The couch thread

Gin Master · Post by **Gin Master** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:49 pm

Sweet merciful crap. Better watch this one sitting down. I grieve for the future of mankind.

Anon · Post by **Anon** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:59 pm

The RRG should be turning in its early grave. List of "covered" crossfit exercises being developed in 3..2..1..Go!

JohnnyBadAss · Post by **JohnnyBadAss** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:19 pm

Holy shit, who picked that song? I don't know if the song or the exercise is gayer.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:21 pm

Gin Master wrote:Sweet merciful crap. Better watch this one sitting down.

Are you kidding? That was so breathtakingly retardlepated that I'm going to be grinning for the rest of the day!

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:45 pm

That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

MacGyver · Post by **MacGyver** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:31 pm

protobuilder wrote:That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

50 and 60 kg, not lbs.

Crust Bucket · Post by **Crust Bucket** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:38 pm

Good thing I went pee before I saw those clips. I most certainly would have pissed my pants from the laughter had I not.

Anon · Post by **Anon** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:06 pm

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:10 pm

Joe wrote:

The mask is because of the stench of failure, right?

Fish · Post by **Fish** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:43 pm

protobuilder wrote:That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

The shirtless guy actually has some pretty good double unders.

My hate has faded lately. Too much time away from my computer. I need to spend a little time browsing the @fit boards to get pissed off again.

Shaun B. O'Murnecan · Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:34 pm

Fish wrote:My hate has faded lately.

It happens when your balls get loped off.

Gary John · Post by **Gary John** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:40 pm

That barbell tossing looks like fun. Maybe using a KB for a game of basketball would also be interesting. Since dribbling would be kind of hard, You'd just toss it back and forth, then go for a basket. KB hits the ground and its a turnover. I would love to watch that.

Tip-off alone would be awesome.

Crust Bucket · Post by **Crust Bucket** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:19 am

Fish wrote: I need to spend a little time browsing the @fit boards to get pissed off again.

I think you just need to look at your girlfriend. If that doesn't do it fagfit certainly wont.

Fish · Post by **Fish** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:25 am

This got me going a bit:

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=50131

These assholes are thinking WAY WAY too hard. Just workout according to your goals, and strive to add more weight to the bar. Who the fuck cares about your relative strength ratio? Unless your sport is something that requires you to be quite strong while remaining smaller, it is nothing to worry about. Even if your sport does favor relative strength, worrying about arbitrary numbers like 2x, 2.5x, 3x bodyweight still doesn't mean anything.

CultBuster · Post by **CultBuster** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:35 am

TED.com is now accepting nominations for Fellows for the next conference. They are looking for innovators, leaders in their field. I think Coach Glassman would be great and he can bring Crossfit to a large community of influential people. I don't know if he wants to attend, knowing Coach a bit, my guess is that he would welcome the opportunity to engage in discussions with other leading thinkers.

Based on all his other "discussions" with Twight, Jon, Cosgrowve, Boyle et al

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Is that an alumalite bar? 25lbs? 65? Why are you racking this?

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This is shit you rack!

Anon · Post by **Anon** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:21 am

CultBuster wrote:

This is shit you rack!

Fuzzy Dunlop · Post by **Fuzzy Dunlop** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:56 am

Fish wrote:
protobuilder wrote:That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

The shirtless guy actually has some pretty good double unders.

My hate has faded lately. Too much time away from my computer. I need to spend a little time browsing the @fit boards to get pissed off again.

I've got to disagree, bending your knees like that while doing double unders is a severe waste of energy and should not be necessary. I'm sure you didn't last more than 1 round of the video but by the second he is starting out with "sets" of 2-3.

EDIT: shit, that faggot doesn't even get to 50 on the first round

Shaun B. O'Murnecan · Post by **Shaun B. O'Murnecan** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:28 am

coop wrote:
Fish wrote:
protobuilder wrote:That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

The shirtless guy actually has some pretty good double unders.

My hate has faded lately. Too much time away from my computer. I need to spend a little time browsing the @fit boards to get pissed off again.
I've got to disagree, bending your knees like that while doing double unders is a severe waste of energy and should not be necessary. I'm sure you didn't last more than 1 round of the video but by the second he is starting out with "sets" of 2-3.

