This week's Live Announcement of 18.3 pitted two Master’s athletes, Kyle Kasperbauer (35-39 year old division) and Neal Maddox (40-44 year old division), against one another. These athletes may be older, but that does not hold them back! Kasperbaurer is the only athlete to have stood on the podium at the CrossFit Games in three divisions--Individual, Team, and Master's. While Maddox has had seven Games appearances, finishing second last year in the 35-39 year division, behind Kasperbaurer. Source
Hopefully, you read the previous two week's posts introducing the CrossFit Open, 18.1 and 18.2 and tuned in this past Thursday night at 7:00pm CST to watch the Live Announcement of Open Workout #18point3 on Facebook! If not, you can read the post introducing the CrossFit Open here or the 18.2 post here and watch a recap of Thursday’s Live Announcement of 18.3 here:
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The CrossFit Games is the Olympics of the CrossFit world, where arguably the fittest athletes in the world compete each July to be crowned the “fittest man/woman” alive. They must first, however, qualify at Regionals in one of the 18 Regions across the globe. But, to compete at Regionals, you must first qualify in the Open which kicked off two weeks ago with the first workout known as 18.1 and last week with 18.2. Source
Personally, 18.1 and 18.2 were not strong performances for me, which you can read about in my Week 1 Results and Week 2 Results.
I'll be performing each workout on Monday following the Thursday Announcement (which is the deadline) and sharing my results each Tuesday with my Steemit community via my Results posts. I hope you follow along; your encouragement means more than you know in moving toward my goals of improving my fitness. And, hopefully, it will inspire you to start your own fitness journey.
Every Thursday night at 7:00 CST for five weeks, The CrossFit Games runs a live announcement of that week's workout. It's a surprise to ALL involved. Then, athletes go head-to-head, completing the workout live!
Let me decipher. 18.3 is completed For Time. Athletes must complete 2 Rounds of:
And all of this must be completed twice within 14 minutes. If not, your score is the number of reps completed at the 14:00 cap. The Muscle-ups are a movement that always creates separation between the athletes because of its high level of difficulty. However, with all the attention on the Muscle-ups, the heavy Overhead Squats caught most off guard. The two Master's athletes who competed this workout for the Live Announcement are some of the best in the world, yet didn't complete it. And on this night, the older Neal Maddox took the win!
This demo video from YouTube, clearly explains the movement standards and gives you a visual of what the workout should look like:
Friday night, at our gym, we ran heats of this workout in what we call a “Friday Night Lights” style. We have a theme each week--this week's theme was 80’s Night! It's one of our community's favorite times of the year! I hope you'll follow along as I share each week's workout and my results, as I try to advance up the leaderboard!
Thanks,
Coach JJ
Hi! My name is Coach JJ and I've been coaching and inspiring athletes to better health and fitness for over five years! I'm a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer at CrossFit Edwardsville in Edwardsville, IL, USA. But, my vision is to bring together the Fitness Community on Steemit in order to have a greater impact on improving the health and fitness of our fellow Steemians.
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