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This is, perhaps, one of the stupidest WODs in recent memory:
Row 500 meters
Body weight Bench press, 30 reps
Row 1000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 20 reps
Row 2000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 10 reps
It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.


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Row 500 meters
Body weight Bench press, 30 reps
Row 1000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 20 reps
Row 2000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 10 reps
At this year's NFL scouting combine, the max number of bench press reps with 225 pounds that any player did was 39, done by Louis Vasquez, a 6-5 330# guard from Texas Tech. Second was 37 reps, by Terrance Taylor, a 300# def tackle from Michigan.

Results:
http://www.nfl.com/combine/top-performe ... ench-press

Looks like only 17 players out of about 330 did more than 30 reps with 225 on the bar, and all of them were linemen except for one 227# safety from USC. Three linebackers and one running back got 30 reps; for each of them 225 was less than body weight (though not by all that much). Tight ends topped out at 28, receivers at 27, QBs at 26 reps.

Clearly not the fittest people on the planet, at the scouting combine.


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JimZipCode wrote:
Row 500 meters
Body weight Bench press, 30 reps
Row 1000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 20 reps
Row 2000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 10 reps
At this year's NFL scouting combine, the max number of bench press reps with 225 pounds that any player did was 39, done by Louis Vasquez, a 6-5 330# guard from Texas Tech. Second was 37 reps, by Terrance Taylor, a 300# def tackle from Michigan.

Results:
http://www.nfl.com/combine/top-performe ... ench-press

Looks like only 17 players out of about 330 did more than 30 reps with 225 on the bar, and all of them were linemen except for one 227# safety from USC. Three linebackers and one running back got 30 reps; for each of them 225 was less than body weight (though not by all that much). Tight ends topped out at 28, receivers at 27, QBs at 26 reps.

Clearly not the fittest people on the planet, at the scouting combine.
Clearly not, Jim. Look at this piece of shit, Aaron Curry. This sorry sack of shit only managed 25 reps @ 225 and yet was taken FOURTH in the draft. Couch needs to un-fucked the NFL like he's doing with the military, the police, and everybody else. He might run a 4.56 40, but I doubt he could do Tran in less than five minutes. If the shit went down, why would you want this guy watching your back

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That guy is seriously chalked up for a 135lb deadlift.

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Nice of him to save the surgeon time, and tatoo on the incision marks for his future double-rotator cuff surgery. It doesn't get more No-Nonsense than that.
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WildGorillaMan wrote:Nice of him to save the surgeon time, and tatoo on the incision marks for his future double-rotator cuff surgery. It doesn't get more No-Nonsense than that.
Haha. Hopefully he has some on his lower back, too (as a @F guy, he probably does). Nobody appreciates excessive hyperextension on a DL like a @Fitter.

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JimZipCode wrote:
Row 500 meters
Body weight Bench press, 30 reps
Row 1000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 20 reps
Row 2000 meters
Body weight Bench press, 10 reps
At this year's NFL scouting combine, the max number of bench press reps with 225 pounds that any player did was 39, done by Louis Vasquez, a 6-5 330# guard from Texas Tech. Second was 37 reps, by Terrance Taylor, a 300# def tackle from Michigan.

Results:
http://www.nfl.com/combine/top-performe ... ench-press

Looks like only 17 players out of about 330 did more than 30 reps with 225 on the bar, and all of them were linemen except for one 227# safety from USC. Three linebackers and one running back got 30 reps; for each of them 225 was less than body weight (though not by all that much). Tight ends topped out at 28, receivers at 27, QBs at 26 reps.

Clearly not the fittest people on the planet, at the scouting combine.
ahh, jimbo...you miss the key of the issue. the @fitrz took appx 1-2hrs to complete that 1st set of 30 BP. the NFL losers did it all in one set. at @fit, they take the time to savor each rep...
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The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
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protobuilder wrote:
The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
Couch said that? It's a funny comment coming from a drunken endomorph.

He might be onto something. But that's ok because we can always push the ectomorphs down and take what we need.

