Announcing the first Zone Games!
It goes without saying that the CrossFit Games season has generated excitement and enthusiasm around the Zone. Now that our athletes have given their best and their journey has ended, it only makes sense to bring the Games to our own backyard so that everyone can share in the fun! So here are the details of the first ever Zone Games…
When: Sunday June 27 2010 from 800am to 500pm
Where: At the Zone of course!
Who: Athletes who want to get a taste of an official competition and who want to challenge themselves over and above the pursuit of the daily WOD. There will be two categories of athletes – Open and Advanced. Open is meant for novice-intermediate athletes who usually fit into the Zone 3 scaling, and Advanced athletes are individuals who can perform the Elite scaling on most WODs. See chart below to find out what category you fit into.
If you want to compete and you are not at the Open Level, we can scale your workouts however you will be scored below anyone who has not scaled.
What: Three events, covering as many possible time domains and modes of fitness to achieve the best all-round challenge of your abilities. Athletes will be scored by placing in all the WODs and will be ranked on the basis of their overall performance.
How: Pick up a registration form from the Zone office, complete it, and bring it in with $15 registration no later than Sunday June 20th.
Athlete Category Performance Standards
| Open Female | Advanced Female | Open Male | Advanced Male | |
| Pullups | 10 | 15 | 15 | 25 |
| Thrusters (3 rep) | 65lb | 95lb | 95lb | 135lb |
| Deadlift 1RM | 150lb | 200lb | 200lb | 300lb |
| Wallball | 10lb to 10′ | 14lb to 10′ | 14lb to 10′ | 20lb to 10′ |
| Muscle up | – | – | – | 3+ |
| Pushups | 10 from toes | 15 from toes | 15 from toes | Hspu – 4+ |
| Clean and Jerk 1RM | 65+ | 115+ | 95+ | 175+ |
Today’s Workout:
Buy In – Snatch Technique – 4 rounds, increasing weight each round of: 2 snatch grip deadlift, 1 hang power snatch, 1 snatch balance.
Followed by – full snatch warm-up to the weight you will use in the WOD
WOD – “Isabel”
A classic CrossFit workout, Isabel has yet to be done “Rx” in the Zone, so there’s lots of room on the leaderboard ;). If you’re not that familiar with the snatch, scale down and work on technique and refining the movement. If you’re close to doing the weights Rx, then try Zone 4. If going for full Rx, think about setting a pace – i.e. performing one snatch every 30s or so.
Elite – 30 snatches for time (95/135)
Zone 5 – 15 snatches for time (95/135)
Zone 4 – 30 snatches for time (75/115)
Zone 3: scale snatches to 55/95
Zone 2: scale snatches to 35/65
Zone 1: scale snatches or exercise (i.e. change to overhead squats) as needed
Cash Out – 8 turkish get-ups per side (alternate) and 5-10 handstand holds of 10s
This competition is going to be awesome… can’t wait to see our athletes put out their best!
Stay tuned for registration forms and more info 🙂
turts
Awesome event, guys! I wish I could be there for this! Congrats to all of y6u who participated in the Regionals as well, you are an inspiration.
Looks awesome guys. I’m sure it will be a big success.
For those that are interested, I did some more CrossFit data analysis and wrote a new blog post about it: http://seanfalconer.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-crossfit-data-analysis-this-time.html
If you want to skip the blog and get to the good stuff, check out the CrossFit Data Explorer application I wrote: http://keg.cs.uvic.ca/seanf/crossfit.php
The tool allows you to visually explore all the sectional and regional data sets. The blog explains some of the things you can do with it. Hope you like it.
Cheers,
Spidey
So I’m sure a lot of people will be wondering this – how do you choose which category to go into if you can’t do all the requirements of Advanced?
Do we have to be able to do all of the Advanced standards to be allowed to enter, or is it more of a guideline?
Looking forward to it.
It is going to be a blast!!! I am sooooo excited!
Cam, correct me if I am wrong…. Chris I would stick to the category that you know that you can complete all the standards on, because if they come up and you can’t do them you will receive a DNF and therefore ranked below everyone who completed the wod 🙁
Msg From Toby!
“hey girl.. give my congratulations to every1 there. Obviously the games contenders and all those new pr’s you posted in the newsletter. Awesome stuff. Ihope you are well also and having good summer fun there. i miss all of you and i miss having such a great family around me. Know that you are all in my thoughts and wis…hes, always.
lots of love. sgt pepper”
Good question Chris… Yes like Dee said, a competitor must be able to complete all of the standards in order to challenge the Advanced Category. Doing this keeps everything competitive and will result in some tighter scores!
turts
What a great resource!
Awesome work today on Isabel team! There are some really good improvements in power and capacity being shown on a daily basis. We are producing fit people and reducing physical and mental limits… this is the power of Crossfit done right.
turts