Good job on the wod yesterday gaucoin. My post was lost in cyberspace again.
I'm looking forward to the rest day and the CF certification on the weekend.

I've been wondering if I'm doing my Bench presses correctly.
Looks like a good trick to use next time I'm doing them.

I wish I knew where "right there" is for me tho!

Trevor,

I hunted your post down and manually removed it from purgatory.

I seldom comment on the articles presented for rest day but I found this article quite informative. I know very little about Iran other than what I read in the headlines of newspapers and listening to the talking heads on TV and radio. I thought that the article presented a look into what is driving the Iranian economy that is neither left or right leaning. Thanks for the read coach and I enjoyed the WOD this morning, as always.

Have Fun, Train Hard,
Billy

Keegan!

:)

excessive Exclamation points? heeee!

Andy, your kids are calling you! I am so glad that is recorded.

Keegan...you are a little stud.

Great video. 10-20 sec in and I already had something to correct with my bench!

Interesting article. Still, I'd be loathe to bet against cautious old men. They're often wise old men. At that level, wise old men put plays in motion in long before brash young men realize the game is on. I pray this is one of those cases.

A related article on why the US should bomb Iran: http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110010139

Yet another great video. I've been benching for almost 20 years and I still learnt alot from that video.

Back Squat
255 X 3
275 X 3
275 X 3
230 X 10

Deadlift
225 X 5
255 X 3
275 X 3
305 X 3

"Angie"

17:40

BZZZZAAAAP! Neurons are firing...oh..look at the ceiling, not the bar! I knew I wasn't crazy when I always make sure the bar lines up with the lines on the ceiling.

Good article on Iran. Wish I could bring you in on the ISR world of Iran. Its much worse then what CNN will tell you.

Thanks for the article. It's been such a quagmire in Iran after the Revolution in 1979. I hope somehow that that old wise man will be able to help Iran. He is a good person and very open to democratic ideas. We have so much to be grateful for in the freedoms that our soldiers fought so hard to give us.

Many Thanks to our American & Canadian troops serving overseas in tough, inhuman situations...God Bless You.

BTW, is anyone else exceedingly annoyed that we don't hear or read about this kind of stuff in mass media?! However, as of this moment there 1,946 articles on Paris Hilton available from the Google News page!

John, Asia Times is "mass media."

Why no mention of China in the article? Their relationship with China is one less reason for Iran to negotiate.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF04Ad07.html

A church is the organization of a priesthood
which fights for its temporal power. It brings the forms of religious life, and therewith the
people who cling to them, under its power, and it is therefore the born enemy of all other
forms of power: State, rank, or nation. During the Persian Wars the priesthood of Delphi
agitated on behalf of Xerxes and against the national defence. Cyrus was able to conquer
Babylon and overthrow Naboned, the last king of the Chaldees, because the priesthood of
Marduk was in league with him.

Spengler, Decline of West.

That's what the real Spengler had to say about Iran, just another reason.

What is the best way of going about getting my knee fixed if i have an injury, need surgery, and I have no insurance? So far, i have been told that even if I get insurance the doctor will know that i have a preexisting injury? I am not exactly sure what is wrong with my knee, started with an mcl tear about 9 years ago skateboarding, and since then my knee has only deteriorated. Right now knee is swollen like a grapefruit....Any help would be appreciated.

Nice job posting the video, helps out a lot!

Nice job posting the video, helps out a lot!

#9 - Outstanding article. I've heard many arguments along the same line as that, but none so articulately put. As a member of the military looking at the prospect of my first wartime deployment in about two years, the issue of Iran is one I very regularly think about. And while soldiers pray for peace more than anyone else, as McCain has said, and Podhoretz quotes, "The only thing worse than bombing Iran is allowing Iran to bet The Bomb." Honestly, I am afraid of going to war. I am afraid of the prospect that I won't come home, leaving my fiancé behind in an uncertain and unsafe world. But I fear even more, the possibility of an impotent America, where citizens are more open to surrendering their freedom, security and their way of life to appease Islamofascism then they are to fighting to defend those things.

