Unfortunate

By lex, on July 12th, 2008

The Crossfit regime has it’s legions of admirers and, to be fair, its critics. Having been on the program faithfully since late March, you can count me in the former camp. The functional focus makes perfect sense – there are no leg extension machines that only prepare you for leg extension machines – and I grok the kind of high intensity strength routines over an aerobic time interval that deliberately blur the lines between power lifting and pure cardio. The variety is good as well, you never quite know what’s going be on your plate the next day.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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