[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I’ll take 4 fried chickens and a coke.[/quote]
Breast or thighs?[/quote]
Four fried chickens… and a Coke. [/quote]
“On a mission from God?”
[quote]jeep69 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I’ll take 4 fried chickens and a coke.[/quote]
Breast or thighs?[/quote]
Four fried chickens… and a Coke. [/quote]
“On a mission from God?”[/quote]
LMAO. You must be a lurker.
[quote]jeep69 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I’ll take 4 fried chickens and a coke.[/quote]
Breast or thighs?[/quote]
Four fried chickens… and a Coke. [/quote]
“On a mission from God?”[/quote]
Level 4
Member since 2002
Please: de-lurk.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
It’s a continental clean. We do them when we’re repping a heavy clean and press, like in a competition. It’s not pretty, theirs look way sloppier than we try to do em, and I generally end up with weird bruises, but it is a viable lift. You do a normal clean and press as long as you can, and then you go on to continental if you must.
I will say I continental clean double overhand, but I have a friend who just placed at Nationals who does them mixed grip.
You guys sound like the YouTube commenters who tell me I’m an idiot for arching in a bench.[/quote]
I’m not sure how you can miss the obvious. There is NO value to performing this lift to that group of trainees. They are NOT training for competition.
How do you miss this rather simple risk/benefit analysis?[/quote]
Bump
[quote]borrek wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
What was weird too is they all looked like high school girls and 45 year-old men lifting together. That’s strange.
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I wonder which group came first??[/quote]
So, yes. It is a stupid lift with very little purpose outside of competition. And for this individuals it is serving NO purpose (and WHY THE FUCK are these 2.5lb plates so huge?!?). But one thing that I haven’t seen noted yet is WHY exactly you perform a continental lift.
So: its a fat/thick bar, not many can clean it double overhand. And most importantly, the axle is non-rotational, ie/ the sleeves don’t rotate so you have to either clean it and mid-air release the bar to adjust your grip, or rest it on your abdomen to change your grip.
With all that said this is still fucking ridiculous but just thought I’d explain it a bit more for people who are unfamiliar.
[quote]MangoMan305 wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
It’s a continental clean. We do them when we’re repping a heavy clean and press, like in a competition. It’s not pretty, theirs look way sloppier than we try to do em, and I generally end up with weird bruises, but it is a viable lift. You do a normal clean and press as long as you can, and then you go on to continental if you must.
I will say I continental clean double overhand, but I have a friend who just placed at Nationals who does them mixed grip.
You guys sound like the YouTube commenters who tell me I’m an idiot for arching in a bench.[/quote]
I’m not sure how you can miss the obvious. There is NO value to performing this lift to that group of trainees. They are NOT training for competition.
How do you miss this rather simple risk/benefit analysis?[/quote]
Bump
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Are you really bumping this quote?
Hello. Lifiting can be fun. Learning how to lift ‘heavy’ shit over your head is empowering.
The only reason you wouldn’t want to teach a woman this, or any other overhead lift, is that you thing they are better off in the kitchen making sandwiches.
/I make an an awesome sandwich
/for me
/the ingredients are in the kitchen, go make your own
Sure, So let’s do regular clean and press or OHP’s. NOT continental axle cleans with horrible technique.
keep this going, the crossfits debates are allways entertaining.
if this was a video of people doing the powerlifts poorly yall would eat it up.
[quote]Christine wrote:
[quote]MangoMan305 wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
It’s a continental clean. We do them when we’re repping a heavy clean and press, like in a competition. It’s not pretty, theirs look way sloppier than we try to do em, and I generally end up with weird bruises, but it is a viable lift. You do a normal clean and press as long as you can, and then you go on to continental if you must.
I will say I continental clean double overhand, but I have a friend who just placed at Nationals who does them mixed grip.
You guys sound like the YouTube commenters who tell me I’m an idiot for arching in a bench.[/quote]
I’m not sure how you can miss the obvious. There is NO value to performing this lift to that group of trainees. They are NOT training for competition.
How do you miss this rather simple risk/benefit analysis?[/quote]
Bump
[/quote]
Are you really bumping this quote?
Hello. Lifiting can be fun. Learning how to lift ‘heavy’ shit over your head is empowering.
The only reason you wouldn’t want to teach a woman this, or any other overhead lift, is that you thing they are better off in the kitchen making sandwiches.
/I make an an awesome sandwich
/for me
/the ingredients are in the kitchen, go make your own
[/quote]
I doubt even most pro athletes or serious bodybuilders (competitive or non-competitive) or even serious power lifters are in the gym “for fun”. I’m there to make progress. That won’t happen for long if my technique is so poor it promotes injury.
What is empowering is gaining more strength and power…not doing random movements in the gym just for the “fun of it”.