EDIT: shit, that faggot doesn't even get to 50 on the first round

I generally figure that Fish doesn't know what he is talking about, so I ignored the comment and didn't even watch the clip. Being the resident rope expert, coop is right. Maybe it's the guy's first time or so at it, but he is wooden, tight, and bending way too much at the knee.

A little time with a rope and double-unders are kinda trivial to do for their own sake. They are great to toss in with other moves to keep up interest when jumping for a while and to challenge your coordination by switching things up. Triple-unders or better yet quadruple-unders for time make much more sense.

But WTF, the guy in the video looks in way better overall shape than I do, even if he jumps like a cunt.

T200 · Post by **T200** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:32 am

LOLOL...this level of retardedness speaks for itself:

Nominate Coach Glassman to be a TED fellow

TED.com is now accepting nominations for Fellows for the next conference. They are looking for innovators, leaders in their field. I think Coach Glassman would be great and he can bring Crossfit to a large community of influential people. I don't know if he wants to attend, knowing Coach a bit, my guess is that he would welcome the opportunity to engage in discussions with other leading thinkers.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:00 pm

From a link on the mainpage to an article about Cultfit Psychology...

CrossFit doesn’t spend a lot of time talking publicly about its emotional, mental and career benefits for athletes of all ages. The benefits are obvious, but hard to measure and prove.

Actually, medical testing can easily measure and prove the existence of most STDs.

Gin Master · Post by **Gin Master** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:17 pm

Joe wrote:

Not good when you're caving under 40kg. On the plus side, that @Fer has put the world on notice that he will still do his shitty thrusters even if someone gasses the place. That's elite.

Alfred_E._Neuman · Post by **Alfred_E._Neuman** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:24 pm

I fucking hate @fit. Dumbest bullshit I've ever seen. Local "box" had a workout with 105 reps of 95# squat cleans. It's like a shitty form bomb went off.

Just needed a place to say that.

Carry on.

Gin Master · Post by **Gin Master** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:44 pm

coop wrote:
Fish wrote:
protobuilder wrote:That has to be a spoof.

This, however, is not?? The form out of teh gate is atrocious, and we're talking 50 and 60 lbs??? Christ.

The shirtless guy actually has some pretty good double unders.

My hate has faded lately. Too much time away from my computer. I need to spend a little time browsing the @fit boards to get pissed off again.
I've got to disagree, bending your knees like that while doing double unders is a severe waste of energy and should not be necessary. I'm sure you didn't last more than 1 round of the video but by the second he is starting out with "sets" of 2-3.

EDIT: shit, that faggot doesn't even get to 50 on the first round

@F fucked themselves over in the rope department just like they did with KBs. They took one movement that could make you tired and ignored the rest. Most kool aid drinkers couldn't do a basic bounce to save their life. On most videos you see 8 inch jumps with bent knees and hands way out wide. Of course teaching some simple bounce progressions is too much to ask.

I know Buddy Lee gets shit on here, but I like the rope. It's not a cornerstone of my S&C, but I have used it throughout the years and it always travels with me.

Or maybe I like it cause I was the only cracker that could double-dutch with the black girls while chanting "down on the river..."

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:16 pm

Some affiliates get it, some don't: if you're going to post videos of shitty technique, use women, so at least the vids have some redeeming merit. None of us want to see sweaty guys doing crap lifts with pussy weights.

CultBuster · Post by **CultBuster** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:13 pm

the "full ROM virus" is spreading!

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Over the last few months my friend (Pat Earley, he's on here somewhere) and I have been doing our workouts at our college. In recent weeks, we've noticed that more and more people are doing workouts with a legitimate range of motion. This is especially true of pull-ups.

Anybody else witness the full ROM phenomenon at their local globo?

So now in addition to inventing burpees, kb swings, pull ups and box jumps @git is responsible for the spread of good form?

Early andro gift! Bounces every rep off the floor and cant jump rope. Virtuosity. I feel the hate level dropping here, I know I had a post-RRG drop in the hate myself. Trying to catch up.

IGX

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