all right so uh going to talk a little bit about what movements from from my competitive days of CrossFit that I no longer do some for me they just hurt my joints um a little more than I'd like others I think that there is there a little more high risk versus reward and there's other things that you can do or Implement that get the same stimulus or same response out of some movements that I think that we do as competive crossfitters that have a a little high risk low reward uh but for competition I you
know I enjoyed most of them and actually miss doing a lot of them I just don't think that at the stage I'm at where um my training I can do other movements to uh get the same effect so here's my list [Music] here we go let me know what you think about this uh if you have anything else on your list that you no longer do or feel is high risk low reward type movements that we do in the cross state competition World um my number one and I've been I've been saying this uh for
years and I think a lot of probably a lot of guys have uh pistols I in my head don't see a whole lot of reward doing pistols I to be honest I didn't even do them in training unless I knew the open was coming possibly and I thought that they might get added into one year um if we were told the regional workouts and and pistols were in them I did them and then close to games I would start adding a little bit of pistol volume in uh because they normally showed up at the games
so pistols I just think that there is you can put yourself in a bad position a lot easier where you can get the same effect out of a pistol as doing a Bulgarian split squat uh a lunge a box step up so there's a lot of different movements that you can do to get the same benefits out of a pistol um so for me I just don't do them anymore it's not even like a thought I don't even think about them so and like I said I didn't even do them that often when I was
in training uh for compet itions um they just I didn't like the way they made my news feel uh so yeah you know if you're out there thinking you got to be doing pistols and you're not competing you know there's definitely other ways to get um the same benefits again SPL split stance or split squats box step UPS uh lunges lots of things like that that can I feel like are a little less risky and get some get the same benefits out of number two uh Sumo deadlift High pole they they don't even put this
in competition very often earlier in CrossFit I felt like they did but I didn't like with a barbell Sumo de High pull uh I definitely you know you have a little bit of risk there of getting an impingement you can actually do some high Poes with single arm dumbbells that uh get a really good effect so I just don't think that the Sumo de of high pole on a barbell narrow grip is a great position to get your shoulder into um when you can if you do it with a dumbbell single arm you can have
it out wide it puts it into a little bit better position uh and there's just other things that we can do to hit our shoulders and so I uh I definitely have stopped doing Sim de High Poes and I did not do them very often either and even when they were in competition you know it was just kind of like okay I got to do these now so number three and I love this this movement I think they're awesome I just it I did it so often I trained it so much when I was in
competition now I I just have kind of steered back from it because of some and I'll go into it but uh a handstand push-up and I love handstand push-ups and I think that they they were one of my favorite movements to do to add into to workouts I love them I will still do them here and there maybe once a month once every two months something like that is probably the amount of volume and it's pretty low volume when I do them um but I feel like with handstand push-ups you know there's risk on your
neck uh slamming your head into the floor over and over again you know I remember getting like we I would do hundreds of them in a in a setting and I would have headaches sometimes my neck would hurt tweak your neck you know if you go to failure you know you could just land on your head so there's a lot of risk there for a little reward where you could do uh a dumbbell shrick press or a barbell shrick press or um you know another I just think that there's it's not a lot of real
purpose for it just doing a push-up uh an inverted or a uh feet elevated push-up is even better than doing a handstand push-up in my mind so yeah that's just another movement I have really stopped doing like I said I I'll do them here and there I'll get this itch in my mind oh let me try some handstand push-ups and when I do it I normally I do them very strict and I don't bounce my head off the floor like I used to so I don't get headaches anymore or neck pain um so yeah that's
number three number four and this is more so probably just for me this isn't a bad movement I don't think that this actually has uh there's not a lot of like Risk in this movement other than whipping yourself but double unders I don't do them very often anymore um due to the fact that that um repetitive little quick jump kind of hurts my knee I don't have any I don't have any ligaments in my left knee I don't have an ACL PCL or MCL in my left knee and so when I do the double unders
I can start to feel um some pain in my left knee and so that's kind of reason why I've done it I again I actually like double unders I like jump roping uh jump rope it's it's a great movement for conditioning uh it actually hits your shoulders a little bit um but yeah for me I just have to I've had to pull it out due to the not having any ligaments in my left knee and I get some shifting when while I'm doing that little little bound last one which is my least favorite to talk
about because I love this movement so much it has two of my favorite parts of it squatting and cleaning so full clean squat cleans whatever you know we're crossfitters we call it squat cleans I don't care um but I just haven't I stopped doing them due to the fact that that Dynamic dropped down to the bottom uh kind of freef fall to the bottom to catch this clean again bothers my knee and so for me I've stopped doing them you know you can do I still do front squats I still do power cleans I still
do sandbag cleans so I can still get a lot of the effect out of a clean than than having to do the heavy squat cleans because of you know the joint pain I can go light squat cleans I don't do it that often but um yeah I I I love squat cleaning and I again I don't think there is actually it's more so this is more so for me not for anybody else like if you want to do squat cleans and doesn't hurt your knee do it I think they're a great movement it's a great
movement so that is my list uh again pistols I just think there's some some higher risk lower reward there a lot of other movements we can do Sumo deadlift high poles again you can get some impingement in the shoulder you can do single arm high PS with a dumbbell where you get a little wider kind of put your shoulder into a better position handstand push-ups neck head pain you know you can do again light dumbbell strict press you can do elevated push-ups uh where you're not bouncing your head off the ground um and also like
putting your neck into a compromised position so double unders was for me I think double unders jumping rope is great I just don't do it anymore due to the fact that uh it hurts my knee because of the quick bound rebounding on the on that joint without ligaments and squat clean same thing I'm not saying don't do them anymore because I think squat cleans are great and I love them they were one of my favorite movements in CrossFit but uh the dynamic dropping into the bottom on a with a heavy load is definitely a little
bit more stressful on my knee than I wanted to be so tell me what you guys think give me uh your thoughts on my list tell me what uh movements you don't do or do or whatever i' I'd love to hear you know your thoughts on this as well um so hope you guys like that like subscribe do the thing as always don't forget to pay the man
