[quote]Aggv wrote:
I know some crossfitters.
They’re super elite hardcore athletes. Maybe one day, if i buy enough crossfit branded gear ill be as elite as they are. [/quote]
Great post!
Maybe if I buy a shirt with some crass statement on it, like “Need More Haters” I can be as elite as a bodybuilder or powerlifter.
Powerlifters and bodybuilders may be big and strong, but they follow the rules, and that’s not edgy.
Bunch of queers if you ask me.
Ah yes. The typical T-Nation “I really have no idea what Crossfit is , but it’s gay” thread. I have owned a CrossFit affiliate for almost 5 years. I have competed in Strongman, Weightlifting, Powerlifting, and CrossFit. CrossFit is a brand, so is Westside Barbell, Elite FTS, USA Weightlifting, NAS, WSM, etc. CrossFit gyms are generally full of people with enough commitment to pay higher gym dues.
People who are not scared to put them selves out there and try new things that they might not be good at. Typical adults stick with what they know and what they think they are good at. They get embarrassed when they can’t do new skill correctly. CrossFit gyms foster an environment where people can come and try new things and not be ashamed if they aren’t an expert off the bat.
CrossFit is a sport, a brand, and a training program with a ton of variations. Thinking you know everything about training and dismissing other methods makes you sound ignorant, especially when you admit to not even researching the methods that you dismiss.
Now you guys say : “gay” , “x2” , “high rep olympic lifting is stupid”, “injury rates”, “random chaos”, “not scientific”, “gay”, “not strong”, “I have this certification or degree”, “The problem with CrossFit is”. Meanwhile the guys who do well at the CrossFit games, are strong, fast, mobile, healthy, and probably doing okay financially.
[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
Powerlifters and bodybuilders may be big and strong, but they follow the rules, and that’s not edgy.
Bunch of queers if you ask me.
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You’re a coherent sort of guy, very courteous and easy to talk to.
[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
Powerlifters and bodybuilders may be big and strong, but they follow the rules, and that’s not edgy.
Bunch of queers if you ask me.
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Are you anti-gay by the way?
[quote]Madtytecurls wrote:
Csulli, yeah no doubt about the money behind being a crossfit athlete. If I want to have a chance to whore myself out to Reebok, Kellogs or any other corporate sponsor I would have a much better chance if I did it competing in the “Crossfit Games” than at a local powerlifting event, even if your average Powerlifter is a shit ton stronger than a Crossfitter.
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Wait… powerlifters are stronger than CrossFitters? Crazy. Funny how you make it seem as though you can just “go compete” at the CrossFit Games. I think I will just go compete in the Olympics in 2016. But then I would be whoring myself out to McDonalds and Coca cola, Maybe I’ll just be Worlds strongest man, Met rx is their pimp though. How about the NFL, nobody sponsors them.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
Powerlifters and bodybuilders may be big and strong, but they follow the rules, and that’s not edgy.
Bunch of queers if you ask me.
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Are you anti-gay by the way? [/quote]
How could you think that? Haven’t I already made it clear that I love crossfit?
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]Madtytecurls wrote:
Csulli, yeah no doubt about the money behind being a crossfit athlete. If I want to have a chance to whore myself out to Reebok, Kellogs or any other corporate sponsor I would have a much better chance if I did it competing in the “Crossfit Games” than at a local powerlifting event, even if your average Powerlifter is a shit ton stronger than a Crossfitter.
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Wait… powerlifters are stronger than CrossFitters? Crazy. Funny how you make it seem as though you can just “go compete” at the CrossFit Games. I think I will just go compete in the Olympics in 2016. But then I would be whoring myself out to McDonalds and Coca cola, Maybe I’ll just be Worlds strongest man, Met rx is their pimp though. How about the NFL, nobody sponsors them.
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Great posts! I love how freely they speak of CF, as if they could come close to the guys at the top of CF.
Waiting for the classic line: “Wait, wait… that’s not a good example because these guys built their size and strength before CF!”
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
An example of mediocrity at its best! LOL!
