CrossFit Athletic Group

We have done some work before on changing up the box jumps a bit. Our latest version involves a jump that is more closely related to what athletes will come across in their sports; while jumping from a stand still is common, so is jumping off some kind of approach. Because I am not creative, I just called these 1-2 box jumps because in basketball terms it's kind of how you explain the footwork for a jumper or layup. We tried them out a little over a week ago in our running/box jump workout.

I didn't really nitpick on the technique other than trying to still keep vertical shins and loading order on the landing. But it was interesting to see how it took some people a minute to get the timing down. There is definitely more skill in this version than the regular box jumps, and I'll probably observe more workouts and warmups with jumps like this before formally teaching the technique to it. Either way, be ready for more of these!