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powerlifter54 wrote:
NRDs...Nearby Required Douchebags-evident at any @fit event.

Ed Zachary wrote:
What the fuck is wrong with these people?!

There are some red flags to keep an eye out for if you are concerned that your exercise habit might be becoming problematic:

It’s impacting your family or work obligations. If you find yourself getting in fights with your spouse or missing work to get a workout in, or if you are working yourself to a point of not being able to be fully present for those responsibilities, it’s time to rethink your priorities.

You are working out to the point of injury or diminished returns. Remember, health and fitness adaptations and improvements happen when you give yourself the time to recover. If you are constantly going longer/harder/faster in the search for that endorphin high, you will start breaking down your system. Chronic injuries, fatigue, depression are all signs of something called “overreaching,” which, if not corrected, can lead to a condition known as “overtraining syndrome” that can take years to recover from.

You feel an overwhelming amount of guilt or regret over missed workouts. We all have those days when something gets in the way of our workout. When that happens, it’s natural to find yourself really missing the energy and focus you would have gotten from it. But you probably want to rethink your relationship with exercise if one missed day finds you dealing with overwhelming feelings of guilt, panic, or irrational fear of lost fitness, or if you simply cannot “miss a day” and find yourself working out in the middle of the night or when ill/injured or in other situations where a skipped day would have been the wiser choice.

You are getting in financial trouble. Some sports are notoriously costly. Driving a junker car so that you can have a top-of-the-line triathlon bike is one thing, but proceed with caution if you are skipping out on your mortgage or accruing high-interest debt to feed your habit.

You are using exercise for unhealthy reasons, or taking drugs to further your goals. You are definitely well into the danger zone and would be wise to speak with a mental health professional if you are using exercise to make up for binge eating behaviors, or taking illegal substances to further your performance or physique goals.

T200 wrote:WTF the greatest MMA fighter ever's daughter is an @Fitter. I give you niggers Christmas "Tank's Daughter" Abbott:

Many of us went into week one with the same intensity that we brought to Sectionals and Regionals last season. Treating the Open as if it was a one-day event – repeated weekly – for six (or seven) weeks seemed to be the prevailing attitude. After all, it had the same feel to it – that cotton-mouth, twitchy anticipation for the main event. We soon realized this was near impossible to sustain week-in and week-out for the better part of two months. Just past the halfway mark, I was already feeling burnt out physically and emotionally. The performances remained awe-inspiring, but the fever pitch, screaming, and jumping up and down declined precipitously each week. Many compared the Open to a football season – there was practice and a game day every week. Looking back now, I'm not sure I agree. Or perhaps we just failed to attack it as such. Football is my background though, and the intensity was similar but the duration and frequency was less (there aren't four games a week in football). Competitors were keeping the emotional component jacked up for way too long and burning it out. I fumbled this one like a high school freshman against a bra-hook-closure trying to round “second base.”

Treating every Open Workout like it's the asteroid from “Armageddon” is asinine. You're not Bruce Willis ... you don't have a nuclear warhead and NASA backing you up. (Unless you're Bob Guere from CrossFit California City, who works for NASA). I've heard similar ideas from several top competitors, which could mean a few things. Either great minds think alike, or this is more of a cult than the branch Davidians and the group-think has finally gotten the best of us. The consensus is to do the workout once (which, if you're not a top-tier athlete is debatable), treat it like any other WOD, and incorporate it into your training. I know – not giving 100 percent intensity at all times seems to be a steamy dump on the coffee table of everything we stand for. Although it makes a lot of sense if you're likely to qualify without a sacrificial leap towards martyrdom in each Open workout ... you don't want to peak during the Open. If you're one of us who is only a few spots outside the cut, then every workout means more, and you'll have to decide what the best way to maximize performance on each will be for you. There are style points and honor at stake for the “300”-style lunge into certain death and destruction, but where has that left us?

I'm a broken man, mostly in the shoulder region. There seems to be quite a few of us beat up between the head and chest. It seems like the overhead/shoulder workload was pretty beastly in the Open. Workout 11.1 had infinity snatches, 11.2 had push ups, 11.3 was moderate weight clean and jerks, 11.4 had overhead squats and muscle-ups (that one hurt a little, but I'm alright), 11.5 hit us with wall balls, and 11.6 dished the beloved thruster and chest-to-bar pull ups. To sum it up in one sentence: Wow, my shoulders are tired … oh, OK push ups – yikes that's kinda tweaky – I'm hurt, fuck it, dig me a hole, I'm done. This isn't an indictment of the programming – I just have the shoulders of a 60-year-old concrete forms contractor. If I were to make it to Regionals I'd need a week off just to fix my shoulders before I could start training again – that's about as cool as 100 burpees for time on asphalt after taking Viagra. You're going to have play the game that works for you next time around. Personally, I'll be investing in whatever pharmaceutical company manufactures Cortisone.

T200 wrote:WTF the greatest MMA fighter ever's daughter is an @Fitter. I give you niggers Christmas "Tank's Daughter" Abbott:

She has hella videos too.

Anorexia Athletica

To explore this idea, a team led by Robin Kanarek at Tufts University in Massachusetts divided lab rats into two types of cages, ones with running wheels and ones without.

Over seven days, both male and female rats with exposure to wheels naturally increased how much they ran on the wheels.

This was not surprising: Rats offered wheels are known to steadily increase their use of them over time, said Kanarek, whose study appeared in the August issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience.

On day nine, both the active and nonactive rats were divided into groups. After having had food available at all times, about half of the running rats began to be issued just a single portion of food a day, and only an hour to eat.

This brought on "anorexia athletica" in the food-restricted running rats: They dramatically increased their running and started losing weight.

