The Opera
Brilliant explanation from John Gilson of Again Faster ...
He asked what was so special. What we’d done. After all, front squats and pushups already existed. So did rowing. We just added a stopwatch. Who, exactly, do we think we are?
The answer, as indignant as the question, is simple: innovation does not result from original parts, but from original thoughts. Creating new processes is at least as valuable as creating new pieces.
Greg Glassman took highly athletic movements, combined them into ever-changing combinations, and set the chrono to go. The new parts were few and far between, the movements borrowed from track and field, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Stolen, the detractors would say.
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6 Comments:
Annie: 8:31 Rx (PR)
OHS: 5x135(PR), 3x160(PR), 1x170(PR). Didn’t get the last two 1RM attempts in - wrist and hip were yelling at me.
Grace: 3:27 at 115#.
– Daron on June 21st, 2011 at 10:11 am
Annie : 8:48 RX
OHS : 5x165 3x185 1x205 1x225
Grance : 3:04 rx
– Jonesy on June 21st, 2011 at 10:35 am
**Grace
– Jonesy on June 21st, 2011 at 10:35 am
OHSing at 225… Nice work R-Jonesy. Not a bad Grance time either.
– Jared on June 21st, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Annie RX: 8:21 (off about 45 sec from my PR) situps were a bit rough after yesterday
Going easy on the weights…OHS: 5x95; 3x95; 1x115
Grace @95#: 2:04
– B-Vo on June 21st, 2011 at 3:51 pm
“Annie” as Rx: 6:52
OHS: 155-175-185-190-200
“Grace” as Rx: 2:15
– Jesse on June 21st, 2011 at 8:32 pm