If you have a friend who just started CrossFit and seem to be ‘speaking’ a weird language, here’s some hints to help decipher them.

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Even Katrin Davidsdottir, the reigning Fittest Woman on Earth after winning both the 2015 and 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games felt alienated when she first started CrossFit.

“I remember when I walked into my first CrossFit class and the workout had already been written on the whiteboard. It was just all these abbreviations and words I had never seen before!” said Katrin.

CrossFit athletes workouts at a ‘box’ and not a gym. A WOD, explained below will be listed on the wall for the ‘Menu of the Day’ also known as modern-day-‘torture’.

Your friends might be raving about theirs WODs, abbreviation for Workout of the Day which aims to workout different muscles rotationally, everyday. Go ahead and ask them what did they do in the WOD, but brace yourself for another set of ‘alien language’.

Everyone wants to hit a new PR at the box – short for Personal Record, or PB for Personal Best with the shortest time for a workout, the most number of repetitions (reps) completed or the heaviest lift they’ve ever achieved since they started. Hint, this is also an excuse to go party and celebrate!

Sadly, this HAM won’t give you any bacon either. If you’re on the sidelines, cheer your CrossFit friends on by yelling, “HAM it!” which will urge them on to go as ‘Hard as a Mother F*cker”, pardon our French.

And if this new lingo wasn’t enough, beware your CrossFit friends might start walking on their hands more than their legs. It’s a thing 🙂

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