Get it right light

"I could do this better if it was heavier”

CrossFit is based on functional movement, meaning movement that serves a purpose. CrossFit wants you to move fast and efficiently. Efficient movement means more reps with less work or less struggle. If you can do a PVC pipe Jerk really well 10,000 times your 10,000 times closer to moving a heavy load fast and efficiently for longer with less work during any given workout.

Of course over time and increased loads form is going to change and your going to struggle. Increasing the load without perfecting it at a lighter load with give you little to no gain over the long haul.

Try dropping 10# off the bar until you are moving and looking smooth. Keep dropping 10# until this happens. Clean and do that weight for a while before you start adding pounds on the bar.

In the long haul your body is going to hate you for moving a ton poorly and you chance off injury will decrease when you move 6000lbs correctly than incorrectly.

We are all guilty to think that “more is better”. It takes time and patients to get the gains and keep the gains. If you increase you weights on the bar as your form gets better at the end of the year or month or two years you're going to be making more gains then moving a weight that's just plain to heavy for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtklzRnl_k

For you split jerkers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJSh5cpeJc4

Watch this video of Sage doing some jerk instruction. That's as light as a feather for her and she moves it clean and fast and strong. Her feet land right, the bar moves at the speed of sound, and she pulls her body down under that light weight like she means biz!

Take your PVC work seriously and move it like the world is watching you. Treat it like it will crush you if you don't.

Give yourself time to move loads at long distance really really well before you toss the world on the bar!