The CrossFit Games are the world’s premier test to find the Fittest on Earth (TM). The Games season is a grueling multi-stage journey that culminates in the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games on July 13-15 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
Fitness means being ready for the unknown and unknowable, so the workouts change every year and are not announced until just before the events start. For more information, see the History of the Games.
The Games season will begin with the Open, a worldwide online competition with one workout per week. The Open will run for five weeks, from February 22 to March 25. Anyone can compete in the Open, regardless of fitness level or experience. More than 26,000 athletes from around the world took part in the 2011 season, and 2012 promises to be even larger.
In order to participate in the Open, athletes can do the workouts at their local affiliate or film their attempt from their garage gym. All scores and videos are then submitted to the Open website, which allows athletes to track how they match up with athletes in their region and around the world.
Athletes can choose to compete in three categories: Individual, Team, or Masters.
Individual athletes and teams that perform the best across the five Open workouts will earn a chance to compete at the second stage of the Games, the Regionals. Masters athletes (beginning at 45-years-old and older) will compete to be among the fittest athletes in their respective age division. The top Masters will earn an automatic spot at the Games in July.
Stage Two: Regionals
The top finishers in the Open will earn a spot at their respective Regional competition. The Regionals are organized by CrossFit HQ, and will run athletes through a series of workouts over the course of three consecutive days. Each weekend from April 27 to May 27, we will host multiple Regional competitions all over the world. Similar to 2011, athletes, teams, and spectators will gather at one venue and watch as the competitors hit the workouts shoulder-to-shoulder with the fittest in their region.
More details about dates and locations for the Regionals will be announced at a later time on the Games page.
Stage Three: The Games
The 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games will be held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., for the third consecutive year. Competition takes place July 13-15.
At the center of the arena, the Games competitors will have to prove they are not only fit, but capable of handling the unknown. No one knows what the events will be. Every year the events are different. The best movements to test for fitness are a combination of gymnastics, powerlifting, Olympic lifting, jumping rope, climbing ropes, runs, and a vast amount of pure grunt work, such as getting sandbags over a wall. But athletes never know what is required.
CROSSFIT OPEN 2011
Beginning Tuesday, 15th March 2011
The CrossFit Games Open is a six-week competition that will begin Tuesday, March 15th at 17:00 PDT. This competition is the first step in qualifying for the 2011 CrossFit Games. Each week, one event will be announced each Tuesday, and everyone has until the following Sunday at 17:00 PDT to complete the event and record their scores.
The CrossFit Games Open begins Tuesday, March 15th
Update on the 2011 CrossFit Games The Open Sectionals begin in March, and the Regionals begin late May. For those of you eager for information about the 2011 CrossFit Games season, click on the link below.
CrossFit Sectionals, Regionals, Games 2010
Aussie Regionals 8-9 May 2010
Our Sectionals Are Now Posted To The Games Site
On Saturday and Sunday, the 13th and 14 of March I witnessed my very first ‘live’ Crossfit competition, the 2010 Sectionals competed between South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Cliché’s will abound in this e-mail, so let me start with this one; my eyes nearly popped out, in fact I had the urge to put my fingers in front of my eyes to stop them from popping out! Talk about blood sweat and tears, and that was from the spectators!!
I have never really been involved in sport, having asthma as a kid put a stop to that, but in my late teens I became involved in weight training in a very small way and thoroughly enjoyed it…..but what did I know. I can honestly say now that all the training I have done over the years was mere child’s play, it was the difference between being a part actor in a school play to a starring role in Lord of the Rings, a rowing boat to an ocean liner. These men and woman have toiled long and hard, put themselves through uncommon pain, sacrificing comfort for discomfort, put aside time from their loved ones to achieve a goal, a level of fitness that the vast majority of the westernised world does not even know exists.
The wow factor in the Sectionals was something to behold, here we were mere metres from the athletes, you could sense the pain of their efforts, the subsonic sensation of the micro- tears of their muscles, the grinding of their minds as they forced their bodies to reach uncanny levels of performance and they did all this with a determination I have not seen before. There was a wildness in the ice cold eyes, the grins were like that of a bear trap, steely grimness where the concept of defeat was unknown, and unknowable. And not one, not a single one was defeated, in fact every single athlete over those two hellish days won, and won in style.
The mountain of photos and film on that day will speak more volumes than my musings here but may I just say how inspired and how moved I was (and still am) by what I witnessed. I congratulate the athletes to show me what can be achieved when mind and body is forged on the anvil of Crossfit.
As Dan lay on the ground after the chipper, gasping for breath that would not come quickly enough to replenish the aching lungs, his arms too devastated to lift off the tarmac, I asked him on a scale of one to ten how hard was that, he replied two. And he smiled as he said it.
And that my friends, what separates man, to Superman.
David Williams Dip FS (FP), JP, CMC
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