There’s this belief that CrossFit is about “burying yourself” daily, and redlining in every workout, and that this is the best way to improve performance.
You know those particularly gritty classes; the ones where you really have to dig deep to get to the end of the workout, will yourself to keep going, and dial-in mentally as well as physically – and then when you finally finish, it actually feels like a miracle.
That’s what CrossFit used to be about; Testing your limits daily.
But redlining is no longer a badge of honour
CrossFit programming has come a long way in recent years. CrossFit Games Coach, Caroline Lambray, via The Morning Chalk Up invites us to consider what our reason for wanting to redline in a workout is – if it’s the emotional high, have at it! But if your training is about performance over the long-term, those EMOMs, RPE, and Percentage-based workouts are where it’s at.
At CrossFit DireWolf, we love to cater for our members who are in to go hard and blow off steam, and we deliver classes to give them opportunity to do exactly that (just check out a Sweat class!). Our programming is designed to work for people who want to CrossFit for life – testing is great, but when you’re in it for the long run, Sending It daily isn’t realistic.
Stimulus matters
We test. Of course we do. But coming to the gym, for many of us, is about weight management, about feeling good, and about moving well. We believe that’s what it should be about. That’s why we program the way we do, and it’s why we coach the way we do.