Re: XFit
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:43 pm
Leaving false strength conventions behind
https://www.exodus-strength.com/forum/
Article and advertising. Apart from making them sickly and broken, yes. Show me the Crossfit HQ equivalent of this article, or the several others talking about training Down's Syndrome kids, or 90yo women, and so on.
No, it doesn't. Starch is present in "nuts and seeds", and grains are actually seeds anyway, even if we grind them up and turn them into deep-fried (in seed oil!) doughnuts. So if you follow the "nuts and seeds" then you can't have "little starch", and despite all the "big ag!" hysteria, it remains the consensus in dietics that grains are not inherently harmful. The advice contradicts itself and contradicts nutritional consensus, as well as government health department recommendations (which nobody follows anyway).asdf wrote: At this point, doesn't it just sound like common sense?
Dude, there are hundreds of such articles and videos. Here are a few to get you started:KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:57 pm Show me the Crossfit HQ equivalent of this article, or the several others talking about training Down's Syndrome kids, or 90yo women, and so on.
This is called marketing.asdf wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:21 pm Dude, there are hundreds of such articles and videos. Here are a few to get you started:
In Issue 26 of the CrossFit Journal, way back in 2004, there's an article about a 69-year-old grandma training CrossFit. In the same issue, there's an article about how to scale CrossFit benchmark workouts for "grandmas"
Here's a video from 2007 of a 60-year-old couple being taught how to snatch.
Google "CrossFit Old People" and you'll see links to recent videos and articles in the mainstream media about 94-, 77-, and 78-year-old praising the benefits of CrossFit training. Search results vary by individual and region of course, so I can't guarantee you'll see the same thing.
Here are some other CrossFit articles about coaching older people:
Coaching the Elderly - Introduction from 2008
Training Silvers from 2010.
CrossFit After 40 from 2010.
There are tons of CrossFit articles and videos about training people with disabilities.
Here's one from 2013.
Lots of CrossFit gyms have dedicated programs for people with disabilities. Here's one. Here's another.
CrossFit currently offers a specialty course on Adaptive Training, "designed to teach trainers and athletes how to make CrossFit accessible to impaired athletes."
Seems like we're quibbling over the word, "little" in the phrase "little starch."KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:57 pm Starch is present in "nuts and seeds", and grains are actually seeds anyway, even if we grind them up and turn them into deep-fried (in seed oil!) doughnuts. So if you follow the "nuts and seeds" then you can't have "little starch", and despite all the "big ag!" hysteria, it remains the consensus in dietics that grains are not inherently harmful. The advice contradicts itself and contradicts nutritional consensus, as well as government health department recommendations (which nobody follows anyway).
Denying yourself grains, absent medical reasons to do so, makes no more sense for your physical health than denying yourself pork and seafood, as I do because I'm Jewish. We don't do it for health reasons, we do it to signal our membership in a group, like a soldier in a uniform, a professional in a suit and tie, and so on. The difference between a religion and a cult is that a religion is a cult that got popular for at least a few hundred years. Crossfit and palaeo are too new and unpopular to qualify.
Okay, so then when someone tells you to eat vegetables, nuts, and seeds, but little starch and to eat fruit, but no sugar, can you not charitably interpret what they mean?
Where’s fiber in this?
What is the #1 public health issue in America? Obesity. How does one address obesity? Exercise and diet (specifically less processed sugar intake).KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:03 pmThere's a difference between basically advocating "palaeo" diets for your gym's lifters, and having your gym appeal to the sickly and broken. The first is just part of the cult thing, it's just a more sophisticated version of GOMAD and similar nonsense. Part of any cultural group is food, sharing food at social events and excluding certain foods as "unclean", whether it's Jews excluding pork or Crossfitters excluding grains. Same shit, really.Cody wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:16 am As for the health thing, Glassman has given lots and lots of presentations about how bad sugar is and has publicly lobbed a lot of grenades at Coke, as well as being a strong voice against gluten and advocating for specific diet interventions.
Not sure how anyone can say he hasn't been on a "public health" advocacy/tirade for years.
Broadening your gym's appeal to include the sickly and broken is entirely different.
You can be healthy and still eat grain, but there are a myriad of physiologically beneficial effects of being in nutritional ketosis.KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:57 pm
Denying yourself grains, absent medical reasons to do so, makes no more sense for your physical health than denying yourself pork and seafood
Yes let's be charitable with our interpretations indeed.
Why did I read that entire thing? I thought I was going to stop, but each line made me read just one more line.
How are you supposed to manage that, except by really slacking on the first few?
I'd give it a try.
That rule was in effect for the October Iron Fest meet I did back in 2014. Wish we would've kept it, personally.The CrossFit Total’s press rules will not permit excessive layback, as we’ll see later.
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constitutes a missed attempt, as does ... excessive backward lean of the torso as identified by A) the position of the most anterior aspect of the armpit, B) the most posterior aspect of the buttocks, C) the plane formed by a straight line between these two points, and D) the movement of that plane to a position behind the vertical.
Hmm... My best hammer throw with a 16-lb hammer was 60.00m. I can't see pukie being quite as ergonomic, and probably not very aerodynamic either.
Didn't some of them out-deadlift you, DR?
No, I do not. Where was this?Remember when he was challenging people to shirtless deadlifts?
I would question the proven-ness of that statement, assuming you're referring to the general population.
So much more proven than this statement -SeanHerbison wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:36 am I would question the proven-ness of that statement, assuming you're referring to the general population.
There is so much research going on in this field, and a huge amount of animal model data pointing to (as i said) myriad effects of ketosis.KyleSchuant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:57 pm Denying yourself grains, absent medical reasons to do so, makes no more sense for your physical health than denying yourself pork and seafood