This comes straight from CrossFit.Com, but I took out the ones they never really use.
CrossFit Acronyms and Abbreviations
- AMRAP:Â As Many Reps (sometimes Rounds)as Possible
- BP:Â Bench press
- BS:Â Back squat
- BW (or BWT):Â Body weight
- CFT:CrossFit Total – consisting of max squat, press, and deadlift.
- CFSB:Â CrossFit Strength Bias. A program developed by Jeff Martin and Darrell White.
- CFWU:CrossFit Warm-up
- CLN:Â Clean
- C&J:Â Clean and jerk
- C2:Â Concept II rowing machine
- DL:Â Deadlift
- FS:Â Front squat
- GHD:Â Glute ham raise (developer). Posterior chain exercise, like a back extension. Also, the device that allows for the proper performance of a GHR.
- GHD Situp:Â Situp done on the GHR(D) bench.
- GPP:Â General physical preparedness, aka “fitness.”
- H2H:Â Hand to hand; refers to Jeff Martone’s kettlebell “juggling” techniques (or to combat).
- HSPU:Â 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.
- HSQ:Â Hang squat (clean or snatch). Start with bar “at the hang,” about knee height. Initiate pull. As the bar rises drop into a full squat and catch the bar in the racked position. From there, rise to a standing position
- KB:Â Kettlebell
- MEBBMaximum Effort Black box, term coined by Mike Rutherford.
- KTE(K2E):Â Knees to elbows. Similar to TTBs described below.
- MetCon:Â Metabolic Conditioning workout
- MP:Â Military press
- MU:Â Muscle ups. Hanging from rings you do a combination pull-up and dip so you end in an upright support.
- OHS:Â Overhead squat. Full-depth squat performed while arms are locked out in a wide grip press position above (and usually behind) the head.
- PC:Â Power clean
- Pd:Â Pood, weight measure for kettlebells
- PR:Â Personal record
- PP:Â Push press
- PSN:Â Power snatch
- PU: Pull-ups, possibly push ups depending on the context
- Rep: Repetition. One performance of an exercise.
- Rx’d; as Rx’d:Â 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 (see exercise section)
- 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.
- SPP: Specific physical preparednesss, aka skill training.
- SN: Snatch
- SQ: Squat
- SS: Starting Strength; Mark Rippetoe’s great book on strength training basics.
- Subbed: Substituted. The CORRECT use of “subbed,” as in “substituted,” is, “I subbed an exercise I can do for one I can’t,” For example,if you can’t do HSPU, you subbed regular pushups.
Sadly, many illiterate posters get this bass-ackward, and claim that since they can’t do HSPU, they subbed HSPU for pushups. D’oh! - TGU: Turkish get-up (See exercise section)
- TTB: Toes to bar. Hang from bar. Bending only at waist raise your toes to touch the bar, slowly lower them and repeat.
- WO, sometimes W/O: Workout
- WOD: Workout of the day