Your first goal whenever you come to workout at CFTally is to do the workout (WOD) as it is written on the chalk board. We call this doing the WOD as prescribed, but for many people this isn't possible given their current fitness level.

This means there is one or more elements of the WOD that are beyond the capacity of the athlete.  In these cases your CFTally coach will modify the WOD and give you a new prescription that scales down the work in the WOD.  We might decrease the weight, reps, distance or some other attribute of the WOD.

We are trying to achieve a similar workout for each athlete given their current abilities.

We record the results of every athlete and when we repeat the workout (WOD) or do another workout that has the same or similar movement we use this data to determine what new scaling is required for the athlete. As you get stronger and your stamina increases we will decrease your scaling proportionally.

At first many athletes scale many movements, but as you get fitter your need to scale will decrease.

Last updated on October 12, 2010 by Greg Keeter