This is off-topic, but everyone here seems really helpful, so I thought that this might be the best place to start. I'm very new to CF (< 2 weeks), fairly big, 6'6", 265#, pretty strong (or so I thought), but can not do a pullup. What is a good way to progress toward being able to do not just pullups but sets of them? I really want to be able to start doing WODs but right now that really isn't feasible.

Wow! What a killer workout yesterday! I am going to enjoy this day off. I played an hour of hockey already, and can I tell you that my legs felt every bit of if from the thrusters!...I think I am going to do some light stationary bike or hit the pool today, to get rid of that lactic acid... Have a nice day all.

This is a very well-written article with plenty of evidence to support the author's assertions. I certainly believe the author's case that Iran's desperation could easily lead to aggression. That said, I would like for Spengler to opine on how such aggression will play out in the near future. I say this because I am skeptical of Iran's ability to sustain a long-term war effort in light of their economic instability; a strong military requires a strong society to sustain itself in times of war (and peace). What does everyone else think?

Coach,

Thanks for another great video and the program in general. This is the finest workout I have ever been a part of!

As for the article......don't we already have enough problems with Iraq...the hyper-aggressive military driven posture we have taken in the region isn't working. We need to smarten up and evolve away from this bankrupt thinking. The "kick ass" types had their shot and have blown it. Dress this turd of a foreign policy up any way you like and it still stinks. It was made by men who do not respect history, research or reason and manipulated the event to happen. If this is such a good fight why is there no support at home?

37% is not support…..it’s dogma at this point, a head buried in the sand is not thinking.

I expect many are blaming the liberal media or hippies or Clinton or Bush himself but the blame is larger. We as a people failed in the democratic process. With the rush the “kick ass” after 911 we forgot to think and reason we forgot our checks and balances we forgot that the president and his advisors are human and can be wrong. America dosen't want this war plain and simple.

ricky

Tim P, check out the FAQs. Look up jumping Pullups and Kipping pullups as ways to get the reps in. There are other big guys who get through the wods. Kegger comes to mind...

I just love Rip's accent. So smooth. I think I'll do some bench this am. 95% chance we have some tomorrow , but oh well.

Darren,
Very nice man I believe the same thing. We shouldn't be there but on the other hand we can not sacerfice our freedom either.

The information laid out on Iran is plain and simple in regards to American foreign policy. Stay out of there business. As mentioned in the article, Iran is less than 30 years removied from Khomeini's revolution and the country's problems could not be any bigger (outside of a US led invasion). However, I fear that if the US were to assert their military and political power in Iran, it would give its citizens a reason to unite and fight against a common enemy.

The Iran situation will take care of itself. American diplomats just need to make sure they take care of Russia and prevent them from propping up the regime in Iran. With such high unemployment and a true desire to westernize, the youth of Iran will eventually rise to take over. It is imperative to exercise discipline and not get involved in their affairs.

In regards to Iran's imperialist extensions in the Middle East, I would just call them a pest. By making allies with Iran's neighbors and offering them more then what Iran could possibly dream of, they will eventually turn their backs on them as well.

I enjoy that on these rest days, we take a moment to increase our intellectual capacity while our physical capacity recuperates.

Prof Fred Halliday at the London School of Economics has proven pretty astute on Iranian affairs - for some concise well written background check:
www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-irandemocracy/iran_matter_4396.jsp

Crossfit...I believe you have toally ingrained yourself in my brain. I just got my copy of Starting Strength yesterday and I spent time reading about the bench press. And here is that infomation for me to see in motion straight from the horses mouth.
I know it has been said before many times, but if you still don't have a copy of Starting Strength you need to get it! Even if you think you know how to do the movements already, I predict you will still learn a lot from this book. It is worth way more that the $30 you pay for it.

Reading the article reminded me of the progression of troubles at Enron. Ken Lay is Ahmadinejad and the Enron stockholders and employees are the Iranian people while Rafsanjani and the cautious old men are represented by the stockholders and employees who blew the whistle. We all know how it turned out for Ken Lay and Enron. Unfortunately, Iran's troubles will have much more deadly and far-reaching consequences.

