Hashtag fire fauci... lmao he does suck tho
May have to ban myself for workout shaming, but kipping pullups were a mistake.
Came here to ask what the fuck that pullup was.
Also largest 25lb plate I've ever seen
The 25 lb plate are called "bumper" plates. They're designed for olympic or power lifting. They're taller but thinner than like the normal big box gym plates and line up evenly so that when the weight drops it displaced the weight at the spot of each plate instead all the weight onto wherever the largest plate hits.
The pull ups are a crossfit thing. I don't have major beef with crossfit at all outside of the kipping pullups.
I don’t have major beef with crossfit at all outside of the kipping pullups.
I do. I mean if they would just stay in their own gyms, I wouldn't care, but my old gym would have a couple cross fitters who would always be yelling and slamming weights and running around and leaving shit everywhere and they were just obnoxious people, but it was a uni gym, so the staff couldn't be fucked to actually do anything about it (which i understand, I probs wouldn't either).
but yeah the 'pullups' look like a trip to the orthopedic surgeon waiting to happen.
Yeah I meant like as a concept/workout plan not individual CrossFiters taking up entire gyms. Haha
I know the gyms are expensive, but they def don't take other people into consideration when they workout at other gyms.
It's funny how ubiquitous this experience is. Before COVID, my gym got overrun with groups of crossfitters who would take turns slamming medicine balls into the ground and whip ropes and shout loudly and all that shit.
Yea that makes sense I'm used to using the regular thick-black weights.
I actually think crossfit does some things very right.
The yelling is annoying at the normal gym, but in a box it's there to encourage people and get them coming back. It's like workout solidarity.
Also, it's one of the few places that teach Oly lifting standard, and every sport (including combat sports) benefits from that kind of explosive exercise.
They also have you working strength and cardio, creating well rounded humans.
Red gyms can take a lot from xfit tbh.
I agree. My only real complaint are the kipping pull ups and that there isn't a ramping up period for anyone (at least in my exoeeice).
WoDs tend to be largely the same if you haven't exercised in a decade or if youve been doing crossfit for years. Also, at least the boxes I've been to, haven't done a great job of teaching form to inexperienced lifters.
However, like you said, the motivation and comradery as well as the well rounded programming is very very good.
[After using my spine like a whip to get my chest up to the bar]: Yeah I workout how could you tell? 😎
What's funny is that there's research being done on substances that can help with Covid, but of course it's hard to turn taking a pill into some tough performative bullshit.
lol, as well known from RPGs, "health" is a single number that encompasses all aspects of one's well-being and one cannot die unless that number reaches zero
COVID is just a mild poison DoT so as long as you keep eating apples to restore your health you're fine
If I was on a ventilator for COVID I would simply pause the game and eat 30 cheese wheels.
"Okay, that's kind of impressive, I didn't know she was that strong. Wait those say 25 on the side wtf? Okay this is much less impressive. And the dramatic weight drop, classic gym bro shit. Now she's doing... What the fuck are those supposed to be pullups girl what are you doing 😂"
Going to turn the culture war into my workout routine 😤
She's not wrong. If America was in better shape in general we wouldn't have been hit so hard. Fauci does deserve to be fired.
Maybe she should introduce a bill around encouraging sports and healthy diets.
Unfortunately she's a crossfitter so she will encourage whatever this is and getting rhabdo as evidence of a good workout.
I forgot that if you can lift 50 pounds above your head, covid can't affect you.
Nonono, she's got a couple small plates, and the bar is 45. So if you can lift 100 pounds above your head, THEN COVID can't hurt you.
Nah, I think it’s the other exercise (whatever it is) that does the trick tbh
Don't need to exercise anymore if you don't have joints. :think-about-it:
Just fuck up my lower back kipping CrossFit pull ups, what could go wrong?
The Always Sunny crossfit episode was almost too perfect. Down to Frank trying to get the woman to throw her back out with exercises like this so she'd need him to take care of her.
I never knew why CrossFit got such a bad rep, but after seeing this post I understand fully now. Like that "pull up" is just soo bad, wtf
I posted it here as inspo tbh. I don’t see what the problem is with graceful acrobatics
I hate weight slammers. If you can't put it down quietly you shouldn't be lifting it in the first place.
