Crossfit Athletes

For decades, people continuously compete for the title of being the best at something. While people can be the best at one specific thing, CrossFit athletes strive to excel at multiple tasks. CrossFit requires world athletes to succeed various tasks and to possess determination in order to be the best. CrossFit was created by the Founder and CEO Greg Glassman. The workout can be described as extreme levels of prolonged activity that generally work a majority of the body. CrossFit achieves extreme levels of prolonged activity by doing various workouts. These workouts include: gymnastics, running, weightlifting, swimming, and rowing. But these athletes must ensure that when doing these workouts, that they are moving “the largest loads the longest
CrossFit’s program has become a competitive sport and has transformed average people into “the toughest athletes on Earth.” These toughest athletes then compete against each other in the CrossFit Games. The goal of the CrossFit Games “is to find the fittest athletes, not to produce an easily replicable workout program.” The CrossFit Games are divided into three sections: the Open, Regionals, and the Reebok CrossFit Games. The first section, the Open, athletes as young as fourteen years old can participate in the five-week winter experience where athletes complete five given workouts. Athletes from all over the world complete these workouts in CrossFit affiliated gyms after the workout is released online every Thursday for the upcoming week. After this stage, the top seventeen world regions send the top athletes from the Open to the Regionals. The Regionals portion of the CrossFit Games is a “live, three-day competition” usually held in May. Athletes out of the seventeen regions then try to qualify either as an individual or with team for the Reebok CrossFit Games. Athletes try their hardest to qualify for the Reebok CrossFit Games because the Games only allow forty individual men, women, and teenagers, along with forty teams and two-hundred masters. Once qualifying for the Reebok CrossFit Games, athletes strive “to distinguish themselves through consistently exceptional performances” so they can prove themselves worthy of the title “Fittest on Earth.” These distinguished acts of strength are scored throughout the games by their placing in each category an athlete participates in. The more an athlete places in an event, the more the chance of being rewarded as the “Fittest on Earth” (“About the Games”). Over the years, many people have been titled the “Fittest on Earth” due to their strong