Just For Fun All Out

Jacques (owner of CF Montreal), Nic, myself, and Jonathan... Team 6.

CrossFit Montreal celebrated it' s 4th year as Quebec's first CrossFit affiliate , by throwing a great big party the only way they know how:

By hosting a Team Challenge!

Teams of four (minimum one woman per team) people engaged in a fun and friendly competition. There were 2 Events:

Event#1 (For time)
Competition Category (Teams of 4 with a least 1 female)
A. 2 teammates run 800m with a 7kg Ball they can pass to each other when tired.
B. Once run is over, the remaining 2 teammates will share a total of 1000m row ( 1 at a time on rower)
C. Once row is done, 2 teammates will share a total of 100 burpees (1 at a time)
D.Once burpees are done, 2 teammates will share a total of 100 kb swings (24kg/20kg)(1 at a time)
E. 4 teammates will perform a total of 200 pull ups ( 1 person a a time on the bar)
Please note that for all events, you can divide reps as you please amongst teammates but each member as to perform at least one rep of the exercise they were assigned .

Event # 2 For time( Same team requirements as in event#1)

Competition Category
A. Total of 200 knees to Elbows (1 person at a time)
B. Total of 200 wallballs (9kg/7kg) (1 person at a time)
C. Total of 200 Push-Jerks (75/55 lbs) ( 1 person at a time)
D. 200m Relay Farmers walk 24kg KB in each hand for male\16kg for female)

I don't know about you, but when someone tells me "Oh, it's just for fun..." I can't help but feel competitive.

I mean who wants to be last? If you train hard and work towards bettering your 1RM dead lift, or a benchmark WOD time, you aren't training to come in last.

Sometimes I think people add on the " Just for fun" tag as an asterisk which really means "here's your built in excuse to not try as hard as you can, you don't really NEED to work hard...because it's just for fun ".

In case you haven't figured it out by now, I don't do "just for fun". Go hard or go home. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. There is no "I" in team. Those who risk nothing, get nothing.

One of my team mates, Nic (directly left of me) coined a great saying for our collective sentiment regarding this friendly competition: Just For Fun -All Out.

Pull out all the stops, strategize, plan the attack, and conquer. And we came pretty close.

We won the first event, but a few seconds, and came second in the second event but a about 12 seconds...so we came in a solid 2nd out of 6 competitive teams.

It was awesome! For more pictures about this event and future events check out CrossFit Montreal's site.

www.crossfitmontreal.ca