Rob Orlando: It's about speed not form

Rob Orlando explains in a Crossfit Journal entry today that in Crossfit it's not all about perfect form.  Almost all Crossfit WOD's are timed so.......this is very applicable.

Losing control is the road to adaptation, Rob Orlando says. In this video, the Hybrid Athletics owner has a Q&A with a group of nine Israeli CrossFitters who visited his box late last year. Among them is Moshiko “Mo” Sameach, known as an athlete with near-perfect form on every rep. “If it’s flawless, it’s not fast enough,” Orlando tells him. “If the question is, ‘How do I get from a five-minute Fran to a three-minute Fran?’ … you don’t need to be much stronger. You need to be more willing to hurt.” The change amounts to a mental one, not a physical one, Orlando explains. Good adaptation happens in intensity, he adds. “You can’t do a two-and-a-half-minute Fran under control—it’s full speed,” Orlando says. Click here for more information and a list of upcoming CrossFit Strongman Trainer Courses. 8min 16sec Additional audio: CrossFit Radio Episode 202 by Justin Judkins, published Dec. 14, 2011.

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