Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

Hanley

token wrote: »

Move over pole vaulter girl we have a new athletics queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcCGd9zid8

Clearly as mad as a bag of spiders...

token

Hanley wrote: »

Clearly as mad as a bag of spiders...

The 'Crazy Hot Scale' never lies

Inspector Coptoor

She is gorgeous

Mellor

Some very good BJJ/MMA specific mobilty stuff here. Not sure where to post.

http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/03/episode-191-glen-cordoza-mma-and-improving-the-guard.html

Mellor

Some very good BJJ/MMA specific mobilty stuff here. Not sure where to post.

http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/03/episode-191-glen-cordoza-mma-and-improving-the-guard.html

colman1212

Mellor wrote: »

Some very good BJJ/MMA specific mobilty stuff here. Not sure where to post.

http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/03/episode-191-glen-cordoza-mma-and-improving-the-guard.html

Yeah I'm pretty sure this thread is specifically for hot girls running and scummers with umbrellas getting drop kicked in the face

O.P.H

Jarren wrote: »

RTÉ One, Tuesday, 9.35pm








In a brand new sports science documentary, journalist Ian O'Riordan examines how athletes are using science and technology to enhance their performance, asking whether or not we can ever again truly believe in the purity of sport.

The Olympic Games are meant to represent all that's good and pure about sport- heroic acts of courage, fair play, being all that you can be. But ever since Ben Johnson failed a drug test in 1988, the biggest sporting show on earth has been dogged by scandal and suspicion. And now, with the curtain about to rise on London 2012, Ian O'Riordan of The Irish Times looks at the growing impact science and technology has on sport - legal and illegal - and wonders if sport can ever regain our trust.

A lifelong sports fanatic, Ian O'Riordan's world changed when Ben Johnson was caught. Ever since, as a competitive distance runner, through his career as a sports journalist, he's been trying to answer the question that was raised that September morning in 1988 - is any of this real?

In Faster, Higher, Stronger, Ian looks at a range of performance enhancement techniques, both legal and illegal, to discover if science has become more important than good old-fashioned hard graft and talent. He spends time with members of the Irish Olympic Team for 2012, to get inside the mind of the people that go to extraordinary lengths to gain a competitive edge.

Ian meets race-walker Colin Griffin, who's living in a bespoke altitude house in Limerick, fitted out to mimic the air density of Kilimanjaro. While Rob Heffernan, another walker, has to make do with a tent over his bed to get the same effect. Ian asks if this method of manipulating the body's make-up is really fair, using the example of a banned swimsuit as an instance technology was outlawed.

He reconnects with Martin Fagan and Geraldine Hendricken, two Irish athletes who received bans for failed drugs tests. He looks at the world of sports supplements, asking if these are really just legal performance enhancers.

The next big threat to fair play in sport is genetic doping. Travelling to the world centre for genetic doping, via a herd of Supercows in Laois, Ian explores whether messing with the DNA is a real problem or just science fiction. He meets the main players in the war on doping for London 2012 to discover how sport is putting up a fight against the cheats.

And in attempt to get inside the mind of a cheat, Ian undertakes to go on a course of performance enhancing drugs. In doing so, he discovers that the results might be more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.

Faster, Higher, Stronger is a comprehensive exploration of performance enhancement that combines an in-depth look at the science of sport with a personal search for the truth about fair play.


http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/fasterhigherstronger.html

This make's me sick, what the hell is "the purity of sport anyway". Only in good God fearing Ireland would they finance a show with this premise at is core. I can just imagine some thick aul lad sayin somethin like "ah sure will ya shtop with all your science craic and just go for an aul run or shift some blocks and ull be grand".

Christ, science is just knowledge and is a product of "human endeavor" which the "journalist" claims is being lost is todays sports world. Whats does he want, us to forget about advances in knowledge and just keep playing in the playground "for the fun of it". Makes my eyes roll to the skys this crap

Antisocialiser

Looking at some of our friend Clarence's ass to ground squats @ triple bodyweight! Ill be there soon like :rolleyes:

But I notice under the vids that he states he squats every single day. WTF like? Wonder what his dinners looks like

token

Antisocialiser wrote: »

Looking at some of our friend Clarence's ass to ground squats @ triple bodyweight! Ill be there soon like :rolleyes:

But I notice under the vids that he states he squats every single day. WTF like? Wonder what his dinners looks like

Two litres of milk and two scoops of creatine go a long way!

