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RPC wrote:More displays of the brokeness of the @fit Gaymes...

HQ Faves who are organizing the regionals and selecting the qualifying events also get to compete in these.

http://www.crossfitfredericton.com/cros ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Suspicious that Jodi (one of the organizers, a prior Games highlight, and HQ fave) puts in a 1 RM Deadlift as part of the events when she holds a national record for that very lift? Her husband Anthony also an organizer pulls 450+ and is competing as well...

CultBuster wrote:

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Why is the dude in the hat wearing a bra?

So if the RRG is only at $169,400 out of $500,000 and it will LITERALLY save the @Fit world, why wong Gregg and Lauren just pony up the money? Some big names off that list. Noth Santa Cruz, Hyperfit, San Francisco...

nafod wrote:Patrick, you and BOto both remind me of this Houseman poem...

When first my way to fair I took
Few pence in purse had I,
And long I used to stand and look
At things I could not buy.

Now times are altered: if I care
To buy a thing, I can;
The pence are here and here's the fair.
But where's the lost young man?

-- To think that two and two are four
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long 'tis like to be.

powerlifter54 wrote:

RPC wrote:Suspicious that Jodi (one of the organizers, a prior Games highlight, and HQ fave) puts in a 1 RM Deadlift as part of the events when she holds a national record for that very lift? Her husband Anthony also an organizer pulls 450+ and is competing as well...

well in 2 short years he should be at 700.

RPC wrote:More displays of the brokeness of the @fit Gaymes...

HQ Faves who are organizing the regionals and selecting the qualifying events also get to compete in these.

http://www.crossfitfredericton.com/cros ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Suspicious that Jodi (one of the organizers, a prior Games highlight, and HQ fave) puts in a 1 RM Deadlift as part of the events when she holds a national record for that very lift? Her husband Anthony also an organizer pulls 450+ and is competing as well...

crimsonice5656 wrote:The thread was becoming quite a powder keg...
Guess they couldn't take the heat so they locked the thread down and deleted all the negative comments on their main page

RPC wrote:More displays of the brokeness of the @fit Gaymes...

HQ Faves who are organizing the regionals and selecting the qualifying events also get to compete in these.

http://www.crossfitfredericton.com/cros ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Suspicious that Jodi (one of the organizers, a prior Games highlight, and HQ fave) puts in a 1 RM Deadlift as part of the events when she holds a national record for that very lift? Her husband Anthony also an organizer pulls 450+ and is competing as well...

Marcel Zwinger wrote:Let's face it, humans did evolve (more or less) clothless so taking off your shirt just gives you a little bit of a "beastiality" - rush

superFaggot wrote:I go shirtless primarily for comfort and keeping cool, but it also falls under the category of "things that are fun to do at CF gyms that you'd never be allowed to do in a Globo," sort of like working out barefoot, making chalk messes, dropping bars from overhead, and screaming obscenities at yourself or your training partner to get through a workout.

Resident Quack wrote: Lisa Ray - @F Flagstaff

Justin Gross wrote:Sometimes we get caught up in our own little circle jerk and forget that other people may have good stuff to contribute.

Patrick Donnelly wrote:

crimsonice5656 wrote:The thread was becoming quite a powder keg...
Guess they couldn't take the heat so they locked the thread down and deleted all the negative comments on their main page

RPC wrote:More displays of the brokeness of the @fit Gaymes...

HQ Faves who are organizing the regionals and selecting the qualifying events also get to compete in these.

http://www.crossfitfredericton.com/cros ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Suspicious that Jodi (one of the organizers, a prior Games highlight, and HQ fave) puts in a 1 RM Deadlift as part of the events when she holds a national record for that very lift? Her husband Anthony also an organizer pulls 450+ and is competing as well...

Huh. I just realized that link to CF Fredericton's site requires a log-in. Was it like that before? I didn't check it earlier.

Here's the thread on "CF Games Qualifier Observations..." It's 19 pages and still running on. Why did you say it was locked?
http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=45630" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also, here's an interesting thread from Pukie's: http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=45552" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I've only read the first and last page, though. I sort of let my mind fill in all the other details, probably accurately.

Here's a good topic about how so many CrossFitters work out shirtless: http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=45830" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
All of them are hopelessly trying to convince themselves that they do it to feel cooler. One even goes so far to say:

Marcel Zwinger wrote:Let's face it, humans did evolve (more or less) clothless so taking off your shirt just gives you a little bit of a "beastiality" - rush

Lastly, is SS reading this thread, or did we get the CFHQ address change info from his post? http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=46069" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
With the timezone changes in each board, I can't tell which was posted first.

Honestly cheating @Fer wrote:In this plush, overfed part of the world that we live in, @Fit strips us to the bone and lets us see the very marrow of our souls. And what lies there, inside of us, is not always pretty. Sometimes it is a bitter heart, or a quitter's attitude, or a cheater's nature. It is raw and revealed and naked. But it is us.

