I don't think anybody is practicing enough, particularly like with movements other than I think people practice with Olympic lifts because they understand the payoff.

But then people look at other movements like running and rowing and burpees and pull-ups and they're not willing to practice that.

Practice is really unsexy. It's not fun.

You know, practice is sitting on a 30-inch box with your feet dangling off, holding onto a rope and working your foot placement in your clamp and letting go.

And then working your foot placement and letting go and working your foot placement and letting go.

Never climbing a rope for 20 minutes. That's what practice looks like.

That's reserved for the people that are really committed.

But it's amazing what a difference practice makes because practice is where the adaptation of skill takes place.

Okay, Ben. Today we are going to talk about something that you've talked about a lot,

but we've never really dabbed into it here. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to sort of take 20 or 30 minutes to really pick your brain about it.

And that subject is the difference between training practice and competing.

And I think I flipped that a little bit. Practice training and competing.

To just start, like, what's like a really broad brushstroke of how you talk about training versus practice versus competing?

So it's interesting because I think that people don't define it.

I think people go to the gym and they just work out not realizing which one they're doing.

And each one has incredibly different approaches and incredibly different adaptations happening from each one.

It's really important to know which one to kind of put parameters around what they are.

So you know what you're doing. What you're going to get out of that training session. Training session and quotations because it might be a practice session.

The big major difference is practice is done with low heart rates. It's done with low loads under 60% with the goal of improving your movements.

Training is done with heavy weights, high heart rates. It's what we normally think of when we think of CrossFit.

And the goal is to improve your engine or your strength. Competition is done with max loads, max effort.

And the goal is to beat somebody else. Those are the major differences and understanding them kind of defines what direction you want to take for that training session.

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