A lot of times in our strength or skill portions of the class you’ll be instructed to work up to a percentage of your one rep max on a certain lift. Last week on Tuesday for example we worked up to 80-90% of our one rep max for snatch. A troubling trend I’ve noticed in the last several months are more and more people explaining to me at the beginning of the class that they don’t know their one rep max. This is totally fine if you’re newer to the gym, but I hear this from a lot of people who I would consider experienced Crossfitters and have been with us for a year or more. Even worse, is when we retest a WOD (like Jackie a few weeks ago) and people say, “I didn’t put in my score last time we did it.” So today I’m going to talk about the importance of tracking your workouts, some good tips for how to track them and also a couple of useful benchmarks that I feel all Crossfitters should know. Let’s start with some reasons why it’s important to log your workouts. 1. It helps you track your progress. Quite simply, … Read More