The couch thread

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:19 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote: That's a nice bottom position though.
I bet you say that to all the pixies.

Not anymore. Heh.

tough old man · Post by **tough old man** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:46 pm

Why would a dude shave his armpits??

Makes the deodorant work better actually. Hair traps bacteria. Same reason there should be no hair on the playing fields, either the front 9 or the back 9 depending where you want to tee off.

CultBuster · Post by **CultBuster** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:45 am

CrossFit Law Enforcement Summit 2011

Really?

GoDogGo! · Post by **GoDogGo!** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:41 am

Charismatic megafauna wrote: I think a major selling point of the Pixie it that she can be bended into just about any position your heart desires. I can think of least 17 for this one off the top of my head.

Skinny slim women get the chemical within them
You can hump them, lift them , bend em, give them something to remember
Heldout timber when u fall

Dietrich Buchenholz · Post by **Dietrich Buchenholz** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:25 am

CultBuster wrote:
CrossFit Law Enforcement Summit 2011
Really?

WTF does crossfit have to do with law enforcement?

The Ginger Beard Man · Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:09 am

Dietrich Buchenholz wrote:
CultBuster wrote:
CrossFit Law Enforcement Summit 2011
Really?
WTF does crossfit have to do with law enforcement?

It's the meeting of elites. All the swat cops in america and canada crossfit, don't they?
Just like all the special operators.

Holland Oates · Post by **Holland Oates** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:31 am

Most of the LEOs I know doing @fit are fucking pencil necks.

I've got a friend who does some @fit Foosball when he gets bored but he is a fucking tank.

msr2112 · Post by **msr2112** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:00 pm

protobuilder wrote:
Charismatic megafauna wrote:Worked an SPF meet today that had a Crossfit Division. Perfect marriage of 20% slop all around...not to start a PL flame war..just saying the end is nigh, for what i'm not sure.

Is anyone other than Mark "Gimme Cash!!" Bell doing this shit?? He's the only one I know of and he's just desperate to get ahold of Cultfit cash. It's led several people (incl. myself) to cancel his stupid magazine. The last thing anyone wants out of a POWER magazine are articles by douchebag crossfitters. Or a "crossfit" division at a PL meet.

I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.
BTW, he's done plenty of shit for free just to help out powerlifters and the sport. He's real good people.
Also, he totaled 2601 at that meet over the weekend. Not too shabby.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:17 pm

msr2112 wrote:
protobuilder wrote:
Charismatic megafauna wrote:Worked an SPF meet today that had a Crossfit Division. Perfect marriage of 20% slop all around...not to start a PL flame war..just saying the end is nigh, for what i'm not sure.

Is anyone other than Mark "Gimme Cash!!" Bell doing this shit?? He's the only one I know of and he's just desperate to get ahold of Cultfit cash. It's led several people (incl. myself) to cancel his stupid magazine. The last thing anyone wants out of a POWER magazine are articles by douchebag crossfitters. Or a "crossfit" division at a PL meet.
I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.
BTW, he's done plenty of shit for free just to help out powerlifters and the sport. He's real good people.
Also, he totaled 2601 at that meet over the weekend. Not too shabby.

I agree, exposing people to proper training, strength work and encouraging them to learn more is never a bad thing.

Some people lose sight of the fact that most @fitters are people that just want to be stronger and in better shape, a lot of them come from a machine/treadmill/no exercise background and don't know the rest of the exercise world. Showing them how to properly train is much better than just "allowing" them to be sucked into overtraining land.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:30 pm

msr2112 wrote:I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.

If you lay down with pigs, you get muddy, and we know that Crossfit is full of pigs. Bell's only interest in Crossfit is the cash.

As for the "crossfit division," again there's no reason other than cash. Anyone can pay their entry fee and lift in the open powerlifting competition. There's no need for a separate division unless you're trying to boost entry fees.

I have no idea if Bell is directly related to Mother Theresa, but when he lets BMacNCheezy put articles in his magazine, it shows a complete lack of judgment. Or it's just another attempt to get more CASH by increasing readership.

