Road to the Crossfit Games , The Women

I am really excited to watch the women compete at the Crossfit Games this year, I know that Davidsdottir has won the last two years, but both years someone choked, Sara and Toomey... So I'd like to see what will happen this year. I really like what Sara has done, moving to Cooksville, having fun again, and it never hurts training around Rich.

Crossfit Games Obstacle Course

Here's the obstacle course from the Crossfit Games... Looks fun

Road to the Crossfit Games

This video got me so pumped to be heading to the Games, it should be a battle this year.

New Blog Logo

Check out my new Logo, I used a app called Fivver ($5) to have it made, I'll post a review here tomorrow.

Failed Crossfit Games Drug Tests

Today Crossfit Hq announced that 3 athletes failed their drug tests after qualifying for the Crossfit Games, these drug tests were taken at the Regionals.

The tough part here is that the 2 athletes that failed and were on teams, cost their team the spot, the simply just can't sub out that athlete. These athletes face a 2 year ban.

The two teams and the individual athlete were not contenders but you hate to see this. But really this is only the tip of the iceberg, all sports that athletes taking performance enhancers, but people always seem to be one step ahead of the tests.

I was excited to see Ryan Elrod at the games, he was a older athlete with a interesting background, as he was a cirque du soleil performer.

Here is what Ryan Elrod has to say about the ban...

CrossFit Fantasy The Teams Preview

With Reebok introducing Crossfit Fantasy this year I thought I would help you break down each division, all I ask for is some of the Million Dollar Prize money please.

This article will look at what teams I feel have a chance to finish in the Top 5 , it's up to you to make the order, I can't win the Million Dollars for you.

When you think of the Team competition at the Crossfit Games, two things should come to mind 1) Crossfit Mayhem and 2) The Worm. The Worm is a staple of the Team competition and races are won and lost by how well the team manages The Worm. This year ( 2017 ) at regionals the Worm was in 3 events ( 2,4,6 ) and you really saw who practiced with the worm and who said we will figure it out when we get there. The Top 3 teams who managed the Worm across all regions were Fort Vancouver , Crossfit Mayhem and Wasatch Brutes. Of course Mayhem would be in the top, Rich Froning has his team dialed in. Fort Vancouver who are previous champs had a tough year last year ( 17th ) but looked really good at regionals and they will have no issues with The Worm. The Wasatch Brutes really impressed me this season, and will make their first trip to the Games under Adrian Conway, who is a former Games athlete.

When it comes to the Games you know that Dave Castro's programming will switch to moving heavy loads. This year at regional we didn't see heavy barbells but we did see a pretty heavy dumbell in event 5, and a heavy sand bag in event 6.

Event 5 with the dumbell saw Crossfit Fort Vancouver perform well again, as well as very experienced teams like Team Back Bay and Invictus show no signs of struggling with the dumbell. Event 6 with the heavy sandbags saw Fort Vancouver rip through it again, with OC3 Black and
12 Labours Lions showing they had no issues with the sandbags.

When it comes to a Big stage like the Crossfit Games you like to see teams that have experience, Dave Castro will do his best to throw all the atheltes off, so if your team has been there before it will help alot. I look at Mayhem, 12 Labours and Fort Vancouver to be able to handle whatever Castro throws at them.

If you like to cheers on the Rookies look at Reebok Crossfit One with their power house names or Wasatch Brutes and Conway who will be leading the charge of course trying to chase down Crossfit Mayhem.

Hope this helps you win the Million Dollars.

Kennyo

2017 Crossfit Games are coming to CBS

The Crossfit games will be on CBS, This should make it easier for everyone to watch the Crossfit Games.

Here's what CBS had to say about this:

The No. 1 rule of CrossFit is the opposite of Fight Club: Tell everyone about CrossFit. The workout sensation founded by Greg Glassman in 2000 has, over the past several years, become well-known for the feats of strength that it requires. Now, CBS Sports is proud to announce that the CrossFit Games will be broadcast through 2017 and 2018 on CBS, CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Digital.

The CrossFit Games are the single largest participatory sporting event in the world with nearly 400,000 athletes from more than 175 countries. The agreement is highlighted by CBS Sports broadcasting live coverage of the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games on Saturday, August 5 (1:00 PM, ET) from Madison, Wis., followed by a highlight show recapping all the action airing Saturday, August 19 (1:00 PM, ET). 

