Identifying & Attacking Weaknesses | The Brute Brief

Training, the weakness audit.

Athletes generally understand that their fitness has weaknesses, but they don't know how to determine which weaknesses, uh, which, which weakness is a priority and which is not.

What ends up happening is the strong guy continues to get stronger, but his aerobic capacity never improves enough.

The engine guy knows he needs to get stronger, but is afraid to lose his aerobic engine.

At Brute, we have an athlete score that provides you with exactly what you need to focus on this upcoming season.

The athlete score is a five-minute multiple choice questionnaire that gives you an overall grade across each CrossFit modality.

Your results are compared against the CrossFit Games athletes in strength, weightlifting, gymnastics, and monostructural movements, scoring by reps, weight, and time.

For example, if your max unbroken chest-to-bar pull-ups is 10 and CrossFit Games athlete is 40 plus, your score would be low.

It is important to know where you're lacking the most in your fitness, so if you wanna take the guesswork out of your audit, then take our athlete score and find out where you need to improve the most.

Now, this is something that, uh, we spend a lot of time developing, um, isn't it, Coach Matt?

Correct.

Now, I think, like, this is a segue into the mind of a remote one-on-one coach, right? We've spoken a lot of times in the past about limiter and finding limiters and creating priorities on limiters.

One thing that this audit does is it takes the guesswork out of what your priority should be, and it's a glaring picture of what it would be if you score low, right? So, um, you know, we need to figure out every athlete out there that, uh, is inspiring or aspiring to be competitive in CrossFit, um, needs to know where their weaknesses are and needs to be able to put a little bit of time and effort into developing those weaknesses, 'cause at the end of the day, your lowest event scores are all geared around your weaknesses, right? So if you can improve on those weaknesses, get rid of those lower scores, then overall you're a better athlete.

Yeah.

It's ultimately what's gonna hold you back the most.

Um, we see it time and time again, um, and I feel it's something that athletes wanna do, and often they get criticized if they seems like from the outside looking in, they're not working on them.

But sometimes it is as simple as maybe not having i- have identified them thoroughly enough to then be able to go back to the drawing board and do the work required.

Yeah.

And I think that's the first step.

You know, I remember when I was an athlete myself, you have this feeling, you know.

You can, you can pinpoint, you know, if let's say I'm bad at double unders, so you're like, "Ah, man, double unders is gonna be tough," right? But then you have this feeling that, like, you don't quite have the ability to pinpoint why, um, but when you-- like anything, you know, a report card in general, you know.

Growing up in the States, we get our report cards, and I'm sure everyone gets report cards in all the other countries as well, but when you see where your weaknesses lie, you see where you need to put more attention on, more focus on, uh, but it allows you to have a very clear understanding of the dir- the direction you need to head into.

So, you know, everyone needs to do it.

Um, yeah.

And then, um...