A few months ago my girlfriend and I arrived to my house to find my husband, Nate, lying on the living room floor dripping sweat. We asked, “What did you just do?”
He replied, “I did Cindy out back.”
I high-fived him and asked, “How many rounds did you get?!”
The look on my friend’s face was priceless.
As CrossFitters, we have a verbal and non-verbal language that most people just don’t understand.
- We scream during burpees,
- Cheer each other on during FGB
- Curse at Murph
- Train for Grace
- We download tabata timers for our iPods
- Buy fish oil pills and almonds by the pound.
- We peel dead skin off our hands and fix new blisters with superglue and chalk.
- We accidentally yell “time!” when we complete projects at work or finish fixing dinner for the family.
- We check the website more than once a day to see the WOD and scan the gallery for pictures.
Our friends think we’re obsessed – (we like to say dedicated) and we’re okay with that.
It’s easy to get so immersed into a culture and language that we forget it’s foreign to someone else who is new or thinking about visiting. Let’s help each other out. What are some of your favorite CrossFit-isms?
Click here to comment with some of your favorite CrossFit terms and their definitions.
-TStorm
Workout of the Day
2 Clean & Jerks on the minute for 15 min
*Use a weight that is 80-90% of your max*
*Each missed attempt = 5 burpees during rest period*
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Awesome picture Thera – the energy in yesterday’s noon class was off the charts!
AMFAP- As Many Frans As Possible!
Kregore – when you chose to do an isolated movement like a reverse curl clean using brute force instead of technique (credit Barry Boswell) I’ll see if Barry & Luke can add some insight into Kregore-ness.
FTW-For the win
I like the look noncrossfitters have when
we inquire about the “WOD”.
kipping is a good crossfit only term that i find myself explaining quite often.
Found this article by Greg Glassman on Kipping Pullups that you might want to take a look at Mike. It’s on the Crossfit Journal.
Every manner of pull-up has its diehard fans. Wide and narrow grip, single and double suspension points, wide handle, rotating bar, slow, and behind the head all have their staunch supporters.
The default CrossFit pull-up, however – a violent, kipping, “anyhow” pull-up – has few supporters even among pull-up connoisseurs. Ours has always been the “cheating” pull-up.
Kipping comes in a myriad of styles, and each athlete has a signature kip, but in its most elegant form the kip is a transference of movement first generated in the horizontal plane, where it comes cheap and easy, to the vertical plane, where momentum and a perfectly timed pull from the back launch the athlete forcefully upward.
This “cheat” derives from a powerful and athletic reversal of hip direction – like that of the clean and the snatch – and expands the primary movers from just the back and arms down through the torso and hip to include the power zone. Far from being a cheat, kipping is a gateway skill with functional utility on the rings, parallel bars, high bar, and floor (the quickest way to get to your feet). Where most athletic communities avoid the kip, we go to great lengths to teach and learn it.
that was a great article! thank you for posting it. ill be in at noon today. kinda sorta woke up this morning 10min before the 9oclock class started.
Awesome, article, T! I like getting to read stuff that you’ve written!
I like that we talk of “training” and we sometimes say “box” instead of gym.
I also like the fact that we don’t “need” a gym to do a good WOD. I did 30 x Muscle Ups for time in the little bathroom of our confined space here on the ship. Ask Thera for the details if you wanna know!
Hope you are all doing well! I miss training with you guys there and can’t wait to get home!!!
I love the look on peoples faces when we say most WODs are usually about 15-30 minutes. And trust me, thats plenty! No more 2 hr wo’s
Scream when we take a shower because we forgot about our ass sore from the WODs 250 situps.
Explain the bruises on our sternum after Grace.
get the kids mad at us because we are demonstrating squats in Indochine.
Or when people think you cant get a good
workout in 3 min…….I just exclaim,”you
have no idea”.
Haha –Ed, I’ve totally had the “sit-up-ass-sore-in-the-shower” experience. No fun — but I feel better that you’ve dealt with the same situation.
My wife laughs and doesn’t even ask what’s wrong any more when I scream in the shower.
Great article Thera.
Great article Thera, and extremely entertaining!
this article was awesome……..my crossfit family is awesome and i am gonna miss all you guys when i go off to college….by the way zeke this workout sucked this was the first time i have ever puked during a workout hahaha
Some fellow crossfiters and I went to wakulla springs for a fun relaxing day. We ended up doing pullups on a tree branch, swimming laps, and doing musle-up type workout on the platform. Needless to say we got a look of looks. Yet, who cares Crossfir for life!
Abby – shut your mouth! I wish I were there to see that! Oh I miss Wakulla Springs…. but I REALLY miss YOU! xoxoxo When are you and Micah gonna come to CrossFit Coastal so I can show you off?
We wake up and have to stretch immediately because our muscles are still cursing from yesterday’s workout.
We talk about CrossFit Coastal like it is our family… because it is.
We love pain.
We yell at people when they try to “mail it in” – nothing angers me more.
We can party like rockstars.
We are extremely supportive of one another.
We have a great time getting fit.