Since 2011, the CrossFit Games season has started with The Open, an online competition in which hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world participate.
For aspiring Games athletes, The Open is the first stop on the road to the Games. Only the top athletes will have to opportunity to participate in the next stage of competition, which, this year, is an online Quarterfinal.
For the rest of us, The Open is an opportunity to test our fitness and to see where we stand relative to our own gym community, and the CrossFit community at large.
If you choose to register for The Open, you’ll be able to see your name on the leaderboard, which you can customize by all sorts of different search parameters. You can even create your own custom leaderboard. And even if you don’t register, you’ll still be able to see approximately where you would rank according to your performance on a given workout.
Open workouts are released on Thursday afternoons (this year, the Open begins on March 11 and will last for 3 weeks), and score submissions are typically due by the following Monday at 5pm.
For the past few month, our programming has been geared towards prepping our athletes for the types of workouts that have historically appeared in The Open. If you’ve been paying attention, you have likely noticed that Friday workouts have been past Open workouts, and we’ve been doing the conditioning first on Fridays, followed by our strength work.
Next Friday, all the group classes will do Open Workout 21.1. We won’t know what the workout will be until it’s announced on Thursday afternoon.
Hopefully it’s not a repeat of 12.1, which was a 7 min AMRAP of burpees. Only burpees. For 7 minutes. It was not that fun.
Whatever it is, it will be a great test of your fitness, a good opportunity to challenge yourself, and a chance for some friendly competition and trash talk among friends.
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