For anyone out there not familiar with Crossfit lingo, when we refer to “Coach”, 99.9% of the time we’re referring to Greg Glassman, founder of Crossfit, Inc in Santa Cruz, CA. He’s a straight up, tell you like it is kinda guy (you’ll see this in the video).
In it coach talks about Crossfit principles, why we do what we do, and you get a good sense of why his no-nonsense system works so well. He makes some good points, one of my favorites is his pointing out that when olympic weightlifters were tested a few decades ago, they had faster 40m times than the 100m medalists (though by the way they hit 100m they got creamed, it shows something critical about the importance of learning these lifts and incorporating them into every athlete’s program).
Oh, and if you’ve got kids near, I don’t like it much, but coach has a bad habit of dropping a few “F-bombs” from time to time, and this video is no exception, so keep that in mind:
http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_CoachSC0707QnASession.wmv