More Crossfit Brilliance

[Donny]

Im probably the last person on here that would be interested in distance running even with a shirt on my back. I do however like the Ruck that Soul Crusher does. As for bench form....you csnt be serious!

There was a Video Need to find it. He showed Young Kids doing benches for a Football Thing?

[Wolfox]

chaos is a joke. Strong but fat and unfit. His xxxl t Shirt is like a tent.

Actually he's not even strong for his size. Dude is a nobody in 'strongman' at the local level. Not state nor nationals. A local nobody.

[Donny]

Actually he's not even strong for his size. Dude is a nobody in 'strongman' at the local level. Not state nor nationals. A local nobody.

like fatmac all mouth.

[Krankenstein]

Because real pullups are too difficult so what better way to do a pullup than to snap your spine.

Come on Joseph...defend the Log Lift I explained earlier....surely you can do that.  Yes?  Snap your spine??  LOL LOL LOL

[MisterMagoo]

Serious question: what's the reason why they do "pull ups" like that?

same reason they do a jerk in the olympics instead of a strict overhead press.

[Coach is Back!]

Come on Joseph...defend the Log Lift I explained earlier....surely you can do that.  Yes?  Snap your spine??  LOL LOL LOL

What about the "log lift"? Do you mean the "log press"?

[MisterMagoo]

What about the "log lift"? Do you mean the "log press"?

coach, i really WANT to respect you for what you've done over the years and for how much passion you obviously have, but you make it really fuckin hard.

what you repeatedly do is sift through as much as you possibly can to find the videos of CFers either having accidents or just messing around and use that as "evidence" that the whole thing is terrible, while completely glossing over every equally bad video of powerlifter, weightlifters, bodybuilders and the like.

so you know what? i'm gonna leave this here.

that's glenn pendlay. you may know him as a man who's forgotten more about weightlifting than you've exaggerated that you know. he's rather up on crossfit. you, on the other hand, are an angry little man who seems to make initial judgment about things and then will not let any new information sway your opinion (which, frankly, explains your politics).

so continue on hating on crossfit. you know what's a lot better than crossfit? filling your body with drugs so you can look good shaved, oiled, and in a thong in front of cheering men. mmmmmmm-hm. much better.

[Krankenstein]

What about the "log lift"? Do you mean the "log press"?

You knew what I meant.  Nice stall tactic.

[Big Chiro Flex]

same reason they do a jerk in the olympics instead of a strict overhead press.

What reason would that be?

[MisterMagoo]

What reason would that be?

efficiency of movement and that judging it "strict" would be damn near impossible because you'd have to have a guy sitting there judging on shades of grey. in the olympics they had to transition to the jerk because strict OHP became difficult to judge thanks to guys using minor hip movement or leaning back to extreme angles.

similarly, with pullups, if you can do them VERY fast, your body is simply going to have some horizontal movement. hop on a pullup bar, start from a dead hang, pull as hard as you can as fast as you can with zero kip or swing. you're gonna have motion. so it would fuck up the "speed" element of the whole thing if they had to be super careful and lower gradually to avoid any kind of "swing" that would be interpreted as "cheating."

it's also like strongman. judges in a strongman competition don't give a shit if you hitch a deadlift or use your legs during presses. as long as you get the bar from ground to lockout or from your shoulders to lockout overhead it's a completed lift. in crossfit, if you get your chin over the bar it's a pullup. do whatever you want to get it up there. pissing and moaning that it doesn't work the "lats" is like whining that olympic jerks don't hit the deltoids.

[Big Chiro Flex]

efficiency of movement and that judging it "strict" would be damn near impossible because you'd have to have a guy sitting there judging on shades of grey. in the olympics they had to transition to the jerk because strict OHP became difficult to judge thanks to guys using minor hip movement or leaning back to extreme angles.

similarly, with pullups, if you can do them VERY fast, your body is simply going to have some horizontal movement. hop on a pullup bar, start from a dead hang, pull as hard as you can as fast as you can with zero kip or swing. you're gonna have motion. so it would fuck up the "speed" element of the whole thing if they had to be super careful and lower gradually to avoid any kind of "swing" that would be interpreted as "cheating."

it's also like strongman. judges in a strongman competition don't give a shit if you hitch a deadlift or use your legs during presses. as long as you get the bar from ground to lockout or from your shoulders to lockout overhead it's a completed lift. in crossfit, if you get your chin over the bar it's a pullup. do whatever you want to get it up there. pissing and moaning that it doesn't work the "lats" is like whining that olympic jerks don't hit the deltoids.

Good answer man, makes sense.

[MisterMagoo]

Good answer man, makes sense.

crossfit's just one of those things that is a damn solid protocol but HQ is trying to make money off of it so they're basically selling coaching certs for $1500 and not requiring people to be any good.

if you look at how guys like scott panchik and rich froning train, it's basically high-intensity strongman. or hell, rob orlando runs a website called StrongmanWOD that's a lot of atlas stones and farmer's walks and shit like that.

what's absurd is when people point at the silly pictures out there of guys doing a pistol standing on a kettlebell or handstand pushups on medicine balls or something and acting like that's the program. that's people messing around. it'd be like using that pic of Glenn Ross holding a guy over his head and going "STRONGMAN IS STUPID WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THIS EXERCISE".

you wanna see crossfit? here.



bang. CF is built around squats, deadlifts, olympic lifts, pullups, dips, rows, and sprints. those are the key movements. everything else is supplemental.

