Crossfit

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Heavy lifting is as much about order as it is about strength, and when the body knows which grip comes first and what follows after it, stepping up to the bar gets a great deal easier. The pictures below break every movement down one at a time, from warm-up to the final drop.

A woman squats with a barbell resting across her shoulders.

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Barbell squat

A woman squats with a barbell resting across her shoulders.

About this visual support

The barbell is on the floor and the child knows it has to go up, just not in which order the feet, the grip and the back are supposed to land. Crossfit is built from movements that have to arrive in a fixed sequence for the body to cope with them, and not knowing the next one quickly turns into a good reason to stay on the bench. What looks like reluctance is usually just missing overview.

Visual support for crossfit makes the sequence visible before any weight is loaded. The child can see that the warm-up comes first, that the grip is set before the lift, and that the bar goes down under control rather than being dropped. One thing that works well: put the cards on the floor next to the bar in the order the movements come, so the child can glance down between sets instead of asking what happens now. The pace stays up and nobody has to shout instructions across the gym. Laminate the cards if you can, because a training floor is rarely completely dry.

In the Routined app you can build the whole session as a series of pictures with a timer for each station, and try the features for fourteen days at no cost.