[quote]hipsr4runnin wrote:
If we slowed down the process or viewed it on video we could say “well that asian chick was driving…thats dangerous and exactly why she crashed into a wall”
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Fixed this for ya.
[quote]florelius wrote:
I dont understand crossfit at all, can someone in the know tell me what benefits you get from doing cardio rows, followed up with single leg squat and finnish off with max rep cleans? [/quote]
It’s a test.
What benefit do strongmen get carrying a car 40 yards?
Once I got past the bullshit marketing and understood that Crossfit is essentially an extreme sport in the vein of Strongman it made sense to me. It’s not really about fitness, no matter what they say. It’s about doing crazy and stupid shit better than other people. It’s just like strongman but with lighter weights and longer durations on the challenges.
Is it retarded to say that doing crossfit will make you stronger than powerlifting? Yes.
But that doesn’t making COMPTEING in it any more or lessretarded than competing in any other sport. Just because it’s not to your taste, there’s no need to get all butthurt and start waving your ePeen around.
@ jab1.
I asked because I dont know anything about crossfit and wanted to know what the purpose of that style of training is, I thougt I made that clear in my other post. Again I wasnt trying to shit on the method.
Okay since people rather will project than answer I ask it in another way, is strenght-endurance the objective
of crossfit training?
[quote]florelius wrote:
@ jab1.
I asked because I dont know anything about crossfit and wanted to know what the purpose of that style of training is, I thougt I made that clear in my other post. Again I wasnt trying to shit on the method.
Okay since people rather will project than answer I ask it in another way, is strenght-endurance the objective
of crossfit training?
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Crossfitters will tell you about the various measures of “fitness” (there’s like 11 or something?) and how Crossfit is the best way of simultaneously getting better at all of them.
[quote]Jab1 wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
@ jab1.
I asked because I dont know anything about crossfit and wanted to know what the purpose of that style of training is, I thougt I made that clear in my other post. Again I wasnt trying to shit on the method.
Okay since people rather will project than answer I ask it in another way, is strenght-endurance the objective
of crossfit training?
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Crossfitters will tell you about the various measures of “fitness” (there’s like 11 or something?) and how Crossfit is the best way of simultaneously getting better at all of them.[/quote]
Okay so when a person performs a WOD they work all of those 11 measures of fitness all at once, Am I understanding it correctly?
yes it is. Depending on which box you go to though. Some do it right and some do it wrong - just like every-fucking-thing in life. Also I dont think he was yelling at you mate, its the interweb, hard to tell sometimes.
Greg: Thanks for the correcting - now its just complete truth, but you know who is killing asians in the car accident department?? Russians! Whats their fugging deal?? Probably radiation…
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
If a person or athlete could go out there and absolutely dominate the Crossfit Games why WOULDN’T they?
$250 grand??? That’s enough money to get almost any athlete (especially Olympic athletes because they don’t make the money that NFl and NBA guys make) out there.
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Only an athlete that’s not a professional making boatloads of money would give a fuck about the crossfag games.
Olympic athletes, like you said, are prime candidates because the poor bastards make nothing. But for everyone else, they drop 250k running for the bus in the morning. [/quote]
The only problem is that Olympic athletes are too busy training for an actual sport, in a HUGE event watched by millions. Also, some do make a lot of money as the Olympics aren’t exactly amateur anymore and they also have the potential to make money after the games. Why would an amateur boxer give up the Olympics for 250K? If he does well he has the potential to make that per minute of boxing. Just getting to the Olympics has more meaning (forget about the money)than being the best at Crossfit.
Irish: so much anger…jesus man youre arguing with people on-fucking-line trying to prove who the hell knows what. If the guy thinks he awesome because he crossfits let it go. All your post have nothing important in them. You arent helping anyone you just bash. You havent set anyone straight just annoyed. Do you think a lot of punches to the frontal lobes has caused any long term damage?
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]spk wrote:
fightingirish is saying crossfit sucks and is gay and all…
here you go fightingirish.
you ought to be able to do double what a crossfit person can do… if they are gay and their workouts sucks… here’s a girl doing 39 pullups…
i imagine you will double this very ez cause crossfit sucks and its gay…
( bet my house you cant do half of what she did)
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By the way, I just looked up this chick. Her name is Crystal West, and she’s pretty badass… and get what workout program she DOESN’T FUCKING DO?
Seriously dude, this woman doesn’t even do Crossfit, so shut the fuck up.
