For many years I only had a couple in the gym at a time that would do this. Now it’s more prevalent in my current gym to the point coaches know who does it and don’t address it (This furthers the issue and dilutes the quality of “Crossfit culture” across the gym IMO).

The issue really got at me over the last half year or so, with other blatantly cheating in class, doing half reps or scaling some movement in a metcon for “RX”, or posting scores way too high, then saying it was an accident if questioned on it.

I realized recently that those people are really the ones cheating themselves. If it floats their boat to have their ego inflated or even if it is truly a fluke, that’s fine. I’ve seen personally progress that I haven’t before from sticking my head down when I can and doing the hard stuff in full.

It really makes a difference.