"We're excited that CBS Sports is our new television partner," said Justin Bergh, the general manager of the game. "CrossFit athletes are unquestionably the fittest in the world and the CrossFit Games are their ultimate proving grounds. We're thrilled that CBS Sports platforms will air our entire season and we look forward to teaming up to showcase the CrossFit community." 

Here's what the coverage should look like:

Thursday, July 20th, 8PM EST - Preview shows on CBS Sports Network
Thursday, August 3rd, 10PM EST - LIVE coverage of the Games
Friday, August 4th, 10PM EST - LIVE coverage of the Games
Saturday, August 5th, 1PM EST - LIVE coverage of the Games
Saturday, August 5th, 10PM EST - LIVE coverage of the Games
Sunday, August 6th, 8PM EST - LIVE coverage of the Games

Crossfit Fantasy

Reebok has come out with a Fantasy Pick'em contest for the 2017 Crossfit Games where you can win 1 million dollars. The video below introduces it.

Here's what the pick'em screen looks like, these wont be my final picks by the way.

The Fittest On Earth Netflix

So if you were like me and held out all this time, now you can watch The Fittest on Earth a decade of fitness.

Netflix has this amazing review of the 2016 games for free.... Enjoy

The LA Times says "Fittest on Earth” carefully tracks the events of the 2016 CrossFit Games, following several athletes along their journey, from rookies to returning champs.While at first it seems like an infomercial for CrossFit, the movie focuses more on the athletes when the games get going."

The Crossfit Games Event 2

This week The Dave Castro introduced event number two for The Crossfit Games, he panned down from the white board and it showed a bike. So Far the theme of these Crosfit Games are triathlon inspired, with the first two events being Running, Swimming and Biking.

We knew that there would be a biking event in this years addition of The Crossfit Games as they introduced their over priced 3 speed bike this year. I find it kind funny they didn't have that bike in the video, maybe Castro couldn't afford it...

The bike in the video in a Trek hardtail bike, perfect for all the trails around Madison. I'm excited for the biking event, who remembers the last time there was mountain biking? Back in 2012 there was an event where the athletes were biking in the mountains of Camp Pendleton, in the sand and rough trails, it was awesome, they were so out of there prefect elements. I see the 2012 as the last true Crossfit games, there were unpredictable, with throwing a ball, a obstacle course, biking in these terrible conditions. This should be a good one!!

BTW the highest ranking Man and Women that was at the 2012 Games in the bike event was Rob Forte and Annie Thorisdottir.

The Crossfit Games Run Swim Run Winner

The Crossfit Games are fast approaching and the only things we know is that it will be hot, it will be in Madison and there's a Run Swim Run Event.

Last Year at the 2016 Crossfit Games we saw running and swimming but not together, if you look at Event # 1 which was the trail run the top 3 men were:
1. Matthew Fraser
2. Josh Bridges
3. Brent Fikowski

The Top 3 Women were:
1. Sam Briggs
2. Kristin Holte
3. Kristi Eramo

Event # 4 was the Open Water swim:
The Top 3 men were:
1. Jonne Koski
2. Khan Porter
3. Brent Fikowski

The Top 3 Women were:
1. Tia-Clair Toomey
2. Kristi Eramo
3. Tennil Reed

In looking at these results you'd say that Brent Fikowski and Kristi Eramo would be your top picks to win. For the men I truly think it will be a battle between Matt Fraser and Brent Fikowski the whole race with Brent winning out. When I look over to the women I see Sam Briggs written all over this event.

As Sleepers I like Josh Bridges and Anna Tunnacliffe.

I can't wait, follow me on Instagram for live updates from the games ( the_box_after_dark )

The Reebok Speed TR 2.0 Review

Can anyone say Casey Neistat...... Crossfit HQ puts out this video promoting the Reebok Speed TR 2.0 and it looks like it was produced by Casey Neistat himself, Heber even sounds alittle like Casey. You have to give Crossfit HQ props from building their media team from the ground up from it first videos to the empire it has become today.

Heber says this review was not paid for by Reebok, that opens a whole other can of worms... It's the Reebok Crossfit games, athletes can only wear Reeboks, everywhere you look it's Crossfit and Reebok, Reebok and Crossfit.... Anyways thats for another post.

I have tried the original speed TR's and look forward to the 2.0's as well.

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2017 Crossfit Games Demo Team

Men's Team

Paul Tremblay (Team Captain)

Graham Holmberg

Albert-Dominic Larouche

Ben Alderman

Women's Team

Alison Scudds

Jen Smith

Kelley Jackson

Alex Parker

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