Waiting for the classic line: “Wait, wait… that’s not a good example because these guys built their size and strength before CF!”[/quote]
Those are my favorite. Also, the classic “Top Crossfitters don’t even do Crossfit.”
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
An example of mediocrity at its best! LOL!
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That dude is gonna have some serious delticular impingement of his frontal humorist if he doesn’t get with a professionally designed and balanced program.
j/k!
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
An example of mediocrity at its best! LOL!
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That dude is gonna have some serious delticular impingement of his frontal humorist if he doesn’t get with a professionally designed and balanced program.
j/k!
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Oh yeah?
Well check this out! Stuff like this is less ridiculous and more commendable than Crossift. Less risk of injury for participants and onlookers and helpers as well.
Also more respectable simply because he’s training to be the best he can be in one thing: benching.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Also more respectable simply because he’s training to be the best he can be in one thing: benching. [/quote]
Absolutely! There is nothing out of the ordinary about that at all.
Really though Brick, you’re a working professional in a health field, so maybe you could clarify this for Madtytecurls-
Once the certs have been gotten, degrees and letters earned, what people want to see is a qualified, Experienced person who has had hands on with enough people to know what works and what doesn’t.
It’s a bit flawed to think “Hey, I got all of the right letters, why isn’t everybody throwing money at me?”. Along with “They’re doing it wrong because it’s not what I learned!”.
What’s with all the crossfit hate?
The “haters” are really just ill informed.
If you belong to this site I think it is safe to assume that you care about strength, fitness and (to a certain degree) health.
You should be happy that crossfit is exploding across the world and getting otherwise sedentary people up off their couches and in the gym throwing around some weight.
So what that it’s not the way you prefer to train?
The more people who are out there putting in work and trying to better themselves the better.
That’s what I say.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Also more respectable simply because he’s training to be the best he can be in one thing: benching. [/quote]
Absolutely! There is nothing out of the ordinary about that at all.
Really though Brick, you’re a working professional in a health field, so maybe you could clarify this for Madtytecurls-
Once the certs have been gotten, degrees and letters earned, what people want to see is a qualified, Experienced person who has had hands on with enough people to know what works and what doesn’t.
It’s a bit flawed to think “Hey, I got all of the right letters, why isn’t everybody throwing money at me?”. Along with “They’re doing it wrong because it’s not what I learned!”.
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Exactly.
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
What’s with all the crossfit hate?
The “haters” are really just ill informed.
If you belong to this site I think it is safe to assume that you care about strength, fitness and (to a certain degree) health.
You should be happy that crossfit is exploding across the world and getting otherwise sedentary people up off their couches and in the gym throwing around some weight.
So what that it’s not the way you prefer to train?
The more people who are out there putting in work and trying to better themselves the better.
That’s what I say.[/quote]
Well, in the world of many–though DEFINITELY NOT ALL (gotta include disclaimers constantly for this sensitive lot)–powerlifters and bodybuilders, the world is like this: powerlifters or bodybuilders… and everyone else! That is, there are bodybuilders and regular, “mediocre” people. A marathon runner is gay, a guy who spends his evenings with his kids and wife but has a 14 inch arm is gay, a Crossfitter is gay, a Zumba participatant who wants to have exercise and fun with her girlfriends is gay, a long distance runner is gay, and so on. And if they express their distaste for bodybuilding or powerlifting, they are called “haters”, which is ironic considering the hate delivered by the people I speak of here, and the liberal use of the words queer and gay but when there’s an issue concerning race and gender and sexuality will wax pious (though falsely so, otherwise they wouldn’t feel so free in using those words).
[quote]niksamaras wrote:
Crossfit sucks, it is like volleyball. Gay if men do it, absolutely hot if women do it. No man with a dick and balls between his legs should care about how many kipping pullups (aka gay pullups) can do it 10 minutes, or how many bear’s or what-the-fuck-not- he can do.[/quote]
Definitely less gay than Crossfit.
On right: IFBB pro Bruce Patterson
