A random WOD is nothing more than a poor allocation of energy.
“Great training is planned, organized, & adapted to meet the evolving needs of the individual.
It should always gives more than it takes.
Performing workouts with no plan of progression is not only a waste of your time, it’s depleting resources that could be allocated elsewhere.”
-Ray Zingler on X
The number 2 Problem in all of training is lack of planning/organization.
For those interested in Problem 1, that problem is not training at all. (In some cases, not training at all is probably better than the theater you see on social media and you’d be better off walking your dog and carrying your groceries to the car.)
But let’s say you are training, and I don’t care if it’s in a big box gym with a personal trainer or a boutique Orange Theory type gym or a general CrossFit box.
The problem with a lot of these programs is that they lack real programming.
Programming is not a “work out of the day”. That’s easy. My son is 5 and he’s been creating work outs of the day since he was 2.
Quality programs are planned (short & long term), organized, and adapted to meet the evolving needs of an individual.
So while I’m not going to say that going into a gym and doing random exercises to get sweaty is a total net negative.. it most certainly isn’t the most judicious use of your time.
And this is notion is even more true with our youth populations.
That speed & agility program you drop your kid off at..
Do you honestly think those guys have a tried-and-true programming model?
A philosophy that has been evolved only by way of thousands of hours of practice and polished with inarguable success that is justified by hard data?
Of course, they don’t, Sharon.
They don’t care about improving your kid’s performance.
They care about posting flashy videos on Instagram to improve their own social media metrics, while you pay them to post their garbage online.
In Year 15, I can assure you I am still learning every day, but I can also tell you all about my philosophy and programming model in great detail, from soup to nuts, using verbiage you can understand, too.
And it’s not because I am the smartest guy in the room.
It’s because I have time in the game and understand the underlying objective of training, which is:
To give more than it takes from you.
Every prescription needs justification.
This is as true in training as it is in medicine.