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Jeezus what's with the asswipe with all the chalk, was the fucker making patty cakes with the shit or simply trying to be all Braveheart and cool :finga:
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Just last week I was trying to convince nature to not give me a good old fashioned ass whipping because of my mesomorphic tendencies...

Seriously though, I always thought those punished especially hard by nature were those without penicillin and stuff.

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protobuilder wrote:
The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
That's why combat sports have weight classes. To protect everybody else from the skinny guys.
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Grandpa's Spells wrote:
protobuilder wrote:
The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
That's why combat sports have weight classes. To protect everybody else from the skinny guys.
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JohnnyBadAss wrote:
Grandpa's Spells wrote:
protobuilder wrote:
The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
That's why combat sports have weight classes. To protect everybody else from the skinny guys.
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protobuilder wrote:
The Bastard Son of the Shafman wrote:It shows the clear low bodyweight/skinny bias to @F WODs is still there.
The ever-wise Couch put it best when he said, "Nature favors ectomorphs and punishes mesomorphs"

That Couch is one smart bastard.
That couch quote will be of little comfort to any ectomorph who lines up and needs to put Aaron on his ass on a Sunday this fall. Somebody also better tell Fedor the bad news.
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freddy c._one world wrote:When I am tore up, i.e. suffering from minor inflammation injuries, I take 3 Alleve and 3 Tylenol once in the AM and once in the PM. My buddy John Welbourn turned me on to that. An NFL linemen definitely knows a thing or two about how to deal with aches and pains.
There are so many things wrong with this kind of attitude towards healing.

I actually like a lot of the shit that Cultfit Oneworld does but fuck you are going at your own liver with teeth and finger nails taking this man NSAIDs when you are "tore up."

Rather than treating the pain why not treat the actual cause of the pain.
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alleve and tylenol?

I've tried that combo, I vastly prefer taking 1000-1200 ibuprofen when something's got to ease up.



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Ed Zachary wrote:
freddy c._one world wrote:When I am tore up, i.e. suffering from minor inflammation injuries, I take 3 Alleve and 3 Tylenol once in the AM and once in the PM. My buddy John Welbourn turned me on to that. An NFL linemen definitely knows a thing or two about how to deal with aches and pains.
There are so many things wrong with this kind of attitude towards healing.

I actually like a lot of the shit that Cultfit Oneworld does but fuck you are going at your own liver with teeth and finger nails taking this man NSAIDs when you are "tore up."

Rather than treating the pain why not treat the actual cause of the pain.
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I wonder if Welbourn hooked him up with some of his special 'vitamins' too.
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Somebody get this man some meds.
@F Football wrote:6. I'm new to CFFB but not new football and olympic lifts as I am indeed a college football player. My problem is CFFB is causing me deep internal shoulder pain with all these power cleans, thrusters, power snatchs, etc, done virtually everyday. I would dismiss is as my own problem but my workout partner, another ball player again no stranger to olympic lifts, is going through the same thing. Sometimes it gets bad enough that we cant complete the workout and neither of us has ever had ANY shoulder problems before starting CFFB. It doesnt surprise me that have shoulder problems with the lifts (and frequency performed) of CFFB. Does anyone have any thoughts?
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Gin Master wrote:Somebody get this man some Kool-Aid.

Fixed.
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Gin Master wrote:Somebody get this man some meds.
@F Football wrote:6. I'm new to CFFB but not new football and olympic lifts as I am indeed a college football player. My problem is CFFB is causing me deep internal shoulder pain with all these power cleans, thrusters, power snatchs, etc, done virtually everyday. I would dismiss is as my own problem but my workout partner, another ball player again no stranger to olympic lifts, is going through the same thing. Sometimes it gets bad enough that we cant complete the workout and neither of us has ever had ANY shoulder problems before starting CFFB. It doesnt surprise me that have shoulder problems with the lifts (and frequency performed) of CFFB. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Comment by Johnny B — May 18, 2009 at 8:43am
Um....if it hurts when you do that, then DON'T FUCKING DO THAT. Whoa...

Or just do the special Welbourn deca/aleve/tylenol/ignore/deny combo...periodized and/or scaled, of coarse.

What is it about @F that increases the stupidity domain?

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