Fight Gone Bad results

Well done everyone who was involved in CrossFit NZ's first annual Fight Gone Bad charity workout. A great turnout, great effort and a great cause. Congrats to our winners and a special thanks to our sponsors for providing great prizes. Check out the full score sheet below.

stan men
Jon Lewis
302
stan men
Geoffrey Mickleson
256
stan women
Kristen Dallow
228
intermed
Richard Jancys
282
stan men
Chris Browne
231
stan men
Peter Tainui
236
intermed
Steve Friis
325
stan men
Jamie Neal
244
stan men
Dave Malcolm
229
stan men
David Shaida
185
intermed
Sarah Henderson
242
beginner
Lynn Murphy
325
stan men
Alex Porter
266
stan men
Vann Dizon
218
stan women
Louise Foley
251
stan women
Jo Gleeson
287
intermed
Kathy Warren
273
stan men
Jason Redding
271
stan men
Scott Thompson
270
stan women
Taz
331
intermed
Kat Browne
350
stan men
Steve Holmes
264
stan women
Karen Staples
315
intermed
Alyssa Hardy
271
beginner
Kirstine Jancys
391
stan men
Llewellyn Giles
169
stan men
Darren
336
intermed
Ruth Sullman
277
beginner
Adam Warren-Lee
258
beginner
Brad Murphy
354
beginner
Elliot Staples
344
beginner
Salama Lowe
425
beginner
Emily Smith
398
stan women
Rachael Longson
220
intermed
Komal Kumar
223
intermed
Sharon Lew
260

Not another charity fun run!!!

Okay, we've finally settled on a date for the Fight Gone Bad Challenge. On Saturday November 22nd between 9am-12pm we'll be running participants through this tough workout. CrossFit NZ members should have recieved their entry forms and sponsorship sheets.

For non-members please get in touch with us at info@crossfitnz.co.nz and we'll flick the details your way ASAP. Entry is $10 and includes a free event t-shirt if you register quick. We encourage you to raise a bit of cash from friends and family - all proceeds are going towards cancer research - which is apt, given that it's Movember (Prostate Cancer Month), so scraggly facial hair is also welcome...........

Be sure to bring those friends and family along to cheer you along on the day. We'll have a few snacks and refreshments on hand. There will be prizes for best performers, most money raised, scariest workout face, dirtiest mo, etc etc...........

Also, if you own a business and are interested in helping out with sponsorship through cash or prizes, we'd love to hear from you.

FIGHT GONE BAD EXPLAINED

FGB Prelims

Well done to everyone who participated, you all worked really hard and produced awesome results! Count down to six weeks when we will have the official Fight Gone Bad workout to support and raise money for prostate cancer. Everyone is welcome to come along and give the workout a go, so if you know anyone who might be interested, get them to send us an email. Spectators are also welcome. The more the merrier! Get your friends and family to come cheer you on to a PB. We'll have the BBQ cranking with lots of meat and veggies too.

More details to come regarding exact dates and times.

Here's the results from the preliminaries.

Results

• Emma (standard women) 233
• Kathryn (intermediate) 302
• Amanda (standard women) 260
• Rachael (intermediate) 323
• Kathy (intermediate) 238
• Kirstine (beginner/4kg/half hp) 407
• Jo (standard women) 289
• Mallory (kids) 362
• Adam (kids) 381
• Cam (kids) 403
• Komal (intermediate) 240
• Kat (intermediate) 377
• Peter (modified men) 278
• Karen (standard women) 281
• Louise (standard women) 233
• Nick (standard men) 271
• Dave (standard men) 266

Park (exercises and weights were modified: thrusters for wall ball and burpees for rower)

• Emma B (standard women) 302
• Shan (beginner) 285
• Alyssa (standard women) 338
• Chris (standard men) 375
• Mat (standard men) 208
• Emma (intermediate) 260
• Amanda (standard women) 323
• Anthea (beginner) 285
• Marie (standard women) 318

CrossFit Beach (exercises and weights were modified: thrusters for wall ball and burpees for rower)

• Richard 291 (10kg DB PP, 24kg KB Deadlift HP, 8kg Thruster, 40cm box, straight arm burpee)
• Geoff 364 (10kg DB PP, 24kg KB Deadlift HP, 8kg Thruster, 40cm box)
• Ian 284 (10kg DB PP, 24kg KB Deadlift HP, 8kg Thruster, 40cm box)

Fight Gone Bad

Starting next week, on Wednesday and Thursday we're having the preliminary Fight Gone Bad workout. There are beginner/intermediate/advanced categories.

The clock runs continuously for 5 minutes, spend one minute at each of these stations:

• wallball
• sumo deadlift high pull
• box jump
• pushpress
• rower (for calories)
• 1 minute rest
• 3 total rounds. Score total reps.

Class A: Standard Men = 35kgPP and High Pull, 8kg Wall Ball and 50cm Box
Class B: Modified Men/Standard Women = 25kg PP and High Pull, 6 kg Wall Ball and 50cm Box
Class C: Intermediate = 20kg PP and 16kg KB High Pull, 4.5kg Wall Ball and 40cm Box (step ups are okay- but count every second rep)
Class D: Beginner/Kids = 6kg DB PP and 8kg KB High Pull, 2.5kg Wall Ball and 30cm Box (step ups are okay- but count every second rep)

In about 6 weeks we will run the finals on a Saturday. We want to use this as an excuse to raise a heap of money for charity. As it will be in November (Mo'vember) we will definitely kick some cash to the people fighting Prostate Cancer, but we welcome suggestions for another charity.
We're working on getting more goodies for most improved and fastest times. Big thanks to Cigana Cafe for the last prizes.

New Challenge - 100 Burpees

This is something to be done outside of CrossFit training, in your own time. I know everyone hates burpees, but what better way to get over that than to do more burpees right?!

So we present to you The 100 Burpee challenge.

1 burpee on the first day, 2 burpees on the second day , 3 on the third and so on up to the 100th day and 100 burpees for a total of 5050 burpees!!

We will start on Tuesday September the 16th with 1 burpee and finish on Christmas Eve with 100 burpees - just in time to enjoy that big Christmas dinner guilt free after all the work you will have put in over the last 3 months.

The rules are as follows:

• burpees can be completed in one go, or spread throughout the day
• burpees in the CrossFit NZ workout of the day are not included until we hit Day 40, then it's your decision whether to include them or not.
  
• Anyone capable of 20 full pushups in a row must do the full range of motion pushup burpee
• if you miss a day, you can make it up the next day by doing both days worth of burpees
• Warning! don't miss a day once you get much past 50 reps or you'll suffer.....

This will be the icing on the cake to your summer shape up. Most of us spend our day sitting at a desk these days, so keep your fat burning metabolism cranking with burpees scattered through your day. Rope your family, friends and colleagues in if you feel silly so that you're in it together.

3 weeks to go...

....till the Filthy Fifty finals. Will you be ready to set a personal best? If any of the 10 exercises from the workout caused you particular problems, you should be spending a couple of minutes before or after training at CrossFit NZ to work on technique.

The better your technique, the easier it will be to maintain that technique and thus a decent work output when fatigued.

I'm guessing skipping and box jumps could use the most work.....

Filthy 50 Prelim Challenge

The preliminary challenge has been completed with over 20 people participating at all three levels of ability. Great performances from everyone, we were really impressed with the determination, work ethic and technique demonstrated by all.

Take a look at some highlights of the two days below - and start training for the finals!!