160511 - CrossFit | Wednesdays with Hannah P.

No Rep

Recently I’ve been able to drop in on other fitness classes while traveling. Something that surprised me (because I am used to CrossFit workouts) is that I noticed people occasionally cutting the exercises short. For example, in a warm up where the goal was to walk from one place to another doing lunges, some people were doing one lunge, taking a few steps, doing another lunge, and repeating. The instructions were to lunge on every step. I was surprised because this is something I don’t see often at CrossFit. I don’t go around counting people’s reps, but I like to think we have a pretty high rate of honesty.

In CrossFit, if you skip one rep on a workout, you are only hurting yourself. Where will you draw the line? Today it’s one rep, next year it could be 5 reps less. The workout is assigned with a certain number of reps and that is what you are expected to do. 

It doesn’t matter if it takes you 5 or 10 minutes longer than everyone else to finish the warm up (or workout) in CrossFit. Primarily, we focus on quality of movements. It might take some people longer than others to do those movements, and that is ok. It is better to do them correctly and in the recommended amount then to cut them short. Likewise, in CrossFit we have no reps. This is when a movement is done incorrectly or incompletely, and it does not count. Form is very important for muscle memory and also to prevent injury.

The truth is, maybe no one will notice or call you out on it, but you won’t have a fair standard for comparison if you cut out a repetition of a movement. You are only hurting yourself and your progress. So do yourself a favor and make sure you do all of the reps.

-Hannah P.

Skill
Wall walk, HSPU, handstand walks, freestanding HSPUs

WOD
21-15-9
KB swings
Ring rows (deficit if possible)