RX vs. Scaled - Thursday, February 15th, 2024

RX vs. Scaled

We first shared this post in February of 2021.

When you do a workout RX, that means that you have done the entire workout as prescribed. Exactly how it’s written from the weights to the movement standards and rep scheme. You didn’t change anything and hit all the movements standards for every single rep.

RX is a goal that you can work towards, and goals are a great thing to have, they keep you motivated and moving forward. But doing a workout RX’d does not mean that you got in a better workout than someone who scaled.

What do we mean?

CrossFit meets you where you’re at. As we mentioned many times intensity is relative to the athlete. Sometimes we have athletes who want to RX the workout because they can lift that weight, but maybe the workout calls for touch and go reps, and they can only lift it in singles. Where the workout should take 6 mins, it’s now taking 12 mins, this means they’re missing the stimulus of the workout because of they want the RX. Where someone else scaled back the weight a little a did all touch and go reps, while the weight wasn’t RX’d they got the desired stimulus out of the workout.

Does that make sense?

It’s completely okay to want to RX workouts, but don’t put so much stock into the RX that you miss what we want out of the workout.

But how do we know what we want us to get out of the workout?

Easy, listen to the coach, talk to the coach, ask the coach. You might hear a coach say something like, you should be able to do this all unbroken. That might mean you need to lighten the weight and move. Or you might hear a coach say, this should be heavy. That might mean you need to put more weight on the bar and slow down.

The important take away here is that while the RX has a place, but it’s not everything. An RX’d workout is not better than a scaled workout, and having to scale doesn’t make you any less of an athlete, just like the RX does make you any better of an athlete. Don’t put so much thought and emphasis into the leaderboard and the RX vs. Scaled, that it skews your perception of your workouts.

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

Focus:

Shoulder Press
5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5

T2B Prep

WOD:

For time:

60 T2B
*Perform 12 Burpees at the start of each minute.

Intermediate option :For time: 60 toes-to-bars
*Perform 8 burpees at the start of each minute (including the first minute).

Beginner option: For time: 50 hanging knee raises
*Perform 5 burpees at the start of each minute (including the first minute).

.From CrossFit.com Jan 26th, 2024

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