CrossFit is a young sport. While the elements of our sport are long established, the combinations and steps of preparation are quickly evolving and maturing. The 2014 Regional’s workouts and the 2015 Open workouts are perfect examples of this. In both scenarios, body weight movements and gymnastics served as the limiting factors for a healthy portion of the scored events. We don’t anticipate this focus to change in the coming years.
Starting next week, Movement will be a standalone program that will be designed for 20-30 minute sessions. Programming will be provided on the same 5 day pattern as Competition and Weightlifting. However, for those of you following competition, this work will be slightly pared down and incorporated into your daily training to accommodate your other training demands. This program is being rolled out across the board from our Regionals and Games athletes down to the free programming on the site.
There will be a learning curve. There will be struggle. There will be many times when you are asked to work on positions and movements that seemingly don’t apply to CrossFit. The focus of Power and Grace Performance has been, and will always be, the facilitation of the complete athlete and, frankly, we stink at body weight movement in comparison to weightlifting ability and metabolic conditioning.
Power and Grace Performance has strived to be the most complete program available and we firmly believe this adjustment will reap tremendous benefits across the board. The same consistent testing and assessment we ask of you has been applied to our program yielding this result. Thank you for your past support and we are very excited for this next step.
There will be a steady flow of demo videos posted to the blog each week. If you don’t understand a movement or need more visual cues, please post to the comments and we will address those directly.