Special Needs CrossFit

It ' s been two years since #1 started working with a personal trainer I knew from her CrossFit coaching, maybe one year since he started going to my regular CrossFit classes.#1 is 23 now. He can read at about a third grade level, most of his writing is text messaging to Emily or I. He ' s impulsive, but has generally done well with listening to coaches and workplace supervisors. Putting it all together I thought CrossFit was a bridge too far. Trying it was his idea, not mine.I was wrong about that. He can now do up to 2/3 of a workout with some minor guidance. Sometimes he does less, but over time he ' s getting better. His belly grew during the lockdown, it ' s been shrinking since our gyms reopened. His mood is substantially better. He rarely pushes the limits of his strength, but when he does he ' s clearly stronger than his 61yo Dad (he is built like a bull - his " max effort " is my routine effort).If he persists then sometime in the next 3-4 years he will be doing the men ' s " Rx " workouts. I can rarely do those.The box has been supportive but they really haven ' t done much for him beyond any other member. They know his name, tolerate his eccentricities, and pretty much let him do his own thing. Coaches don ' t push him and that ' s the right choice.Anything could happen tomorrow. He has often given up on things he ' s good at, often for no reason he can express or we can imagine. Sometimes he goes back to them, sometimes he doesn ' t.Still, it has been done. He ' s...
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