Hey, you know what? I'm starting to see a trend here...

msr2112 · Post by **msr2112** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:08 pm

protobuilder wrote:
msr2112 wrote:I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.
If you lay down with pigs, you get muddy, and we know that Crossfit is full of pigs. Bell's only interest in Crossfit is the cash.

As for the "crossfit division," again there's no reason other than cash. Anyone can pay their entry fee and lift in the open powerlifting competition. There's no need for a separate division unless you're trying to boost entry fees.

I have no idea if Bell is directly related to Mother Theresa, but when he lets BMacNCheezy put articles in his magazine, it shows a complete lack of judgment. Or it's just another attempt to get more CASH by increasing readership.

Hey, you know what? I'm starting to see a trend here...

You sound like one of those hipsters who think their favorite band sold out when they started playing to an audience that was bigger then 100 people.
If you think he's making any kind of appreciable money from having a CF division at a local powerlifting meet, you're crazy.

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:22 pm

msr2112 wrote:
protobuilder wrote:
msr2112 wrote:I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.
If you lay down with pigs, you get muddy, and we know that Crossfit is full of pigs. Bell's only interest in Crossfit is the cash.

As for the "crossfit division," again there's no reason other than cash. Anyone can pay their entry fee and lift in the open powerlifting competition. There's no need for a separate division unless you're trying to boost entry fees.

I have no idea if Bell is directly related to Mother Theresa, but when he lets BMacNCheezy put articles in his magazine, it shows a complete lack of judgment. Or it's just another attempt to get more CASH by increasing readership.

Hey, you know what? I'm starting to see a trend here...
You sound like one of those hipsters who think their favorite band sold out when they started playing to an audience that was bigger then 100 people.
If you think he's making any kind of appreciable money from having a CF division at a local powerlifting meet, you're crazy.

1. Define "appreciable" and
2. Project FUTURE earnings from this modest start.

Thanks!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:46 pm

msr2112 wrote: You sound like one of those hipsters who think their favorite band sold out when they started playing to an audience that was bigger then 100 people.
If you think he's making any kind of appreciable money from having a CF division at a local powerlifting meet, you're crazy.

Dude, we get it. You and Marky Mark Bell are BFFs and the fact that he's just in it for the money does not sit well with you.
It's okay.

johnst_nhb · Post by **johnst_nhb** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:14 pm

I love the "Never Enough" series of DVDS from Bell. I even liked Power Mag until they started in with the CF crap. It bums me out and I'll not be renewing...

Blaidd Drwg · Post by **Blaidd Drwg** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:54 pm

msr2112 wrote:
protobuilder wrote:
Charismatic megafauna wrote:Worked an SPF meet today that had a Crossfit Division. Perfect marriage of 20% slop all around...not to start a PL flame war..just saying the end is nigh, for what i'm not sure.

Is anyone other than Mark "Gimme Cash!!" Bell doing this shit?? He's the only one I know of and he's just desperate to get ahold of Cultfit cash. It's led several people (incl. myself) to cancel his stupid magazine. The last thing anyone wants out of a POWER magazine are articles by douchebag crossfitters. Or a "crossfit" division at a PL meet.
I've got to call foul on this. Mark Bell has done more for the powerlifting community out here than anyone. It's not like there's a ton of money in owning a PL gym and publishing a small niche magazine. If he's found some people who want to learn about how to get stronger, what's wrong with making a couple of bucks doing seminars to help out and spread the word.
As far as the Crossfit divisions, anything that opens up the sport to more people is a good thing. We all talk about how the main thing missing from CF stuff is strength work and this will hopefully cause a few of them to start focusing on that and help grow powerlifting. Nothing wrong with that.
BTW, he's done plenty of shit for free just to help out powerlifters and the sport. He's real good people.
Also, he totaled 2601 at that meet over the weekend. Not too shabby.

Ditto. Proto...as always, go fuck yourself. You're too busy shitting on everyhting to see value in anything. It's not selling out to make money and it's also not selling out to promote your "sport."

