padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
there's a tradition of named workouts i.e. "Fran" is 21-15-9 (as in a round of 21 reps, then 15, then 9) of deadlift @ 225 lb and handstand pushups🤨
there's famously one named after Michael "Murph" Murphy the Navy SEAL, and so on
it's more a "main site" thing from the days when it as just them, before there were a million affiliates, people don't really name workouts now
idk if it was just Glassman or the people around him but yeah the original CF was def patriotic right-wing deal tho what that meant ca. 2005ish
you gotta understand back then it was word-of-mouth too, no social media, the Internet was not what it is now
Glassman tbf is not a huckster when it comes to fitness (and crucially, nutrition as well). him and his people didn't do anything radically "new" but their approach was completely new (P90X did something similar but much shittier, the literal direct-to-video version, around the same time) and it didn't take off right away. they were truly at the cutting edge of human physical performance for a minute.
anyway, people have ignored that stuff or not as they will for a long time. the main site's other crusade, much worthier, was against soda.