To Scale Or Not To Scale

As coaches Adrian, Myself and Nick are hugely impressed by the work ethic of everyone who is training with us at the moment. There is no question EVERYONE makes sure there is nothing left to give by the end of a WOD. However we are noticing a bit of a trend among a few of you that needs to be addressed.
We programme and design our WODS to elicit a certain response. We want to tax certain energy systems and fitness components at specific times in order to provide a constantly varied stimulus. This will result in you obtaining a broad and general fitness.
Our metabolic conditioning sessions or "met cons" (couplets,amraps,chippers etc) aim to rev up your metabolic engine and demand you to work with intensity for the duration of the workout be it task orientated (complete set work, time stops once work is completed) or time orientated (complete as much work as possible in a set time.
The best results are gained when the intensity of the workout can be maintained with as few breaks or rest periods as possible. This is where the 'art' of scaling comes into play - we deliberately prescribe you a weight that will allow you to maintain high intensity levels throughout the workout and limit the amount of 'staring at the bar time'. Some of you are starting to ignore our prescriptions and select heavier loads or try to go RX'D in every WOD.
A good example of this is Thursday nights WOD that was programmed to be a short, heavy met-con as the previous night had been a long high volume WOD. The 'heavy' is relative to your individual capacity and you were required to do 'heavy' thrusters. You should have had a heavier load than a your normal thruster, again this would be prescribed and vary from individual to individual. The workout should have been completed in 6-12 minutes.
After looking at the whiteboard yesterday it was clear many of you went too heavy for the workout and therefore the stimulus of the workout was lost and you will not have gained maximum benefit from the workout. You should only go RX'D when you can maintain the intensity levels of the workout. Those that finished between 6-12mins will have had the perfect 'hit' from that WOD those that went beyond 12mins spent too much time 'staring at the bar'.
This is not in anyway meant to be negative - I understand the need to want to go RX'D in every workout and love the desire to improve that you all display. But the quickest way to get there is to listen to us!! Perform the workouts with intensity at a load that allows you to do this and you will very quickly move towards RX'D workouts.

AMRAP 15 Mins
Run 200m
3 OHS 40/20kg
6 Ring Dips
9 Lateral Bounds

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