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What a duck says wrote:From what I understood, Reebok was looking for high-level @Fers in their various desired locations for @FBok boxes--giving them (at least close to) interest-free loans to run them along with a paycheck for being pretty--coaches that were both really good at exercising and also good-looking. Coaching ability be damned...

Maybe Ager didn't get that memo, or maybe her lack of going full-on @F look (she's missing the bolt-ons to go with her abzzz, for surely) is why she hasn't been deemed worthy.

She may go crawling back only to find nothing there.

What a duck says wrote:For fuck's sake, I thought that article from @F FMS was linked to an affiliate that also dangled from Gray Cook's nuts...then I saw that the FMS stood for "For My Savior".

The orthopedic surgeons must love how these religious nuts pay their penance.

Turdacious wrote:

What a duck says wrote:From what I understood, Reebok was looking for high-level @Fers in their various desired locations for @FBok boxes--giving them (at least close to) interest-free loans to run them along with a paycheck for being pretty--coaches that were both really good at exercising and also good-looking. Coaching ability be damned...

Maybe Ager didn't get that memo, or maybe her lack of going full-on @F look (she's missing the bolt-ons to go with her abzzz, for surely) is why she hasn't been deemed worthy.

She may go crawling back only to find nothing there.

She could add some new aspects to her programming that would really set her apart: eating leeches, throwing softballs at the homeless, covering them with tshirts during restperiods. Nobody else is doing that.

baffled wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

What a duck says wrote:From what I understood, Reebok was looking for high-level @Fers in their various desired locations for @FBok boxes--giving them (at least close to) interest-free loans to run them along with a paycheck for being pretty--coaches that were both really good at exercising and also good-looking. Coaching ability be damned...

Maybe Ager didn't get that memo, or maybe her lack of going full-on @F look (she's missing the bolt-ons to go with her abzzz, for surely) is why she hasn't been deemed worthy.

She may go crawling back only to find nothing there.

She could add some new aspects to her programming that would really set her apart: eating leeches, throwing softballs at the homeless, covering them with tshirts during restperiods. Nobody else is doing that.

Not the skill set I thought you were going to suggest.

Testiclaw wrote:Kickstarter only pays out if you reach your goal, though, if I am remembering correctly.

Hymen Asshole wrote:

Testiclaw wrote:Kickstarter only pays out if you reach your goal, though, if I am remembering correctly.

and that magic number is $100K or it doesn't fund and everyone gets a refund

Testiclaw wrote:

Hymen Asshole wrote:

Testiclaw wrote:Kickstarter only pays out if you reach your goal, though, if I am remembering correctly.

and that magic number is $100K or it doesn't fund and everyone gets a refund

...she's so close!

Steggy wrote:Well damn, guess I've been doing Fitness all wrong.
http://fitbie.msn.com/videos/?vid=516aa ... tag_recent

Boris wrote:

Steggy wrote:Well damn, guess I've been doing Fitness all wrong.
http://fitbie.msn.com/videos/?vid=516aa ... tag_recent

Two minutes off her marathon time? Damn.

kreator wrote:

Boris wrote:

Steggy wrote:Well damn, guess I've been doing Fitness all wrong.
http://fitbie.msn.com/videos/?vid=516aa ... tag_recent

Two minutes off her marathon time? Damn.

You listened wrongly. She said she's two minutes off the Olympic qualifying time, which is great. I bet she's putting in plenty of miles to go along with her cross-training though.

Andrea Nitz is the founder of CrossFit Mom, and explains why a executing a wide variety of functional movements at relatively high intensity is also good for pregnant women.

“Is it safe to exercise while pregnant?” is an age-old question. In earlier times, pregnant women were told to stay in bed and rest, due to their “delicate” condition. Even today, some doctors will tell their pregnant patients not to do anything more strenuous than walking.

As CrossFitters, we see things differently.

We know what we are doing is good for our body, so how could it be bad for our baby? As many studies have shown, it’s not. It is actually very good for the kid. All of the great things that you are doing for your cardiovascular system by exercising, you are also doing for your baby’s. Having trained many pregnant clients and been forced to develop safe, specific maternity-oriented exercises and rules as a trainer at CrossFit Brand X in Ramona, Calif. (also the HQ of CrossFit Kids), I have seen for myself that babies born to CrossFitting moms have a number of similar traits that make for a smoother transition to life outside the womb.

What a duck says wrote:http://gawker.com/5928989/the-problems-with-crossfit

CrossFitters,

I have some important news for you. Anthos Capital wants to take control of the CrossFit affiliate system. Anthos is offering $20 million to a non-managing equity partner of CrossFit Inc. in order to establish a managing stake in the company. This is important because Anthos does not view CrossFit affiliates the way we all do. Anthos doesn't care about professional trainers improving people's lives; they see CrossFit affiliates as a mechanism to sell more supplements and equipment.

If they succeed, Anthos's first step will be to force all CrossFit affiliates to morph from professional training facilities into supplement and equipment peddlers. In that case, affiliates will lose the right to choose between an array of competing brands such as Rogue, Again Faster, SFH, and Pure Pharma. Affiliates will be forced to sell the Anthos company's endorsed line of products.

If Anthos gains control of CrossFit, then the CrossFit affiliate system will cease to exist as we know it. Affiliates will no longer pay a minimal licensing fee and manage their own CrossFit gyms as they see fit. Instead, they will report to a domineering bureaucracy that seeks to extract maximal profit from them while micro-managing every significant facet of their business. CrossFit facilities will be run like your neighborhood McDonald's or Gold's Gym.

CrossFit affiliates signed up to provide a revolutionary service for improving people's lives. CrossFit founder Greg Glassman's original vision is stronger today than ever: a network of CrossFit affiliates making peoples' lives better through constantly varied, functional movement at high intensity and teaching them to eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. If Anthos takes over, however, this vision of CrossFit will end. CrossFit affiliates will become part of an organization that is the antithesis of what they believe in.

All this probably sounds a little scary, but the CrossFit community can stop this. CrossFit affiliates have the power here. If CrossFit's affiliates oppose Anthos' actions, then Anthos will never be able to gain control of the community - it doesn't matter how much money they have. And Greg Glassman is 100% committed to keeping CrossFit true to its covenant with affiliates.

If you want to stop Anthos from ruining CrossFit, tell your friends and the CrossFit Affiliate owners you know exactly what Anthos is up to. Make a blog post on your Affiliate's site, post to Facebook, Tweet about it, do whatever it is you like to do to get the word out. Let's let the world know how we feel about Anthos trying to turn CrossFit affiliates into Globo Gyms.

As Greg says, "Never sell out."