL!!!!

[JohnnyBadAss]

Yeah, a 60" box-jump is probably no more than a 30" vertical leap.

Definitely still impressive. Just pointing out the difference that too many meatsticks don't understand. And it's probably higher than a 30" vertical, given my vertical leap vs. box jump.

[TerryB]

Gayest thing I have seen for a while.

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That character is absolutely flaming with his stars, bulbous pecs, & pirate hat.

[Kraj]

Gayest thing I have seen for a while.

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That character is absolutely flaming with his stars, bulbous pecs, & pirate hat.

The thing that bothers me is that they went with Papyrus font. Why would they go with an ancient-Egyptian-style lettering for a colonial revolutionary theme? Pisses me off.

[D'Aquisto]

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=47451

Check it out -- recently we, at CFLA, were visited by Leyon and his brother Leroy. They were both collegiate football players and are currently training to be heavyweight boxers. They train in a gym almost 6 hours every day. This is a video of their FIRST ever CrossFit workout, and then Andy and Jonesy's effort at the same workout a few days later. For them, simply getting through the workout was an accomplishment... lets just say that they severely underestimated CrossFit!

http://vimeo.com/5009778
(work/family safe)

Thread is shit (apparently they did the Crossfit workout AFTER 4 hours of boxing training?), except for Pendlay's reply:

They are training for boxing? Wonder what would happen if you boxed with them? just askin'

and, just for the record, never ever want to get crossways with a boxer... yes i am a wussy when it comes to people hitting me, I just dont like it.

glenn

Fuck. Douchbaggery. One of those guys is 6'6" and they had him doing bb thrusters? Bet their wrists and low back loved that, not to mention their boxing trainers. I'd like to see the vid of when the boxing coaches turn up there pissed that their guy got fucked up doing some WOD. - then we'll see who gets beat down.

And having them do that after 4 hours of other training then boasting about how beat up they were...

[TerryB]

Cultfitters would box...but their hands are out of commission from kipping like monkeys on crack.

That's one thing that just bugs the shit out of me. Cultfit is supposed to be for "operators" and front line guys, rescue guys, grunts, the tough bastards who handle shit...yet the ONE THING YOU NEED CONSTANTLY TO BE EFFECTIVE ARE YOUR HANDS. They take it as a badge of honor that their hands are torn to shit. That's a luxury most operators can't afford. Hell, if my platoon sergeant saw all his guys walking around with fucked up hands, you can bet the trainer would catch hell. If your hands are out of commission, YOU'RE out of commission. And if they get infected, fuck me, you're done for a while. Forget pushups. Forget rifle training. Forget maintenance. You're on sick call walking around with bandages on your palms.

fucking morons

[Gin Master]

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You must also keep the following color chart in all restrooms (or in the unisex restroom for our California affiliates). This is our version of the heart monitor. If your piss matches the bottom color (aka black), take a half-intensity day. If it matches the top color, you're not working hard enough.



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[Holy Cow]

BREAKING NEWS from CrossFit (TM) RRG:

Folks, we are almost there! As you know, the Risk Retention Group will protect our elite coaches and elite athletes in forging elite fitness for soon-to-be-elitely-fit population.

Effective immediately, all boxes (per your affiliate agreement, you are not to use the word "gym") will be inspected for mandatory safety equipment. This includes a puke bucket, a bowl of condoms, and free sample size tubes of Astroglide (we suggest keeping it behind the counter (it goes quickly!).

You must also keep the following color chart in all restrooms (or in the unisex restroom for our California affiliates). This is our version of the heart monitor. If your piss matches the bottom color (aka black), take a half-intensity day. If it matches the top color, you're not working hard enough.



Finally, you MUST purchase a new safety tool. Folks, THIS SAVES LIVES!!! Just last week, an elite athlete at one of our elite affiliates walked out a squat and collapsed under the load. There were other elite athletes in the gym who, although they had great Fran times, were unable to lift the bar from the victim's back. Fortunately, two WWII vets were walking by outside, saw the victim's plight, and pulled the bar off of him.

Don't be a victim. Order this life-saving device now!!! In the event you can't lift the bar off the victim, you can actually cut through it. It's like the jaws of life.

LMFAO

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

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

where did you find this video? I would recognize those colors anywhere, that is The Weight Club in Blacksburg, VA. I lifted there when i was in college due to the overcrowding of the VTech student facilities. It was by far the best gym i've ever been in. Bumpers, chains, platforms, dumbells up to 160 i think... also has a track around the top and was like 60 bucks for a semester. Looks a little more polished now.

[Mountebank]

where did you find this video? I would recognize those colors anywhere, that is The Weight Club in Blacksburg, VA.

Just searching around YouTube, something like "WR box jump" or "record box jump", it might have been one of those "related videos" too. I've never been to VA myself...and I could count the number of gyms I've been to with OL platforms on both hands (I might not even need both). From what I understand and have experienced, AZ in general just sucks gym-wise.

[Kraj]

Cultfit is supposed to be for "operators" and front line guys, rescue guys, grunts, the tough bastards who handle shit...yet the ONE THING YOU NEED CONSTANTLY TO BE EFFECTIVE ARE YOUR HANDS.

Tell me about it. When I'm on a spec-ops mission, taking out terrorists in COD4, my hands are all I've got to rely on. If I'm fucked with blisters and shit I can kiss my leaderboard rankings goodbye. That's actually the main reason I don't do CrossFit.

