CrossFit The Club Swimsuit Challenge

CHALLENGE DETAILS:

  • 10 week challenge beginning 3/15/10 (through May)
  • Paleo diet required
  • Cost is $20 per person which will be put into a “pot”.
  • There will be one male and one female winner, who will split the money from the “pot”.
  • In order to win, food journals must be submitted every two weeks via email or submitted during class.
  • Before and after pictures are mandatory.  Pictures should be taken in your swimsuit, front, side, and back photos,  and will be kept completely private.  You can email them to crossfittheclub@hotmail.com.
    • Trainers will pick the winning male and female according to results shown from their before and after pictures.

For the swimsuit challenge we are not going to take any measurements, weights, or body fats, and there are a couple of reasons for this.  First, there are many people that don’t actually lose any weight from dieting and CrossFitting, but have tremendous results in the way their body looks.  Since this is the swimsuit challenge we don’t care how much weight you lose, but how much better you look in your swimsuit.    Also, body fat measurements can be very inconsistent.  The main purpose of the challenge is to look better, feel better, and perform better during our daily WOD’s.  You will receive numerous health benefits from altering your diet as well as feeling better about yourself.  It will be hard, but well worth your effort and time.

I also want to emphasize the importance of food journals.  If you keep a detailed journal, and aren’t experiencing any results, then we can go back through what you are eating and make some adjustments to get you the results you want and deserve.

REFERENCES:

If you have any questions about the Paleo diet, we are putting a link on the website that will explain everything, or you can always ask me or James Read and we’ll help you figure out what you need to do.

Click Here to download this document.


The CrossFit Games are the ultimate test of fitness. It’s a grueling two-day competition in which the world’s fittest athletes compete in a variety of workouts. What are the workouts? Each year they change, and the details of them are not announced until a couple days before the event. This means that all year long, the athletes are training for a competition whose format is almost completely a mystery.

The 2010 Games will have five main competitions: Men’s Individual, Women’s Individual, Affiliate Cup Teams, Men’s Masters and Women’s Masters (over 50). The winners of the individual competitions will each receive $25,000 cash, sponsored by Progenex. There will also be many cash and material prizes for the other winners and top performers.

QUALIFYING FOR THE 2010 CROSSFIT GAMES

The 2010 Games are limited to 50 men and 50 women, all of whom need to qualify to enter. The top five men and women from the 2009 Games are automatically qualified. All past champions are automatically qualified if they wish to compete. The other 43-45 competitors have to qualify in their Regional Qualifier. There are 13 Regionals around the world, and each Regional will send the top 1 – 7 athletes (men and women) to the Games, depending on the size of the Regional.

This year, for the first time, there are Sectional Qualifiers (WHICH WILL BE HOSTED AT CROSSFIT THE CLUB IN FEBRUARY) feeding most of the Regionals. In other words, most of the Regionals are open only to the top competitors from their respective Sectionals. From early February to late March, 2010, there will be approximately 30 Sectionals. Most Sectionals will send the top 10 – 20 men and women to their Regionals.

For more information, visit the CrossFit Games website.