A few months ago two newbs broke the lat pull down machine. They were “having fun” with it using poor form and slamming the weights back down. Too bad we all had to suffer for their “fun time”.
yea for cardio i just have sex all night like a frickin tweaker
[quote]Jscoope wrote:
So, yes. It is a stupid lift with very little purpose outside of competition. And for this individuals it is serving NO purpose (and WHY THE FUCK are these 2.5lb plates so huge?!?). But one thing that I haven’t seen noted yet is WHY exactly you perform a continental lift.
So: its a fat/thick bar, not many can clean it double overhand. And most importantly, the axle is non-rotational, ie/ the sleeves don’t rotate so you have to either clean it and mid-air release the bar to adjust your grip, or rest it on your abdomen to change your grip.
With all that said this is still fucking ridiculous but just thought I’d explain it a bit more for people who are unfamiliar.[/quote]
This x100. People, they aint bodybuilding trying to isolate their medial delts.
I don’t know what exactly is going on in Crossfit, but just 2 notes:
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A lifting sport with the word fit in its name, is not to be taken seriously.
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If all they do is circuits of cleans, snatches, presses and all random multi-joint exercises thrown together for time or reps, they suck big hairy donkey balls. And to quote StormTheBeach: “Humans were not meant to be this way. We weren’t meant for insane amounts of random exercises thrown together.”
The continental clean, by nature, is an ugly lift. There’s really no way to pretty it up. The only one in the video that looked really bad was the chick in blue with her knees caving in all over the place. Other than her, I didn’t really see anything too horrible. Well, the men’s weights seemed to be too light overall. No reason to mix-grip continental clean something when most of the men appeared strong enough to pull it right up to shoulder level.
Some of you need to give your body a little more credit. A person’s not going to get injured pulling a weight to the stomach and holding it against the body. And if you are, well, you were probably susceptible to injury and just as likely to get hurt walking down the stairs.
I suppose there is room to debate whether they should even be doing this lift when it’s likely that they’re not competing. If Crossfit is just about random challenges anyway, then why not this lift?
some of those Crossfit people are in pretty good shape, but the conditioning of this group seemed low
no one had a belt or anything
some of them looked like minors
risky stuff
three-legged dog getting-the-hell-out-of-there @ 2:22 is GIF material
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
Exactly right . I’m 48 years old and have lifted 35 years . I have some shoulder issues due to a car accident and fall. I modify my training accordingly. I have never suffered a long time training related injury because I’ve been careful of prehab / rehab / form stuff since I was thirteen. And it’s not from just lifting light weights. I did a raw two board press with 380 in may and pulled 605 on June. Josh has me on track for 650 + soon.
Squats are done with the safety squat bar due to my shoulders.
These people, especially women who are more vulnerable to injury
can get hurt the kind of way you don’t come back from. The kind of injuries that affect you the rest of your life. For those that don’t know me I treat injuries . I cringe when I hear the word crossfit.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
I’m no cross fit hater. I think the cross fit hating is a little overdone and played to be honest. However, they cannot be fucking serious with this bullshit. What value does this lift have to these women? Where is the risk/benefit analysis??[/quote]
This particular lift, at a weight obviously too heavy, is absolutely not worth the risk. Strip a couple plates and knock some unconventional reps out though.
As a general aside, I’m not a cross fitter. These ladies, however, are picking weight up off the ground and pushing it over their heads. Can’t hate.[/quote]
Not hating on the ladies. Hating on the instructors. There is no god damn good reason for this lift to be performed in that setting by those trainees. It has NO value, and it’s risk of injury is high. Look at the position they are putting themselves in to try to make this esoteric lift? What does this lift do that can’t be accomplished by more conventional movements?
It’s typical American mentality; exotic = attractive. Call it Russian secret something or other, and Americans will clamor to it.
It’s stupid.
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after all the encouragement they’ve been sold, they would probably crucify someone who tried to caution them that they didn’t know what they were doing
[quote]timmyo wrote:
I think it’s ludicrous to question a goofy movement when you don’t even know what it is. If OP had said “Wow, apparently this is how CF teaches continental cleans…” then you’d have a point. Rocky and I already discussed this, supra, but apparently you missed that rather simple discussion as well.
kisses
Good point.
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I know what a continental clean is, I’ve lifted 35 years. But seeing these people doing it with piss poor form and I’m safe in saying, I knew the continental clean , it was a friend of mine , and maam , that ain’t know continental clean.
I like diet coke, cherry Dk and dp.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
OOooooh I love Chick fil a![/quote]
Damn right, the wife always is amazed cause I get 4 chicken sammiches, nuggets and waffle fries. Plus a small diet coke.[/quote]
“…small diet coke.”
What, are you on a diet?[/quote]
I like diet coke, diet dr pepper, coke zero, 
A girls got to watch her figure Double D[/quote]