With all of the regionals now complete and all the workouts having been watched multiple times I wanted to make a list of the top 10 things I learned from this years CrossFit regional events. Some of them are humorous some of them are 100% accurate some of them may be less than 100% accurate:
10. If you’ve been to the Games before (a) you have a target on your back (b) that’s not an excuse to not keep getting better, namely because you have a target on your back, (c) if you did well at the Games last year expect to be pressured more and more in the future, unless your name is Rich Froning. Rich Froning is only ever pushed by Rich Froning.
9. Crossfit makes the rules. You don’t have to like or agree with the rules but you can’t avoid them. Crossfit makes them and their definition of the fittest is what you have to mold to. Even if you have good evidence, proof, and research to prove they may be wrong. They make the rules. Deal with it or find another sport.
8. Either a lot of men were really afraid of workout 7 in the Southwest Region or God struck down a plague of sickness and injury on some REALLY good competitors.
7. The creator of this website is (a) a giant nerd (b) the second most popular host to a Crossfit website now only to the the Games site (c) loves to show how incredibly talented the Central East Region is (d) is proving a point about which individuals make it to the Games (e) all of the above.
6. Lululemon has infected outfitted the entire Crossfit world from top to bottom (see what I did there) and met their quota for the year with just one sport. Oh and Rogue did alright too.
5. Bianca Blair wins most outlandish outfits award followed in a close second by Dusty Flores and in third by Crossfit Cedar Park Team. (These are a few of the ones I saw, though as Crossfitters have a knack for needing attention, I’m sure there are more out there.)
4. Who doesn’t love Chris Spealler. I want that man at the Games at 70. He’s a boss and as a small guy I love to see the small guy do work!
3. HS Walking is the new Double Under. Just do them. Practice them often. I saw 1000 different techniques. I saw some REALLY pretty HS Walks fall at 40 ft and some REALLY UGLY HS walk look more like HS running and an event win.
2. I am seriously impressed by any man or woman (Foucher and Froning) who didn’t sand bag on the the pullups on event 7 and still smoked a full snatch as their first rep of the OHS. That takes some confidence in your ability and some serious consistency in your training.
1. It’s never over till it’s over. Anything can happen on Day 3 at the Regionals. Congrats again Jeff Germond!