Our design requirements included but were not limited to the following: quantifiable results; consistency with the CrossFit fitness concept; raising our commitment to improving absolute strength, relative strength, and gymnastic foundations; balancing intrinsic abilities of smaller and larger athletes; emphasizing exercises critical to and foundational to advanced training; mixing training demands within each test and, of course, over the total competition; a design that would identify an athlete’s weaknesses and possibly stand as a workout plan for improving overall fitness; and, finally, we wanted to design a competition that would be “hard as hell.”


The competition that we’ve designed comprises five tests. One test is performed for each of five days in the order given.
We’ve listed within each test description a possible workout that would test for and consequently improve the performance of that test. While designing each test we asked ourselves what kind of fitness might develop from turning the tests into workouts that were repeated to the exclusion of other work and with the sole purpose of improving the tests. The answer in the case of this final product is “elite fitness.”

Courtesy of Greg Glassman and CrossFit HQ the tests will follow next week and we will program some into our workouts in the near future.

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