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@johnquezon29 That's not shaving reps - that's scaling/modifying the WOD. Totally appropriate, but don't count those 20 air squats as valid reps if you were supposed to complete 5 pullups before moving onto the air squats. They're just work you did, which is great, but they shouldn't be scored...

@devonian Amen brother!

@actor4life20 Memberships were $115 and have risen to $155. Members are free to decide if that's too steep for them, and if enough of them feel that way, the gym won't last long. But if they are willing to pay, so be it, especially since it's the only box in town. I don't see a problem there...

@mikelore You can definitely build metcon capacity at 50. We have 60+ athletes in our gym who are moving more load for more reps with more left in their tank afterward than they did a few years back (and they tend to finish ahead of many athletes younger than their children). They do zone 2...

@stthomaschristian Genius! That's a great plan. What could possibly go wrong?

@stthomaschristian They're playing with fire. And putting it in writing (in an email to members) is just about the stupidest thing they could do, especially if the email is anything like "shhhh, don't tell anyone, but...." Anyone with an ax to grind can forward that email to health and safety...

@jesrel "Thanks for your input." Then walk away. You do you, in consultation with your coach if that's important to you. No one on reddit can say whether you're training optimally, and frankly we have no idea if you just want to train or if you want to train optimally. If you feel you're not...

@priest4him Kalsu? All hope abandon ye who enter here. There is no strategy, just suffering. The only winning move is not to play.

@zekori If your box offers open gym or is large enough that you can do your own thing before or after class, then do that. If your box only offers classes and you can't do additional work outside of class, then find a decently stocked traditional gym near you and do your supplemental work...

@riot42 Well, unquestionably lots of small gym owners do know what they're doing, run multiple businesses and hire appropriate qualified professionals. That doesn't mean most of them do, so it's simultaneously true (or can be true) that "lots of gym owners have multiple small businesses and...

@vsweetdreams Dunno. Lots of gym owners have multiple small businesses and good accountants.

@heloisebellamy It's not unpaid. It's a membership. If it's done properly, the value should be reported on the employees tax and wage statements and the employee will need to include the $1860 annual value in their income. Depending on their tax bracket, that could add a few hundred to their...

@ladyblue1 Form before load before intensity. That's the CF prescription. It's one thing for the last few reps in a long WOD to depart from ideal (or as close as you can get to ideal), it's another for form to suck from 3..2..1..GO, especially if it wouldn't suck if you used lighter weights...

@p77cf For about a decade, I've lived with one simple rule concerning what happens first thing in the morning - "eyes open, feet on the floor." That's it. Literally just stand up. Just do that every single day - once you're eyes are open, you stand up. Do that for 30 days straight and it'll...

@sandragonz This is a deep rabbit hole you're about to go down, and if you ask 100 trainers and athletes what you should be doing, you're likely to get 50-100 different answers. That said, if you want to get strong (and you definitely should want to get strong), following a program like...

@asdfbill75 You should focus largely on developing strength, and maybe do metcons 3 times per week just to maintain a basic level of "metcon fitness." Add in some Oly lifting technique work with a knowledgable Oly coach, and some gymnastics training (again with a good coach) to round things...

@thex Third (and I'm just repeating and stressing what others have said), significant strength gains should be coming (more or less) easily at this point. If you're strength training 2 hours a day every day, you are likely overdoing it, at least with the sleep and nutrition you have. Again, a...

@apor2017 Funny way to pronounce Kalsu.

@rudolph1 There are three types of grip strength - hanging from something, holding onto something, and squeezing things together. TTB require the first (as do pull ups, etc.). You improve hanging strength by ---wait for it --- hanging from things. That's it. Before and after every class, hop...