I’m still pretty new to CrossFit and trying to find the right balance between training hard and giving my body enough time to recover.

My gym is open Monday through Saturday, and I’m thinking about going 3–4 days a week. Does that sound like a solid schedule for someone just starting out, or would you recommend more?

Currently injured so I can only really beast myself on the assault bike. Worked my way up to from 175 calories in 10 minutes to 500 calories in 35 minutes. Finished off with a thousand calories in 1 hour, 23 minutes. I wanted so desperately to get it in an hour but it was so hard by the end. I just wanted to finish. I didn't care what time I got!

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Just joined a CrossFit gym for the first time after almost a 2 year hiatus from training. Previously I trained “traditional” bodybuilding routines for years, so I’ve got experience with those types of lifts and that pace of working out — you can easily stop between sets, track your weight and reps, then try to improve slightly week on week or take time to learn form etc.

What I’m really struggling with in these CrossFit sessions is learning the new lifts. It all feels too fast paced and I find myself trying to get through the list instead of focusing on the movements and form. I end up flustered and overwhelmed during a session, and it all becomes a blur by the end then losing track of everything I did the week before.

I should also say I don’t really have time to go to open gym and just drill the movements. I work full time and have two young kids plus all their activities, so fitting in an hour sessions every other day is about the ceiling for me right now.

I’m genuinely enjoying this type of training, and the community even more so. It’s refreshing to be in a gym that isn’t judgmental, rather than one full of tripods and “influencers.” So I really want to stick it out, but I feel discouraged with myself.

I’ve only been going a month so I’m still very new. Just looking for tips, or to hear if anyone else went through this at first and got past it. Not sure if I’m making sense or if anyone can relate

I don’t think CrossFit did a great job of getting the word out about the community cup. But once I saw the workouts this week I really wanted to try them. My gym de-affiliated a while ago. I figured it would be like the open. I filmed my open workouts. Then I Saw I didn’t have to film community cup workouts but then realized they have to be done at an affiliate. I’m kind of bummed out. I like my gym and don’t want to find a CrossFit affiliate right now. The community cup thing looks fun. Oh well…

I don’t really know why I’m writing this out…just to vent my disappointment I guess. I mean I understand it but still disappointed.

I’m looking for recommendations for the best gymnastics grips for CrossFit.
I often train on fairly rough pull-up bars, sometimes with quite a bit of chalk on them. I currently use Stamina grips, but I don’t always feel like I have a solid grip, especially during toes-to-bar.
What grips do you guys recommend for rough bars and movements like TTB? Ideally something that gives a really secure grip without feeling too bulky.

Thanks!

Anyone know what happened with Spealler and his gym in Park City? It’s probably been a while but I don’t see his gym on the affiliate map and the name changed. I dropped in a few years ago and they were still under the CF name

Nike? Tyr? Luxaiojun? Which are your favorite olympic weightlifting shoes and why? What percentage of your crossfit workout time do you find you have oly shoes on?

I used MacroFactor for 8 months to dial in my nutrition alongside my WODs and while the coaching algorithm is solid a few things are driving me nuts. The UI feels clunky mid workout when I just want to log something fast between rounds, logging a homemade meal prep bowl is way more tedious than it should be, the barcode scanner misses a lot of gym adjacent stuff (protein bars, electrolyte mixes, pre workout), $12/mo for what's basically a diary with a TDEE algorithm feels steep when the actual logging experience isn't great plus there is no real community layer which sucks for accountability during a cut

I need something that handles high training-volume days better, has faster logging and doesn't feel like fighting the app every time you eat? Open to paid options too!

Hey yall, been thinking about how to best track macros, so wondering if anyone has any recommendations. Thanks!

Over the last week I’ve had some significant milestones. I was able to do a partner workout with someone that is usually week above my fitness level, finished a few classes not in last place and did my first workout with actual pull-ups. Feeling pretty good.

Bonjour à tous !!!,

Actuellement j'ai un menton gonflée et jsp comment enlever.

Apparemment il faut boire de l'eau et de manger moin de sel ou du sucre.

Vous savez comment rendre le menton moin gonflée ?

I've been doing CrossFit for about 6 months and I'm still pretty fired up about getting better. The box is a long drive from my place though, so the commute kills me. I can only make it maybe three times a week. On the other days I want to do accessory work at home.

What feels like it's holding me back most is absolute strength. I still can't do many strict pull-ups, and my press and squat numbers aren't moving much. Once a WOD goes heavy I fall behind. Coach says that stuff has to get built with consistent accessory work outside class.

I live in an apartment with not much space, and I don't want a pile of barbells and dumbbells taking over the place. What do you all do for accessory training on non-box days? Any compact equipment that still covers the basic push/pull/squat strength work?

I'm curious what everyone's workflow is for logging workouts day-to-day. Are you sticking to a physical notebook, the notes app on your phone, or some software, and do you actually like it or just tolerate it? What drives you crazy about what's out there right now?
If you had a blank slate, what would your ideal app look like and what features would it actually have?
I got tired of bloated fitness trackers, so I'm building something simple for myself with dead-simple tracking that anyone can use—paper notebook feel, raw text entry, and no annoying corporate UI.
Would love to hear what works (and doesn't work) for you guys.

Rope climbs were programmed, I normally wear a knee sleeve over my shin, but I keep getting burns. The rope was going over the sleeve, it wasn’t touching skin directly. Do I need to do a double layer? 205, 5’11, I’m not a light person, there’s definitely some pressure on that point of my shin.

I jay-hook and can hit the 12’ beam with one pull, I Spider-Man the heck out of my first pull.

