#089: The Rationale Behind Rx'd Workouts
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We’re taking a look at the CrossFit convention of prescribing specific weights, the arguments for and against doing so, and the importance of understanding the intended stimulus of a workout.
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| 0:00.0 | Per scribe is not the goal. Your goal is not and this is the goal of all affiliates and all coaches |
| 0:05.5 | Your goal is not to be able to get your members to do the workouts prescribed |
| 0:10.1 | That's so that's this is a whole reason strength bias program came about |
| 0:14.1 | Jeff Martin from Brand X Crossfit created strength bias program because his his take was our members |
| 0:21.2 | Aren't strong enough to do the workouts prescribed |
| 0:23.7 | So what we need to do is get our members to be able to do the workout stronger so that they can do the workouts as they're written |
| 0:31.6 | That's not the goal |
| 0:34.6 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 0:39.0 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep trained think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and |
| 0:46.5 | Happiness that chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible |
| 0:51.5 | Our mission is to live on the run always chasing never stop |
| 0:57.5 | Hello, and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence as always. I'm here with Ben. How are you sir? |
| 1:01.9 | I'm doing very well Patrick today. We're gonna talk about something that has certainly been around Crossfit the Crossfit community |
| 1:10.0 | Since the inception and something that seems like |
| 1:13.8 | Perhaps part of a conversation that people are having now and that's that's our X that's our X-ing workouts |
| 1:20.0 | Creating workouts with an RX weight. So we had a few folks reach out to me to ask you kind of what your take on RX is |
| 1:29.4 | In general, so I think we want I want to start there which is |
| 1:32.8 | One maybe just give us a quick overview of the history of RX like what is it for folks who might not know or might not understand what is it and |
| 1:42.3 | What is the value in it or maybe the better question is why is it why does it exist in the first place before we get into |
| 1:48.5 | Is it right is it wrong? Why do you do it this way? Why do other people? Yeah, in other way? |
| 1:52.4 | So RX is a shorthand like the the pharmaceutical world for |
| 1:57.2 | prescribed so it's a |
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