In humans, anorexia athletica can be a fatal mental disorder that makes its sufferers compulsively exercise to lose weight.

Ed Zachary wrote:EdFit!

Move weight! Get bigger! Get stronger! Grow a beard!

*Don't sacrifice your body unless it's a real sport.*

Edit

Quack, you saw how the @fitters ate compared to the rest of us at the PIAT seminar. A few of those young guys had some potential but if they don't learn to eat and ease up on the throttle they'll stop getting stronger and break down.

Captain Quack wrote:Anyone who saw @F in the beginning will easily note that the duration of metcons and percentage of workouts that would be considered metcon have both steadily grown over the years.

The Nightman wrote:

Ed Zachary wrote:EdFit!

Move weight! Get bigger! Get stronger! Grow a beard!

*Don't sacrifice your body unless it's a real sport.*

Edit

Quack, you saw how the @fitters ate compared to the rest of us at the PIAT seminar. A few of those young guys had some potential but if they don't learn to eat and ease up on the throttle they'll stop getting stronger and break down.

@fitter: "What is there to eat around here?"
Me: Subway
@fitter: no words, just a look of, 'you ME to put THAT in my body?' He returns with unsweetened dried cherries and raw mixed nuts and nibbles away at 9 blocks.

The Nightman wrote: @fitter: "What is there to eat around here?"
Me: Subway
@fitter: no words, just a look of, 'you ME to put THAT in my body?' He returns with unsweetened dried cherries and raw mixed nuts and nibbles away at 9 blocks.

Jay wrote:while the rest of us are drinking beer, eating subway and gorging on BBQ Saturday night. Those kids were good people, but they need to learn how to stop being a slave to their food.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:You can go back and look at all the WODs. Shit starts getting especially stupid when Pudding and Asstro take over.

sanchezero wrote:i wanna have her baby.

GoDogGo! wrote:

sanchezero wrote:i wanna have her baby.

I'm sure she's a lovely, well-behaved young lady but... she looks like she could fuck you in half.

Anorexia Athletica

Also known as compulsive exercise, athletica nervosa, obligatory exercise, and exercise addiction, anorexia is a potentially life-threatening condition. The person with anorexia athletica no longer enjoys exercising, but feels obligated to do so.

Treatment is usually required for this and other forms of anorexia because the conditon is very difficult to overcome and worsens over time.

People who suffer from this condition–most prominently females between the ages of 12 and 19–may experience a sense of guilt and anxiety when missing a workout and not even sickness or injury can stop them from fulfilling their perceived need for exercise.

Individuals with anorexia athletica may:

• Repeatedly exercise beyond the requirements for good health.
• Be fanatical about weight and diet.
• Steal time from work, school, and relationships to exercise.
• Strive to achieve and master ever more difficult challenges
• Forget that physical activity can be fun.
• Define self-worth in terms of performance.
• Rarely be satisfied with athletic achievements. Small satisfactions are fleeting and they do not savor victory; they push on to the next challenge immediately.
• Justify excessive behavior by defining themselves as a "special" or "elite" athlete.

Captain Quack wrote:@Fers, this is truly your eleeeet diagnosis. I'm not making this up.
http://www.eatingdisordersonline.com/ex ... letica.php

Anorexia Athletica

Also known as compulsive exercise, athletica nervosa, obligatory exercise, and exercise addiction, anorexia is a potentially life-threatening condition. The person with anorexia athletica no longer enjoys exercising, but feels obligated to do so.

Treatment is usually required for this and other forms of anorexia because the conditon is very difficult to overcome and worsens over time.

People who suffer from this condition–most prominently females between the ages of 12 and 19–may experience a sense of guilt and anxiety when missing a workout and not even sickness or injury can stop them from fulfilling their perceived need for exercise.

Individuals with anorexia athletica may:

• Repeatedly exercise beyond the requirements for good health.
• Be fanatical about weight and diet.
• Steal time from work, school, and relationships to exercise.
• Strive to achieve and master ever more difficult challenges
• Forget that physical activity can be fun.
• Define self-worth in terms of performance.
• Rarely be satisfied with athletic achievements. Small satisfactions are fleeting and they do not savor victory; they push on to the next challenge immediately.
• Justify excessive behavior by defining themselves as a "special" or "elite" athlete.

Examples of every single one of these can be found in this thread.

Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:

Captain Quack wrote:@Fers, this is truly your eleeeet diagnosis. I'm not making this up.
http://www.eatingdisordersonline.com/ex ... letica.php

Anorexia Athletica

Also known as compulsive exercise, athletica nervosa, obligatory exercise, and exercise addiction, anorexia is a potentially life-threatening condition. The person with anorexia athletica no longer enjoys exercising, but feels obligated to do so.

Treatment is usually required for this and other forms of anorexia because the conditon is very difficult to overcome and worsens over time.

People who suffer from this condition–most prominently females between the ages of 12 and 19–may experience a sense of guilt and anxiety when missing a workout and not even sickness or injury can stop them from fulfilling their perceived need for exercise.

Individuals with anorexia athletica may:

• Repeatedly exercise beyond the requirements for good health.
• Be fanatical about weight and diet.
• Steal time from work, school, and relationships to exercise.
• Strive to achieve and master ever more difficult challenges
• Forget that physical activity can be fun.
• Define self-worth in terms of performance.
• Rarely be satisfied with athletic achievements. Small satisfactions are fleeting and they do not savor victory; they push on to the next challenge immediately.
• Justify excessive behavior by defining themselves as a "special" or "elite" athlete.

Examples of every single one of these can be found in this thread.

Shit, I think I have this.