A2G high bar squats aren't as taxing as low bars if that's where you are coming from. You can handle a lot more volume and frequency on them. Less weight and they use more of the legs and less lower back compared to low bars. Less taxing on the CNS.

Clarence is also an alien which helps too.

Antisocialiser

For anyone who hasn't seen it. Quite motivational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ

ferike1

Got it on my mp3 player!

WHIP IT!

Antisocialiser wrote: »

For anyone who hasn't seen it. Quite motivational.

Someone put a vid up here about 3/4 yrs ago that literally moved me to tears... Had a well known song playing (of course I can't think of it now!) and I think it was full of Olympic games clips... I've never been able to find it since but I remember when it was posted here, alot of the regulars were familiar with it... it was fantastic...

TheZ

http://gawker.com/5928989/the-problems-with-crossfit

Stillweak

TheZ wrote: »

http://gawker.com/5928989/the-problems-with-crossfit

Great article. Would somebody involved in crossfit, maybe a coach from one of the affiliates, like to answer each point?
Would be intersting to hear a defence.

Rossin

it features actual hard workouts with real exercises that will in fact get you in great shape

the good point was a pretty good one in fairness

Michael 09

TheZ wrote: »

http://gawker.com/5928989/the-problems-with-crossfit

That's a very entertaining read.

Hanley

Stillweak wrote: »

Great article. Would somebody involved in crossfit, maybe a coach from one of the affiliates, like to answer each point?
Would be intersting to hear a defence.

I've a CF L1 cert and am obnoxiously opinionated so I'll take a craic...

1) stupid point. people work harder in group settings

2) obvious point. no one with brain cells to rub together would argue that. although an Irish CF affiliate did claim that's Crossfit will start producing elite gymnasts, powerlifters and weightlifters. Which is hilariously ignorant and laughable

3) I don't see why fitness is suddenly a vocation and one should live off a stipend. if people pay it, get results and continue to return, they VALUE the service. thats the beautiful thing about discretionary expenditure. you don't have to spend it. besides, very few people, especially in Ireland, are getting rich off Crossfit

4) a CF pull up isn't supposed to be analogous to a normal pull up. it's like saying a reverse curl is the same as a hang power clean because the bar ends up in the same position. Both sides are wrong on the pull up argument

5) probably true to an extent, largely depends on whether the coach is an idiot and programs dumb **** or not. Mainsite WODs will almost certainly break you

6) mega fact

7) they've done a pretty good job on branding, and I ****ing hate their socks

...now back to painting my gym. For time.

Jarren

Hanley wrote: »

I've a CF L1 cert and am obnoxiously opinionated so I'll take a craic...

1) stupid point. people work harder in group settings

2) obvious point. no one with brain cells to rub together would argue that. although an Irish CF affiliate did claim that's Crossfit will start producing elite gymnasts, powerlifters and weightlifters. Which is hilariously ignorant and laughable

3) I don't see why fitness is suddenly a vocation and one should live off a stipend. if people pay it, get results and cont

yes

Hanley

Jarren wrote: »

yes

I was a bit premature. And I posted too early as well.

Gummy Panda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byfc6SBqM-w

Dafaq did I just watch

ferike1

I Lol'd when I read this part

The simple counterpoint to Crossfit is that if you are training for something specific, you'll want to train for that thing, rather than training for "what if you're caught in a burning building and you have to climb out while carrying someone on your shoulders and then run away at top speed and then throw a kettlebell at an angry dog that chased you," as Crossfit does.

Kettlebell dog throws ftw!

JJayoo

Ivan Abadjiev: Still snatching at 80 years old

Hanley

JJayoo wrote: »

Ivan Abadjiev: Still snatching at 80 years old

That clips almost 80 years old...

I remember Tommy Hayden hang power cleaning something like 40+kg a couple of years ago in Hercs for the craic. And he's older than God. Like at least one million.

Paudee

Hanley wrote: »

I remember Tommy Hayden hang power cleaning something like 40+kg a couple of years ago in Hercs for the craic. And he's older than God. Like at least one million.

Yeah, but he used proper technique.

Hanley

Paudee wrote: »

Yeah, but he used proper technique.

Me bollox. Shoulda seen the arm bend.

JJayoo

Reminds me of Clem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMJbcFD1oT8

COH

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Someone put a vid up here about 3/4 yrs ago that literally moved me to tears... Had a well known song playing (of course I can't think of it now!) and I think it was full of Olympic games clips... I've never been able to find it since but I remember when it was posted here, alot of the regulars were familiar with it... it was fantastic...

tmc86

^^ fairly epic video in fairness!

