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Many years ago when Crossfit was just getting off the ground back when there were no affiliates Rant was participating in the WODs and putting in his 2 cents on the forums and all that kind of stuff. Initially it seemed exciting. I mean all the current fitness glitterati were there. It was like being part of Andy Warhol’s Factory in the mid to late 60’s and kicking it with Lou Reed and shit. They were all there. Then couch decided there was a lot of money to be made so once he was done pilfering ideas from some of these guys he banished them from his little fiefdom. It paid off for that slouchy drunk. He’s now loaded in every sense of the term.
Now I don’t really care much either way about the CF workouts. They are fine I guess. I have never been the type of person that took instruction very well when it came to training. I guess I have always known what my body needs. This is the main reason why I remain so healthy. I make no special effort with diet or prehab/rehab stuff. I drink. I smoke weed. I just train and get benefits from it because I train smart. I listen to my body not some asshole couch. You can get a lot out of just exercising even if your diet sucks. Ignore anyone that says its 90% diet. These are narcissists with eating disorders and in most cases just downright awful human beings. If you want to eat doughnuts and train do it.
In any event I just could never blindly follow the WODs. Some days it didn’t feel right. So I trusted my judgment like I always do and here I am still performing shit I did 30 years ago. I don’t have any injuries. I don’t require any surgeries because I won’t sacrifice my body for some arbitrary and fairly meaningless exercise benchmark. This is what 90% of you don’t seem to understand about Rant. You think I flitter from one thing to the next. You fail to conceptualize that all my moves and changes are intentional.
You are trapped into this linear thinking about things. It’s a very industrialized approach towards fitness and I suppose there isn’t anything wrong with it per se except for one thing. The human body doesn’t operate that way. With the human body all you have is whatever your body is saying right now. So it’s great that you have set a goal of doing 100 pull ups a day for the next 10 years but your shoulders and elbows might have other ideas. Idiots like you will place the goal as the primary object and will flat out ignore messages that your elbows and shoulders are telling you until of course it’s too late and now you need shoulder surgery. Nice work assholes.
This sort of thinking is fine for sport’s team where you have an unlimited stream of douchebag ball players more than willing to sacrifice some body part to elevate some lousy couch or team spirit or some other stupid shit. Fitness is not a team sport. It’s not any kind of sport. It’s a very organic and fluid process that requires some thought and intuition. This isn’t boot camp or the NFL combine. You are supposed to be promoting health and wellness so you can live a long and fruitful life. Its one arena of your life where you don’t have to listen to some one else’s marching orders. You should ONLY be listening to what your body wants. I realize that the majority of you are too intellectually dull to understand what I’m getting at. You’re not alone. Most people just don’t have the mental acumen to understand this so they pay some Kunt trainer to scream at them to do one more rep or they blindly follow some willy nilly fancy boy workout like CF. Then they inevitably get injured, heal up, try the same shit again, get injured again, get operated on and then start the whole process over to undo whatever good the operation did. Sound familiar to you? It should because it’s your life or will be soon.
I might set some benchmark for myself like 300 swings a day for 20 days or something and that’s great but if on day 10 I feel my lower back ligaments are stressed I stop and do something else. This arbitrary number is not my primary objective and I won’t let numbers and charts get in the way of what I am after which is fitness in the true sense of the term. I find it almost pitiable when you mouth breathers try and mock me for changing things up as you blindly crash your head into a wall day after day until you can no longer really train. I plan on doing this stuff 10-20 years from now. If for some reason I can’t it won’t be because I crushed my body through absolutely unenlightened training. Sometimes it feels like I’m the misunderstood genius being mocked by the special needs kids. Great men are rarely appreciated in the moment that they should be. I have accepted this as my fate. Now run along to your charts and graphs and progress, progress, progress. Sooner or later when you hit the inevitable wall come back and tell me about it and I’ll be sure to say I told you so asshole.
What do you think?
Now I don’t really care much either way about the CF workouts. They are fine I guess. I have never been the type of person that took instruction very well when it came to training. I guess I have always known what my body needs. This is the main reason why I remain so healthy. I make no special effort with diet or prehab/rehab stuff. I drink. I smoke weed. I just train and get benefits from it because I train smart. I listen to my body not some asshole couch. You can get a lot out of just exercising even if your diet sucks. Ignore anyone that says its 90% diet. These are narcissists with eating disorders and in most cases just downright awful human beings. If you want to eat doughnuts and train do it.
In any event I just could never blindly follow the WODs. Some days it didn’t feel right. So I trusted my judgment like I always do and here I am still performing shit I did 30 years ago. I don’t have any injuries. I don’t require any surgeries because I won’t sacrifice my body for some arbitrary and fairly meaningless exercise benchmark. This is what 90% of you don’t seem to understand about Rant. You think I flitter from one thing to the next. You fail to conceptualize that all my moves and changes are intentional.
You are trapped into this linear thinking about things. It’s a very industrialized approach towards fitness and I suppose there isn’t anything wrong with it per se except for one thing. The human body doesn’t operate that way. With the human body all you have is whatever your body is saying right now. So it’s great that you have set a goal of doing 100 pull ups a day for the next 10 years but your shoulders and elbows might have other ideas. Idiots like you will place the goal as the primary object and will flat out ignore messages that your elbows and shoulders are telling you until of course it’s too late and now you need shoulder surgery. Nice work assholes.
This sort of thinking is fine for sport’s team where you have an unlimited stream of douchebag ball players more than willing to sacrifice some body part to elevate some lousy couch or team spirit or some other stupid shit. Fitness is not a team sport. It’s not any kind of sport. It’s a very organic and fluid process that requires some thought and intuition. This isn’t boot camp or the NFL combine. You are supposed to be promoting health and wellness so you can live a long and fruitful life. Its one arena of your life where you don’t have to listen to some one else’s marching orders. You should ONLY be listening to what your body wants. I realize that the majority of you are too intellectually dull to understand what I’m getting at. You’re not alone. Most people just don’t have the mental acumen to understand this so they pay some Kunt trainer to scream at them to do one more rep or they blindly follow some willy nilly fancy boy workout like CF. Then they inevitably get injured, heal up, try the same shit again, get injured again, get operated on and then start the whole process over to undo whatever good the operation did. Sound familiar to you? It should because it’s your life or will be soon.
I might set some benchmark for myself like 300 swings a day for 20 days or something and that’s great but if on day 10 I feel my lower back ligaments are stressed I stop and do something else. This arbitrary number is not my primary objective and I won’t let numbers and charts get in the way of what I am after which is fitness in the true sense of the term. I find it almost pitiable when you mouth breathers try and mock me for changing things up as you blindly crash your head into a wall day after day until you can no longer really train. I plan on doing this stuff 10-20 years from now. If for some reason I can’t it won’t be because I crushed my body through absolutely unenlightened training. Sometimes it feels like I’m the misunderstood genius being mocked by the special needs kids. Great men are rarely appreciated in the moment that they should be. I have accepted this as my fate. Now run along to your charts and graphs and progress, progress, progress. Sooner or later when you hit the inevitable wall come back and tell me about it and I’ll be sure to say I told you so asshole.
What do you think?
