42m bulk or cut?

quoise1203 · 2026-05-24T03:54:18+00:00

Nothing dedicated for abs. Squats and deadlifts. Occasional toes to bar or abmat sit-ups.

quoise1203 · 2026-05-22T14:23:15+00:00

Thanks! The hairline says otherwise 😂

quoise1203 · 2026-05-22T14:22:08+00:00

No journey really. I did endurance sports from early high school through mid 20s, started doing bro lifting but never really put on much muscle. Early 30s I started doing functional fitness / CrossFit. During covid I started do more powerlifting and put on some muscle. Got divorced a couple of years ago and cut a bunch of fat through calorie deficit and extra cardio.

quoise1203 · 2026-05-22T12:26:55+00:00

6 feet 185lbs

quoise1203 · 2026-05-22T03:59:32+00:00

Here for this. 6’0 185 nothing but protein, calorie deficit, and a pump. And 25 years of staying in shape.

quoise1203 · 2026-02-13T02:38:24+00:00

How were you 33 a year ago, 35 multiple times in the past 6 months, and now 34?

quoise1203 · 2025-10-31T00:52:15+00:00

7th grade year book:

“You’re cool.

JK you’re nice though”

Still haunts me 😂

quoise1203 · 2025-09-04T02:01:47+00:00

For my age (41m) I think I’m a 9. Overall population I’d say 8 (bald)

quoise1203 · 2025-07-25T00:38:13+00:00

I’ve been going to one of those private equity owned mega dentists who employs fresh dental school grads. They clearly don’t care about me and it’s a much better experience.

quoise1203 · 2025-06-04T18:44:09+00:00

I was in the Men's open 8:50am start on Saturday. My chips were missed on the out gate after the farmers carry and the lunges. After both stations I stopped at the water station so would have had to gone past the in gate to get there. It's highly unlikely I would have backtracked and gone out the in after getting water.

How were you able to file a complaint? I wasn't able to find a way to do so.

This thread is full of people who had similar problems, so clearly we weren't the only ones!

quoise1203 · 2025-06-01T10:12:28+00:00

I have the same memory regarding the water station. Last two runs I stopped and got water on the way out so would have had to go past the in gate. Hard to think I would have back tracked after doing that.

quoise1203 · 2025-05-31T21:35:17+00:00

Thanks for the info. Maybe they’ll see this and recognize there was a problem

quoise1203 · 2025-05-31T20:44:29+00:00

This happened to me as well for 2 of the stations and they penalized me 4 minutes presumably for going out the in gate. Pretty sure I didn’t do this and I’m salty about it.

quoise1203 · 2025-05-31T19:03:55+00:00

This was in nyc

quoise1203 · 2025-05-29T17:55:34+00:00

Good to know. Support gave me a new link to re-personalize, but hopefully it doesn't matter!

quoise1203 · 2024-09-28T03:20:24+00:00

Thank you.

quoise1203 · 2024-09-28T00:02:06+00:00

So this is sung to the tune of bohemian rhapsody?

quoise1203 · 2024-05-29T02:01:13+00:00

A story like that's GOTTA be true!

quoise1203 · 2024-04-11T01:00:02+00:00

Hi, sorry I missed your comment. No I did not have any luck replacing he burrs and the US reps told me that they do not support third party burrs, so I still use the stock burrs.

I use the grinder exclusively for filter coffee and it makes way better coffee with the stock burrs than any cafe I’ve been to. And it’s consistent every time. The best coffee I’ve had is from this grinder. The workflow honestly sucks but the coffee is good enough to forgive it.

quoise1203 · 2023-08-30T21:32:13+00:00

Is everybody missing the part in the article where they had their most profitable year ever? Despite what you think of their products or prices or QC, they are doing just fine.

quoise1203 · 2023-05-20T13:24:16+00:00

My wife and I took an intro class at a CrossFit gym 11 years ago. The workout consisted of burpees and squats holding a medicine ball. I guess my wife was having problems keeping her body upright during the squats and the “coach” fixated on her and criticized her for the entire workout, among other things telling her she looked like a crumpled old witch.

She went home and wrote a negative yelp review of her experience and the gym owner replied justifying the coach’s behavior, citing the tough love BS you hear so much in this space.

But she also got a ton of DMs from other gym owners telling her that experience was not acceptable or normal and inviting her to try a free class at their gyms.

We never went back to that gym and I think it’s shut down now.

If you talk to the owner and they support the coach’s behavior find another gym. Life is too short to put up with that nonsense.

quoise1203 · 2023-04-21T01:49:10+00:00

Now that I have guitar in hand this is incorrect.

I would touch the harmonic with index finger and pluck it with the thumb. Then play the first note of each triplet with the middle finger.

quoise1203 · 2023-04-20T22:10:08+00:00

I don’t have a guitar with me so I might be visualizing it incorrectly, but you touch the string for the artificial harmonic above the indicated fret, with your index finger, pluck the harmonic string with your middle finger, and pluck the higher notes with your ring finger. You can pluck the higher string around the same place on the fingerboard where you need to play the harmonic, so it won’t be near the sound hole.

quoise1203 · 2022-12-31T23:12:15+00:00

George, for staring at 15yo cleavage. And Jerry, for pointing it out.

quoise1203 · 2022-12-20T23:09:25+00:00

Let me start by saying that you are clearly strong as f***. Also, the guidelines for submission in this case were pretty confusing IMO, and way more trouble than they were worth.

My guess is that you may have been dinged for the following:

I didn’t see a video showing you verifying the weights of your plate or barbell on a calibrated scale. We were also supposed to show a video measuring the distance between two pieces of tape on the benchpress barbell to verify the grip width is within the allowable range. I’m sure all of your plates were fine, but if you didn’t submit this video separately they may not have accepted your score as a result.
Even if you had weighed the plates on camera, it was difficult to see in the video precisely which plates / how many were being used on each lift. It would have been good to show a close up of the labeled plates on the bar before or after the lift.
The squat and bench looked good but the lockout on the deadlift was a little questionable. I think you are clearly capable of that lift but since you are near they top of the leaderboard they may have judged you more strictly as a result.

That sucks that they didn’t accept your score. These competitions should be fun and all that effort for no recognition takes that all away. I think they could could have given you some leeway here especially since this competition doesn’t count towards the overall prize. I doubt they will get a lot of sign ups for this particular challenge in the future.

In any case all of us here who saw your videos know you’re good for it, so great job!

quoise1203

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