SHOULD I SCALE OR NOT??

To scale or not to scale??

Kevin brought up a great point tonight... Get ready for a rant...

To scale or not to scale? How much? How little? The answer is all dependent on your abilities to hold a solid midline (spine & hip position and relationship) on the movements in that WOD... When you're new to Crossfit you'll have a lot of hits and misses on this and it's both of our responsibilities as coaches to help you figure this out for each WOD and gradually nudge you in the Rx'd direction or close to it at some point... This is where knowing your weaknesses and continually working on them comes into the picture... You may easily go Rx'd on Monday's WOD and crush it but if one of your goats comes up on Wednesday you may have to scale in order to get the most out of that workout... Once you become stronger and more confident about every major movement we use (this always takes longer than you want it too, so be patient, but keep working) then you can as Rob Orlando said in a video I watched recently "crash the car"... What the hell does this mean?

This means push the speed so hard on a WOD that it tests the limits of your stability, technique, capacity, etc... THESE are the times when you really begin to improve your fitness by leaps and bounds, BUT only after paying your dues and perfecting technique FIRST!

Hope this helps...

CFH