Pretty much lost all respect for Crossfit HQ.

Oh herrro...

Maybe I has teh gheyz, but I was like "Oh huge tits... OH!!! chalk bucket"

Is it just me or has there been nothing of any value in the CFJ for several weeks now. Nothing since the Burgener C+J vids that I can think of.

yup

There's been a bunch of Zone diet ****, which sort of annoys me.

BARRY SEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Nice snatch.

I know how many Sears articles do we need? Think i read somewhere he actually sells his own branded version of fish oil so something to bear in mind. Fish oil is the bomb of course regardless. My CFJ subscription has just lapsed even though it's cheap there's so little i'm actually interested in i'm prob not going to renew it. Just seems they pump crappy videos out just to make the numbers or split them into parts for no reason.

The archives are great. Sears is garbage.

Haha, so there are a ton of articles by Barry Sears? Awesome.

videos. videos of barry sears.

lol CF comment for the workout in the OP:

Christ.

As loltarded as that comment is, it really stems from a reasoning pervasive throughout xfit (and endorsed at the cert) that in order to getter better at X you must do X (or something really close to it). When really, that is completely ****ing wrong. Eg. the NFL combine bench press test. Xfit reasoning is: do 225lbs as many times as you can every few days. Clearly this is ******ed, but it's exactly the same as trainers at the xfit cert saying the best way to get better at crossfit is to do crossfit. Instead of you know, going from a 0.75bw squat to a 1.5bw squat. hyachahhachac

If the rumors on CF message board are true you'll be seeing/hearing a lot more from Mr Sears. Someone thinks he's pegged to replace Robb Wolf as speaker @ Nutrition certs/seminars.

Split jerk pic is AllisonNYC. Think she's a trainer out of Virginia Beach and they're big fans of CFFB. There were some clips of her interviewed years ago. I remember them being kind of creepy.

Hard to argue with that picture of her. Although Thremp did point out the chalk bucket and spillage.

Yes, I am up to date on that. I do not read CFJ because none of it really applies to me and I don't support CFHQ, so I hope not to read too much more about Mr. Sears.

Squat 385, press 175, deadlift 455(pr), 1015 crossfit total (pr)

Had a goal of 1000 for a long time, and for almost as long of a time I thought I wouldn't get there, so this felt pretty good.

wow, good work. Very nice.

good job man, height/weight? those are roughly my numbers, i'm maybe 20-30 pounds better on each lift(i'm 6'2" 205)

You workout at Windy City Crossfit? I may look into joining there when I move to Chicago next fall. I assume you do since they did a CF total today as WOD and your location is Chicago. If so, what do you think of it?

Edit: You definitely do.... I just looked at the comments on there website and there was a DT with the same numbers

Thanks. I'm 6'6" 235 right now. 20-30 lbs better on each lift at 205 is awesome, especially on press.

Yep, that's the box. I have been there about 6 months maybe, and I have a really positive impression of it. I feel lucky that, imo, many criticisms of CF in general that I have read at various places on the internet don't seem to apply to windy city.

I have a little bit of a different perspective too, since twice a week I train there with a group that focuses on oly (7ontheline, who posts here, trains with this group too and has for longer than I have). The coach for this group is awesome. There are two other main coaches here as well (one is the owner), who are also solid. While I do not think any of them have coached for longer than 5 years, they take their jobs seriously and I can't criticize their coaching, from an amateur exercise nerd perspective, at least.

Just recently, they started listing all their programming on the web. Previously (maybe more than a couple of weeks ago) they either listed a strength movement or a metcon, but typically both were done each day. I think this is a major plus, as obv strength shouldn't be neglected. Additionally, the metcons are typically a good/short length, with longer ones 2-4x/month? Again, since I'm following different programming 2 days a week for oly, my perspective may be off a little.

So I guess in summary-
+ they don't neglect strength; important obv
+ offer oly classes/programming, which rules for me since I love that ****
+ coaches are solid, esp. oly coach
+ open gym hours twice a week (one on Thursday to do makeup WOD or skill work, one where you can do whatever on Sunday)

only negative? It's getting pretty popular/crowded some days. I don't think this has been an issue to date, but who knows what the situation will be next fall.

I'd check it out for sure, though.

The O-lifting group was one of the reasons I wanted to check it out.

Thanks for your thoughts.

will prob be joining there in jan