[chaos]

Lol @ Donny and Wolfox, two guys scared to post pics out of shame and embarrassment for themselves.

[Donny]

Lol @ Donny and Wolfox, two guys scared to post pics out of shame and embarrassment for themselves.

 

[Donny]

what a freak

[chaos]

 

Throw yours up, side by side, let's compare.
Or are you a coward?

[Donny]

this says it all freak

[Roger Bacon]

True enough.  


Feminization of US continues.  

Yes, lol... sickening

I bet you almost all male crossfitters are liberals.  

=13m20s

[Palpatine Q]

crossfit's just one of those things that is a damn solid protocol but HQ is trying to make money off of it so they're basically selling coaching certs for $1500 and not requiring people to be any good.

if you look at how guys like scott panchik and rich froning train, it's basically high-intensity strongman. or hell, rob orlando runs a website called StrongmanWOD that's a lot of atlas stones and farmer's walks and shit like that.

what's absurd is when people point at the silly pictures out there of guys doing a pistol standing on a kettlebell or handstand pushups on medicine balls or something and acting like that's the program. that's people messing around. it'd be like using that pic of Glenn Ross holding a guy over his head and going "STRONGMAN IS STUPID WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THIS EXERCISE".

you wanna see crossfit? here.



bang. CF is built around squats, deadlifts, olympic lifts, pullups, dips, rows, and sprints. those are the key movements. everything else is supplemental.

Exercise is exercise...it's the dumb shit written in the background that makes me laugh. 

Pretentious much....LOL.

[chaos]

this says it all freak

As we all thought. You're yella!

[Krankenstein]

Exercise is exercise...it's the dumb shit written in the background that makes me laugh.  

Pretentious much....LOL.

Yeah, because no bodybuilder in ANY of the BTFO has ever said stupid shit about how hard it was to train and get on stage.  How they 'go to war' in the gym.....'do battle' on stage.  Maybe how the weight will 'never destroy' them.  How superior they are to everyone else because they can eat their boiled chicken breasts and 5.5oz of broccoli with their meals.  

Bodybuilders are the biggest egomaniacs and pretentious bunch of fucks there are.  Give me a CF chick over some he-she Nationals competitor any day

[MisterMagoo]

Exercise is exercise...it's the dumb shit written in the background that makes me laugh. 

Pretentious much....LOL.

oh come on dude. every gym on the damn planet is coated with shit like that. or plastered with animal pak ads that are covered with dumbass phrases like "i'm not here to make friends" or that ridiculous story about "your rent is late but your gym dues are right on time, THIS IS ANIMAL."

i have no problem with criticism where due, but if you're gonna act like ALL gyms aren't coated with dumb shit on the walls you're just being willfully ignorant.

[Pray_4_War]

Exercise is exercise...it's the dumb shit written in the background that makes me laugh.  

Pretentious much....LOL.

Exactly.  Homos and soccer moms trying to prop up their self esteem pretending to be Navy SEALS.  As Cockenstein says, there are idiot bodybuilders that wear shirts with dumb sayings on them too.  The difference is that this ego driven nonsense permeates throughout Crossfit.  It's embedded in the culture from the top to the very bottom.   Weird and sad.

[Pray_4_War]

oh come on dude. every gym on the damn planet is coated with shit like that. or plastered with animal pak ads that are covered with dumbass phrases like "i'm not here to make friends" or that ridiculous story about "your rent is late but your gym dues are right on time, THIS IS ANIMAL."

i have no problem with criticism where due, but if you're gonna act like ALL gyms aren't coated with dumb shit on the walls you're just being willfully ignorant.

I train at Gold's and I can assure you that there is nothing of the sort on our walls.  Read that shit dude.  That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.  Talk about taking yourself too seriously.  Lol, and Crossfitters get shocked and butthurt when they get criticized.  You guys are the Trekkies of fitness, accept it.     

[MisterMagoo]

I train at Gold's and I can assure you that there is nothing of the sort on our walls.  Read that shit dude.  That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.  Talk about taking yourself too seriously.  Lol, and Crossfitters get shocked and butthurt when they get criticized.  You guys are the Trekkies of fitness, accept it.     

dude, i have been in lots of gyms all over the place and i see shit like that in all of them. i should take pictures of the one i'm at now (which is a USAPL gym with record holders), they have lots of wacky phrases on the walls. plus i've been in loads of smaller privately-owned gyms that get those animal pak ads.

side note: whining about shit on the walls? really? oh no, WORDS WRITTEN DOWN. how AWFUL.

no, it's not about being butthurt, it's about no one ever saying anything BUT the nonsense and flaming. criticism is fine. ignorant flaming is aggravating, especially when the criticisms are baseless.