This is a 10-week program to improve strength and power, especially in CrossFit athletes. Steam Secret World Slow here. This program will not prepare you for the CrossFit Open. CrossFit Impulse.

With the growth of CrossFit, both as a fitness program and a competitive endeavour, programming has become a commonly argued topic all over the internets. Commentary ranges from the insightful and intelligent to the ridiculous and disparaging. It comes from people doing CrossFit in their garages, gym owners, gym members, and, more often than it probably should, from people who don’t do CrossFit at all. Despite the high likelihood of this article being dragged into the frothing muck of internet debate, I am going to attempt to put forth some principles which, I believe, are pretty straightforward and hard to argue with (though I’m sure someone will find a way.) My hope is less that I convince you to do things exactly the way that I do, but more that you find yourself thinking about CrossFit programming in a more organized, streamlined fashion. In this installment, I want to focus on programming for a gym’s “normal” group classes, not for competitive athletes or individuals.

Let’s get started. Basic Principles 1. People need to be strong. I’m not one of those CrossFit Coaches who thinks strength is the end all, be all of fitness.