CrossFit Open 2016 at CrossFit Magnitude

The CrossFit Open is a 5-week competition starting in February of each year. Anyone in the world can compete to see where they stand in their fitness level with people of the same gender and same age group. It is very simple you sign up on games.crossfit.com and pay $20. On Thursdays at 8 pm, CrossFit Head Quarters announces what the workout is for each week and you have from Friday-Monday to perform the workout. You can do it as many times as you want. You must have a judge to validate your form and count reps. By Monday evening, you put your score in, the owner of the Box you performed the workout at has to validate it online. By Wednesday of that week, you can see how you did in the workout compared to others your age (same sex). After the 5 weeks, Mark ended up #83 in the world for ages 50-54. This was out of 5500 men. The top 200 men or woman in each age group for Masters goes on to the Masters Qualifier. Men and Woman under age 40 go to regionals. Mark had to do 4 more brutal workouts a few weeks after The Open. He did so well he ended up #51 in the world. The top 20 of each age group are invited to go to the CrossFit Games in California in July...hopefully Mark will go next year. My goal for 2017 is to make it to the Masters Qualifier. I know I can do it! Our good friend Kevin Unger made it in the top 10 and is going to the Games!! This has been years of hard work for Kevin. They both are amazing athletes!

I Coach at CrossFit Magnitude and CrossFit TakeOff so we did some of the workouts on Friday nights at CrossFit Magnitude and some on Sundays at CrossFit TakeOff. Chloe made this awesome video of Friday nights. As much as I hate to workout at night I had such a blast with these amazing people. The camaraderie, the support, the energy and being surrounded by like-minded people was incredible. Don't ever be afraid to test your fitness. If you work hard enough you will get better each year. I know I have!

A video made by Chloe.