Pro: In person coaching for complex skills. I’ve always been cautious with ground-to-overhead motions due to multiple shoulder injuries, so it was nice to have competent coaches guide me, especially with snatches.

This is one of my biggest peeves. I’ve been doing CrossFit for 6 years now and can perform most of the movements, yet every single class we spend time going over the progressions for snatch, clean, etc, or do a “mini round” that’s 20% of the workout reps that don’t even count just to make sure we are scaling appropriately.