Now you are just giving people false hope about what they can achieve naturally… You monster!!
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I ate more donuts yesterday than I have in the past 6 years combined
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I disagree. @adarqui’s post about ball girth took the prize for me 
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Its the nights that are the loneliest
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I’ve been sitting in the exact same corner of my room for about 3 hours, haven’t budged whatsoever except to get a glass of water…because there’s a spider on the other side of my room. Thank goodness I had my phone on my side of the room. Been Netflixing. Only 5 more hours until my husband gets home so he can kill it.
I think I need to talk to someone about my crippling arachnophobia.
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Heres a question for everyone…
In my gym there is a large component designated to crossfit, and even in other gyms that were geared more towards powerlifting/bodybuilding, there is usually a fair crowd of people doing crossfit style/olympic lifts and the usual
Again, im only talking about a small region out here in Australia, but I havent been exposed to a lot of first hand hate towards it here.
But anytime I jump on facebook in gym pages, hell even the t-nation facebook page all you ever seem to see is negativity towards it.
Understanding its majorly dominated by the American audience, im curious towards why it garners that reaction, and what your own personal opinion of it is.
Ill be the first to admit I dont do kip ups as I see it as a poor mans pull up, and sometimes see bad form, however most of the time its ironed out pretty quick by the coaches out here and the elite athletes seem to display good form
Im not sure as ive only been exposed to this type of training for about 18 months…
I think it’s good that there’s a class/team mentality. Especially for people who aren’t motivated on their own. Plus it gets people training with weights, which is great.
The #1 annoying thing is the over exuberance of its adherents. They become nearly evangelical, trying to convert other people that train to switch to crossfit. More annoying than militant vegans.
Technical olympic lifts done for high reps as conditioning exercises and other less safe things crossfitters do. Bad trainers are maiming people for no reason.
The other thing is that Crossfit is a brand, which annoys people. They took fitness, made it a class, called it a box and now you have to have a franchise to call your gym a “box”.
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Family gatherings are getting ridiculous…Easter Sunday just confirmed this. Again.
I am one of four siblings (I’m the youngest and the only male), and we all have significant others.
Eldest sister: Gluten free
Middle sister: Adheres to a ‘keto’ diet (aka, doesn’t eat carbs). Yesterday marked the one-year mark that she’s been ‘strictly keto’…I’ll leave that there.
Youngest sister and her husband: Vegetarian
Me: Bodybuilder diet
Mother: Probably crying when she prepares meals for the family
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I watched this and I laughed so fucking hard at Luke Skywalker’s final scene I almost had an ab cramp.
Just gotta be like my girlfriends parents and not give a shit. They hosted this year, one of the cousins was vegetarian and could only eat mashed potatoes and corn. Even the asparagus was wrapped in bacon and Proscuitto. God I love that family.
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It’s the cult mentality and stupid stuff done for the sake of being different or hardcore.
I watch the Games and love it. Those guys and gals are beasts and I don’t see a lot of injury risk due to technical flaws or dangerous movements.
I hate kipping pull ups.
They also used to do a med ball throw from a glute ham raise apparatus. They call it a glute ham sit up.
I found a video that needs no explanation.
This is why CrossFit gets hate.
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As a strongman, I have zero room to call anything that crossfit does stupid or dangerous.
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At my last comp some kid dropped a stone on his ankle. Will never forget that crunching noise.
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Yup. Seen that. Seen one on a flexed knee. Saw some kid drop the farmer’s straight on his ankle. Blew out my own knee on the yoke. Buddy of mine split his chin open following a stone down when it bounced back up. Same guy blew out his bicep on a tire flip.
Lifting is dangerous.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and if people don’t like kipping pull-ups, just wait until you try to continental an axle, haha.
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USMC: Babe, I’m trying to lose weight.
Babe: Cool, here’s 57 pounds of your favorite candy!
(was fucking delicious too…)
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Yeah, seeing that makes me cringe. The Apollon Wheels event at The Arnold was rough to watch.
But CrossFit advertises FICTIONAL FITNESS. Being in the ER or at the orthopedic surgeon’s office isn’t functional lol!
Strongman doesn’t make any claims. It’s the caveman approach of I bet I can pick that up more times than you. There are no form police at The Caveman Games. Anyone remember that Nintendo game?
You threw your woman like the hammer throw and raced a Cheetah. Losing was obvious on that one
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Amazing typo.
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That’s the second perfect auto correct in a week by my phone 
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For me its that Crossfit is a recreational fitness activity.
I can respect the hell out of a steel worker or stone mason/concrete worker that kills it for 10-12 hrs a day for years on end to feed his family,because that is hard work. But that guy that pays $150.00/month to break a sweat for an hour 4 times a week- No. Just No, And no amount of self or group felating will convince me otherwise.
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Back in 2006 when I thought I would become the next Pudzianowski, I put together a 180 lb sandbag. I left it in my back yard when I wasn’t using it. So one day i’m doing bearhug carries with it and I started feeling stings. I drop it and look on my arms, ants everywhere. I was getting lit up by fire ants. Apparently they invaded the bag. I had them all over, jumped in a pool to survive.
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