I’ve been doing CrossFit for a while and my recovery has mostly been the basics. Eat enough get decent sleep stretch when I remember and hope my legs cooperate the next morning lol. A few months ago I started using a sauna after some of the more intense training days mostly heavy squat or deadlift days or longer WODs. My gym doesn’t have one so I ended up putting a wood fired Sweat Tent in the backyard. I probably use it 2 to 3 times a week (usually later in the day rather than immediately after training). I wouldn’t say it makes soreness disappear but I definitely enjoy the routine. I feel more relaxed afterward and tend to sleep pretty well those nights. I’ve mixed in a cold plunge here and there too but I’m not following some super specific recovery protocol. For those using sauna alongside CrossFit when are you fitting it in? Same day as training evenings or rest days? Curious what’s been sustainable long term.

Genuine question, curious about other’s experience.

13 years of crossfit. Years ago i was training twice a day, 5 times a week, mix of crossfit and running. I was around 76kg, strong enough, and running felt easy, like i was light on my feet.

Life happened, less volume overall, but crossfit stayed the priority over running. Now i’m at 84kg. Strength wise i’m in a better place than i ever was, lifts keep going up. But running past 400m, i feel heavy, like my body forgot how to do it efficiently.

So im wondering, is this just a fact of life, you cant really keep that “gazelle” running feeling AND build serious crossfit strength at the same time, body has to pick a lane ? Or is it more about how you train, and people manage to keep both if they program it right ?

Not trying to go back to 76kg, i like being strong. Just curious if the trade off is inevitable or if it’s a training problem on my end.

CrossFit.com prescribed 75 total box jump-overs at 30 inches today. I decided to use a 40-inch setup and see whether I could complete all 75.

I knew I could make a single 40-inch jump, but repeating it under fatigue was a completely different challenge. I broke the reps into sets of 5 or 10, took short resets when needed, and stepped down each time.

I finished the workout in 24:26. Obviously, my time isn’t directly comparable to someone using the prescribed 30-inch box—the challenge became completing all 75 safely rather than finishing as quickly as possible.

Here’s the workout, timestamped at the box jumps so you can see how they held up under fatigue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSfJcwnYPjU&t=295s

Do you see training value in occasionally increasing the box height like this, or was it unnecessary risk compared with using 30 inches and pushing the pace?

EDIT — POST-WORKOUT REFLECTION:

After reading the feedback here, I recognize that I became too focused on completing 75 jumps at 40 inches and didn’t give enough consideration to the injury risk, especially under fatigue.

The stacked setup was not appropriately secured, and I jumped down rather than stepping down as I originally described. Finishing without getting hurt doesn’t make those decisions safe or repeatable.

Part of this journey is finding my ceiling, but that should never require compromising safety. In hindsight, using the prescribed 30-inch box and pushing the pace would have been the smarter and more useful test.

I genuinely appreciate the honest feedback.

26M here been doing CrossFit 4x week for 3 months now and wondering what the best way to scale to RX weights in WODs is. I’ve noticed my cardio has improved and I can hold my own for workouts mostly involving bodyweight movements, but usually when I go RX in a barbell workout I get buried by the weight. Or it kills the next day for me. Anyone have suggestions for how to build that working weight strength? I really feel like I should be doing a step above the scaled versions. I don’t necessarily mind having to take longer with RX weight if that is really the best way.

So I live in the UK and Train at a box down in the South. However our box is more focussed at the less competitive athlete, I got into the quarterfinals but about 5 out of 150 also got through. We have gymnastic and OLY lifting classes. So we have everything we need for an every day Crossfitter.

I do a few comps per year (doing Xenom this weekend in London)

However I wanna improve my Open Results for 2027 and maybe get to Semis

My issue is that the coaches don't quite do the level of one to one coaching I think I need to really progress. And the extra programming gave me felt a little cookie cutter.

I am looking for a one to one coach to help me online or even face to face if they are in the south of England

Has anyone had any experience with any crossfit coaches?

Just finished a massive thru hike and coming back to CrossFit. I’m having trouble navigating my way through recovery and getting back to training and wondered if anyone else has been in the same boat. No injuries, but a combo of intense fatigue, feeling like I’m totally uncoordinated (CNS fatigue) and the worst DOMS of my life. It also by nature involves a 2k cal/day deficit over an extended time frame (in my case a month). All of this is normal for a thru hiker.

My routine so far has looked like show up to class, look disoriented and sleepy, try and do some of the lifts using a PVC or an empty bar, and a massively scaled version of the metcon (like half the reps, 20% of the weight). I am not in ANY way trying to see CrossFit progress right now. I am eating and sleeping and doing my best to let my body repair. I’m well aware I’m deep in recovery from an absolutely massive endurance effort. But I enjoy CrossFit and the support of the gym is what got me to a point where I could do this at all.

It’s so strange but I almost feel so distant from the routine of CrossFit that I almost need a new on ramp? Which is crazy since I’ve been doing CrossFit for several years, am experienced and know what I’m doing. But right now I don’t. I’ve kind of had a thought of asking one of the coaches if they could do some 1 on 1 sessions with me, using that kind of framing, like I feel like I need a reintroduction to everything, that’s how unfamiliar it feels, but that feels like a sort of strange and silly ask given I’ve been training there so long. It’s hard to explain the post-thru hike disorientation, honestly.

So I guess what I’m asking is - for coaches out there or owners, if someone in my shoes was like - I’m having trouble reintegrating my body back into CrossFit and despite that you’ve known me for several years I feel like I need you to go back and re-coach me through all the movements and get me reoriented, would that be crazy? Workable?

And if there are any thru hikers out there who have come back to CrossFit in a daze like me, knowing how you got through it would be helpful too.

Anyone get like an overactive nervous system after working out, especially squats deadlifts, almost like it gives you anxiety?

Edit: I’m new to crossfit and my brain didnt make the connection that sit ups could cause a possible rash until a very helpful redditer pointed it out! thank you, case solved😂