Variety Prevents Injury: Bookend Couch: And Pooh Understood Dopamine

Some weeks you go hard, some days you go easy, sometimes you put in the miles, sometimes you just ride the bike.

Sleep is special.

Hydration is critical.

And everything works better when food is on point.

Still, if there’s one training feature that consistently keeps athletes healthy, it’s this: variety.

Variety is so important to an athlete’s overall well-being that the founder of CrossFit, Coach Greg Glassman, placed it first in CrossFit’s definition.

“Constantly varied, functional movement, at the utmost intensity.”

The question then becomes, what sort of variety are we talking about? And how best can we measure our results?

“You are as fit as you are competent in these ten skills,” Coach Glassman also said.

* Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance — The ability of the body’s systems to…