Virtuosity

Virtuosity showing great technical skill. A “virtuoso” is one who has mastered their craft to a point where they truly stand out even amongst top performers in their craft. In sport the term virtuosity has been used extensively in the gymnastics community. In this context it is used when a fairly simple skill (among elites) is performed so well as to demonstrate true mastery of the skill even beyond other seasoned athletes. At various times in the gymnastics scoring system virtuosity has been rewarded by bonus points.

When we speak about virtuosity in CrossFit, it means to perform the movements in our workouts to the best of our ability, every repetition. Every time you perform a movement, attempt to do it perfectly. Perfection will never occur, and the movements can always be improved, but by keeping a steady focus and executing as well as you can, every time, your rate of improvement will be increased dramatically. This particularly applies to movements that have become easy for you to perform. It is easy to get lazy about the skills we can easily do and allow a little bit of slop to creep into our execution. Do not let this happen. Do the easy stuff exceedingly well and it will carry great benefit into the movements that are not so easy.