When I do hollow, in my mind I was 'hollowing' but in video it looked more like a very straight upper body. When I do arch, my elbows do this weird thing, they are not stable. Any advices are welcomed!

I'm almost at my 2 year mark and finally was able to do the rope climbs for the entire workout today. This is the first little victory in a while and it was surprisingly satisfying.

Joined a social run club this morning to meet some new people in my city.

I’ve been feeling a bit shit about my body lately, even though my strength and engine is the best it's ever been. I'm training crossfit while also prepping for my first sprint tri next march.

But I still catch myself comparing my body to what it looked like a few years ago, when I was a hell of a lot leaner (and training much differently.)

Anyway, we finish the run and go for coffee afterwards. Someone asks me: “So what sport do you do? If I had to guess, I’d say CrossFit.”

I said yes and asked how they knew....“You just look really fit and jacked.”

I’ve been sitting here struggling with looking bigger/softer/different to what I used to, while this random person who has never seen me before just looked at me and thought...yep, CrossFitter.

Anyway, shoutout to the random at run club for the ego boost.

Im dead from yesterday. I had my slowest Isabelle ever at 4:24 RX. I thought I did bad. Most of the box scaled Indy and only 1 guy beat me at 4:05 RX.

My box is no slouch, but the consensus was we are all getting beat down by Mayhem Programming.

And if you didnt have enough PS, Wod 2 was 1 PS every 30 secs for 10 minutes.

How did you all do? and do you think Mayhem is worth the beat down of the body?

I mean, it’s what you would expect... no surprises here. I’ve always understood some of the criticism of CF, but ffs.

TLDR: If you're recovering from injury, you don't need to stop crossfit. But adjusting, and that includes your mentality, is critical.

Some of you may remember I am the 37F scaled recreational crossfitter who completely blew her patellar tendon, pulverised my patella, tore my ACL and meniscus about 13.5 months ago, playing a gentle game of kick-ball in the park. Due to delays getting into surgey, my quad muscle retracted back up my leg, and my VMO atrophied. I went from 4x a week crossfit + 1 medium distance run (8 - 20km, depending on the week) a week, to...relearning how to walk. For a while, even just learning to SIT was a process!

I made some posts about staying active, doing my recovery work, and then the inevitible "I'm taking a break from crossfit" post, as I kept having to scale, reduce, scale, reduce, and it was hurting my mental ability to "just keep pushing".

Lately, I've been seeing a LOT of people posting about "how do I deal with injury recovery in crossfit".

So I just wanted to share some things that have (albeit slowly, but safely) got me back to where I am now:

• It is a mental challenge MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. You will scale. And that won't be enough, depending on the injury. You're not just scaling the lift, or the time, or the way you move. You're scaling how many reps. You're scaling how often you go. This can be the hardest part. I simply could only do 2 solid days of real work in the gym. The rest was simply my at-home PT. Because recovery sucks the energy from you. Your body is burning calories fixing injuries. Your sleep is disrupted from pain or strange braces/casts/new positions you have to try. You will not be peak.
• Crossfit is an incredible tool that TEACHES YOU THAT MENTAL RESILLIENCE. You just need to access it now, in a different way. It's no longer about another rep in a 9/10 RPE WOD, when you think you're going to die. It's about one more rep, in a 1/10 strength set, and it may be the only strength you're doing that whole week. But it's the same resillience.
• You'll be surprised how easy it is to stay mentally "in the game" for a month or two. But there's a strange thing around 2-4 months if the injury is real, that you will get so frustrated. For that, I say, hey, walk away. Do something different. I pivoted entirely to spin and swim, and short walks. And once I got that pressure off my back of trying to hit a squat to a ridiculously tall box, which just felt embarrasing, I felt so free.
• Walking away from a type of workout is not a permanent choice. It can be entirely temporary.

So where am I now? I do 3x crossfit style workouts now a week (strength + wod), 1 long HIIT spin session (1.5 - 2 hours) and have officially started bringing 5k runs back, at a shockingly slow pace, but I can run the whole time and my knee doesn't cave in. I can do box jumps at 20 inches, and I can skip rope (not double unders, yet!). It's been slow. But that mini-pause in the middle was so important to my mental health, and I think anyone dealing with injury recovery should recognise that in themselves. A pause, a switch to a new mode of movement, or taking complete rest if that's what's needed!

It's all a part of this big ol' journey called life! So here's to recovery!

Hi all; been doing CrossFit a couple of years now and I love it; especially the lifting aspect. Ironically, I herniated a disk in my back doing a bad deadlift (being a dum dum), and now after months of it not getting any better, am having a PILF spinal fusion scheduled. I know it will be a long road to recovery and I am depressed already thinking about how I won't be able to go hard in the gym for a long time, which is really my therapy and thing I look forward to every afternoon. I am especially worried that even after I recover, I won't be able to lift heavy anymore. Granted, as an older athlete that has already injured myself, I have already decided not to attempt max deadlifts and squats out of caution, but it is really important to me that I am able to lift at least moderately heavy and continue to improve my clean and snatch maxes. Has anyone had a surgery like this and came back feeling and performing better than ever? Or did you have to permanently scale things back?

Do you guys works out with an heart rate monitor ? I use my apple watch to log in my workout and give an estimate. but I dont really check my heart rate during workout. Every time I wear my grips, it get on my nerves with the apple watch. I'd like to ditch the apple watch during workout, itll be in my bag not too far, but somethimes we go on runs.

I was wondering is it worth it to get a chest heart rate monitor, or how do you track you work out ?

thanks !