Witness the Fitness

[luka]

shake a 10 stone scaffolders hand

 

[version]

He claimed he'd nailed to a tree and set on fire the man who murdered his son and I decided to go inside and get away from him because he seemed deadly serious.

 

[luka]

you'll never get anything like work strength in a gym. never in a million years.

 

[linebaugh]

Is crossfit a thing over there?

 

[luka]

yeah course. we are part of the empire.

 

[luka]

we have blue jeans and malboro cigerettes and coka cola.

 

[linebaugh]

we have blue jeans and malboro cigerettes and coka cola.

Real big trucks?

 

[linebaugh]

And truck nuts!?

 

[luka]

no big trucks. we have a medieval street pattern.

 

[luka]

different agent-states take on a different americana. france is jazz and comic books. japan is bad coffee, doughnuts and baseball

 

[luka]

it's more difficult to pin down what britain is cos i grew up here. version will know.

 

[version]

We took on the malls, corporate culture and processed food.

 

[luka]

that's right. i knew version would know the answer

 

[version]

Northeners feel more affinity with small-town America than they do with london. London is still stuck in the Victorian era. Dank little pubs and cobbled streets. The north is all strip malls and multiplex cinemas and massive buckets of chicken. It has embraced the American future

 

[luka]

brilliant post

 

[DannyL]

a gym muscle looks puffy and balloon like. a work muscle is insanely dense and striated and wirey. massive, massive difference between training for hypertrophy and display and real muscle. they look completely different.

Idk about that. I used to go to a gym that was just powerlifters and Olympic lifters and they were incredibly strong. Could lift ludicrous fucking amounts. They were all training for competition (lifting competition, not bodybuilding). They seemed to me much stronger than the guys I've known who worked on site.

 

[luka]

at lifting a weight once in a specific way

 

[luka]

strong at what they train for. ask them to do scafollding and see what happens.

 

[DannyL]

Yeah, maybe. I remember seeing one of the blokes there do pressups with multiple plates on his back, his muscles rippling away and think there's a strong dude.

I was gonna say that's one of the reason Crossfit took off, as a kind of critique of strength that wasn't "functional".

Having said that surely we should put the boot into Crossfit for being massively overpriced, "elite" and not as entertaining as ludicrous men in fake tan and tiny shorts eating 7lb of beef brisket for breakfast. And run by a massive racist up to about 2 weeks ago.

 

[luka]

thats right. so crossfit starts from the standpoint of a post apocolyptic scenario. whould Jay Cutler survive? or would going into calorific deficet set off a nervous breakdown and he ends up being spit roasted and canabiliased like prize sow