As taught in the CrossFit Level 1 Technique lecture, Improving your technique is clearly beneficial, but it often seems to conflict with increasing intensity (speed and/or load), as technique generally breaks down when moving fast and/or heavy. This tension is a universal part of skill development where both precision and speed and/or load are required. You can balance this via threshold training, an approach that involves pushing the boundaries of your capacity in both areas simultaneously, mov

One of the core lectures offered at the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar introduces CrossFit’s definition of fitness as “your work capacity across broad time and modal domains.” This definition means that fitness is measurable and can be quantified by plotting your training results—such as times, loads, and reps or rounds—on a line graph. With power output on the Y-axis and duration of effort on the X-axis, you can plot the power output for any given effort. By measuring your power output across several