Fittest on Earth

The CrossFit Open, Regionals and Games are the biggest events in the CrossFit world.

If you are a member of a CrossFit affiliate then you are a candidate to become “The Fittest woman/man on Earth” which is the official title of the CrossFit Games. “The Games” is a yearly event held in Cason California. 47 men and 44 women compete in the individual competition amongst the masters (seniors) and teams.

But how can you get on the journey of becoming the fittest person on earth? It’s quite simple actually. First of all you need to complete the first course in CrossFit. Then you simply sign up on games.crossfit.com. “The Open” is a competition for every CrossFitter in the world. “The Open” is a 5 week long competition. On Thursday, the workout you should perform appears on the internet. Then you have until Monday to perform it and have your trainer confirm your result.

The worls is divided in to 17 regions: Africa has one, Asia one, Australia one, Canada two, Europe one and America eleven. If you qualify in top 48 in your region you’ll get to the next part.

The Games 2013

 “The Regionals” is the completion for the strongest CrossFitters in every region.  To qualify, you need to be in the top 4, however if one of the top 4 is a former  “World’s fittest woman/man” then a plus-one gets to qualify. The way to becoming  “The fittest on earth” gets harder and harder. At “The Games” you are competing  with the best of the best in CrossFit. Latest winners names are truly the biggest  names in CrossFit.Rich Froning won the 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Game, which  makes him deserve the title “Fittest on Earth”. Samantha Briggs is the current  “Fittest Woman on Earth” but due to injuries Annie Mist Thorisdottir could not defend her title this year after winning The Games in 2011 and 2012. I think we can all agree on that’s it nice to be able to say “I’m the fittest on earth” and win 275.000 dollars.