CrossFit Acronyms & Definitions
CrossFit comes with some of its own language! Some of it can be obvious, but there are always terms that catch us all out, so we’ve tried to bring together an A to Z of the terms and acronyms that you’re likely to come across. Email us on info@crossfittonbridge.co.uk if we’ve missed any or you want to add any!
If it’s a movement that you’re not sure about, then see our CrossFit Tonbridge & TAG Movements Standards page to see them demo’d and broken down.
| CrossFit Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| AB | Assault Bike |
| AMRAP | As Many Rounds (or Reps) as Possible. |
| Barbell / BB | Weightlifting bar, in 2 lengths and weights, 7' @ 20kg and 6' @ 15kg |
| Bench | Bench Press (powerlifting movement) |
| BMU | Bar Muscle Up (see muscle up) |
| BS | Back Squat |
| C2B | Chest to bar pull up - pull up where chest touches the bar at the top |
| cal | Calories - unit of measure on rower, ski erg or bike |
| CFT | CrossFit Tonbridge |
| Chipper | Workout consisting of multiple exercises, typically with a high number of reps, to 'chip' your way through |
| Clean | Olympic Lift without the Jerk |
| C&J | Clean & Jerk (Olympic Lift) |
| Couplet | 2 movements |
| DB | Dumbbell |
| DL | Deadlift (powerlifting movement) |
| DNF | Did Not Finish |
| DNS | Did Not Start |
| DU | Double under - a skipping rope jump where the rope passes under the feet twice with one jump |
| Erg | Unit of work or energy, but refers to Rower, Ski Erg, or Air Bike in CrossFit terms |
| EMOM | Every Minute On the Minute, other uses eg E2MOM, Every 2 Minutes |
| FS | Front Squat |
| G2OH | Ground to Overhead - any method of getting a weight from the floor to locked out overhead |
| GHD | Glute Ham Developer (machine) |
| Girls name WOD | A series of benchmark workouts from CrossFit HQ |
| Hang Clean, HC | Clean starting above the knee |
| Hang Snatch, HS | Snatch starting above the knee |
| Hero WOD | A tribute workout to a fallen Hero, generally some of the toughest WODs |
| HSPU | Hand Stand Push Up, as it sounds, an inverted push up done against the wall. |
| KB | Kettlebell - round weights with hooped handles on them. Lots of sizes |
| KTE, K2E | Knees to Elbow, whilst hanging from a pull up bar |
| MetCon | The Metabolic Conditioning of the workout of the day |
| MU | Muscle Up - Gymnastic movements that starts hanging under the rings and finshes above the rings or Bar |
| OHS | Overhead Squat, squat with a weight, typically a barbell, held overhead. |
| PB | Personal Best, sometimes used Americans use PR, Personal Record. |
| PC | Power Clean, a Clean without the requirement to squat |
| PP | Push Press |
| PU | Pull Ups, or sometimes Push Ups. |
| RDL | Romanian Deadlift |
| Rep | Repetition, one perfomance of an exercise. |
| (1,3,5, etc) RM | Rep Maximum, maximum weight lifted for that number of reps, so a 5RM is the most you can lift 5 times. |
| Rds | Rounds in a workout, ie 3Rnds of 5 pu, 10 situps, 15 squats; complete 5 pull ups, 10 situps and 15 squats and then back to the pull ups, working through 3 times in total |
| RFT | Rounds for time (in a workout) |
| Rx, Rx'd | As prescribed, as written, completing the workout without scaling |
| SC | Squat Clean, Clean that has to have a squat |
| SDHP | Sumo Deadlift High Pull |
| Set | A number of reps, ie 3 sets of 10 reps, or 3 x 10; do 10 reps, rest, and repeat twice more for '3 sets' |
| SLDL | Single Leg Deadlift, or stiff leg deadlift depending on context |
| Squat | Powerlifting Movement, can be air, back, front or overhead, depending if there is weight, and if the weight is on your back, front or held overhead |
| Swing / KB Swing | Kettlebell swing, either American / full (Kettlebell between legs to extended overhead) or Russian (kettlebell between legs to eyeline) |
| Tabata | Series of 8 intervals of 20s of work and 10s of rest. Can be used for multiples of 8 |
| TGU | Turkish Get Up - Kettlebell movement |
| Triplet | 3 different movements |
| TTB / T2B | Toes to bar, hanging from pullup bar, get your feet to touch the pull up bar |
| WB | Wall Ball, using a medicine ball perform a squat and throw the ball to a target |
| WOD | Workout Of the Day - what we're doing in the gym today |