AMRAP: As Many Reps (sometimes Rounds)as Possible
BP: Bench Press
BS: Back Squat
BW: Body Weight
CFT: CrossFit Total – consisting of max squat, press, and deadlift.
C&J: Clean and Jerk
DL: Deadlift
FS: Front squat
GHD: Glute ham developer. Posterior chain exercise, like a back extension.
GHD Situp: Situp done on the GHD.
HSPU: Hand stand push up. Kick up into a handstand (use wall for balance, if needed) bend arms until nose touches floor and push back up.
HPC: Hang Power Clean
HPS: Hang Power Snatch
HSC: Hang Squat Clean
HSS: Hang squat Snatch
KB: Kettlebell
KBS: Kettlebell Swing
ME: Maximum Effort
KTE: Knees to elbows. Similar to TTBs described below.
MetCon: Metabolic Conditioning workout
MP: Military press
MU: Muscle ups. Hanging from rings you do a combination pull-up and dip so you end in an upright support.
OHS: Overhead squat. Full-depth squat performed while arms are locked out in a wide grip press position above (and usually behind) the head.
PC: Power clean
Pd: Pood, weight measure for kettlebells
PR: Personal Record
PP: Push Press
PS: Power Snatch
PU: Pull-ups, possibly push ups depending on the context
Rep: Repetition. One performance of an exercise.
Rx’d; as Rx’d: As prescribed; as written. WOD done without any adjustments.
RM: Repetition maximum. Your 1RM is your max lift for one rep. Your 10 RM is the most you can lift 10 times.
SDHP: Sumo Deadlift High Pull
Set: A number of repetitions. e.g., 3 sets of 10 reps, often seen as 3×10, means do 10 reps, rest, repeat, rest, repeat.
SN: Snatch
SQ: Squat
Scaled: Substituted a movement or lessened the weight/height. A use of “scaled” would be, “I subbed an exercise I can do for one I can’t.” For example, if you can’t do HSPU, you subbed regular pushups.
TGU: Turkish get-up
TTB: Toes to bar. Hang from bar. Bending only at waist raise your toes to touch the bar, slowly lower them and repeat.
WOD: Workout of the day
WU: Warm-up