Max Deadlift time!
F*** you, society.
No, seriously, f*** you. Those images and ads and print and video that would have us believe we all need to be addict-thin, emaciated female skeletons in order to be desirable? In order to be wanted? In order to be loved? And then you turn around and try to sell us low-quality processed garbage to eat? Do you really expect us to still put up with this?
Well, I’m not buying your screwed-up bullshit anymore. You f***ed with my head long enough. Not buying your death-of-me-sold-to-me. What a flippin’ idiot I would have to be in order to purchase my own death. I know better, learned better, am better.
Yet people do it every day. I do it every day. We all buy shit that is bad for us, or stupid for us, or that will plain f***ing kill us. (Cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, processed food, SUGAR). We look at super-skinny runway models and airbrushed magazine photos and we listen to BS that women are “too muscular” and some of us still worry that we’ll “bulk up.”
Well, we should be more worried about dumbing down than bulking up.
See, we’re dumb when we listen to dumb. And we were actually led to believe that there is some pain of living that can be ameliorated, assuaged, or erased by the purchase of PRODUCTS. How crazy is that? To believe that there is some condition of the heart, the head, the soul that can be changed by anything but us changing inside. How stupid is that? How naive? How insecure?
Yet we do it. I do it. We all do it. We buy our own death, our own lesser beings, our own poor representation of ourselves. We put good hard cash down for someone else’s screwed-up vision of who we should be.
Well, I say no more. There are enough of us now who know better, who want better, who are willing to fight for better. And we’re called CrossFitters.
I’m done. I’m voting with my wallet and I’m voting loud and long and powerfully. You want my cash, you better give me real and alive and strong and true, because I’m not inhaling that other garbage.
F*** you society. I’m not eating your shit anymore.
Strength: Deadlift 3-3-2-2-1-1-1
WOD:
3 rounds
300m row
20 wallball
10 Pullups
Excited.
Yosh I’m obsessed with this post. It’s amazing. I love it. Couldn’t agree more.
Yosh is quoting Lisbeth Darsh here with these last few posts. All credit goes to (and more good reading available at) http://crossfitlisbeth.com/ – I also personally appreciate the YMSBM and employ it from time to time.
Reminder as we approach Max Deadlift Day: it is not about the shoes, either.
http://www.crossfitfenway.com/2011/07/25/its-not-the-shoes-2/
(…and yes, I totally dropped a max DL yesterday from hip height. Twice. I gave myself a YMSBM look later.)
JT, I appreciate your article about the gear. I would ask your opinion, though, what type of shoes (or none at all) is best for training. Right now I just use my running sneakers which I wear pretty much all the time, but is that giving me extra height in the heel which might be affecting my training?
Go primal…wrap your feet in salami.
Just a thought.
go hang a salami, i’m a lasagna hog?
Nice one Lynn. Sorry Will, I could not resist.
i hear that’s good for the skin, and smells great, too! 😉
Very excited!!
Deadlift: Topped out at 295#. Definitely not a 1 Rep Max, but I was compromising my back a bit and after bowing out of Monday’s WOD because of a tweaky back, I didn’t want to push it too much.
WOD: 9:04 Rx. Not too terrible; although as JT pointed out, (which I have known deep down but refused until now to fully acknowledge), when I start to get tired on wallballs it almost becomes more like a shotput move where I twist and push mostly with my right arm. Add it to the list to work on.
Also did some movement work on Toes to Bar and Push Press for Open 12.3.
opted out of deadlift and into working on push jerk in anticipation of 12.3. PR-ed at 105#! bodyweight over my head…booooooyah!!
wod: my god i hate rowing. 12:15rx and i also need to add wall ball to my list of things that need lots of work.
Good workout today. Thanks 530a class. And a shoutout to Cal for helping me with my pullup bands.
trying and failing 🙁 i’ll add that to my list to work on too!! 🙂 you were killing those wall ball today, nice job!
Deadlift: 295#, odd sensation around one of my ribs and didn’t want to stress it trying to match my PR
WOD: 10:33, I realized I pace myself too much. I still had gas at the end to do the last bit of wall balls and then pull-ups unbroken.
DL 165# This was another small milestone – the opening page of my journal says that the first time I DL’d that my 1RM was 83# (back when we had the little colored 1 pounders, haha). I think it’s pretty awesome that in exactly 4 months I have doubled what I am capable of picking up off the ground. 🙂
WOD nearly killed me due to a shoulder/back-cramp that makes it feel like I am being stabbed in the left lung every time I breathe in (still have it…really really hope it stops soon!). Finished in 13:15 with the blue-ball and kipping-PUs. No-repped myself on too many wallballs, and still can’t get any higher than 2-bricks-below (yet).
I feel like a superhero doing pullups. Can’t wait until I can do real ones.
415# on the deads. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go for a PR today as I’ve been lacking sleep the last few days, but Mike was super encouraging and my form felt pretty solid. I feel it more in my ass than in my low back, so I think that’s a good sign (or maybe just a really bad “that’s what she said” moment…)
8:14 on the WOD. I didn’t feel like I burned it down, but everything was unbroken and I didn’t rest much at all in between exercises. I feel like I’m learning the most efficient way to pace myself on couplets and triplets, which is exciting. Hope to see everyone Saturday!
Deadlift #265. Its a 40# PR and I felt like a fucking superhero.
Then the WOD started….11:54. Not awesome. What IS awesome, SO AWESOME, is Marcos cheering you on. I love this group of people. A lot.
holy shit that is one BALLER deadlift PR! way to go!
Made it look easy
You guys killed it tonight. Made it look light!
Deadlift #220, I think. I’ve never lifted anything that weighed more than me before.
Can not remember my time. I started to get the rhythm of the wall balls after a while but they were pretty painful. I quite like the ol’ rower.