It's amazing how much i can learn off of one brief video. Thanks for posting it.

coming off a week of vacation, eating too much, drinking too much... having a good ol' time with my family... it was needed rest, but now back to the lifting. it looks like i have some good ones to make up.

Rest Day!!!

Did 1 hour of hard hockey this morning. Good active rest; thats for sure.

Hard at'er tomorrow!!!

1. Stand firm on no nukes for Iran. Invade facilities if necessary. Do not set foot inside Iran in any overt sense at this point.

2. No more light footed proxy war activity allowed. If Iranians fighters are found in Iraq, treat them as spys and/or combatants based on activity.

3. Let the activity inside Iran's borders continue to erode.

4. All military responses should be replied with "We told you not to build/do/interfere... this was your choice. Normal diplomatic relations will resume when your activities stop."

5. Let them spend themselves into oblivion buying military hardware. Soon the only people who have money will be sheiks..then they can deal with the street mobs.

Reading that article did anybody else draw some eerie parallels between the description of Iran and the current state of the USA, i.e. rising inflation/unemployment, large trade imbalance, govt subsidies/welfare, inability to manufacture things rest of world wants, citizens/rest of world not supporting the leader, aggression...

Again, well said CCTJOEY.

#26 jesse- those "pests" are looking to wipe out Isreal and the Leboneese government. that might not concern you. But I hope that you are concerned that the "pests" are instigating a regional conflict that will shed far more blood. Why, why, why should we buy the "friendship" of these corrupt, desperate peoples? I refer you to the Infidel 6 post from MON: http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000157.html

#23 Ricky- "why is there no support at home?" get in your car and drive to Safeway. Select a bag of potato chips and a diet Coke. Pay for them in $U.S. and sit in your car with the A/C on and consume them. Drive on home and turn on CNN or another information source for the Paris Hilton situation. Complain about the fact that it really isn't news or even debate if she should be in jail or sitting at home watching Lifetime with an ankle bracelet. Go to sleep tonight in the peace and safety of your home. Wake up tomorrow and log on to the computer and download the WOD. Execute the WOD and log back on and tell us some more about how there is no support for the war. I don't know anything about you, and I post this as a generalized reaction to the shortsighted and fearful Americans out there that enjoy our American freedoms as spectators, commentators and consumers.

What some seem to not understand is how much it matters to their daily peace, that we have taken on the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we have our thumb on Iran and other ner'-do-wells out there. I pray for cooler heads to prevail, but if necessary I will pray for the well-aimed compassion of hot-steel downrange.

Peace in the middle east,
Scotty McC

John #32,

No.

What rising unemployment?
What inability to manufacture things the rest of the world wants?
What aggression?
What rising inflation?

Do you actually know what is going on with our economy and government or are you just looking to spread propaganda? Please try again with some meat.

Scotty McC, "I pray for cooler heads to prevail, but if necessary I will pray for the well-aimed compassion of hot-steel downrange."

Nice. Compassion comes in many forms doesn't it?

46/195/M
sub 500m row
thrusters 65#
22:15
Day behind, just getting into it after knee surg. feels great to be back with HQ!

Joey-
as usual, you're on it.

The past couple of years Iran has been doing a lot in Central Asia, buying electricity and building up diplomatic shores with the very, very poor nations surrounding it. We can't deal with them the same way that we have dealt with Iraq, that is for sure. Different countries mean different strategies. Also, Iranians aren't Arabs, they are Persians which means different cultural stances.

There is news about Iran out there in the mass media, but you need to search for it, not wait for it to come to you in the prepackaged CNN version.

I think Bingo (sorry D. for getting the words out of order) was one to say, just the other day, that a bit of self learning and exploring is part of doing CrossFit. That applies to rest days as well as looking up the FAQ's.

No rest day for me as I am coming off this week my self imposed 5 day on, 2 days off schedule that I've been on for a while.

Next Tuesday, I go in for my heart surgery to fix the electrical problem, so I'll be out for a couple of weeks in recovery.

Today I worked on what I haven't worked in a while.

WU-
1 mile on elliptical
WO-
OHS
3 reps x 5 sets
45-55-55-65-65

Front Squat
3 reps x 5 sets
45-55-75-75-85

Legs felt fine but my shoulders were sore today.

