{"id":662,"date":"2009-07-24T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:07:36","slug":"friday-fun-crossfit-games-videos-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/friday-fun-crossfit-games-videos-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun &#8211; Crossfit Games Videos 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> QuickTime Embed Plugin disabled, due to pre-downloading the content which caused the site to slow down too much.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nHere are some awesome videos of the <a href=\"http:\/\/games2009.crossfit.com\/thegames\/\">Crossfit Games 2009<\/a> that went on last week.  A finer collection of athletes I&#8217;m sure you will not find.  It should also answer once and for all, the issue of <strong>whether Crossfit&#8217;s programming of heavy weights, makes women big muscle bound freaks<\/strong>?  I think you&#8217;ll agree, the lady&#8217;s competing here are all nicely proportioned.  And remember, they have all come through regional qualifiers to get here, so they are all very accomplished Crossfitters.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m using a new plug-in that embeds QuickTime .Mov files&#8230; <strong>I think I need a wider blog theme!<\/strong>  It&#8217;s also a pain, as it expects you to know the resolution of the video before hand, which doesn&#8217;t appear to be information that&#8217;s readily available, so the player size and video size don&#8217;t quite match, that&#8217;s my fault.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.crossfit.com\/cf-video\/CrossFitGames09_Highlights.mov\">http:\/\/media.crossfit.com\/cf-video\/CrossFitGames09_Highlights.mov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.crossfit.com\/cf-video\/2009CrossFitGames_Individualday2Sweet16.mov\">http:\/\/media.crossfit.com\/cf-video\/2009CrossFitGames_Individualday2Sweet16.mov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my personal training, this week has been a mixed bag.  I worked up to three Snatches at 70kg on Tuesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/the-best-crossfit-friendly-gym-in-cardiff-aspire-fitness\/\">Aspire Fitness<\/a>, which was exactly what I planned to do.  But then Clean &#038; Jerks on Wednesday all went Pete Tongue, and I failed at 95kg three times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: QuickTime Embed Plugin disabled, due to pre-downloading the content which caused the site to slow down too much. Here are some awesome videos of the Crossfit Games 2009 that went on last week. A finer collection of athletes I&#8217;m sure you will not find. It should also answer once and for all, the issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,115],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-olympic-weightlifting","9":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}