The video is of Reverse Angie from last week. Thank you to everyone who has been contributing videos and photos to us. Remember if you get a great shot and want to possibly get it on the blog, just send it over to photos@crossfitethos.com

“Integrity”-  is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcomes. In western ethics, integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions.

     Integrity is everything to us at Ethos. Form, Range-of-Motion, Honesty of counting can all count as integrity. We at Ethos, have established a reputation of having the best form, the best technique, and the utmost integrity as a CrossFit gym. We want to keep that reputation and further more want to spread the concept of form first, intensity second. A fun little saying we like using is: "If it's not legit, your time don't mean S*#T!" 
      So why do I bring this up? Well after watching that great video in which we have posted here, I noticed some movements taking place that are not up to our Ethos standards. Here's a few I spotted: Air Squats not even close to being deep enough (crease of hips bellow knee cap), Air squats not being fully completed (locking of the knees and full hip extension/stand up), Chest not touching the ground on push ups, Chest not being the first part of the body to touch the ground on push ups, Arms not getting extended fully on Pull ups, and the one that drives us most crazy, not getting your chin above the bar on a Pull up!
      Now there is no need to point fingers, call out names or anything like that. All we are trying to point out is that we need to put more emphasis on Range Of Motion (ROM) and our standard of movement. We always say "I would rather you take 40 minutes with perfect form, than take 20 minutes with bad form and poor ROM." 

So this week when you are tackling your WOD make a little extra effort to ensure perfect form, full ROM, and completing every single rep. Keep up the great work! The only reason we care so much is to make each and everyone of you the very best and most fit you can be!

WOD

As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes:

5  Hang Power Clean and Jerks(135#/95#)
10 Box Jumps(24")

Post number of completed rounds to comments.