Comments on: Couch Potatoes, Meet Pukey

By: GC

GC — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:48:15 +0000

Ms. Conover,

I appreciate your taking the time to check out a post that was made almost 4 1/2 years ago. However, please note the comments regarding CrossFit were made by the author of the original NY Times article and those he quoted. You could take it up with the Times’ sports section, but I doubt they’ll publish a letter concerning an item that ran in December of 2005.

By: Mary Conover

Mary Conover — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:14:20 +0000

Your article claims that CrossFit does not place emphasis on technique. Where did you EVER get that idea? I have been training with CrossFit for 10 years. The first 5 years were with Coach Greg Glassman as my trainer. From the outset I lifted only a wooden pole until I had the moves (“technique”) down and then I started with the 15 lb bar and moved up. Coach Glassman no longer trains clients in our gym, but every CrossFit trainer in that gym starts beginners to CrossFit with the moves first, using only a pole. Technique is important. You have been misinformed.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:37:42 +0000

You too

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:32:12 +0000

Thanks for achnowledging this fact. I done(for real, this time). Best of luck.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:30:18 +0000

OK, in checking, it wasn’t you in the Irongarm thread that threatened the Glassmans.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:26:00 +0000

Mike, I have never publicly threatened anyone with violence. You are confusing me, perhaps intentionally, with someone else.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:47:19 +0000

You’re not very bright, are you? If a lift falls within the range, it’s in the range. If you don’t believe me, consult someone as to what the word “range” means. Last question do you believe that anyone would ever bother to give anything you ever said serious thought after you publicly threatened to kill someone and rape their wife over their dead body? Yes or no? I’m out.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:39:28 +0000

You’re not very bright are you ? The 750# has to actually occur to be included in the range, if you don’t believe me consult a statistics textbook or google the term “raw data”. Last question do you believe that the CF method has produced a 700+ lb deadlift ? Yes or no ? I’m out.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:53:18 +0000

I guess it all depends on what a range of numbers mean. Most literate people treat a range of numbers such as “500 – 750″ to mean a lower bound of 500 and an upper bound of 750. You don’t, for some odd reason that is probably tied to a dislike of CF.

I find the train wreck of a thread on Irongarm amusing in watching a train wreck sort of way, in that adults would actually threaten, joking or not, to kill someone and rape their wife and think it’s funny. What passes for discourse on the internet never ceases to amaze me.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:04:16 +0000

I guess it all depends on wht the meaning of the “can” is. Most literate people use this word when discussing things that they are actually able to do. When they are discussing things that they might be to do it is customary to add such words “may” or “possibly”. I find this whole thing quite amusing, especially since you are evading the question. It is a real dilemma, isn’t it ? You wan’t to defend the claim to prove your loyalty to CF but even you know that the part about 750# is ludicrous.