A Crossfit Thread

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STB likes doing certain Crossfit workouts as his conditioning work after his conjugate training according to his log. Seems like a decent enough thing to do imo.

I admit that my powerlifting buddies and I love making fun of Crossfit. Couch Glassman is the biggest hack ever for one. We poke fun at a lot of their nomenclature as well. Calling their gym a “box” lol. And using phrases like AMRAP and WOD. Also at the general attitude some of the followers have.

That’s all in good fun though. Crossfit isn’t really so bad anymore. They’ve gotten a ton better about people’s form on oly lifts thank God. It’s cool how they’re bringing more exposure to the good ol’ barbell and bringing in tons of money and attention.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
I have been doing CF about 2-3 times a week and 2-3 times a week of 5/3/1 strength training for the past 18 months. (Long story) its in my log in the over 35.

And thanks CT for being the second person to respond in this thread so it did not go all hater. [/quote]

I am basically doing the exact same thing. Will check out your log.

Yeah, suprisingly little amounts of hate in here!

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[quote]csulli wrote:
STB likes doing certain Crossfit workouts as his conditioning work after his conjugate training according to his log. Seems like a decent enough thing to do imo.

I admit that my powerlifting buddies and I love making fun of Crossfit. Couch Glassman is the biggest hack ever for one. We poke fun at a lot of their nomenclature as well. Calling their gym a “box” lol. And using phrases like AMRAP and WOD. Also at the general attitude some of the followers have.

That’s all in good fun though. Crossfit isn’t really so bad anymore. They’ve gotten a ton better about people’s form on oly lifts thank God. It’s cool how they’re bringing more exposure to the good ol’ barbell and bringing in tons of money and attention.[/quote]

lol i’d go as far to say that coaches and owners moving further away from Glassman’s ideology is one of the main reasons Crossfit is becoming more and more respected.

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[quote]setto222 wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
STB likes doing certain Crossfit workouts as his conditioning work after his conjugate training according to his log. Seems like a decent enough thing to do imo.

I admit that my powerlifting buddies and I love making fun of Crossfit. Couch Glassman is the biggest hack ever for one. We poke fun at a lot of their nomenclature as well. Calling their gym a “box” lol. And using phrases like AMRAP and WOD. Also at the general attitude some of the followers have.

That’s all in good fun though. Crossfit isn’t really so bad anymore. They’ve gotten a ton better about people’s form on oly lifts thank God. It’s cool how they’re bringing more exposure to the good ol’ barbell and bringing in tons of money and attention.[/quote]

lol i’d go as far to say that coaches and owners moving further away from Glassman’s ideology is one of the main reasons Crossfit is becoming more and more respected. [/quote]
Oh absolutely. There is an enormous section of Crossfit that has basically taken all the good things about the training and eschewed the stupid bullshit Glassman sometimes throws in. More power to em.

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[quote]setto222 wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
STB likes doing certain Crossfit workouts as his conditioning work after his conjugate training according to his log. Seems like a decent enough thing to do imo.

I admit that my powerlifting buddies and I love making fun of Crossfit. Couch Glassman is the biggest hack ever for one. We poke fun at a lot of their nomenclature as well. Calling their gym a “box” lol. And using phrases like AMRAP and WOD. Also at the general attitude some of the followers have.

That’s all in good fun though. Crossfit isn’t really so bad anymore. They’ve gotten a ton better about people’s form on oly lifts thank God. It’s cool how they’re bringing more exposure to the good ol’ barbell and bringing in tons of money and attention.[/quote]

lol i’d go as far to say that coaches and owners moving further away from Glassman’s ideology is one of the main reasons Crossfit is becoming more and more respected. [/quote]

This…but my buddies still pay their affiliate fees, and the CF games are the best marketing force in many years for the affiliates.

Glasshole has trolled everybody, him, Castro and Budding are sitting around drinking Bombay Saphire…groping andro babes and lighting cigars with Reebok $100 bills.

He has trolled EVERYBODY.

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Yay Crossfit

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[quote]ishinator wrote:
Yay Crossfit
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Now you have my attention…

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]ishinator wrote:
Yay Crossfit
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Now you have my attention…[/quote]

please post more videos like this

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[quote]ishinator wrote:
Yay Crossfit

BEST POST

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Basically agree with what’s been said, especially about distancing oneself from Glassman and “HQ.” It is interesting that given the ego that he has, he takes a hands off approach to the affiliates and wants to create an “open source” environment where new ideas are brought in. Hence the greater emphasis on strength in many affiliates and better coaching on the Olympic lifts.

As for whether Crossfit is a “sport,” my initial reaction was negative and went something like this:

Crossfit, at least according to Glassman and “HQ,” was supposed to make you good at just about everything and a Crossfitter could compete and do well in any sport with very little additional preparation.

This turned out not to be the case as very few Crossfitters excelled in another discipline unless they practiced that discipline.

Therefore, Crossfit labelled itself as its own sport - “The sport of fitness” - to make up for the fact that Crossfitters are only good at Crossfit, unless they practice another sport.

