It's very good to work towards goals, and it's also good to see where you stack up compared to others, but be careful, especially with crossfit and chasing faster times. It's often a good way to get hurt, and for what?
A little background... I've been a part of crossfit in some capacity for nearly ten years and I've coached for the last five at one of the oldest crossfit affiliates in the area. One of the things I see a lot of is shitty reps, and it's often because of the timing aspect of workouts. Everyone wants to work towards a 2:00 min Fran time, but most can't do ten strict pullups, so people end up having bar seizures in an attempt to go faster when they should be looking to improve their form. The kipping pull-up is not a measure of strength, and it's also a good way to hurt your self. Kipping is a technique, If you can do 20 strict pull-ups, I guarantee you can do 30+ bar seizures. Whose the better athlete? The one that can do a 2 min Fran with kipping, or the one that can do a 3:30 Fran with strict pull-ups... I would say the later.
Also, everything is strength based, and that's where a lot of crossfit programming lacks. Depending on the time of the year, I don't do much if any conditioning work, however, I work strength year round in cycles. I can go six months without doing a single conditioning type workout and in less than a month of working conditioning back in, I'm pretty much back where I was, and due to my strength base, I'm usually ahead of the pack to begin with.
If you can squat 400+ lb, overhead Press 200+, and do strict pull-ups at your body weight + some, then doing some 95lb thrusters and pull-ups is not that hard.
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