Kate

rising inflation:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118126497523128597.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

manufacturing:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/24/business/main2720069.shtml

aggression:
see iraq

unemployment, maybe my viewpoint is tainted by living in michigan on this one:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/UPDATE/706070468/1001/BIZ

Tim P #21 - Plus 1 on what Brent_nyc #25 says. I would start with the jumping pull ups & concentrate on the negative (on the way down) side. This isn't cheating at all, but just conditioning your body to the point where you will be able to do the pull ups like the crazy CF'ers they show on the WOD videos. Just get in the reps any way possible (even using the weight assisted machines if necessary) & you'll be on your way before you know it.

from the inflation article:

Over the next three to five years, our secular outlook suggests that global inflation, and certainly U.S. inflation, will accelerate mildly. ... That combination is not necessarily bond-friendly,"

this is not the same situation that Iran is described as being in in the article.

On the Manufacturing article provided by John

This article only serves to combat your point that the US doesn't manufacture anything that foreign countries want.

On GM "it leads sales in China, a market with tremendous potential. "

please actually read your research before posting it.

on John's posted unemployment scare article

Dude, the title of your article is:

"U.S. jobless claims fall for second week but Michigan's rise"

So yeah, I guess you are tainted, A LOT.

I'm not gonna touch Iraq, as I'm sure others will have some choice words for you on that topic.

The old knee-jerk reaction to eliminate all distinctions:

Iran has inflation (20%). We have inflation (3%, in line with the historic average). Thus Iran and the US are "eerily” parallel.

They have unemployment (30%). We have unemployment (4.5%), another eerie parallel.

They export virtually nothing but oil, using foreigners to get it out of the ground for them. We export hundreds of billions of dollars worth of finished products.

They have hundreds of foreign terrorists seeking refuge in their country. We have tens of millions of people trying to get into our country.

They stone homosexuals to death. We don't recognize gay marriage.

It's all the same, right?

John, John John....where do I begin...

First of all, I can't provide sources for all of my arguments, which I apologize for, so you'll have to take my word for it on some things.

Second, I'm dismantling your arguments not to make you feel stupid, but rather to prove that "Blame America first," is often a very weak way to prove your point. While you may disagree with what others have to say, please, take the time and effort to understand their arguments before resorting to weak misdirection of the argument at hand.

The economy...

What you have listed is a daily market report from the wall street journal. Any financial analyst will tell you that the market is about 50% irrational fear. You can recall that the Chinese stock market's recent crash (which created a slight American ripple) was caused by a RUMOR from Alan Greenspan that a recession might soon be coming. (Sorry, can't find an easily accessible source since I'm writing this on my lunch break at work right now.) My point: the markets and economy are still near all time high points. There will always be significant day fluctuation.

Manufacturing:

If you would grab the most recent issue of Consumer Report's yearly auto-review, you will find a nice article titled, "What is an American car?" in which you will notice that the only thing Japanese about Toyotas and Honda's in this country are the name and the engine. Both makers have their cars and parts manufactured, designed, and assembled in America. As for GM and ford, an increasingly large number of their vehicles are actually made in Mexico, Korea, and Japan.
One example (ws/fs): http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2006/08/chevys_made_in_.html

Aggression:

This is a political mine field that would take days to debate, and even then I'm probably sure you still wouldn't agree with me, so I'm simply going to say, check a large number of poles on the war opinion. The only thing about then that is consistent is their inconsistencies. Believe what you want to believe, I for one think that Saddam had every chance at a diplomatic way out from the war that could be conceived of. It was his tyrannical rule and support of Al Queda (this is the one point I really wanted to support, but again I can't find the news article I originally read, so you'll just have to take my word on it. Essentially, a terrorist training camp was found in Iraq during OIF 1) that lead to the Iraq war, not senseless American Imperialism, as some might believe.

Unemployment:

Back in February the US Labor Department release a statistic that put unemployment at 4.6%, which was considered HIGH. It kind of pales in comparison to Iran's numbers.

Wow…I really hijacked the comments. Sorry about that…I’ll go run 5k after work to get my mind back on fitness.

