WE TRIED TO LISTEN TO MOST OF THE TERMS AND THEIR ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CROSSFIT TRAINING. MAYBE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE DAY’S WORKOUT OR THE COACHES’ INSTRUCTIONS DURING THE LESSON BETTER. IF WE HAVE MISSED SOMETHING PLEASE REPORT IT IN THE COMMENTS.
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AMRAP: As many rounds (or reps) as possible. As many repetitions as possible in the allotted time.
BS: Squat back. Squat with barbell on your back.
BW (or B/W): Body weight. Your body weight.
CFDs: CrossFit total (best of three attempts with 1RM of (Press/DL/BS). Total kg of three exercises.
CF: CrossFit.
CFHQ: CrossFit Headquarters. www.crossfit.com
CFWU: CrossFit warm-up. Heating part
CLN: Clean. Taking a barbell to your chest.
C&J: Clean and jerk. Take a barbell on your chest and push.
C2: Concept II rowing machine. Rower.
DL: Cut. Exercise “Death Pull”.
EMOM: Every minute every minute. A workout that involves one minute of exercise and/or repetitions. If you have done an exercise and have time left, we use that time to rest and start again after a minute. EMOM 12 minutes. means that the WOD will last 12 minutes, i.e. there will be 12 rounds of the exercise in question in total.

ME (or Max Effort): perform the exercise with maximum effort while maintaining the correct technique for performing the exercise.
FS: Front squat. Squat with barbell in front.
GHD: Gluteal Hamstrings Developer. Roman bench.
GPP: General physical preparation. General fitness.
HC: Hang clean. Raise the barbell to your chest while hanging overhead.
HPC: Hang Power Clean. Taking the barbell to your chest from the hanging position.
HSPU: Vertical push up. Upside down push-ups.
HSC: Hang the clean squat. Raise a barbell to your chest from a hanging position with a squat.
KB: Kettlebells. Turn.
KBS: Kettlebell swing. Gyros mostai.
KTE (or K2E): knees-elbows. TTB A simpler option, when hanging from the crossbar, your knees are raised up to your elbows.
MetCon: Metabolic conditioning – Exercises during which the human metabolism is improved, muscles are supplied with energy more efficiently.
IN: Muscle-ups. Go out on the rings or on the crossbar (soldier).
OHS: Overhead squats. Squat with barbell overhead.
computer: Powerful cleaning. Bring the barbell up to your chest, without squatting.
PR: Personal register. Personal record.
PP: Press Press. Švungas.
PJ: Push Jerk. Pushing
PSn: Power grab. Barbell row in a tall position, without squatting.
PU: Pull ups (or Push ups). Pull-ups or push-ups.
Representative: Repetition. Repetitions.
Rx: As prescribed; The exercise was performed without relief, with the weight indicated in the WOD description.
1RM (or 2RM, 3RM etc.): once, performing the exercise with the maximum weight.
SC: Clean squat. Bring the barbell across your chest into a low squat position.
Stairs: Simpler exercise progression.
SDHP: Sumo Deadlift High Pull. Dumbbell to the chin.
Ability: Specific part of the CrossFit class. The skills part of the training.
Sn: Rip. Barbell row in a tall position.
m2: squat. Crouch down.
T2B (or TTB): Toes-to-bar. An exercise in which the toes touch the crossbar while hanging from the crossbar.
TGU: Rise up Turks. Turkish revolts from below.
TnG: Touch and Go: no pause between repetitions. The exercises are performed without interruptions, after finishing one, the next one is performed immediately.
Thruster: One of CrossFit’s signature exercises. It’s basically a barbell front squat where the barbell is pushed over the top.
WB: Wall balls. Throwing heavy balls at a target in the wall.
WO (or S/O): training. Training
WOD: workout of the day. Daily training.
Stairs: A combination of exercises in which exercise repetitions are performed in ascending or descending order of repetitions or weights.
Chips: WOD or special training consisting of several exercises and their repetitions. During this training the order of exercises and rest is not given, everyone performs the exercises once and rests when they want.
Complex: A combination of 3 or more exercises focused on the same training goal.
1-1-1-1-1 (or 2-2-2/3-3-3 etc.): 1-1-1-1-1 = This workout description means that the exercise should be performed 5 times, 1 time each. 1 stands for 1RM, which is 5 sets of one rep max, or as otherwise indicated.
OTHER NAMES:
The “Girls”: Standard CrossFit WODs named after girls, these WODs are memorialized by the entire global CrossFit community
Hero WOD: These are CrossFit WODs created to honor and remember war heroes or veterans. These are some of the hardest and longest CrossFit WODs.
Tabata Interval (or Tabata): This is an interval training format where the exercise is performed for 8 rounds. The work is done for 20 seconds, after which you rest for 10 seconds. The whole exercise lasts 4 minutes, during each round we try to do the maximum number of repetitions of the exercise. The end result of the exercise is the round with the fewest repetitions.
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