If you’ve been checking out the Games videos I’ve been posting, link you may have noticed how the sport has grown.  Or exploded.  It’s funny to see the tiny crowd if you can even call it that in the Clean/Ring HSPU WOD compared to the packed house in the Stadium Chipper in 2012.  Denny and I were present when Camille and Rich won the Games in 2014, and the tennis stadium was absolutely packed, with grandstands added and the aisles were literally packed to watch people Clean and Jerk. Today, we should be doing a Games WOD from 2011, but it’s tough.  Looking back, that was a transitional year.  The programming got more creative and both CrossFit and Rogue realized they could build interesting and dynamic structures to make the workouts more entertaining and challeging.  The Killer Kage, Dog Sled pushes and pulls, basically Murph on the beach with an...Read more

I changed the Thursday WOD earlier this week.  I hard originally planned to do the Double Pyramid Helen from the 2010 Games.  After the 125 pull-ups from 2007 on Monday, information pills another high rep pull up WOD was probably too much. So, # order we’ll do the Clean/Ring HSPU from the 2010 Games instead.  Except we’re not doing ring HSPU.  We’ll stick with strict HSPU, with men using a deficit of approximately 4 inches (a 45# plate). Why no ring HSPU?  Well, even for really good athletes, it’s a pretty sketchy.  Just watch the video and see how the very best athletes in CrossFit flail around. I have done ring HSPU at the OC Throwdown in 2012 and it was a bloodbath.  I work a beanie cap on my head so I could use my head as a brake.  Not smart. I had not met Nick Z yet, but...Read more

By 2009, sick the CrossFit Games had grown.  What started as an invite only BBQ/WOD event in 2007, website like this to a 300 plus athlete competition in 2008, 2009 was a whole new ballgame.  Athletes were clearly calling CrossFit a sport, and secretly training full time, or as near to it as their bodies would allow. The 2009 Games reflected the growth in that there was a qualification process – a Regional event took the top 5 or 6 athletes to the Games.  Many Regionals were as competitive and the events were as challenging, if not more so, than any CrossFit Games events prior. It is my opinion that the first day of competition at the 2009 CrossFit Games were the most challenging and demanding of any day ever.  A 7k terrain run, a Deadlift ladder that topped out to 505/375, a hellacious hill sandbag run, and a row/sledgehammer/row...Read more

Tuesday’s WOD is from the 2008 CrossFit Games.  The video is badass.  When it was announced, medicine the weight blew everyones mind’s.  275/185 seemed impossibly heavy in a WOD.  But a CrossFit usually shows, health the weight for the tope athletes was not an issue…the moved it up and down like sewing machines. The only requirement that is different than normal – you cannot drop the bar from the top.  Each rep ends when you return the weigh to the ground.  Same standard at the top, but the return tot he ground is a different twist. This WOD was actually the first Games WOD with burpees.  What was inters tong in CrossFit used the Games to define a movement standard, something that we see year in and year out now. The burpee standard called for the athlete to finish in the air, having jumped, with hips, knees and ankles extended...Read more

I had every intention on doing a bigger post today, information pills but I spent the whole day driving.  This week we will be doing some past CrossFit Games workouts.  I will post them tomorrow, site but each day we will hit one from different years – 2007 on Monday, treatment 2008 on Tuesday, 2009 on Wednesday, etc. Workout of the Day “2007” Row 1K Then 5 Rounds  25 Pullups 7 Shoulder to Overhead 135/95Read more