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Oh SNAP!
It’s not elite if anyone can do it
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
By the way, I just looked up this chick. Her name is Crystal West, and she’s pretty badass… and get what workout program she DOESN’T FUCKING DO?
Seriously dude, this woman doesn’t even do Crossfit, so shut the fuck up.
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It’s easy to tell she’s not a crossfitter…
Crossfitters are required to have horribly shitty form. Her form is great.
fighting irish
got that photo off a crossfit site. there are a ton of girls that can do 39 pullups on the crossfit site…
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
So when I compete on June 9th at a local CrossFit gym, what will I be competing in? It will be a competition. There will be 1 winner and a bunch of losers. What would you call that? It is definitely not the CrossFit games. It will not be on ESPN.
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This is a sport. When I said “crossfit games” I was implying any organized contest.
Sprinting to get in shape is not a sport.
No, you’re doing a sport. If you were just going to play catch with the football, this would not be a sport.
Do you see the difference?
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Never understood the hate for Crossfit, personally.
From what I can see, it’s encouraging people to get off their ass, to engage in strenuous workouts comprised of multi-joint exercises and olympic lifts, and to eat healthy diets.
These are good things, no?
As to whether or not it’s a sport, the correct answer is “who gives a fuck??”. To some, it is, and to some, it isn’t. [/quote]
This is probably the best post we’ve had. Good points all arouund.
I’ll add that it is incredibly lame to try and use some olympic athlete vs crossfit games competitor as justification for an argument.
Neither the olympic athlete, nor the crossfit games competitor trains the same way you do (unless perhaps you’re their training partner), so why use their results as justification for your argument?
I play basketball and powerlift. But you won’t hear me use Lebron’s jumping ability, or Mike Tuchscherer’s squat as validation for what I do.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]spk wrote:
bottom line fightingirish, dont make fun of anyones training…
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^^This
and then in the same post this^^
oh the irony.
You’re comparing two different training styles and philosophies… do you know this? You’re comparing, i’ll say it again, an “apple” to an “orange.”[/quote]
And THAT is exactly why I don’t like crossfit.
The cultists don’t respect anyone else’s training method, and try to push THEIR method on you EVEN if what you’re doing is totally different.
You play football? Crossfit makes the best football players.
Oh you run marathons? Crossfit is better for that then what you’re doing.
Oh you box? So what? What’s your Fran time?
You think crossfag training sucks? That’s cause GIRLS PUT UP BETTER TIMES THAN YOU!
No, I think it sucks cause idiots are teaching things they don’t know how to teach, there’s no programming whatsoever, and the people that do it are assholes.[/quote]
On top of this, there are hundreds of different training systems that claim to be crossfit. You’re training is great as long as you call it crossfit, otherwise it sucks.
At risk of further beating this particular dead (and at this point decomposing) horse…
In a lot of the discussions about crossfit on these boards, one of the recurring themes seems to be that “crossfitters are assholes”. In my experience the vast majority of people are kind of assholes, and since it’s people who do CF, I’m not sure why CF’ers should be any different.
CF’ers are into CF so they tend to be assholes about CF and fitness in general. That being said, I really don’t know that CF caused them to become assholes, it just happens to be the philosophy that they bought into, so it’s what they choose to be assholes about. No real surprise there
People who are into politics tend to be assholes about politics, people who are into religion tend to be assholes about religion. Seems to be human nature. This, to me, is commentary on people, not politics or religion. Likewise with CF, IMO.
[quote]batman730 wrote:
People who are into politics tend to be assholes about politics, people who are into religion tend to be assholes about religion. Seems to be human nature.
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People into politics and religion aren’t just assholes… They’re super giant colossal assholes.
Crossfit assholes are just your typical garden variety smug assholes.
I doubt CrossF_U_C_K will be around 15 years from now.
I don’t see the reason to formally compete.
I hate average joes that do triathlons marathons, crosswutever just to brag.
I am a little intrigued by the definition of sport and how it varys from person to person. I had a pretty deep discussion with some guys at my gym about it. I don’t think that there can be a universal definition of sport.
My main argument on this thread the entire time was that I think CrossFit is a sport, and I am impressed with the top CrossFit athletes. I know this may differ from what you guys think, but I am really curious now as to what your definition of a sport is.
Just to be clear on this, I am no longer interested in what you think of CrossFit. I only want to know what your personal definition of sport is.