Lingo

Wes, dominating a pistol with a 2-pood

There are some types of lingo I speak which I love and other types I have not relished having to use.

Hawaiian pidgin: love. “Ho brah, I like foh take my slippah off and heetchu ovah da head.” (Translation: Oh man would I like to take my flip-flop off and slap you upside the head).

Corporate speak: dislike. “I think our status deck for design phase passes the sniff-test, but wanted to make our scope slide more robust per our team pow-wow yesterday. Ping me so we can noodle on this one further and reach out the right stakeholders before COB Fri.” (Translation: some bullsh*t).

CrossFit being a lifestyle to some degree for most, we naturally develop our own culture, slang, expressions and stories that go with. We throw around terms that are loaded with shared experiences. If you were to take the average person off the street and have them listen in to a class or even an On-Ramp discussion, they might be confused. Rightly so, several people have asked to see a post on acronyms and CF lingo.

My favorite are the verbs we use to describe how we feel before/during/after a WOD such as “My legs are smoked” and the personification we give to our bodies/body parts such as, “That last round of dips my shoulders were like, ‘F*** this.”‘

Another of my favorites because of how loaded a term it is — ‘globo-gym’. Many of us have heard or read Forrest share a version of his thoughts on 24-hour ‘Fitness’ or what kind of fitness we’re working on. ‘Globo-gym’ is a pejorative that pops up that conjures our shared memories of crowded, dirty ‘fitness’ facilities (Gold’s/Bally’s/24Hr) full of isolation and cardio machines, rubbing shoulders with Cosmo-mag and MuscleMilk-toting body builders and skinny-fat people with barely a sweat stain on them, and finally finding our way to a CrossFit and a ‘box’ to call our own.

I compiled a Google Docs list here of common terms and abbreviations used in conversation, on the whiteboard, and elsewhere compiled from some affiliate sites (Crossfit.com, Snoridge, Ipswich, Connection). This list is mostly pertaining to the exercises, not nutrition, but I’ll add to it over time.

I also found some funny CrossFit phrases in my blog post researching process that I thought I’d share here. Post to comments other lingo you like or funny quotes you’ve heard from crossfitters.

You know you’re a CrossFitter when…

• You tell a woman after the workout, “You’re a freaking beast!”, and she wholeheartly says “Thank you!”
• Your wedding registry includes bumper plates.
• You don’t own a tractor but you own tractor tires.
• Helping people move homes turns into a metcon WOD.
• You pick your cubicle at work because of its hand-stand practice potential.

And my favorite form of comedy, the satire. Always good to be able to laugh at yourself!

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Workout of the Day 7/28/2010

A.      2 total minutes of perfect parallette L-sit hold.

*Parallete hold should be a 90 degree angle between torso and legs with legs slightly above parallel with ground. See photo.

*Break up however you want. You can do sets of 5 second holds or 30 second holds. Make sure the form is perfect and rest as needed.

B.      150 Box Jumps for time (24/18)

7 Toes to bar on the minute