Impact - Thursday, March 13th, 2025

Impact

We’ve been in CrossFit for along time, as athletes, coaches and affiliate owners, so we know the importance of CrossFit, and what it has done to change the fitness community. We’re in it daily.

But sometimes we get lost in it, and we forget the full impact. As you know, or should know, Stouty founded a company called WheelWOD over 10 years ago now, he has been hosting Adaptive CrossFit competitions, programming for adaptive athletes, and giving them a space. Last year just after the open his partners Kevin and Shannon asked Steph and I to be judges for the comp videos that are submitted online, and again this open season Shannon reached out and asked if we could assist.

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday judging 25.2 videos for some of the divisions, and Steph and I spoke at length about what I’m about to share.

How beyond cool is CrossFit. I spent hours in CrossFit affiliates all over the world yesterday, from Australia, to the USA, England, to South Africa, but it was an athlete in India that sparked this feeling. I called Steph right away and we spoke at length about how important CrossFit is. ( I paused the video of course, you can’t judge reps and talk at the same time.) probably one of the smallest affiliates I have ever seen, the ends of the barbells rusted, plates stacked under the bar to reach the rig, the floor uneven, music blaring that I couldn’t understand a word of, but when he started to move we had an instant bond and connection that was formed all the way from Collingwood to India.

I hope I am not over sharing and will stay away from sharing the athletes impairment or division. But in that moment all I could think about was the importance of what Greg Glassman created, and what we do day in and day out. I don’t want it to come across wrong, but for a lot of adaptive athletes, they’re written off in many ways when it comes to athletics. CrossFit and WheelWOD have given that back to them.

CrossFit is so much bigger than most of us can even begin to imagine, and sometimes even we take that for granted.

Long story short, I’ve always been proud to be a tiny part of this community, but judging those videos yesterday, that pride shot up a few notches.

CrossFit is special.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

Strength Day:

Shoulder Press
3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 1 max set Push Press with final weight

Seated Sled Pulls
3 sets of 1 length
superset with Yoke Carry 3 sets 1 length

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