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Tue, Mar 31st – CrossFit Ireland - Great People. Great Fitness. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:11:04 +0000

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By: Tom Gannon

Tom Gannon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:21:15 +0000

Me and John were chatting and while I happily admit that I did rest and arch and wiggle my arms and anything else that I thought would help me.

It would be interesting to see what the numbers are like when not allowed move out of the start position,

By: Bobby O'Leary

Bobby O'Leary — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Those push-ups numbers are outrageous. Well done guys! Nice work on the front squats too!

By: Colm

Colm — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:45:33 +0000

Another thought – Coach said he wanted something like a reverse thruster, that you’d start pulling overhead and push down into a squat to us at the game.

As for tonight’s performances, holy sh!t I’m raising some monsters up in here.

Robbie: 60-65-70-72.5(f)-70(f)-65-65; 32,18,13

Deirdre: 45-50-55-57.5-60-62.5-65; 26,12,14
Jeff: 70-75-80-85-87.5(f)-85; 48,54,17
John: 60-65-70-75(U)-75-80-85(f); 34,35,21
Louise: 7Kg across
Scott: 70-75-60-60-60; 24,19,18
Shane 1.0: 60-65-70-75-77.5(f)-77.5; 20,15,13
Big Shane: 70-75-80-85-90-95; 53,55,27
Tom: 60-65-70-75-80-85(f)-82.5; 50,49,24
Paul: 52,40,35

Ames: 17-22-24.5-27-29.5-29.5-32; 22,16,11
Pistol: 50, 30Kg OHS work; 22,10,12
Rory: 50-60-70-80-85(sets of 3); 36,22,13

By: Ruairi

Ruairi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:53:43 +0000

I think there’s a few ways to take what he’s saying on. On the one hand, workouts no-one has done before could simply be interpeted as new workouts in the same sense as new ‘hero’ workouts are new.

But then he specifies that no-one will have competed at these movements before … However, does that simply mean that the movements haven’t been part of the games before, and their component parts are not found in other competitive sports … Or does ‘unique shit’ indeed mean something actually novel. An exercise that is to this 2009 what the thruster was to whatever year someone first came up with one of those. I’m guessing its going to be somewhere in between.

If CrossFit HQ starts ordering lots of eggs and sppons or cages full of game then possibly someone will leak the information on the net.

As for the Jacksonville PD, yeah, what I took from that talk is that even though they had terrible form when they implemented CrossFit they were improving their athletic ability while still dropping the injury rate in comparison with the old programme. And this was with rounded backs etc.

By: William Walshe

William Walshe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:16:04 +0000

Andy Stumph has shared some of the injury rate data pre and post Crossfit implementation at BUDs (the training/selection camp for Navy Seals) too.

Pretty dramatic stuff. Beforehand: dozens of dropouts due to serious injuries. Afterwards: No injuries.

By: Colm

Colm — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:10:15 +0000

That puts me at -5 if I’m right, then.

The Jacksonville PD, the first people to be certified in CrossFit, had the data on their injury rate pre CF, and post CF. Glassman stated it was liked a train wreck seeing them do cleans and other such movements when he first observed them.

I think the War college lecture is free to download anyway, it’s in the Q&A, proven and all.

By: Bobby O'Leary

Bobby O'Leary — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:38:27 +0000

And I lose 5 semantics points for not noticing that. I’m losing my touch Will.

By: William Walshe

William Walshe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:13:55 +0000

Oh, and Colm loses 5 scientist points for using the word “proven”. All we can do with the scientific method is disprove theories, they can’t ever be fully proven.

By: William Walshe

William Walshe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:58:44 +0000

Right, I came close to fouling myself laughing at that. Bravo.