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Offline BobM59

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2013, 07:40:48 AM »
A gym down the street from me just opened, offering "CrossFit Style Training" for $50/month.  Interesting, attacking the brand monopoly and gauging going on in the CF community.  All my local friends that do CF are -fuming- at this, saying lawsuits are coming, no one can work out "like" CrossFit unless it IS CrossFit, etc.

Pretty fascinating to watch!

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2013, 09:23:32 AM »
Haha!  That's always been my beef with crossfit, it costs too much!

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2013, 10:23:37 AM »
Trademark infringement? That's a lawsuitin'.
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2013, 02:48:33 PM »
We have a place like that here but they don't say "CrossFit style".  Nobody cares or bats an eyelash and their people just showed up for a big fundraiser WOD and we considered them part of the community.   :shrug:
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2013, 04:54:30 AM »
A gym down the street from me just opened, offering "CrossFit Style Training" for $50/month.  Interesting, attacking the brand monopoly and gauging going on in the CF community.  All my local friends that do CF are -fuming- at this, saying lawsuits are coming, no one can work out "like" CrossFit unless it IS CrossFit, etc.

Pretty fascinating to watch!

don't know about this, but there is still debate within crossfit about what is good and what isn't.
Watching the games and the youtube videos --- things like kipping pullups. The guys with the degrees in kinesiology, at least the ones I know, advise you to stay away from that crap. Destined for shoulder injuries. But you see it encouraged in a lot of CF

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2013, 08:56:57 AM »
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-m-brown/crossfit-beginners_b_3867924.html

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5. You will get insanely good at counting.

I'm in. With my OCD, I'm always doing math anyway, so ...
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2013, 12:22:03 PM »
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/08/crossfit_nation_partner/



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CrossFit mirrors American militarism
The fitness craze reflects the country's ongoing transformation from a culture of sports to a culture of war

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This military ethos runs to the core of CrossFit, shaping its very vision of fitness.  In the same article where Glassman defines what it means to be fit, he grounds CrossFit’s approach to fitness in those who already exemplify it: “We are but sharing the methods of a program whose legitimacy has been established through the testimony of athletes, soldiers, cops, and others whose lives or livelihoods depend on fitness.”  The standard invoked here isn’t so much about staying in shape as staying alive.  Take, for example, the way in we should understand the muscle-up, a movement in which you begin by hanging from rings, pull yourself up through them, as you would in a pull-up, then drive yourself up, as you would in a dip, so that you end with your arms locked out, suspended in the air.[v]  Master the muscle-up, says Glassman, and –

You’ll be able to surmount any object on which you can get a finger hold—if you can touch it you can get up on it.  The value here for survival, police, fire fighter, and military use is impossible to overstate.

This need to be combat ready, to survive, also informs CrossFit’s foundational idea, the need to “cross” the kinds of exercise you do.  “Our specialty,” writes Glassman, “is not specializing.  Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.”

So CrossFitters are all Spartans, now? And that makes the rest of us, what ...??

Yeah, it's kind of a reach
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2013, 11:01:06 AM »
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So CrossFitters are all Spartans, now? And that makes the rest of us, what ...??

Yeah, it's kind of a reach

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2013, 01:03:26 PM »
One dimensional slugs that deserve to be kicked down a well.



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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #29 on: September 22, 2013, 08:44:26 AM »
https://medium.com/p/97bcce70356d

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Everyone has an uncle they’d rather you not meet.

Please allow me to introduce you to Uncle Rhabdo, CrossFit’s unofficial and disturbing mascot. Uncle Rhabdo is a cartoon commonly referenced in CrossFit literature and representative of a troubling trend among CrossFitters.

He’s a clown. Literally.

The “Uncle Rhabdo” cartoon depicts an exhausted, yet well-muscled clown, connected to a dialysis machine standing next to some workout equipment. Concernedly, his kidney has fallen out and lays on the floor underneath him, along with some portion of his bowel. He’s left a pool of blood on the floor below him, but it’s not clear if this is from the disembowelment, the kidney’s arterial supply, or the collection of fasciotomies he appears to have endured. Uncle Rhabdo, of course, has Rhabdomyolysis.

Rhabdomyolysis, apart from being a subtly pleasant and melodic sounding word, is an uncool, serious and potentially fatal condition resulting from the catastrophic breakdown of muscle cells. We’ll get more into the specifics in just a bit, but first let’s begin with a story.

Ouch!



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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #30 on: October 22, 2013, 11:27:07 AM »
I don't know if this counts as Crossfit, exactly, but it DOES kinda remind me of something a Russian friend of mine told me once

Спортивный Киев - город в котором я живу ( Street Workout )

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #31 on: October 22, 2013, 12:50:36 PM »
<I'm of "weird" Ukraine bloodlines, but not a gymnast or acrobat.>

I'd love to be able to do even a crappy version of any of those moves.
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #32 on: October 22, 2013, 01:30:06 PM »
<I'm of "weird" Ukraine bloodlines, but not a gymnast or acrobat.>

You don't have what D'Wife and I refer to as "Oksana Baiul Fashion Sense," do you? Let's hope not

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #33 on: October 22, 2013, 05:17:46 PM »
No, thank goodness. ;)
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #34 on: October 29, 2013, 12:34:57 PM »
That's not how you do...whatever it is she's supposed to be doing.  It's not from CrossFit.

I think we talked about this in Yammering: CrossFit tends to encourage that kind of group "here's what I did today" thing.  There are a couple of apps that encourage it as well.  It's not unlike the daily mileage thread in Running, you just don't get to decide if it hits your FB feed or not like clicking into a thread.

The focus is on competition with yourself: you record how many reps or sets of something you do or how much you lift and then try to improve on it next time.  And some of the stuff we're able to do is pretty tough. 

IMO there's a difference between posting about a run in the running sub forum of a running forum and posting your crossfit workout to everyone on Facebook who may not know or care what a burpee is.

I also think it's odd when people post their mileage on Facebook, though.

Mostly I think the who "all around fitness" thing is bunk. If a couch is so massive that I'm not strong enough to move it, a crossfitter probably shouldn't be doing it on his own either. In contrast to running, which benefits pretty much every other endurance activity, hiking, mountaineering, soccer, bicycling...

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #35 on: November 03, 2013, 09:26:41 AM »


Lookee, what I found!!! [she's at 0:36]

Albany Crossfit Strongman The worst weightlifting video in the history of weightlifting videos

Although the title card says "Albany Crossfit," I don't believe this is really a Crossfit workout; just a bunch of knuckleheads pretending to be weightlifters
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #36 on: November 03, 2013, 09:48:01 AM »
 :roll:

As one commenter says, "don't know whether to 'thumbs up' for comic value or 'thumbs down' for the death inducing form." And what does that fake barbell weigh, 40 pounds or so?

ETA: "Let that bar just rise above your head."  :skep:
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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #37 on: November 03, 2013, 10:41:48 AM »
What's with that grip change half way through?  :yikes: 

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Re: Have we talked about CrossFit?
« Reply #39 on: November 06, 2013, 06:22:41 PM »
 :yikes: All I see are a bunch of women giving themselves hernias!
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