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Jake Patrick wrote:

Joe wrote:It used to be fun to point out the "cultness" of crossfit, now it's getting to be not all that funny. It's either going to collapse or go full on cult, I don't see a way out. All of these attacks are really just the slow and methodical grooming of the followers into the crossfit "belief system". This bullshit about the operators, heros and the fallen is nothing more than the wrapping on the manipulation that makes it more palletable (for some). The "smackdowns" that people who call bullshit is the classic response, somewhere out there is a young person who just learned you don't question the cooch. I suspect more learn that lesson than step back and go, "What the fuck have I attached myself to?" Boto and PD, good on you guys for actually seeing the light.

Check out this FAQ http://www.rickross.com/faq.html, lots of parallels, too many.

+1

It's especially disturbing when Cooz literally says that people on his main site are ignorant and dumb, but he benevolently excuses their failings because he realizes they're simpletons -- and everybody eats it up and just loves him for it. I don't get it.

everyone always thinks they're in the smart 10%.

odds are very much against that...

Thruster Hilter = * post of the year nominee *

Kings of Mickey wrote:Who does the hiring of "contract", or outside, trainers for the various branches of the military? I would think they would know how to train soldiers or know who to hire to train them but it looks like they just pick someone out of a hat. Pavel has a good track record for this type of training, Caviston I'm not sure about but seems to be a badass but I'm not sure the carryover and @fit = wtf?.

The guy over at Mountain Athlete seems to have a good grasp on this type of training as well.

Oh and btw, I hate couch and fagfit and all of the cultfit kool-aid drinkers. I really do.

I would really like to know.

Jake Patrick wrote:

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For those crossfitters interested in stonelifting, I present you:

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"Those rock walls did not get there without a little puke"

Joe wrote:For those crossfitters interested in stonelifting, I present you:

http://www.grahamsweet.com/balls/cut-balls-price.php

Get the benefits of high rep stone lifting, one of the most functional exercises in the history of MANKIND!

"Those rock walls did not get there without a little puke"

LMFAO

While they're at it, here's a car they can flip:

upside that video is fucking great... you gotta tag the youtube

coop wrote:upside that video is fucking great... you gotta tag the youtube

Good call. Just added some tags.

ThrusterHitler was pure genius. Lynne is probably fuming right now from her chair at work while watching it.

Jake Patrick wrote:I wonder what they would think of stone-lifting:

What a CrossFitter would think of stone lifting wrote:Not fair. He specializes! A CrossFitter would cream him any day in any real and functional test of strength and endurance!

upsideyahead wrote:

OK, THAT was some funny shit.

Joe wrote:Thruster Hilter = * post of the year nominee *

+1 =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>


Irony, hypocrisy, whatever:
Posted on the main site, 4/21/09, a video of three people roundback DLing high reps: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/004636.html...then Caviston gets called out for his form 4/25/09: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/004644.html

Same day, 4/25/09, Couch calls out Caviston for the DL form contest, and yet has never been video'd doing even a scaled WAD with "only" his old injury, then they post this 4/26/09:


From Joe's cult education post:

A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power.

Wow. How accurate.

The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:To damage the operators ability to do their job, Caviston would have to implement a bunch of shit that wouldn't make any fucking sense to anybody.

Like Crossfit?

Was 26th April retard day on the crossfit comments board

I promised my oly coach I wouldn't do any heavy oly lifts until he got my technique straightened out. 95lbs is heavy right? Please please please let the Frat crew vote it's heavy.

Comment #4 - Posted by: jakers at April 25, 2009 8:01 PM

Can someone fill me in on what chest to bar pull ups are? Couldn't find it in the list of exercises. Thanks

Comment #5 - Posted by: PB at April 25, 2009 8:02 PM

what is a squat snatch?

Comment #9 - Posted by: sarah at April 25, 2009 8:05 PM

The snatch squat is not listed in the exercise section. Can someone explain how to do one.

