High Intensity not Max Intensity - Friday, January 26th, 2024

High Intensity not Max Intensity

CrossFit is constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity. In your training we want to you perform at a high intensity, not at a max intensity.

It’s one of the biggest misconceptions in CrossFit, that every workout needs to be performed at max intensity. Coach Jason Ackerman, CFL4 Coach, former affiliate owner, Seminar Staff, etc. asks us to think of high intensity as working above 70%.

You should not be coming in and trying to absolutely smash each workout, and intern smash yourself daily. If you are, in all honesty all you’re really doing is shortening your CrossFit journey as you will end up with injuries. Sure you might be able to do that for a couple years, but it will catch up to you. Injuries might not occur today or tomorrow, it could mean in 2 years from now. We’ve been in the space for 12 years, and we know what we’re talking about.

When we look at CrossFit Games athlete as an example and we still the intensity at which they train, or the volume at which they train, we have to understand that CrossFit is their job. It’s how they make a living. Their job is to train, eat, and recover, then do it all again the next day, and their bodies pay the price of that job.

More often than not you should be leaving the facility feeling better than you entered it. That doesn’t mean you’re not training really damn hard still, you are, and that doesn’t mean that you won’t be sore from the training you’re doing, and/or laying the floor after the workout gasping for air, you will be. What is does mean is that you should be training at an intensity that is intense but that is sustainable to you getting, being, and staying fit, but also to having a better life outside the facility.

Friday, January 26th, 2024

Focus:

Strict Pull Ups
3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3

super set w/ 2 Max Distance Broad Jump

WOD:

2 Rounds for Time

40/30 Cal Row
20 Box Jump overs
10 C2B

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