Champion - Friday, April 4th, 2025

Champion

Champion is a workout that many of you will have done before, some multiple times. If I’m really honest with you, I almost changed the workout for today. This week has been really heavy, so I almost opted to change the date of Champion.

But this is what we do, we honour people and lives that have made an impact in our community. Sure we workout, we train, but the community piece of CrossFit, and the one of the biggest piece that sets us apart is the community. The ethos of CrossFit.

We don’t shy away from things when they get hard, we embrace it. We have a handful of workouts that are tribute WODs, while they might not be official Hero WOD, we treat them like they are, and we continue to honour the people they were created for year after year.

Champion is one of those WODs. Champion was created to honour a CrossFit Athlete by the name of Becky Conzelman. This will be the 8th time we have honoured Becky through Champion. Becky passed away on April 6th, 2019 after suffering a brain aneurysm a week prior to her passing. Becky was an OG CrossFitter, a former Games athlete, a wife, mother, the co-founder of Faith RX, a beloved member of the CrossFit Community and she was a good friend to some of our friends in the CrossFit Community.

Some of you would have joined us for a virtual version on Champion in April of 2020. During that time we were sharing virtual classes with 2 affiliates in the US, one being CrossFit Watchtower which is owned by Kevin Ogar. Kevin and Becky were good friends, and Kevin asked us if one of our Saturday WODs could be Champion to honour Becky. Becky was also very good friends with Jenny LaBaw, who we do Move Mountains for each year. I decided to make the most of our virtual class and reached out to Jenny, and asked her to join us, to surprise Kevin, and have other athletes doing Champion with us virtually that also has a personal connection to Becky. We ended up with an incredible group of athletes, many Games Athletes and OG coaches who all came together virtually with us to honour Becky, and share stories about her. It was a very cool experience in 2020.

Photo above from the 2020 virtual Champion WOD. Among CF Indestri members you can spot, Talanya Fortunnado, Gretchen Kittelberger, Jenny Labaw and Marcus Brown, Annie Sakamotom, Michele Letendre, Kevin and Shannon Ogar, Pat Barber, Nicole Biscuiti, and Guido Trinidad.

Today we will continue with the tradition of Champion in honour of the impact that Becky had on the CrossFit Community. We’ll celebrate champion and the incredible tie that binds us all as CrossFitters.

Friday, April 4th, 2025

Focus:

Snatch Balance
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2

WOD:

Champion
2 Rounds for Time
25 Handstand Push-Ups
20 Deadlifts 135/95
15 Overhead Squats 135/95
10 Burpee Box Jump Overs 24/20
800m Run (row depending on weather this may be an 800m Row)

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