Another cheating @Fer wrote:Cheating is an ever-present temptation given the intensity at which we train, and can be incredibly subtle, so subtle in fact that you can often overlook that you are doing it.

Kraj wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/magaz ... =permalink

How much did CrossFit pay the NYT to print this shit? Now you see why I don't bother reading mainstream news. It's complete and utter shit.
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For fuck's sake, are these the same pussy-whipped tards who do 10,000 reps with a PVC pipe and then piss out their kidneys, or did the stupid bitch writing this article stumble upon some top secret special forces training program out in the Nevada desert?

The Gladiator Diet

by Andrew Curry

How to eat, exercise, and die a violent death

A referee looks on as two distinct types of gladiators battle to the death on this relief found in the gladiator graveyard at Ephesus. The man in the middle--a lumbering secutor--has lost his shield, leaving him vulnerable to the lightly armored retiarus at right. (Courtesy Karl Grossschmidt)
The Café Westend, just across the street from Vienna's main train station, is a city landmark. Its green felt-lined booths and weary waiters in wrinkled black suits have seen a lot over the years. But when he agreed to meet me here instead of in his lab on the edge of town, Karl Grossschmidt, a paleo-pathologist at the Medical University of Vienna, promised to show me something new even to this century-old coffeehouse. Pushing aside empty cappuccino cups and the remains of a dry croissant, Grossschmidt takes a quick look over his shoulder to see if our waiter is out of sight. Coast clear, he reaches into a plastic grocery bag and pulls out a white cardboard box. Inside, padded with crumpled paper towels, is a jawless skull. Grossschmidt lifts it gently and passes it to me. "Don't drop it--it's real," he says.

The three holes in this skull are evidence of death by trident for one Ephesus gladiator. A computer-generated image shows how the weapon would have entered the skull. (Courtesy Karl Grossschmidt)
Reaching out with both hands, I take the skull of a Roman gladiator who lived, fought, and died more than 1,800 years ago in Ephesus, in what is now western Turkey. Together with more than 60 of his young comrades, he was buried in a 200-square-foot plot along the road that led from the city center to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The recent study of the bones from the world's only known gladiator graveyard is filling gaps in the literary sources and archaeological record concerning how gladiators died. But the biggest revelation to come out of the Ephesus cemetery is what kept the gladiators alive--a vegetarian diet rich in carbohydrates, with the occasional calcium supplement.
Contemporary accounts of gladiator life sometimes refer to the warriors as hordearii--literally, "barley men." Grossschmidt and collaborator Fabian Kanz subjected bits of the bone to isotopic analysis, a technique that measures trace chemical elements such as calcium, strontium, and zinc, to see if they could find out why. They turned up some surprising results. Compared to the average inhabitant of Ephesus, gladiators ate more plants and very little animal protein. The vegetarian diet had nothing to do with poverty or animal rights. Gladiators, it seems, were fat. Consuming a lot of simple carbohydrates, such as barley, and legumes, like beans, was designed for survival in the arena. Packing in the carbs also packed on the pounds. "Gladiators needed subcutaneous fat," Grossschmidt explains. "A fat cushion protects you from cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight." Not only would a lean gladiator have been dead meat, he would have made for a bad show. Surface wounds "look more spectacular," says Grossschmidt. "If I get wounded but just in the fatty layer, I can fight on," he adds. "It doesn't hurt much, and it looks great for the spectators."

The existence of the four-pointed dagger (replica pictured here) was known from inscriptions, but its function was a mystery until this crippling quadruple knee wound was identified. (Courtesy Karl Grossschmidt)
But a diet of barley and vegetables would have left the fighters with a serious calcium deficit. To keep their bones strong, historical accounts say, they downed vile brews of charred wood or bone ash, both of which are rich in calcium. Whatever the exact formula, the stuff worked. Grossschmidt says that the calcium levels in the gladiator bones were "exorbitant" compared to the general population. "Many athletes today have to take calcium supplements," he says. "They knew that then, too."
That's not to say life--or death--as a gladiator was pleasant. Many of the men Grossschmidt's team studied died only after surviving multiple blows to the head. "The proportion of wounds to the skull was surprising, since all gladiatorial types but one wore helmets," says Harvard's Coleman. Gladiators usually fought one-on-one, with their armor and weaponry designed to give opposite advantages. For example, a nimble, lightly armored and helmetless retiarus with a net and trident would be pitted against a plodding murmillo wearing a massive helmet with tiny eye slits and carrying a thick, long shield. Three of the Ephesus skulls had been punctured by tridents, weapons used only by gladiators. Ten had been bashed in with blunt objects, perhaps mercy blows with a hammer. Other injuries illustrate the gladiator's ideal death, finally accepting the coup de grâce. Cut marks on four of the men were evidence of a dramatic end. "When they lost and were lying on their stomachs, their opponent stabbed them through the shoulder blade into the heart," Grossschmidt says. "We also found vertebrae with cut marks. They would have been from a downward stabbing sword wound through the throat into the heart."