Raleigh chopper.
Beige
Even better.
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Good bloody question. He can’t change a bulb either.
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Nearly as edgy as your head you bollox.
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Scraping around for lowest common denominator likes again I see.
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It usually works a treat.
Had a lovely jog around St George’s lake in Copenhagen this evening. Running and cycling lanes, very safe and beautiful in the spring sun. 
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I took the day off yesterday and had a gret nights sleep, I can’t be killing it every day or the engine is going to blow
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Seven months of CrossFit complete and not an injury experienced. I think I was lucky with the set up in the gym I was attending as the trainers all had good qualifications and spent a lot of time on form etc before they’d allow anyone attempt Olympic Lifting or the more complicated gymnastic moves.
The big thing that got me is the expense so I’m jacking it in. They introduced a new app for booking classes this month and jacked up the cost per class along with that. Keeping it going would have put me from €60 for 9 classes in the month to €75 for 10. They do unlimited for €120 as well but you’d have to be insane to be at it that much. Parts of it seem liek a cult where they try and cash in on member starting to feel good.
Overall I’d say if you afford it and aren’t planning on running or doing much aerobic stuff give it a go. It’s ideal for someone single with the cash to spend - not so much for someone with kids that have extra curricular activities that need to be ferried about etc.
I’ve taken the decision to join a Triathlon Club instead. Went to the first running session, my first proper one in about 10 years, last night so I’m about to break up my day at the desk in ten minutes of work and two minutes of stretching. Have my eye on shattering my 5k pb in the next six weeks.
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ditch the running side of it mate
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I appreciate the efforts you’re making at prolonging my life.
Thanks pal.
How much better shape are you in at the end of it ?
A lad I used to play rugby with has been doing it obsessively for 6 months. He was a prop and a fat one at that albeit was always v mobile. It’s actually close to unbelievable the difference it’s made to him. I’d go so far as to say he has the beginnings of a 6 pack. Down 4 stone but I’d say gone from 40 waist jeans to 32
Unbelievably better shape. Much stronger and leaner after it. It really stood to me in the running session last night and I don’t feel completely dead today as a result of it.
It’'s worth doing over the winter maybe or if you can find somewhere that has sensible costs.
The damage is not always that apparent inmediately. Not sure of where you are at but most of them still do not do sufficient warm ups.
Some are making the effort though and its good to see. I’m doing a stabilty and mobility workshop with one near here now. 4 of the guys there over time started coming to me as they were getting injured. The owner found out about it and decided to get me and help them out. I like that alot. Shows he wants to do his best for his clients and the business. That will set him apart. But he actually risks getting financial support withdrawn or licencing taken away were they to take a dim view of a change in training approach. Highly unlikely they would ever know.
With advanced people i do alot of what crossfit do, but only reaching it now after 2 years of training some folk. And thats with alot of stability & mobility work.
And also with Crossfit, the benefits between doing 2 & 3 sessions a week is minute. You have to go to 4 to see a big jump. But then where do you get the rest as there is only 7 days in the week.
Here is a very good article from medical professionals about the present state of fitness industry. The damage being done is onvious to someone like me in alot of cases, but it runs even deeper and its only now Doctors are seeing the damage being done on a much deep cardivascular and endocrine level.
I told you I’m in Letterkenny. I even sent you the a copy of the qualifications of the trainers there.
You said that they were decent.
The quals are. But how do they practice?
Alot more to S&C than qualifications.
Like doing Olympic lifting at all before a certain level of hinging, squatting, squat jumping etc is ill advised. Doing so with a serious trunk stabilty and spine health program is very ill advised. Were they doing that? If not it just shows they were following a ready made template and missing critical ingredients. Quals mean fuck all at that stage.
I don’t know because you never really srt out what ye did nor was i there or know what else they may be implementing. I am talking quite generally and i fo know of the odd CF that has a stability course before anything else can be done.
Get an office worker to do olympic lifts within a few weeks of starting training is like putting a schools u18 club Gaelic Footballer into the Donegal Senior team.
Six weeks of fundamentals before you even attempt a workout. Lot of stick work. Then it’s mainly empty bar and the trainers spend time with everyone who is new before they’re allowed to attempt anything serious.
In the seven months I’d just about managed to crack overhead squats and power snatches with very low weights. There’s a scaled back version of everything to build up your mobility.
That goes without saying. Anyone allowing this should be shut down.
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Again i’m not 100% if their fundamentals are Crossfit Fundamentals or what i consider fundamentals of movement. Crossfit Fundamentals are not fundamentals and are mostly fluff.
However your lads have the advantage of a much deeper understanding of exercise physiology so one suspects they are certainly more in tune with the needs of an individual.
Crossfit treats everyone the same. Strongest survive.
Absolutely. But this is 95% of Crossfit