It’s NCAA Basketball Tournament time (as well as the Open) and to make it more fun we started up a Cove Fitness Bracket. If you are interested in participating, just click on the following link and join.

The open is over, so what do we do now? How about a little NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament pool? Come join our pool and see who can win a special prize and more importantly bragging rights.

You can sign up here!

For those that don’t know, the Cove is very passionate about basketball. At one time we have a basketball rim at the gym. Look at this class clip of pre workout basketball. You won’t be able to unsee this video.

This coming weekend we will be hosting the CrossFit Level I seminar. This is a huge honor for the Cove and has been an invaluable resource to the gym and our coaching staff.

We know the timing of this isn’t ideal as many of you will be looking to retest 22.3 over the weekend. But please know you will have full access to the gym after 6:30p Saturday and 5p Sunday. There will be no Saturday classes but we will be posting an “at home” WOD. Again, the gym will be open as always during non-seminar hours and we so appreciate your support and understanding.

The workout is out and it’s a brutal couplet of deadlifts and burpees over the bar.

CROSSFIT OPEN WORKOUT 22.2

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps for time of:

Deadlifts

Bar-facing burpees

225/135 Barbell

Time cap: 10 minutes

SCALED 

135/95 Barbell

Burpee Stepovers

This workout is devilish in it’s simplicity.  Going from 1 to 10 and back on down, we are looking at 100 burpees and 100 deadlifts so excellent technique and core engagement are critical. 

We will be keeping the gym open to 8:30 PM on Friday night to enjoy a beverage with your fellow Covies and there is talk of going out afterwards.

Post 22.1 celebration

Congratulations to everyone who did 22.1 this week as part of the Open (or in regular class). Nearly half of our membership signed up this year and we are so excited to see all the many amazing performances. For those of you who didn’t sign up (and did the workout) we hope you got a glimpse of what the CrossFit Open is about and why we love it so much.

Yes, technically it’s a ‘competition’. But it’s so much more than that. It’s a chance to be a part of global community doing the same workout with the same shared suffering (and joy!). It’s a chance to push a bit harder than normal because you have skin in the game (even if it’s only a $20 entrance fee!).  It’s a chance to dial in your movement with higher standards and greater accountability with a judge tracking your reps.  It’s also a season of so many “wins”.  And we love to celebrate ALL of them!  While they are almost endless, here are a few Covie wins and firsts:

–    Participation in their first Open ever.    
–    RX’ing their first workout ever.
–    RX’ing their first OPEN workout!
–    Judging for the first time.
–    Being judged for the first time.
–    Picking up a dumbbell heavier than they’ve ever picked up (and snatching it countless times)
–    Some had never been upside down before Friday.
–    And almost all improved their handstand walks dramatically from last year’s Open!
–    New connections and friendships were made.
–    And we crushed the after-party.

If you did the workout on Friday and did not register for the Open, you still can! Just go to games.crossfit.com and sign up by Monday at 8p.  If you did register and have not yet input your scores, you must do that by Monday @ 8p as well so we can verify it.  Again, it’s all on the Games app and site! DO NOT FORGET!

We can’t wait to see what 22.2 has in store for us. Stay tuned for details about the workout (and fun planned after!). #noplacelikecove

That post workout glow!