10 Miles Back Again

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5487

100% agree there.

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5488

Wait, what? Softball throw is a CrossFit event?

5489

Wasn’t that their championing motto? The jacks of all trades? I remember seeing original templates by glassman and skill work was supposed to be regular in the templates.

5490

@kdjohn it was an event one year in the early days, back when they were trying to get ex-baseball player Rich Froning to win.

@cstan097 I get that, but if you’re going to call yourself “fittest on earth”, surely you should be cutting out the party tricks and bullshit? If you’re going to include pure skill in there like handstand stuff, why not have juggling or chess in there?

5491

When I saw this I immediately thought circus act juggling chainsaws and walking tightropes. Yeah I think it is kind of ridiculous especially the claim that they are the fittest on earth and the methods they use to determine that. Like couldn’t you just keep it simple and test everything separately instead of throwing it into some kind of metcon. I guess that wouldn’t sell as well though.

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5492

Strongman is becoming powerlifting, crossfit is becoming strongman, dogs and cats living together!

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5493

I don’t have any issues with that, personally. It’s the skill based stuff I don’t like in there. Handstand walking, pegboards, and other moves in which skill is far more important than fitness. Puts me off.

@T3hPwnisher I would definitely get on board with Crossfit going strongman. A crossover meet with 3 strongman events and 3 metcons? Sign me up. 5k runs mixed with max log press in 90s? Sounds like a good time for all.

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5494

That’s what I’m saying though: it’s already there. It’s more about being a show vs a sport. That’s the origin of strongman.

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5495

I was going more for the mix of events angle. I hadn’t really considered the “show” aspect.

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5496

Meanwhile, happy cake day.

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5497

Happy cake day!

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5498

100 squats, mix of unweighted and carrying the sprogs.

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5499

Work for this arvo:

3k run including:
10 x 10 squats
5 x 5 pull ups
5 x 10 dips

Then:
21-15-9
Swings (36kg) and push ups on handles

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5500

you’ve lost me
lol

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5501

Sprogs = kids

Arvo = afternoon

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5502

Sarnie = sandwich

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5503

You’d think brits would be better at english, but here we are.

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5504

ahhhhh lol

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5505

To be fair, most native English speakers are pretty bad at English

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5506

Work for today:
5 rounds:
5 pull ups
10 dips
20 squats

Got caught in a traffic jam on the way home so missed most of my gym time.

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