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Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.
i have no idea what crossfit is

from this thread it looks like it's basically normal exercise but with lovely form and sped up like it's a video from the 1920s?

is that about right?

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FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless




lol

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





So do all xfitters not understand how to buy clothes in their size?

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

Ootrek posted:

crossfit videos are the funniest snuff films i have ever seen

is it still snuff if they're killing themselves?

Medium Cool
Dec 27, 2006

Yr sister is a beauty when she's naked
Grimey Drawer

gnarlyhotep posted:

is it still snuff if they're killing themselves?

I'll allow it

InFlames235
Jan 13, 2004

LIKE THE WAVES IN THE OCEAN I WILL DIG IN YOUR FAT AND SEARCH FOR YOUR CLITORIS, BUT I WON'T SLAM WHALE

Real hurthling! posted:

So do all xfitters not understand how to buy clothes in their size?

All hot women have a free pass to buy clothes that are way too small for them. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO FATTIES

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:

JFC she needs at least 2 more sports bras if she doesn't want to pop out


Also those socks are inaccurate on 2 levels

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


InFlames235 posted:

All hot women have a free pass to buy clothes that are way too small for them. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO FATTIES

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
Do crossfit boxes take out huge insurance policies in order to avoid the risk or getting sued out of existence or do they make you sign a 10 page contract before even stepping inside?

Al Harrington
May 1, 2005

I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the eye

:hawaaaafap:

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




prolly just buy a thong if you're gonna suck half a bikini into your rear end like that.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Flagrant Abuse posted:

i have no idea what crossfit is

from this thread it looks like it's basically normal exercise but with lovely form and sped up like it's a video from the 1920s?

is that about right?

also it's got a weird obsessive cultly aspect to it and the founder is a fat lolbertarian. oh and it costs like $200 a month

redstormpopcorn
Jun 10, 2007
Aurora Master

Cream_Filling posted:

also it's got a weird obsessive cultly aspect to it and the founder is a fat lolbertarian. oh and it costs like $200 a month

He's a poo poo-bodied condescending manbaby, too.

Men's Health posted:

Former U.S. Navy information systems technician Makimba Mimms was awarded $300,000 in damages from his local gym, the CrossFit affiliate training company, and his trainer for injuries he sustained during a CrossFit workout in 2005. Those injuries included rhabdomyolysis.

Rather than refute the association with potentially fatal injury—or at least try to change the subject—CrossFit has used it as proof of its intensity. The WOD that nearly killed Mimms was renamed "Makimba" and recategorized as a children's workout.

http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/cult-crossfit/page/4

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Real hurthling! posted:

prolly just buy a thong if you're gonna suck half a bikini into your rear end like that.

those particular bikini bottoms are designed so the seam is in the rear end crack creating that effect

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




FAGGY CLAUSE posted:

those particular bikini bottoms are designed so the seam is in the rear end crack creating that effect

half expecing a kamehameha level fart to erupt forth into the negative pressure zone

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

:wtc:

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

redstormpopcorn posted:

He's a poo poo-bodied condescending manbaby, too.


http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/cult-crossfit/page/4

The gently caress is with this poo poo? Fitness and working out are a means to an end; getting swole, getting thin, getting healthy or, for some people, the physical rush of exercise. If a workout is painful, damaging, injurious and potentially life threatening, what's the loving point other than some kind of weird mind-over-matter bragging rights?

Exercising till you destroy your body is no less self destructive and stupid than eating till you can't walk and you go blind from diabetes.

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011
My wife didn't when she was doing it.

But she has stopped now, thank christ.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

http://www.inc.com/burt-helm/CrossFit-social-media.html

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Robbie Fowler posted:

My wife didn't when she was doing it.

But she has stopped now, thank christ.

realtalk for a sec it legit sucks that a lot less women do real weight and resistance training vs. men and it sucks that crossfit is some peoples' first exposure to it becuase its a real gamble whether the people runing it are retards or not and not caring about form is really bad

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
tried googling hot crossfit women but theyre all taking steroids these days

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

which crossfit exercise makes the titties grow?

Raku
Nov 7, 2012

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Roll Tide

FogHelmut posted:

which crossfit exercise makes the titties grow?

jogging to the plastic surgeon

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011

FogHelmut posted:

which crossfit exercise makes the titties grow?

The one after the previous exercise which causes breast fat to disappear.

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless


Ironed Idol
Nov 16, 2013

by XyloJW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir0vELNbvHU

Good.

rcman50166
Mar 23, 2010

by XyloJW
All these girls aren't going to be high maintenance at all. Nope.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

rcman50166 posted:

All these girls aren't going to be high maintenance at all. Nope.

well youd have to supply them with a lot of large tires to bat around and something to hang from and flail themselves around wildly

so be prepared to run an ape cage

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
has anyone actually tried to defend crossfit yet because if you think it is better than normal strength training or has any legitimate reason to exist at all, even if you aren't doing the stupid poo poo, really then you're a dipshit

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

gnarlyhotep posted:

well youd have to supply them with a lot of large tires to bat around and something to hang from and flail themselves around wildly

so be prepared to run an ape cage

Is the future going to be some nightmarish planet of the crossfitters?


