CrossFit Athletic Group

No matter how much you guys get an earful from me about your technique, I have no problem saying that I have never seen a CrossFit gym - or any gym - move better than us as a whole, especially considering we don't specialize in just lifting or just bodyweight stuff. Our new people look bad at first then somehow seem to figure it out within about 2 weeks, and our routine high school and college kids are really on point right now.

This is the baseline.

When Conamora walks in the gym, her feet are straight. When Dillon Sharp and Noah Heide are squatting during the warmup, they keep loading order and laws of torque. When Anthony Banet does 95-lb. cleans during technique practice he looks like a Banet. So with all this good stuff going on, it's on me to make it look bad. More than load, volume, or speed, the thing that seems to bring out bad form more than anything is fatigue. This is why I love CrossFit from a coach's perspective. It is pretty routine to look good in movements when you aren't tired. But how much fatigue can I throw your way before you start breaking down. It took about 11 minutes of misery before things started to look like this.

I am really proud of how everyone looked today across the board. Stamina was playing a major factor as well as general cardio endurance. When you are working at peak capacity you will see some breakdown eventually. If you don't, then you're not at working at peak capacity. All the bad habits and shortcomings came out to the light. So now we gotta use what we saw today to map out the positions we need to work on - both with mobility and technique.