For all the bashing of CF and SPF, this meet was really well run, everyone was nice and the venue was the tits (literally, lots of fake CF Milf Titties)

Furthermore, on a personal level, Mark Bell is one of the most approachable positive, not shit talkingingest guys in PL. And yes, his total was fucking awesome, the 1003 squat was as you'd guess...SPF-ish but deeper than many I've seen and he looked fooking solid. A friend of mine was side judge and he said it was plenty convincing and this is a guy who has served time in the USAPL/IPF. Plus Mark had a lifetime PR Sumo pull. Lifetime PR's exempt you from criticism for one week at least. Platform PR's for a month . So fuck along. We're done with your Mark Bell and Pixie hate for the week.

Cave Canem · Post by **Cave Canem** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:59 pm

@fitters have money. Who else would pay $150+/month to flop around and claim to be e-light, pay a grand for a weekend seminar that teaches you how to teach others to flop or even just give up $10 to sign up for the online computer gaymes when the fix is already in ?

It is just wrong not to tap that revenue source when they are so eager to give it away. Remember what P.T. Barnum said about a sucker a minute?

Take the money and put it to good use with the real trainees. My only caveat would be to have the @fitters load the bars for the big people. (Make 'em do it for time so they feel at home.)

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:01 pm

Seriously, there was a high school kid at a PL meet I went to last year who, either through birth defect or trauma, had such a mangled hand that he was allowed to use a strap to hold onto the bar for DLs. Kid pulled more than I did...so ugly a pull it hurt the people watching it (could tell by the grimaces).

If a kid with a mangled hand can lift in the regular PL division, @Fers can too. If @Fers want their own Special Olympics versions of other activities, let them do it on their own.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:16 pm

In Special Olympics powerlifting the rules are enforced (current Special Olympics rules follow IPF so they are actually pretty strict). I don't know why you felt the need to throw Special Olympics in there at all.

Yes I Have Balls · Post by **Yes I Have Balls** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:28 pm

Hot and stupid (and blocky) - just how I li ke 'em:

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:31 pm

*cringe*

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:43 pm

*erection*

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:54 am

Kirk wrote:In Special Olympics powerlifting the rules are enforced (current Special Olympics rules follow IPF so they are actually pretty strict). I don't know why you felt the need to throw Special Olympics in there at all.

Kirk, let me make myself more clear, as I didn't mean to disparage the Special Olympics. I meant it as a separate division from the open. I wasn't commenting on the rules of PL, I know that the Special Olympics is very strict on the rules.

I traveled with and competed in a "normal" PL meet with Ahmed Shafik, an IPC (International Paralympic Committee) world champ in the bench press. When he went with us to this full "normal" PL meet, he didn't know that they only allowed people to do full PL, not the individual lifts by themselves (he only wanted to bench)...so guess what he did...he did a squat (just the bar) and the equivalent of a single-leg DL (see video for an idea of his left leg) with 225#. He competed alongside everyone else and set a raw record for that organization in the bench press for a full meet in that weight class.

My comment was regarding the precedent of when a separate, "special" event was made for a specific group (ie. Special Olympics or IPC), that it was/is done separately from the standard/open version. If @F wants to have their own division in all the standard competitions (aka "modal domains") that they now want to participate in yet not have to be compared to everyone else...well, that's a very slippery slope to start down, a chickenshit way out. Facilitating that would seem to only be in the interest of $$ in my mind...why would a @Fer who is winning all the @F division PL events be assumed to want to go into the Open division where they'll be a small fish?

To think that they will have to buy even more trophies than they already do (for all the winners!) at regular PL meets turns my stomach.

CFB · Post by **CFB** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:35 am

Yes I Have Balls wrote:

Batboy2/75 · Post by **Batboy2/75** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:01 am

Yes I Have Balls wrote:Hot and stupid (and blocky) - just how I li ke 'em:

WTF, didn't the douche bag watch get the @fit memo? Where's the board shorts and chain?

lesser_rebelangel · Post by **lesser_rebelangel** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:06 am

Tee-hee:

CrossFit Games Open 11.4

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
60 Bar-facing burpees
120 pound Overhead squat, 30 reps
10 Muscle-ups

I'm going to enjoy watching the 140 lb girlie-men get crushed by this, and not even come close to getting a single round accomplished.

IGX

The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread

Re: The couch thread