Comment #13 - Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2009 8:19 PM

Can someone please help the newbie and let me know what the Squat Snatch is and if there is a sub for it, if the gym doesnt allow it?

Comment #17 - Posted by: Brett at April 25, 2009 8:27 PM

The snatch squat is not listed in the exercise section. Can someone explain how to do one.

Comment #13 - Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2009 8:19 PM

Couch wrote:Mike: don't worry about it. Just grab a barbell and throw it around as hard and fast as possible for 20 minutes or so. Put your shoulders in an open, vulnerable position as often as possible and try to jar your shoulder blades and lower back as hard as possible. This builds mental toughness. If you puke, Congrats! You did it right!

More solid instruction from the expert.

MarcoFP wrote:He's such a fucking asshole, & has a penchant for trannies & gin.

I thought we only talked about his bad qualities here.

Ten years from now, IGX will be recognized as the Operation Clambake of the cult fitness world.

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Kings of Mickey wrote:

Grandpa's Spells wrote:

upsideyahead wrote:

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

Unprecedented ten clappy post.

LOLOLOL! =D> =D> =D> That was fantastic!

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

Post of the year!

Joe wrote: The "smackdowns" that people who call bullshit is the classic response, somewhere out there is a young person who just learned you don't question the cooch.

Way back when I was a young and impressionable cultfitter, I was quite active on the forum. One day, I went so far as to call out the "dog pile" mentality of some of my fellow cultists when a certain poster named Walsh actually questioned the Zone as the end-all diet for @fit. I backed him up saying his argument was well reasoned and came from a medical/scientific line of reasoning. I was then dog-piled upon for my support of a contrarian.

Enter Couch.

He called out the OP, Walsh, and then me for supporting him and for being misinformed and some other shit. He basically said Walsh was an idiot for questioning the all-knowing Dr. Sears (hey, RQ they call that guy "Dr.", ironic huh?) and that I was overreacting to the "community's" defense. I e-mailed Couch 3 times with my responses to his attacks. He chose to answer me on the forum and make an example of me. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was classic cultism in action. Public reprimands to quiet the questioning deciples and get them back in line.

Didn't work too well on me.

I've figured it out.

It just dawned on me what the entire purpose of CrossFit is.

CrossFit is Couch's way of getting back at the world for his injury. He was so upset about being crippled the way he was that he decided to take it out on others. CrossFit was his way to do that. "If I can't be healthy, no one will!" he probably screamed night after night as he cried himself to sleep with a bottle of gin.

It's all so clear now.

Couch doesn't want to help you. He wants to drag you down to hell with him.

Sofa King,
I'm beginning to think that a lack of actual, bonafide credentials is necessary to rise in the @F world.

After all, learning things that the cult doesn't teach might encourage free-thinking, and we know they don't want that!

Couch wrote:This website serves aims that can hardly be comprehended or appreciated by the overwhelming majority of the posters here. Oh well.

Comment #170 - Posted by: Coach at April 26, 2009 8:34 AM

Yes, the unique and novel approach of Cultfuck is forging a vast network of affiliates and generating large amounts of cash all while evading tax and franchise laws. True, this has never been tried successfully before.

Couch wrote:This website serves aims that can hardly be comprehended or appreciated by the overwhelming majority of the posters here. Oh well.

Comment #170 - Posted by: Coach at April 26, 2009 8:34 AM

Depending on the type of cult, this is the type of statement their leaders issue

1) Before a grand jury for child kidnapping and molestation charges
2) While waiting on the spaceship, or
3) Before federal agents torch the compound.

Couch is stuck between two and three. He likes his women a little older. Equipose takes the place of grooming.

Rhabdo is just the latest vehicle. After all, GHD situps are cheaper than cyanide.

Jesus Motherfucking Christ.

Wow. Could be the dumbest @F picture yet.

If you want to forge elite fitness (tm), you have to break a few eggs.