Ten sessions running us through all the moves first so we don't kill ourselves/break something, with modified workouts, and then we 'graduate' and go ahead and do the WODs (at weights appropriate for each of us). A lot of it is proper feet placement, strengthening the smaller muscles (ex. I have very weak lower core muscles, so I'm working on that) before going for the big guns, so to speak.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's specific to these trainers/this gym as well... from a casual browsing of Crossfit forums online, it doesn't look like restraint is something most Crossfit gyms advocate. Not to knock that or anything, but as someone who's managed to injure herself sodding repeatedly over the years - there's pushing yourself and there's foolish idiocy, yanno?