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WildGorillaMan wrote:I hate to change the subject but this story is making the rounds, and must be shared.

"Apparently Lugo and Glassman had been on the outs for a bit and he was off the sauce so they started back up. In Montana they got prettly blasted...It came out that Greg had to get skin grafs on his arm because Lisa took a huge bite out of it"

Yes I Have Balls wrote:

couch in 2003 wrote:Moderators, when the knee-jerk response to controversy, discussion, and heated debate become Pukie's Bucket we're very close to shutting down the message board.

Mark Allen wrote:"Do more faster really only worked for those so talented that their genetics were going to override the lunacy of their training and take them on to greatness anyway" (Mark Allen 1996, p. 9).

Captain Quack wrote: couch...tastes just like Gin Chicken!

On Sept. 11, Chris Pace will arrive at the World Trade Center site after biking 150 miles and running 100 miles straight through. His goal is to raise $25,000 for The Disposable Heroes Project. He came on the show to talk about how this unique fundraiser originated and how he’s using only CrossFit to prepare and train for the monumental task. He also explained how CrossFitters can help and where the money will go.

Shafman wrote:XF will, in no way, help that poor SOB finish that shit.

Yes. It's their forum. If you don't like it, there are plenty of other forums on the internet.

I actually agree with most of your points, but my experience of the internet is that the *only* way that forums work at all is if the moderators are (hopefully benign) absolute lords of their domain. Otherwise the board degenerates into an endless cycle of second-guessing by posters and self-justification by moderators.

Not really. The people who pay the bandwidth bill have delegated their authority to the moderators in this case, and are quite capable of making their wishes known if they would like the moderation policies to change.

kreator wrote: MacKenzie has done neither. Worst of all is that he criticizes anyone who doesn't do exactly what he does when it comes to training. He's almost worse than Glassman in that respect because he's actually singled out athletes by name and say they're doing x incorrectly.

Shafman wrote:BMack had shit massive deconstuction of some triathlete about how it'd take him 3 years to rebuild him via CFE ideals and then he'd be so awesome he'd do the Ironman in 2 hours.

If Chris McCormack came to you and said "I want to win Kona this year (again)" how would you train him?
I’d tell him I can’t train him. An athlete like that is such a specialist that it would take me 2-3 years just to get him moving correctly enough to handle what I wanted to do to him. If I had 2-3 years and we could change his nutrition, and put some size and strength on him, all the while he still could move efficiently, then I would never let him do an unnecessary mile or minute of training again. Unfortunately, he probably wouldn’t be able to wrap his head around that, and have a break down, and secretly go out and swim/bike/run real long. I can’t give you his code for training because they are all different, but I can tell you he would not only not survive with me but would not win Kona if I only had a year.

If Chris McCormack came to you and said "I want to win Kona this year (again)" how would you train him?
I’d tell him I can’t train him. An athlete like that is such a specialist that it would take me 2-3 years just to get him moving correctly enough to handle what I wanted to do to him. If I had 2-3 years and we could change his nutrition, and put some size and strength on him, all the while he still could move efficiently, then I would never let him do an unnecessary mile or minute of training again. Unfortunately, he probably wouldn’t be able to wrap his head around that, and have a break down, and secretly go out and swim/bike/run real long. I can’t give you his code for training because they are all different, but I can tell you he would not only not survive with me but would not win Kona if I only had a year.

Gin Master wrote:

If Chris McCormack came to you and said "I want to win Kona this year (again)" how would you train him?
I’d tell him I can’t train him. An athlete like that is such a specialist that it would take me 2-3 years just to get him moving correctly enough to handle what I wanted to do to him. If I had 2-3 years and we could change his nutrition, and put some size and strength on him, all the while he still could move efficiently, then I would never let him do an unnecessary mile or minute of training again. Unfortunately, he probably wouldn’t be able to wrap his head around that, and have a break down, and secretly go out and swim/bike/run real long. I can’t give you his code for training because they are all different, but I can tell you he would not only not survive with me but would not win Kona if I only had a year.

This is on par with Couch's 750 pound deadlift IMO. So much gold there. You basically have an "endurance coach" admitting that he can't keep an elite athlete at the top of the game, that @F training will cause physical breakdowns, and that you don't train X to compete at X.

Couch
BMAC
Saran
Castro
Pudding

What an amazing group of all-stars.

For time:
20 calorie Row
30 Wallball Shots, 20 pound ball
20 Toes to bar
30 Box jumps, 24" box
20 Sumo-deadlift high-pull, 108 pound kettlebell
30 Burpees
20 Shoulder to overhead, 135 pounds
120 foot Sled pull, sled plus 165 pounds