RX vs. Scale - Thursday, February 18th, 2021

RX vs. Scale

Yesterday we asked you to be kind to yourself, and briefly touched on the fact that doing a workout RX’d does not make it a better workout.

Doing a workout RX 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.

RX is a goal that you can work towards. 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?

As we mentioned yesterday 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, it’s not everything. An RX’d workout is not better than a scaled workout.

Thursday, February 18th, 2021

Focus:

10 Min EMOM

Min 1 : 12 OH DB Lunges (Single Arm)
Min 2 : 10 DB Banded Deadlifts with 4 sec descent

WOD:

5 Rounds

15 cal Row
10 DB OH lunges (single arm) 50/35
5 Strict Pull ups

Rest 2 mins

** Pull ups will be staggered, half class will start with pull ups and end with BD OH lunges.

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