IT’S BEEN making the rounds on the social networking site Facebook – the E-Networks Guyana CrossFit Games, perhaps the first time it is being held on these shores.CrossFit competitions are held around the world. Professional athletes train year-round for the events. Here at home, athletes of any discipline and fitness enthusiasts nationwide are being encouraged to participate.

It’s a brutal competition that not only tests your fitness level and endurance, but your central nervous system.

According to the CrossFit online site, the programme is designed for universal scalability, making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. They boast that it’s been used for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts.
There have been many books written, dedicated to CrossFit training from ‘beginners to ballistic athletes’; some chronicling the training regime and diet of professional Cross-fitters such as Julie Foucher – dubbed the 2nd fittest woman on earth coming out of the 2012 CrossFit games.
The CrossFit Games will be held on March 1 on the tarmac of the National Park, beginning at 10:00hrs.
The organizers, Jaime McDonald of Fitness Express and Noshavyah King of Genesis Fitness Express are the persons behind it.
They are looking for no more than 8 teams of four, one of whom must be female. If you can’t muster a team then you can go at it solo.
It’s unclear at this stage the actual events that will be used to test the fitness level of the participants but the organisers have posted a list of some 15 exercises that can be used in one’s training to prepare for the games.
These include but are not limited to the deadlift, cleans, push press, squats, thrusters, kettle bell swings, push-ups, burpees, box jumps, pull ups, toes to bar, farmer’s walk, tyre flips, sled pulls and pushes and of course, some amount of running.
More information on the event can be found on their official Facebook page – Guyana CrossFit Games.

(By Leeron Brumell)