(no, because they'll die of kidney failure and spinal injuries before they can take over)

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
oh wait hot girls with half shaved heads lots of tattoos and knee high socks. whos fitness has nothing to do with 'crossfit'




crossfit is just a name for the fitness porn on tumblr chubs look at

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

Stoic Commie posted:

has anyone actually tried to defend crossfit yet because if you think it is better than normal strength training or has any legitimate reason to exist at all, even if you aren't doing the stupid poo poo, really then you're a dipshit

In other threads the best non-trolling defense anyone could come up with was "well sometimes the trainers actually know what they're doing (from non crossfit related experience) and won't let you totally gently caress yourself up, and there's a good group atmosphere which makes people work hard", though of course you can get that from non crossfit programmes where the trainers are REQUIRED to know what they're talking about rather than it just being a lucky break if they do, for 1/4 the price.

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW

Fatkraken posted:

atmosphere

that sums it up, just a pipe dream for hipsters

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme
http://www.boxfiter.com/

I like how the default monthly insurance is $100. Surely that can't be right.

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

Jalumibnkrayal posted:

http://www.boxfiter.com/

I like how the default monthly insurance is $100. Surely that can't be right.

so you pay the man who owns the name "crossfit" and that gives you the right to be part of crossfit and charge crossfit rates? no experience, qualifications or credentials necessary, no specified workout plans or inpections or frnachising rules, just pay money, use name, charge through the nose for "classes", get rich. And gently caress the customers, if you let them kill themselves or gently caress up their backs because you literally know nothing about anatomy, training or health and safety that's THEIR problem and you can mock them and reclassify the thing that caused their life threatening injury as a pussy workout for bitches. Is this correct?

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme

Fatkraken posted:

so you pay the man who owns the name "crossfit" and that gives you the right to be part of crossfit and charge crossfit rates? no experience, qualifications or credentials necessary, no specified workout plans or inpections or frnachising rules, just pay money, use name, charge through the nose for "classes", get rich. And gently caress the customers, if you let them kill themselves or gently caress up their backs because you literally know nothing about anatomy, training or health and safety that's THEIR problem and you can mock them and reclassify the thing that caused their life threatening injury as a pussy workout for bitches. Is this correct?

Additionally you must become level 1 certified, which means pay $1000 to attend a two day training course that teaches you to "develop virtuosity in coaching".

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Fatkraken posted:

so you pay the man who owns the name "crossfit" and that gives you the right to be part of crossfit and charge crossfit rates? no experience, qualifications or credentials necessary, no specified workout plans or inpections or frnachising rules, just pay money, use name, charge through the nose for "classes", get rich. And gently caress the customers, if you let them kill themselves or gently caress up their backs because you literally know nothing about anatomy, training or health and safety that's THEIR problem and you can mock them and reclassify the thing that caused their life threatening injury as a pussy workout for bitches. Is this correct?

the founder's response to this is literally "the market will provide" and weed out bad trainers (after they injure enough people to get noticed)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201307/burt-helm/crossfit-empire.html
It was within this context that Glassman began ramping up his affiliation program. This was growth without a safety net: Anyone who passed his two-day seminar could apply to open a box, call it CrossFit, and then rush paying customers through squats and snatches or whatever crazy WOD they dreamed up. To Glassman, himself a passionate libertarian, this was the right thing to do: He wants his affiliates to be free to open up a box in a garage or a warehouse or wherever else, and train how they want, and charge what they want. They should have the opportunity he had. He detests supposed experts who say their certification or education makes them better than him or his people. At the end of the day, he believes, the free market will provide all the necessary quality control.

To the outside world, though, as Glassman's company has exploded from a cult fitness website to a gym concept primed to have more locations than Curves by the end of 2013, CrossFit can appear risky, unhinged: Here is a fitness routine that has sent people to the hospital, overseen by people who may have had no more than two days of instruction. (Although every real trainer I met had considerable experience and was genuinely excellent, I attended the seminar and passed the test on my fourth day reporting this story. I am, believe me, no fitness savant.) And it's all led by a man who, in a 2006 CrossFit.com comment, wrote, "We have a therapy for injuries at CrossFit called STFU." As in, Shut the f-k up. That's enough to make even the most devoted laissez faire-ists get a little, well, Uncle Pukie.

Glassman reigns over this rampantly growing horde like a tribal chieftain. He now owns 100 percent of CrossFit and answers to no board of directors. Cash tends to race through the company. Until recently, the Glassmans each drew a salary of $750,000 a year; the travel and entertainment budget is in the tens of millions of dollars, and Glassman also spends money on what he calls "brand statements," including a set of $15,000 single-speed Swiss bikes and a $350,000, 1,500-horsepower fully customized 2011 Camaro convertible. (Before our visit to El Borracho, I followed him to a meeting to see about another "brand statement": custom luggage for his senior team, emblazoned with Uncle Pukie.)

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 33 minutes!

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


My brother in law just had back surgery yesterday after injuring himself doing crossfit.

He says he's "tweaked" his back (and everything else) a few times, but nothing that ibuprofen and staying off it for a week didn't fix :psyduck:

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FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Jalumibnkrayal posted:

http://www.boxfiter.com/

I like how the default monthly insurance is $100. Surely that can't be right.

from their blog..

quote:

While CrossFitters come in all shapes in sizes, the 'average' CrossFit customer is white, between 25 and 34 years old, and has an income over $150,000 per year. That's a pretty narrow demographic you need to find, and of those, income is probably the most important. Compared to a normal, big-box gym, CrossFit is expensive, so you need customers that can afford it.

Between 25 and 34 and making over 150k a year. Seems a little off to me.

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