I’ve written before about modifying CrossFit workouts. One of the things I love about CrossFit is the scalability of the workouts. It’s also one of the reasons why I’m not sure what all the fuss about pregnant CrossFitters is about. That’s a perfect time to scale back. Yes, keep doing CrossFit but do it in a way that makes sense for your changing body. I’ve blogged about that here.

But I’m not pregnant (been there, done that, three beautiful young adults to show for it) and I’m working at scaling up, not scaling down. So I’ve picked a few exercises for which I currently do a scaled version and I’ve chatted with our coach about moving up to the non-scaled versions. In some cases, like push ups and double under, I can do the regular version but I can’t do enough of them to complete a CrossFit workout. There I’ll be working on increasing reps. In other cases, I can’t do them at all without assistance, pull ups, for example.

So here are the 4 exercises I’m going to work on this year, learning to do the Rx version.

1. Push ups

2. Pull ups

3. Box Jumps

But I don’t ever hope to do this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl8VG5brpRA

4. Double Unders

I’ll report back and let you know how I’m progressing. I’m going to tackle these in our warm ups and see what I can manage.