Zone Team showing some guns after the last workout
Congratulations to all the individuals and teams that competed at the Winter Challenge this weekend. Thank you to the Zone Family that came out to show your support and love for the family. Thank you to Coach Bones for holding down the fort while all the coaches were at the competition this weekend. Thank you to the Taranis team for putting on another great event this year.
The athletes this weekend did AMAZING, they gave it everything they had and left nothing behind! There were some very heavy weights in the workouts this year and athletes hit PRs and for reps!!!! You should all be very proud of yourselves. Check out Facebook for videos and photos (by b).
Here’s a brief recap of the final placings of our athletes:
Individuals:
Lindsay McCardle – 16th
France Legault – 19th
Michelle Wyngaarden – 29th
Lucas Parker – 4th
Tom James – 2oth
Cam Birtwell – 22nd
Sean Bruce – 28th
Adam Giles – 32nd
Warren Reeves – 36th
Dino Larizza – 57th
Teams:
Zone Team 1 (Lindsay F, Wendy, Deanna, Kyle & Paul) – 5th in Heat
Zone Team 2 (Adrianna, Kath, Gord & Craig) – 5th in Heat
There was some tough competition for our competitors this year, but everyone put up a good fight. The weekend was made up of 6 workouts for the individual athletes and 4 for our teams. Some of the workouts had 2 different scoring opportunities, one score for a max repetitions and one for max weight lifted. The workouts ranged from a 5km run, to max snatch, to a barbell complex to somersaults! Be sure to congratulate the athletes when you see them next in the gym.
If any athletes would like to write about their experience and share it with the family, please send it to deanna@crossfitzone.ca
Q.O.D: What was your favourite part of the TWC?
Today’s Workout:
Buy In – Pullup technique – work on your kipping pullup, butterfly pullup or muscle up. Coaches, spend 15 minutes working on the movement
Check out the video tutorial on the butterfly pullup: http://youtu.be/UabNwmk0oUM
Workout – “Fun 400’s”
4 Rounds of:
400M Med ball run (14/20lb)
- With a partner, you will take turns running with a medicine ball around the block. Partner 1 runs 400M, then Partner 2 runs 400M, repeat 3 more times.
Zone 2 – Scale to 10/14lb ball
Zone 1 – Scale to 2-3 rounds, scale ball as needed
* Dress warm for the early morning and evening workout times!
Cash Out – Follow the leader stretching
hey twc competitors: did you leave a black zone machine shirt at taranis on saturday? if so it is in my washing machine-will bring it to the gym sometime this week.
my favourite moments were: the dude who popped his knee at the beginning of the 5km and still finished walking the rest of the way and the cf whistler girl pressing out the kbs even though they probably weighed more than she did.
my favourite zoner moments: francy and linds going rep for rep on rope, thruster wod, adam using 2 pulls to get the kettlebell up, dinos flying burpees, cam turtling out every wod and the teams working together to get through the wods-all our members were inspiring-love the family!
The shirt is Lucas'
My fav moment was the bunch of zoners cheering on team two in the first wod. I missed my first 3 attempts, but kept going to get in a few good reps, and couldn’t have done it without the cheering section. Also a high point for team two as it was our only 1st place finish.
I tried to return the favour with Michelle in the last wod, and enjoyed encouraging her just as much.
Thanks Craiggers!! I definitely felt all the love on that last WOD and it helped to stay motivated and keep trying that darn snatch! I did way better than I expected and it was great to share with everyone:)
From 227th after the first day down to 29th is awesome, well done 🙂