Thud

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/interactive/2012/jul/07/london-2012-olympic-bodies-interactive?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT758I2

O.P.H

He was disqualified soon after because his Dad helped him across the line!

ferike1

O.P.H wrote: »

He was disqualified soon after because his Dad helped him across the line!

That's not the point!

Rossin

pity about the song choice but yeah nice video!

O.P.H

ferike1 wrote: »

That's not the point!

The point? I don't care about the point! I'm just informing people about what happened. I think it's mental that they did that, he finished dead last, there was no point in disqualifying him and nothing was going to be effected by not disqualifying him, they shoulda just let him be

Hanley

O.P.H wrote: »

The point? I don't care about the point! I'm just informing people about what happened. I think it's mental that they did that, he finished dead last, there was no point in disqualifying him and nothing was going to be effected by not disqualifying him, they shoulda just let him be

Sure why not just let people take drugs too....

WHIP IT!

COH wrote: »

Nah, that aint it - it's driving me mad cos now I can't even think of the (really well known!) song... but that's a great vid there also, cheers...

O.P.H

Hanley wrote: »

Sure why not just let people take drugs too....

Hardly comparable

kevpants

O.P.H wrote: »

Hardly comparable

Before you know it peoples dads will be helping them over the line in all kinds of events.

Imagine if Katie Taylor's dad came in and started boxing the head of her next opponent?

Imagine if Mark Cavendish's dad jumped on the bike and gave his boy a crossbar to save some energy for the sprint finish?

Imagine if Derval O'Rourke's dad ran along in front of her kicking over the hurdles so she didn't have to jump them?

Before you know if PED (Performance Enhancing Dads) use would spiral out of control completely. Labs all over the world would work overtime finding ways to conceal Dads so the likes of WADA (Worl Anti Dad Agency) couldn't detect them.

The thing is no one knows the long term affects of Dads. Some of these athletes could end up with seriously debilitating side effects related to the overuse of Dads (embarresment, boredom, coming round and trying to fix things that were fine in the first f*&cking place).

Hanley

O.P.H wrote: »

Hardly comparable

Rules are rules, and they're there for a reason.

O.P.H

Hanley wrote: »

Rules are rules, and they're there for a reason.

I get that, just harsh is all

ferike1

People - there is a new Crossfit WOD.

It's called Hanley

Dragging 20x 40kg mats over 30 meters for time.

Dermighty

ferike1 wrote: »

People - there is a new Crossfit WOD.

It's called Hanley

Dragging 20x 40kg mats over 30 meters for time.

I also find getting angry at people on boards gets my heart rate right into the cardio zone.

Hanley

Dermighty wrote: »

I also find getting angry at people on boards gets my heart rate right into the cardio zone.

You need to go on the CFL1 cert so they can give you the "heart rate is a poor indicator of intensity" speech.

Newb.

Dermighty

Hanley wrote: »

You need to go on the CFL1 cert so they can give you the "heart rate is a poor indicator of intensity" speech.

Newb.

I'll happily wager the correctness of the label on the treadmill versus your so called education and experience.

Hanley

Dermighty wrote: »

I'll happily wager the correctness of the label on the treadmill versus your so called education and experience.

Right, me and a sledgehammer versus your treadmill to see what happens heart rate?

Dermighty

Hanley wrote: »

Right, me and a sledgehammer versus your treadmill to see what happens heart rate?

Maple handle on the sledgehammer?

ps: i was joking

Hanley

Dermighty wrote: »

Maple handle on the sledgehammer?

ps: i was joking

Wait, do I get to smash **** up or not?

the drifter

ferike1 wrote: »

People - there is a new Crossfit WOD.

It's called Hanley

Dragging 20x 40kg mats over 30 meters for time.

and every 5th rep you have to post another self promotion message on one of your 500 facebook profiles...

Paudee

the drifter wrote: »

and every 5th rep you have to post another self promotion message on one of your 500 facebook profiles...

The worst is when he 'likes' his own posts so it comes up in your newsfeed three times.

colman1212

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/london-olympics/chinese-schoolgirl-shiwen-ye-swimming-faster-than-men/story-fn9dirj0-1226438946789

So what do ye make of this?
Chinese school girl swims a faster lap than Michael Phelps....

Hanley

Paudee wrote: »

The worst is when he 'likes' his own posts so it comes up in your newsfeed three times.

I NEED TO EAT.