The Games will once more put the athletes through the wringer.
The 2023 CrossFit Games should prove to be one other worthy test of strength, endurance, versatility, and athleticism for the globe’s best CrossFitters. When the game’s community descends on Madison, WI, on August 1-6, 2023, they’ll even be prepared for the gauntlet of obstacles that stands between them and supreme glory.
On July 19, 2023, the CrossFit Games organization began revealing a number of the workouts planned for the six-day flagship contest in Wisconsin’s state Capitol. For those aware of CrossFit’s usual workouts, some familiar elements will likely be in play. Though, a number of surprises to maintain the respective athletes in every division off balance shouldn’t be out of the query. Justin Medeiros is the two-time defending Men’s Individual champion, while the legendary Tia-Clair Toomey voluntarily vacated the Women’s throne as she focused on her first pregnancy.
Because the competition nears, Breaking Muscle will proceed updating this overview of the upcoming workouts because the CrossFit organization step by step reveals them upfront of competition. Breaking Muscle will provide available details accordingly.
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Here’s a running list and overview of the workouts on the 2023 CrossFit Games revealed thus far:
Helen
Date and time: To be determined
A CrossFit staple, the organization hasn’t announced the precise format for “Helen” in the course of the 2023 Games but said the athletes will do “do a version of the benchmark workout, Helen.” As a benchmark workout, the circuit is familiar to competitive CrossFit athletes in addition to recreational lifters in any CrossFit box. “Helen” centers around a fast-paced series of running, kettlebell swings, and pull-ups. On the time of this writing, it’s unclear which day and what time Helen will happen in the course of the Games.
The usual Helen workout is below:
Three rounds for time:
- 400-meter run
- 21 Kettlebell swings (22.7 kilograms/50 kilos for Men, 15.9 kilograms/35 kilos for girls)
- 12 Pull-ups
Cross-Country 5K
Date and time: To be determined
The running concept may appear easy and simple enough. While it’s currently unclear where or when this can precisely happen, a lot of the 2023 CrossFit Games competitors will run five kilometers (3.1 miles), presumably for time as one in every of the workouts on the competition. Nevertheless, suppose the Cross-Country 5K is anything like “The Capitol” workout from the 2022 Games, which incorporated a rather longer distance run. In that case, it might occur somewhere across the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds and have some kind of heavy, awkward implements to hold. Within the 2023 edition, lower-extremity Adaptive athletes will perform five kilometers on a SkiErg machine as a substitute of running.
Olympic Weightlifting Total
Date and time: To be determined
In what appears to be a well-recognized sight on the CrossFit Games, athletes will perform movements entirely adherent to Olympic weightlifting inside this workout. Competitors are already aware of the clean & jerk and the snatch. This workout will mix the 2 and ask quite a bit out of their explosive strength. Because the name suggests, scores will likely be determined by the overall weight lifted.
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