onlyonezack

Since obtaining my Level 1 Certification for CrossFit in early August, I've been "interning" at my box, CrossFit Cleveland. For the first several weeks, I felt really apprehensive about coaching. Not so much because I felt I didn't know what I was doing, but because I wasn't sure what the expectations were. That's not to say that when I was asked to start hanging around, it wasn't made clear that I would start interning and slowly working with people, but I wasn't really sure what "slowly working with people" meant.  I had a realization. As a coach or trainer, it is partially my responsibility to define what "slowly working with people" is to mean. I as a coach or trainer have to be comfortable with the cues and direction I am issuing. I won't say I haven't had an awkward moment or two, or potentially issued a cue that didn't correct the fault I was looking to correct, but, that too is a learning experience. Previo

In a recent conversation with a friend, he mentioned that he felt CrossFit was a trend.  As evidence to that, he pondered the ability of the boxes local to us to stay in business. I considered for a moment that maybe CrossFit is just a trend, a fad that will eventually die out.   Perplexed, I asked him to let me get back to him. I researched this, I found a number of articles, which asserted that CrossFit was a trend or fad, as evidence, most cited CrossFit’s lack of specialization and it’s injury rate. Many of the authors of the articles of course had never tried CrossFit; some provided reasoning for never having tried it, others asserted that witnessing such workouts or their experience in other fitness venues gave them standing to complain of CrossFit.   I found myself a rabid CrossFitter ready to defend against some of these allegations, and the idea that CrossFit is a “trend” or “fad”.             Dictionary.com respectively defines the word meanings relevant to popular cultu