I still think there is some truth to the above - and keep in mind that I don’t hate CF and enjoy some of the workouts, but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. However, I now say “why not make it its own sport?” If this is another activity/sport that gets people to exercise and lift, great. CF is challenging and hard work. It requires many skills. It ain’t Wii Fit. So why not?

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[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
Basically agree with what’s been said, especially about distancing oneself from Glassman and “HQ.” It is interesting that given the ego that he has, he takes a hands off approach to the affiliates and wants to create an “open source” environment where new ideas are brought in. Hence the greater emphasis on strength in many affiliates and better coaching on the Olympic lifts.

As for whether Crossfit is a “sport,” my initial reaction was negative and went something like this:

Crossfit, at least according to Glassman and “HQ,” was supposed to make you good at just about everything and a Crossfitter could compete and do well in any sport with very little additional preparation.

This turned out not to be the case as very few Crossfitters excelled in another discipline unless they practiced that discipline.

Therefore, Crossfit labelled itself as its own sport - “The sport of fitness” - to make up for the fact that Crossfitters are only good at Crossfit, unless they practice another sport.

I still think there is some truth to the above - and keep in mind that I don’t hate CF and enjoy some of the workouts, but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. However, I now say “why not make it its own sport?” If this is another activity/sport that gets people to exercise and lift, great. CF is challenging and hard work. It requires many skills. It ain’t Wii Fit. So why not?[/quote]

I remember back in 05-06 that Glassman wrote that crossfitters would dominate the 4 major sports and the olympics.

lol.

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
Basically agree with what’s been said, especially about distancing oneself from Glassman and “HQ.” It is interesting that given the ego that he has, he takes a hands off approach to the affiliates and wants to create an “open source” environment where new ideas are brought in. Hence the greater emphasis on strength in many affiliates and better coaching on the Olympic lifts.

As for whether Crossfit is a “sport,” my initial reaction was negative and went something like this:

Crossfit, at least according to Glassman and “HQ,” was supposed to make you good at just about everything and a Crossfitter could compete and do well in any sport with very little additional preparation.

This turned out not to be the case as very few Crossfitters excelled in another discipline unless they practiced that discipline.

Therefore, Crossfit labelled itself as its own sport - “The sport of fitness” - to make up for the fact that Crossfitters are only good at Crossfit, unless they practice another sport.

I still think there is some truth to the above - and keep in mind that I don’t hate CF and enjoy some of the workouts, but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. However, I now say “why not make it its own sport?” If this is another activity/sport that gets people to exercise and lift, great. CF is challenging and hard work. It requires many skills. It ain’t Wii Fit. So why not?[/quote]

I remember back in 05-06 that Glassman wrote that crossfitters would dominate the 4 major sports and the olympics.

lol.[/quote]

That sounds like him.

Crossfit Endurance has been a total disaster. Yes, you can see some success stories, but they all start with “After years of putting in lots of miles…” So, you already had an aerobic base when you started CFE. I have not heard of anyone who came off the couch, did CFE, and ran a marathon. Brian Mackenzie, the ultrarunner who started CFE, has reportedly not finished a single race since he started training only CFE.

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[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
Basically agree with what’s been said, especially about distancing oneself from Glassman and “HQ.” It is interesting that given the ego that he has, he takes a hands off approach to the affiliates and wants to create an “open source” environment where new ideas are brought in. Hence the greater emphasis on strength in many affiliates and better coaching on the Olympic lifts.

As for whether Crossfit is a “sport,” my initial reaction was negative and went something like this:

Crossfit, at least according to Glassman and “HQ,” was supposed to make you good at just about everything and a Crossfitter could compete and do well in any sport with very little additional preparation.

This turned out not to be the case as very few Crossfitters excelled in another discipline unless they practiced that discipline.

Therefore, Crossfit labelled itself as its own sport - “The sport of fitness” - to make up for the fact that Crossfitters are only good at Crossfit, unless they practice another sport.

I still think there is some truth to the above - and keep in mind that I don’t hate CF and enjoy some of the workouts, but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. However, I now say “why not make it its own sport?” If this is another activity/sport that gets people to exercise and lift, great. CF is challenging and hard work. It requires many skills. It ain’t Wii Fit. So why not?[/quote]

I remember back in 05-06 that Glassman wrote that crossfitters would dominate the 4 major sports and the olympics.

lol.[/quote]

That sounds like him.

Crossfit Endurance has been a total disaster. Yes, you can see some success stories, but they all start with “After years of putting in lots of miles…” So, you already had an aerobic base when you started CFE. I have not heard of anyone who came off the couch, did CFE, and ran a marathon. Brian Mackenzie, the ultrarunner who started CFE, has reportedly not finished a single race since he started training only CFE.[/quote]

Bmac and cheese has also been nailed for claiming to be a SEAL despite washing out of BUDS…he also claimed in his initial CFE bio (since scrubbed, but avalaible by screenshot) that he had won several Ultra’s despite never finishing one.

He is the tattooed Glassman.