[TerryB]

Finally, you MUST purchase a new safety tool. Folks, THIS SAVES LIVES!!! Just last week, an elite athlete at one of our elite affiliates walked out a squat and collapsed under the load. There were other elite athletes in the gym who, although they had great Fran times, were unable to lift the bar from the victim's back. Fortunately, two WWII vets were walking by outside, saw the victim's plight, and pulled the bar off of him.

Don't be a victim. Order this life-saving device now!!! In the event you can't lift the bar off the victim, you can actually cut through it. It's like the jaws of life.

LMFAO!!!!!

[CultBuster]

jkd_stefan07-05-2007, 07:11 PM
1. Bodybuilding w/Anabolic Support
2. Everything Else w/anabolic Support
3. Full Body Workouts/Upper Lower Split (T-nation style)
4. Cross Fit
5. Everything Else (usually involving pink rubber dumbbells)


Cross Fit is mostly a bunch of pansy ass workouts that do little but raise your muscular endurance and tailor themselves towards the working housewife who wants to tone up. HOWEVER, some of their stuff is very good. It's just that it's surrounded by pussified crappola that's the problem. It's kind of like Men's Health in that way.

wow , youre full of crap, get your facts straight, i bet you wouldnt even be able to finish a single WOD. this is no mens health BS or any kind. Crossfit is known as the best training there is. People from the special forces do it, people from UFC do it, firefighters, policemen, atlhetes. And did I mention Mark Rippetoe is a Crossfit Coach?

Stfu before saying ignorant crap.

how is it that no one from Xfit EVER has to answer this dumb shit. I read on blogs how "Capt. Scully" credits crossfit, but NO WHERE is there anything about it. it isn't on his site. What athletes? i have never met, or heard from any Spec. Op guys that do Xfit. Retired, former, yes some SWAT..but special forces?

[nafod]

I have never met, or heard from any Spec. Op guys that do Xfit. Retired, former, yes some SWAT..but special forces?

Visited Bagram, Kandahar, and Balad, and saw them doing Xfit-ish workouts at all of them. They were having a Fight Gone Bad contest when I was in Bagram last summer. Knuckle dragging SOF guys.

[T200]

From what I understand and have experienced, AZ in general just sucks gym-wise.

I don't know what you're looking for in a gym but if you are in the Scottsdale airpark area at all you can come by the place I work out of.

To the rest of the thread:

Both the spec ops guys I trained with said that their units were overrun with @Fitters.

[Mountebank]

T200,
Thanks for the invite. Is that where the sandbag guru is? If so, tell him I said hello.

BTW, I didn't mean there weren't any great gyms, just few and far between in this dry heat. Tucson is absolutely terrible in that regard.

[T200]

T200,
Thanks for the invite. Is that where the sandbag guru is? If so, tell him I said hello.

When he's not out guru-ing that is indeed where he is.

[TerryB]

I have never met, or heard from any Spec. Op guys that do Xfit. Retired, former, yes some SWAT..but special forces?

Visited Bagram, Kandahar, and Balad, and saw them doing Xfit-ish workouts at all of them. They were having a Fight Gone Bad contest when I was in Bagram last summer. Knuckle dragging SOF guys.

I don't think anyone's saying Crossfit is worse than typical Army PT. But we are saying it's far from the best.

[WildGorillaMan]

Y'all know that the trainers (using the term loosely, you understand) are looking for a free show when they put rope jumping on the WOD.



In that, they and I are not dissimilar.

[POD]

Awesome post, Gin Master. Inspired.

[Fish]

This reply to his was pretty good:

I can't decide if I would beat the **** out of you with a wooden bat, my bare hands, or an Eleiko bar (since it has a good warranty) if you did that in my place.

While you probably can't lift anything heavy enough to damage a tile floor if dropped, crapping on somebody's equipment and facilities is poor form. Arrogant, entitled *******es like you make it harder for other CFers to train in main stream gyms.

Not everyone there is completely retarted.

Of course, that post is from Gant Grimes. Guys like him and Jay Cohen really have nothing in common with the CrossFit ideology anymore.


No new growth in the RRG since yesterday.

I remember reading over Gant's hybrid program (and now the strength bias program) and thinking that it didn't really even seem like couchfit anymore in the fact that workouts were planned out ahead of time and had a routine of sorts involved.

The ironic thing is that the idiots over there act like making a program where you hit the basics hard and heavy with a focus on hitting PRs as often as possible is something new and innovative. The more people over there push to get stronger and more athletic, the more they are realizing they just need to get back to the basics and work their asses off.

[Fish]

You must also keep the following color chart in all restrooms (or in the unisex restroom for our California affiliates). This is our version of the heart monitor. If your piss matches the bottom color (aka black), take a half-intensity day. If it matches the top color, you're not working hard enough.[/color]

LOL I don't even know how you could come up with something like that.

[Blaidd Drwg]

fucking gant grimes. what a sell out. after all couchfit did for him...this is how he repays them?...with trademark infringement on couchfit's intellectual property? oh the huge manatee!!!!

[sigifrith007]

fucking gant grimes. what a sell out. after all couchfit did for him...this is how he repays them?...with trademark infringement on couchfit's intellectual property? oh the huge manatee!!!!

Yes. Clearly Gant should be shot in both knees.