Kate, I wish you a safe surgery and a speedy recovery. John

M/33/85kg

Off to Prague for a week! Don't know if I get a chans to do much training so thought I'd squeeze in a little something on this here restday.

5 rounds for time of:

35kg Military Press, 10 reps
Sit-Ups, 25 reps
Pull-Ups, 15 reps

time 13:30

#46 John-
Thank you!

Kate

Joe and Kate,

Excuse me. My point wasn't well expressed. My annoyance is the amount of resources MOST of the mass media spends on useless fluff.

But then, you knew that didn't you? :-)

tim p.
scale it back and try not to go to nuts with it, or youll end up with chronicly screwed up shoulders like me, and most every one i know. we call em "crossfit shoulders" . From doing TOO MANY pullups. no one to blame but me.

Give 'em "WHAT FOR" Kate.

Show them what a CrossFit ticker looks like!

Darren/Hari/g:

On inflation(and the argument in general), I totally agree with you that the USA is not in the exact same boat as Iran is at this point, I just wanted to point out of all the problems with Iran that the article describes many exist here in the states, albeit to a lesser degree. I don't mean to say Iran is a great place lets all be friends with them, just that maybe we're being a bit hypocritical.

On manufacturing, I didn't read the article and it was a bad example, but you must admit that there is something wrong with manufacturing when you can't sell your product to your own people.

I did read this article though and it is much better at showing my point
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/briefingpapers_bp149
Figure 3 illustrates this nicely, American manufacturing is fulfilling less of the demand for manufactured goods in America, and this is causing a loss of manufacturing jobs.

And a good quote from the article, "The idea seems to be that the United States can afford to run large trade deficits in manufactured goods as long as it runs large surpluses in services, reflecting the shift to a post-manufacturing economy. This trade-off between manufacturing and services is theoretically possible, but—given that the U.S. service surplus is 11% the size of its manufacturing deficit and that this service surplus has shrunk by 0.5% of GDP over the past seven years—it is unrealistic to expect that the current enormous trade deficit in manufactured goods can be sustained through burgeoning service exports."

Darren: Honda/Toyota cars may be manufactured in America when sold in America, but they are still designed by and everything is owned by the Japanese, Americans may be doing the physical work, but this still 'counts' as japanese manufacturing, as they are the ones getting the profits. And I don't have a source for this but I would imagine they are mostly only assembled in america, with the parts actually coming from china.

And I didn't want to get into a big discussion of whether iraq is right or wrong, but the fact remains there are american troops in a foreign country killing people, it may be justified agression, but it is still agression.

This is fun, I never thought I'd be arguing about politics and the economy at the same place I get my workout advice.

Go Keegan!

Scotty McC #35

Do you honestly think what we are doing in Iraq now is making us more secure in the present or future?

Also Scotty I could really give a rats A$$ about Paris Hilton or diet cokes but thanks for projecting. I in posting am participating in the democratic process. Believe it or not this (the democratic process) can be done without killing people or invading the wrong country. In fact we used to think and debate before invasions but now we have the sound bite and talking point rather than the frontal lobe.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Ricky

Re: Comment #35 - Posted by Scotty McC at June 8, 2007 08:36 AM

Scotty,

The article you bring up is quite interesting.

http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000157.html

based on the Prisoner's Dilemma wrt to Iran/ Middle East and US relations, the US has based its treatment of Iran upto now on Option 3 - If neither screws each other, we both suffer mild punishment but Iran is playing the game based on Option 1 - If I screw you, but you don’t screw me, I win very big and you lose very big.

but since the Iran and US relationship is ongoing, in other words it is an interative game, in the next round the US' option should be "Tit-for-Tat".

The game theorists of CrossFit should be quite familiar with this.

I really enjoyed Rip's article in the June CrossFit this month. I'm not quite there - 10 years younger than Mark - but he hits home with several points on aging, workout recovery, & the urge to keep training despite the effects of late-night beers, or sleeping on the couch involunatrily, or dealing with varied numbnuts at work have on people past 30 years of age. Nice one.

But Ricky - your point is a complete non sequitur. You've done this more lately. Article about economics? Turn it into a rant about Iraq. Article on Iran? Turn it into a debate on Bush or Iraq.

Dude, look at your post. "As for the article......don't we already have enough problems with Iraq...the hyper-aggressive military driven posture we have taken in the region isn't working. We need to smarten up and evolve away from this bankrupt thinking. The "kick ass" types had their shot and have blown it. Dress this turd of a foreign policy up any way you like and it still stinks."

Okay, I give up, what does that have to do with the article? Ummm, nothing. Talk about "projection".

Ricky - I appreciate your contrarian view because it is different. But when you're being contrarian just for its own sake (and when THAT's not even the topic!) then you start to lose credibility. The article was a much more thoughtful piece on Iran's economic problems and what they might do in their foreign policy as a result. Does the article recommend bombing Iran? If it does, I missed that part. It was more about what Rafsanjani will have to do.

Lighten up, dude. Ideas clung to so tightly that they do not permit the possibility of change or review are mere dogma. And that's no fun.

John...

there are a lot of US troops doing the work that 100 years ao only missionaries would have done.
the killing is necessity, not imperialistic aggression. Therefore, "aggresssion" is definately the wrong term.

Supporting Proxy Militias and para-military groups like Iran is doing, in order to kill our troops is Aggression, the result they hope for is coercion. Sooner or later they will get what they are asking for. Albeit, not in the way they hope.

Scotty McC's example of compasion comes to mind.

Dale,

You have many very good points and you are correct, I am projecting my frustrations and personal feelings rather than debating the article. Thank you for the needed check and more so for the way it was presented.

Ricky

Missed Angie the other day so I did today.

46 min even.

Terrible time. Even not being able to kip on the pullups is no excuse for a lack of fitness...as evident with this WOD.

Thanks CF

Responding to unemployment/inflation/manufacturing/Iraq.
The latest unemployment data puts the national rate at 4.5%. Most economists consider 4% to be full employment. There is some concern that if the unemployment rate gets any lower it will begin to adversely affect the economy due to a lack of workers. Most countries in the world would be absolutely overjoyed to have a 4.5% unemployment rate.
3% inflation is great compared to most of the rest of the world.
I have worked in manufacturing for 25 years. Yes, there are less manufacturing jobs in the USA than there used to be. I do lament this. I think we need to increase our manufacturing base.
Iraq - I don't believe Saddam and Bin Laden were in cahoots. Bin Laden and al Quaida operating in Iraq would have been a threat to Saddam's power. No self-respecting dictator would allow that to happen.

20/ M/ 1.82m/ 79kgs
3th month

Missed yesterdays WoD

Morning:
100 burpees for time
Time: 07:36
50 muscle-ups for time
Time: 12:46

CF070607
* Had to scale it down to 3 rounds
Time: 15:04

Feel sorry that I could not finish all five rounds but after 15 minutes I was just... depleted. Morning session was rather intense, I'll go for that excuse.

No rest today. Took football outside in the Jersey heat, 91-92 hot for us, for a little kick ass circuit CrossFit style.

25 minutes of:

Sled Drive x 20yds
Tire Jumps x 5 (24")
Overhead Lunge Walks x 20yds (20kg, 30kg, 40kg bars)
Tire Flips x 5 (4 various weight tires)
Pull Ups x 5
Dips x 5

At 37 I finished 4 rounds plus sled drive, pretty good.

A question for anyone who has been to the Crossfit Oly Cert: I am interested in attending but i don't want to participate in this whole "yes sir"/boot camp thing. I spent 7 years in the military and don't feel like being a basic recruit again especially after paying $395.00. I would assume it's mainly for these housewives that have never experienced military training and feel that they are getting more bang for their buck by saying "yes sir". Any thoughts? BTW, i am not trying to be too negative.

Musings ('cause that's just how I roll)...

The multiple responses to John's comment attempting to tie the American economy and American life to Iran stand on their own. Well thought out, cordial, and often with citations. Well done.

Scotty #35 resurrects InfidelSix's link from the other day looking at game theory, specifically the "prisoner's dilemna", and how it might relate to foriegn policy. Game theory is a fascinating arena. We used it to develop the underlying business plan for Skyvision Centers. If you have an interest I highly recommend the book "Non-Zero" in which the author deconstructs essentially all of social evolution through the prism of game theory. In brief he posits that nearly all of the significant societal gains made throughout history have come when previously conflicted groups engage in behavior dictated by the rules of "non-zero sum" games. It's a tough read but worth it.

Kate: thoughts and prayers from Cleveburg headed out to you as you go through your procedure. When you first shared this news several Cf'ers offered that a heart as big as yours would prevail. We're holding your place here at the CF table, awaiting your safe return.

D.

Out of order @ station 7 Breckenridge Elev.10000 ft

Angie as rxd except 40 pull ups 45 kipping 20 jumping. still working on improving my pull ups!!!
23.5 minutes

After reading some comments I guess I did a broke angie, Nest time I will try it the other way

Ricky - a thoughtful response, brother. And manly. Many of us "right-wingers" didn't agree with the invasion, but unfortunately that ship has sailed. Time to move forward. When Pres. Bush is gone, there will still be work to do, just like when Repubs claimed the apocalypse was coming because of Clinton. The sun still rose the next day.

Kate - Echoing Bingo's thoughts. Many here will await your return, with confidence, you'll be back, fixed up, and better than ever.

On Infidel Six's link the other day - I read it and bookmarked it. Very powerful writing, in my opinion. Game theory fascinates me and I need to read more. Bingo, thanks for the recommended read.

CCTJoey - I agree, we don't need to invade. My concern is whether Iran's economy will survive long enough for them to get nukes. North Korea did it and has used saber rattling to help feed its people when they're so starved they're dying in the streets. I hope that's not how it shakes out, because, IMO, Ahmedinejad is categorically different than Kim. Kim doesn't believe he's going to meet Allah if he pushes the button, nor that it will bring on the prophesied "end of days"... he's just a "regular" power-hungry megalomaniac. ;-)

Tim P.,

I'm the same size and have had the same problem. Jumping pull ups are the answer. I've gone from barely being able to do one pull up (with an underhand grip and not being too picky about getting my chin over the bar) to doing multiple "sets" of 2 or 3 without any problem.

I got through 6 rounds of Cindy the other day. I know that's pathetic compared to what so many other people here do (I've never posted here before because my results are kind of embarrassing), but if you'd told me even 6 months ago that I'd be able to do 30 legitimate pull ups in 20 minutes, I'd never have believed it.

As for not being able to do the WOD, I still can't do many of them "as prescribed," but Brand X (http://www.brandxmartialarts.com/) scales every workout (look for the "workout of the Day" link), or you can figure out ways to scale them down yourself. I lighten the weights and decrease the reps as necessary, with the goal of getting a little closer to the prescribed workouts each time.

I plan on doing this for the rest of my life, so if it takes me a couple of years just to get to the point of being able to do every WOD "as RXed," I'm fine with that. As other people have said, fitness is a marathon, not a sprint.

It might be fun to drop visas to America on Tehran right after we drop bombs on their nuclear production facilities, to, you know, sort of gauge the state of the state. My guess is an awful lot of the non-Party members might be pretty quick to forgive us.

What many people seem to fail to grasp with respect to Iran is that nuclear bombs make very large explosions. Bigger than M-80's, and even those really, really big fireworks they do at the end of the fireworks show.

They create their own sunrise, and are by all accounts quite beautiful, with many cascading colors, changing constantly, like a rainbow in motion.

They are portable, and of course can be launched on board the sorts of missiles Iran has been showing interest in.

Ahmadinejad seems to figure one should be enough to pretty much make Israel kaput, and of course they are just the little Satan. They don't even qualify for the big time. Presumably if the little Satan needs to be blown up, wouldn't something have been thought of for the Big Satan?

To me, the bottom line is that--regardless of their economic woes, which are likely substantially less than those of North Korea, which lacks pretty much everything--they can and will make bombs, and will use them, if Ahmadinejad gets his way. He's said many times he's willing to take massive casualties, just like they did in the war with Iraq.

Our only real hopes of averting that eventuality are getting Ahmadinejad replaced by moderates, or physically preventing Iran from being able to make a bomb.

If are forced to put an X in number one, then we are left with number two, or--as an alternate version of number two--doing nothing, and acting surprised when Tel Aviv goes up one day, or New York.

These are not reasonable men.

Killed my abs today with the medicine ball and numerous situps and crunches. Yeah planks!!!!

I'm not sure how many of you have seen this document, The U.S. National Security Strategy (WFS).

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/nss2006.pdf

Kate,

Good luck! I wish you well.

You know, your typing fingers will still work while you're recovering, so feel free to use us as a support, if that would be of benefit.

Just checking in from Korea. I arrived Thursday evening & getting settled/acclimated. Can’t wait for my internal alarm clock to stop firing at 4AM.

Kate – Good luck. Can’t wait to see you back on the circuit

Joey, Darren & others – Great points and nice discussion. Good to hear from all of you. I should have lots of time on my hands soon. I’ll get back to the workouts and posting on rest days soon.

Osan out!

Dale, yup.
To all, I don't think it is worth invading, yet. If we break it overtly, we have to buy it. Nope, this is a job for smoke and mirrors policy. Straight Sun-Tzu...the true master of Game Theory. Ama-john-a-ding-dong has three enemies. His country, the West and Himself. I think that the more confident this nut-job feels, the better off we are. Quit talking and act scared or indifferent, then watch.

If we can keep Speaker Pelosi from dashing the hopes of all the reformists in the Islamic Middle-East by playing kissy-face with the Ruling Thugs, like she did in Syria, we stand a chance at reforming Iran with the help of Iranians.

This guy is a meat-stick and we must remember that. He needs to feel emboldened all the way up to where we are willing to deal a death blow or he will do something far more rash than steal some soldiers and shower them with flea-market gifts. (He knows better than to do that with us. Some MC Lance Corporal will make him look like a buffoon on the national stage.)

Nope. Just watch. Wait. Be belligerent, but only verbally so for now. Act like Old Europe. Hide the sledgehammer behind the handkerchief (white flag). Straight Bugs Bunny style. "Nice doggy, wanna steak?" BLAMMO! Walk away and explain nothing. Nothing needs to be said.

If this seems overly simplistic, then you need to study history and strategy.

Stay tight Neil, and stay in touch!

John, Joey, Bingo, Dale, Barry, Neil-

Thanks for the well wishes. All of your thoughts will help me through and you know for sure that I will be back soon!

Take care,
Kate

2nd day doing CF, couldn't convince myself to take a rest day so I did yesterdays WOD (Angie). Im losing about a pound a day on crossfit, it's crazy. The pullups killed, watched a video on kipping and tried to knock out 100, wow did I misjudge that. I'm Army so I don't know how to cheat on a pullup Im gonna have to work on the mechanics of the kip. It really killed my time almost 21 minutes on PU alone:
32yo/m/195#
PU 9,5,3,2 strict/81 broken jumping
pushups 3x25,10,5,5,5
situps 50,25,10,10,5
squats 50,20,20,10

35:11

ricky (#54),

I think Scotty McC's (#35) point regarding the question "why is there no support at home?" is that there is no visible sign of war in our everyday lives. There is certainly no sacrifice by everyday people in the general public, so as a result, war is a nuisance to them like a rowdy neighbor having a loud party. They have no interest except in their personal convenience. Thus this war is an inconvenience and why would they support it.

First, they're living far removed and in relative safety. Secondly, they just don't understand the threat of Global Jihad. If you read these 3 blogs everyday, you'll see the light:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu
http://jihadwatch.org/

It's easy to criticize the war when you adopted a single point of view, cherry-picked your points, and use the magic of 20/20 vision. I feel you now see things a bit too clearly (and extremely narrow) in your mind when this should be a complex issue in anyone's mind. Take a step back and watch these two vid's. Think outside of what's good for you, think outside of personality, of tactics, of feelings.

http://tinyurl.com/28en3x
http://tinyurl.com/2x3pvl

Keegan, Good focus, great work.
Proud mama.

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