Gillian Mounsey Article

[S.S.]

Originally Posted by Mauricio Leal

First person evarrr is hard to identify. There was a video with Greg Amundson recently talking about reaching his 10-year milestone and still improving, and injury-free the whole time, and only having taken a week off from keeping score once the whole time.

If he spent 10 years doing Crossfit, why did he not do a double-under until 2009?

http://journal.crossfit.com/2009/09/...n-my-armor.tpl (wfs)

[Eric A. Brown]

Originally Posted by Jim Denofa

How do you? If you are doing high intensity clean and jerks you are probably goiing to press out some jerks. You own an affiliate, you know that not all of your atheletes do the workouts with 100% ideal technique. You probably use your judgement to determine when to dial people back or let them finish etc. If you do CrossFit with any type of intensity(I'm guessing you do) you know that your own technique has a tendency to break down as well. I am also guessing that you have never experienced any serious injuries as a result?

You might press out a jerk and think it is acceptable, but other people do not, me being one of them. It is as bad as cutting off a squat and calling it good enough. It is not. If it is pressed out it is not a jerk. Either do it right or do something that you can do correctly. There is never an excuse for sloppy technique that does not measure up to standard. Well, other than bragging about time, I suppose.

If you want to press or push press for time, call it what it is. But do not call them jerks. You are comparing yourself to everyone who does the exercise correctly. This is akin to the gym lifter who bounces 315 off his chest with his *** a foot in the air while his 'spotter' hauls the bar up screaming 'it's all you bro!!!'

In the world of strength, standards matter, and if CrossFit wishes to compare itself to athletes, then it needs to perform up to standard.

[Mauricio Leal]

As an exercise, try replacing the word "CrossFit" with any other functional movement (oly, pl, triathlon, track and field etc.) discipline and see if your conclusions in your personal stories come out the same or different.

[S.S.]

Originally Posted by Jim Denofa

I guess I have always just had the ability to think for myself and I figured that most other adults do too.

Seeing as the vast majority of Crossfitters were not competing in high-level athletics before doing Crossfit, and the majority of Americans are fat, I don't think it's reasonable to think that most adults know how to think for themselves when it comes to forging elite fitness.

Originally Posted by Jim Denofa

I think because Coach Glassman is out of the mainsite scene alot of his ideals have gotten muddled through interpretations of individuals on message boards and the like.

In what way?

[Vickie Ellickson]

Originally Posted by Shane Skowron

If he spent 10 years doing Crossfit, why did he not do a double-under until 2009?

http://journal.crossfit.com/2009/09/...n-my-armor.tpl (wfs)

DUs are hard.

[Mauricio Leal]

Originally Posted by Shane Skowron

If he spent 10 years doing Crossfit, why did he not do a double-under until 2009?

http://journal.crossfit.com/2009/09/...n-my-armor.tpl (wfs)

The possible reasons for you using this to make a point is intriguing. Enlighten me.

[S.S.]

Originally Posted by Mauricio Leal

The possible reasons for you using this to make a point is intriguing. Enlighten me.

I'm just saying, if you're using him as an example of what the longest-lasting Crossfitter does, and he wasn't even following what was programmed by the mainsite or by tons of different affiliates, then it's not a very good example.

[Jim Denofa]

Originally Posted by Vickie Ellickson

DUs are hard.

Tru dat!

[Tamara Cohen]

Originally Posted by Mauricio Leal

As an exercise, try replacing the word "CrossFit" with any other functional movement (oly, pl, triathlon, track and field etc.) discipline and see if your conclusions in your personal stories come out the same or different.

They come out very differently.

[Mauricio Leal]

Originally Posted by Shane Skowron

I'm just saying, if you're using him as an example of what the longest-lasting Crossfitter does, and he wasn't even following what was programmed by the mainsite or by tons of different affiliates, then it's not a very good example.

Right, because if he didn't do DUs then Greg frickin' Amundson wasn't doing CF.

Hilarious.