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Was thinking through the tests and the kind of athlete that would make it and it occurred to me I reckon Hunter McIntyre, had he trained a year, could have made it through these tests and had a good chance of making it to the games. The events skew endurance-y and there’s a lot in favor for...

you also have to think about the differential effort required to maintain 1200 vs. 1000 cals/hr in relation to the time you would gain. over 40 cals, a 1200 cal vs. 1000 cal is 24s gained. over a ~12:00 workout - I'd say you're better off sticking to the lower end and trying to gain time or...

@dereklirus eh, I think it's very context dependent. they've just done a ruck and 2 events yesterday. they're coming in with GHDs and pistols. you also have to remember there are the 70# DBs afterwards. someone could stay in the 900s (women) and then just kill it on the DBs. it would be...

@dereklirus these guys "can" probably do what you say in a clean, non mixed-modal setting but the demands and technique is very different once you place them in a mixed-modal 'metcon' setting. these numbers you are pulling up are very arbitrary. FWIW, if you recall the Open workout with the...

@cassandra23 I think if you do enough CF, I think yo'll almost find that there's a way to 'game' rowing for cals within a CF metcon. you do CF long enough you can almost figure out how to make your rowing like more lower back dominant vs. more quad dominant, and use that depending on the...

@jonjones229 that was one of the cooler events to watch IMO - really cool to see swimming, AB, and then like GHDs and OK like the ball slam was whatever but in the context, it probably made the best sense. the interval style, with the rest and recoverability, gaming, really loved that event...

@helpme1111 that's awesome, thank you.

@jonjones229 there seems to be a team female athlete who does not know how to do a ring muscle up - what is up with that?!

@endtimeservant777 *laughs in mismanaged PED cycles* joke-not-joke

@mikelore if anything - it's a testament to his current camp that they've been able to 'endure' the next gen better than others. think about the other people in Noah's peer group - men and women - that are slowly melting away against the field of progress. over a eight, nine year stretch, it's...

@starrysunsets the point of the challenge is its easiness - no macros, no tracking which fruits what where, and just to encourage people to increase veggie/fruit intake if you incorporate 'heavier' veggies/fruits like avocados, apples, bananas, and so on, I find it to resemble fairly what I...

@caleb_m Damn old school vid, taking me back You’re thinking likely of the 2014 sprint carry. Makes me wish I’d known, to paraphrase the great Andy Bernard, that I was in the good old days before I actually left them.

@sic there are tons of things that are good for training but not for competition. turkish get ups, planks, "strict presses" in a metcon, bicep curls ... (although DB Power cleans are basically that, but still) ... depending on how these ball slams go, could be one of them

@dawn16 this is true, but also in some sense not true. IMO, American colleges are basically like, institutionalized mistake-making zones for 18-21 year olds to do fuck all and have very little consequences (I am a product of this). Unlike higher Ed in the rest of the world, US colleges more...

@dylan511 I think this talk of 'next Mat or Tia' is a long, long way off from happening. can she win? sure. Her, Cary, and Haley I think to me seem to embody a third of what make up Tia - Ma's strength is impressive, Haley's cardio + classic CF capacity is preternatural, and Cary I think seems...