More fun info here.

joshsgarage.typepad.com/Crossfit_White_Papers_--_Timeline.html

Box owners were right to move away from HQ

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I actually enjoyed the crossfit football workouts when I was doing them. The more I listen to Glassman though I just start to hate all things that he touches. The other thing that pisses me off is how he acts like he came up with some revolutionary concept. I mean every guy that has played a sport has done lots of conditioning work and speed/agility drills. That is all Crossfit is. They took basic cross training principals, added some stupid stuff (high rep olympic lifts, kipping pullups, etc), programmed it horribly and stuck a brand on it. Its like saying the NFL today is a different sport than it was 25 years ago. Same sport just dumber rules.

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If you feel like doing a little reading then here is how HQ really seems to feel about being contradicted and how “open source” Glassman’s policy really is.

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[quote]bpick86 wrote:
If you feel like doing a little reading then here is how HQ really seems to feel about being contradicted and how “open source” Glassman’s policy really is.

[/quote]

lulz, the black box saga was awesome…hearing Dan John tell how he was Glassinated is crazy as well.

Castro is a world class asshole.

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
…hearing Dan John tell how he was Glassinated is crazy as well.
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Anywhere I can find this? I could definitely see that as an amusing read.

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[quote]bpick86 wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:
…hearing Dan John tell how he was Glassinated is crazy as well.
[/quote]

Anywhere I can find this? I could definitely see that as an amusing read.[/quote]

It should be in the white papers link I posted just above.

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[quote]bpick86 wrote:
I actually enjoyed the crossfit football workouts when I was doing them. The more I listen to Glassman though I just start to hate all things that he touches. The other thing that pisses me off is how he acts like he came up with some revolutionary concept. I mean every guy that has played a sport has done lots of conditioning work and speed/agility drills. That is all Crossfit is. They took basic cross training principals, added some stupid stuff (high rep olympic lifts, kipping pullups, etc), programmed it horribly and stuck a brand on it. Its like saying the NFL today is a different sport than it was 25 years ago. Same sport just dumber rules.[/quote]

CFFB is a well programmed periodized approach to strength training and sport specific conditioning. Glassman never touched it. Adding “crossfit” to a website tends to increase the popularity exponentially. The problem is that people automatically look at the word “crossfit” and assume it’s the same shitty stuff from back in the infancy of the program.

I personally enjoy CF because it’s fun! I am 100% aware that a consistent approach to conditioning will give me better results but I kind of enjoy not knowing my my workouts for the rest of the week will be like. I don’t pay to go to a CF gym, I get all the stuff for free on their affiliate sites and I enjoy competing in the “comments” sections with other. It seems a heck of a lot more fun to me than just comparing my bench or 1 mile run times with others.

But here’s the thing: it’s a “heck of a lot more fun” for me. NOT necessarily for others. So I shut my fucking mouth when people talk about their preferred way to train. CF is absolutely not the best, the same way that hockey isn’t the best sport. It’s just what some people prefer.

As for the Glassman bullshit about being great in every facet of fitness and being more effective than BB+steroids (hahahah)it’s ridiculous. However there is something to be said about it:
A CFer should be better at squatting than a marathon runner, but worse than a PLer or a BBer.
A CFer should be better at long distance running than a PLer, but worse than a marathon runner.

Ideally it should make you a jack of all trades and a master of none. And guess what? I’m totally fine with that!

Finally,

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[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:

[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
Basically agree with what’s been said, especially about distancing oneself from Glassman and “HQ.” It is interesting that given the ego that he has, he takes a hands off approach to the affiliates and wants to create an “open source” environment where new ideas are brought in. Hence the greater emphasis on strength in many affiliates and better coaching on the Olympic lifts.

As for whether Crossfit is a “sport,” my initial reaction was negative and went something like this:

Crossfit, at least according to Glassman and “HQ,” was supposed to make you good at just about everything and a Crossfitter could compete and do well in any sport with very little additional preparation.

This turned out not to be the case as very few Crossfitters excelled in another discipline unless they practiced that discipline.

Therefore, Crossfit labelled itself as its own sport - “The sport of fitness” - to make up for the fact that Crossfitters are only good at Crossfit, unless they practice another sport.

I still think there is some truth to the above - and keep in mind that I don’t hate CF and enjoy some of the workouts, but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. However, I now say “why not make it its own sport?” If this is another activity/sport that gets people to exercise and lift, great. CF is challenging and hard work. It requires many skills. It ain’t Wii Fit. So why not?[/quote]

I remember back in 05-06 that Glassman wrote that crossfitters would dominate the 4 major sports and the olympics.

lol.[/quote]

That sounds like him.

Crossfit Endurance has been a total disaster. Yes, you can see some success stories, but they all start with “After years of putting in lots of miles…” So, you already had an aerobic base when you started CFE. I have not heard of anyone who came off the couch, did CFE, and ran a marathon. Brian Mackenzie, the ultrarunner who started CFE, has reportedly not finished a single race since he started training only CFE.[/quote]

The main problem with CFE is that they lump all of endurance into one domain when that is biomechanically and physiologically illogical. There’s a reason why Lance Armstrong doesn’t do well in marathon running.

Having said that it’s a great way to stay in great cardiovascular shape which in itself carries a lot of healthy benefits, and it’s fun for people who like doing boring stuff for a long time :stuck_out_tongue: