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Yes I Have Balls wrote:Well, @fit Athens sucks andro-babe wise. They do have 100s of pics of people lying around on the ground after a workout for some reason.

Boris wrote:

Yes I Have Balls wrote:Well, @fit Athens sucks andro-babe wise. They do have 100s of pics of people lying around on the ground after a workout for some reason.

Seriously, why would anyone EVER do cleans if they can't rack the weight? If you can't do a front squat properly, chances of a doing a proper clean are less than zero.

JamesonBushmill wrote:

Yes I Have Balls wrote:

A year into owning an affiliate, I know that truer words have never been spoken. It is 99% about building relationships of trust, and 1% about knowing your stuff.

The real Level 1 Cert - equal parts bartender, therapist and wingman. No coaching experience wanted.

It is 99% about building relationships of trust, and 1% about knowing your stuff. = We acknowledge we are not a sport, but adult daycare.

shownuff71 wrote:very tactical...I'm impressed!

shownuff71 wrote:I hate crossfit, but they seem to have this obsession with taking pictures of themselves doing stupid exercises....

I love this thread

more food for laughter here: http://www.crossfitwoodbridge.squarespace.com

T200 wrote:

shownuff71 wrote:I hate crossfit, but they seem to have this obsession with taking pictures of themselves doing stupid exercises....

I love this thread

more food for laughter here: http://www.crossfitwoodbridge.squarespace.com

I'm not sure what your angle is but I'm gonna go ahead and give you a couple thumbs down.

Quack Attack wrote: +1. No food to be found there at all. Looks like trolling promo to me.

shownuff71 wrote:no faggotry...I just learning the ropes here guys. I cant stand this place, other than that...no angle.

thanks for the warm welcome dudes! I'm not going anywhere, just a disillusioned ex-crossfit dude looking for a home.

Warrior Training

The definition of a 'warrior' is, in general, two-fold. The first, "a person engaged or experience in warfare", is the most common definition. The second, "a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness in politics or athleticism", is a less common connotation but easily understood especially in the fitness community.

CFHEL has a third, and much more philosophical, definition of 'warrior'. The definition of warrior in our terms is the same given my Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings. According to Musashi, one who follows the path of the warrior must have a resolute acceptance of death - the question is only when and how. At first glance, this may seem to apply ONLY to the professional combatant. In our warrior training, however, failure is worse than death (death being accepted as a future state of life and failure being a rejection to engaged in life). Failure is A STATE OF MIND, not a state of consequence.

The purpose of warrior training (the path of being a warrior) is to build an indomitable spirit and iron will; to believe that you cannot fail in doing anything. Even when UNSUCCESSFUL, the warrior learns from missed attempts and continues to make subsequent attempts until the goal is attained. FAILURE occurs when the ego wins out due to the FEAR of being unsuccessful (the ego's death) and eliminates the courage to TRY. Failure also occurs in the action of QUITTING - this also originates from the ego, having been unsuccessful once the ego fears another assault. The path of the warrior requires and trains the individual to find success even in the unsuccessful. It is this STATE OF MIND that enables the warrior to NEVER FAIL.

At CFHEL, we train individuals to be warriors. Not combatants. The tools developed through our training has transference to every daily life task because it alters the individual at the level of MIND as well as body. This is the heart of being a warrior - a STATE OF MIND that accepts all of LIFE, the inevitability of death as well as an nonacceptance of failure, which is the rejection of life.

I want to be clear from the beginning - THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR STRENGTH, NOT SIZE! How you train - in and out of the Lab - will determine your 'hugeness'. In the Lab, you have to do sets of 8-12 or more to stimulate hypertrophy (increase in muscle mass). This produces a specific response to the muscles forcing them to grow is size. Supplement that with lots of meat, milk, and beer out of the Lab and you will 'get huge' (google Bodybuilding for more information).

The training program we are doing, on the other hand, are sets of 5 (strength and power), 3 and 1 (strength/force production alone). This elicits a different stress response in the muscles which causes strength without mass. Many athletes train for this adaptation where strength is desirable and mass is not, i.e. soccer, water polo, track and field, etc. If you supplement with meat, milk, and beer you will get bigger due to several factors (see Ken for nutritional guidance), but if 'huge' is not your thing then eat light and healthy - you will still get stronger without getting too much 'bigger'. (Jeff R - down that milk bro!)

Chaos Mitten wrote:Another gem:

I want to be clear from the beginning - THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR STRENGTH, NOT SIZE! How you train - in and out of the Lab - will determine your 'hugeness'. In the Lab, you have to do sets of 8-12 or more to stimulate hypertrophy (increase in muscle mass). This produces a specific response to the muscles forcing them to grow is size. Supplement that with lots of meat, milk, and beer out of the Lab and you will 'get huge' (google Bodybuilding for more information).

The training program we are doing, on the other hand, are sets of 5 (strength and power), 3 and 1 (strength/force production alone). This elicits a different stress response in the muscles which causes strength without mass. Many athletes train for this adaptation where strength is desirable and mass is not, i.e. soccer, water polo, track and field, etc. If you supplement with meat, milk, and beer you will get bigger due to several factors (see Ken for nutritional guidance), but if 'huge' is not your thing then eat light and healthy - you will still get stronger without getting too much 'bigger'. (Jeff R - down that milk bro!)

http://coachk.typepad.com/crossfit_hel/ ... -blog.html

CultBuster wrote:

thanks for the warm welcome dudes! I'm not going anywhere, just a disillusioned ex-crossfit dude looking for a home.

http://www.gay-rehab.com/gay-rehab.php

Here is a new home!

Who Said It?

"There's nothing like the couplet. I hope you're programming lots of couplets."

A.) Dave Castro
B.) Greg Glassman
C.) Mikki Martin
D.) John Welbourn
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner -- Jami got it right. Mikki Martin -- of CrossFit Kids and CrossFit Brand X -- uttered those words at a recent Kids Cert. (Although credit should also be awarded to Coach Glassman as the answer, as the Martins -- along with so many of us -- learned this and much more from Coach Glassman.)

Comment #17 - Posted by: Lisbeth at March 19, 2010 7:24 AM

Mainsite WOD's are not random. There is a long-term planning to the WOD's. The fact that no one seems to be able to "crack the code", or that no one involved in the planning and posting of the Main Page WOD's has seen fit to share the proprietary template with us is not de facto proof that they are random. I converse with these folks on a weekly basis; they find the ongoing "controversy" about the so-called randomness of the Main page to be laughable.