Glassman Firms Up Details on CrossFit Games Changes

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Glassman Firms Up CrossFit Games Details in Exclusive Interview

From the man himself.

In an exclusive interview with Girls Gone WOD Podcast released yesterday, Greg Glassman firms up more details on the new format for the CrossFit Games season. This comes just two weeks after we broke the news about the new changes.

Oh and yesterday, CrossFit announced that the 2019 Granite Games will be a sanctioned event. 

Here are a few of the changes Glassman has solidified so far.

So will there be 160+ teams?

No. Glassman said that the teams will be cropped from the 16 planned sanctioned events. “We’re talking initially of in the first year or two, launching 16 sanctioned events that give a pathway to the Games, and those are where the teams are going to come from,” Glassman said.

What will the sanctioned events be?

Dubai CrossFit Championship was announced last week. Glassman said on the podcast that Wodapalooza and French Throwdown are “on board.”

How will they handle 160+ individual competitors for both male and females?

Likely an elimination system. “We’re going to cull the herd into a very watchable and exciting number of people. What could happen is early in the week put 200 [athletes] through a task that leaves ten, then watching ten for two days,” Glassman sai.

What about Teens and Masters divisions?

Uncertain, but appears they haven’t been cut out completely. “In every country we’ll have crowned fittest man and woman, and we can do something similar of course with the juniors and masters.”

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CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES (a highlight reel around social media of CrossFit pros and average joes)

Rachel Mathers gets a 100 pound push press PR • Congratulations to Camille Leblanc-Bazinet on becoming an American citizen yesterday • This RXBAR ad is everything • Mat Fraser builds up to an easy 395 pound jerk for two • 15-year-old Theo Hurst goes for 550 meters on the ski-erg exactly four months after having a stroke • The Granite Games gave this fit family the royal treatment • Dave Castro recorded an episode for the CrossFit Podcast and we can’t wait for it to air • Happy Birthday Carleen Mathews, who officially became a masters athlete • Cody Anderson announced he’s going to give competing in Olympic Weightlifting a go and we’re pretty excited to see what he does. 

…and it’s Friday. It’s been a long week, and we won’t judge if you dance like this in celebration that the weekend is here.

Granite Games, Day 1 — Day 1 kicked off with a bang in St. Cloud, MN as the pros took on two events, followed closely a major announcement that the 2019 Granite Games is moving to next June and is the second announced CrossFit sanctioned event. 

Standings: With two of ten events completed, here’s where the top five stand. 

— Men: 1.) Travis Mayer (200), 2.) Taylor Self (185), 3.) Streat Hoerner (177), 4.) Luke Schafer (174), 5.) Benjamin Johnson (172.5).

— Women: 1.) Alison Stall (191), 2.) Colleen Fotsch (188), 3.) Taylor Streid (185), 4.) Sarah Viets (183), 5.) Hayley Murillo (181).

— Day Two Schedule (CT): 9:30 – 11:46 AM On the Rope; 2:35 – 3:33 PM Obstacle Course; 4:47 – 6:59 PM Thruster Run 2.0.

…and here’s how you can watch live today through the weekend.

“Why One Busy Mom Made Time for Fitness,” by Emily Beers, CrossFit Journal

Julie Valdez had a bad case of “mom guilt.”

“You know, the guilt moms feel that they aren’t doing enough,” she said. “I had all this guilt that I wasn’t doing enough to balance all my kids’ needs.”

Valdez, 32, is mother to two sets of twins: Aiden and Isaiah, 4, and Augustine and Isabella, 2.

“Mom guilt” kept Valdez from taking care of herself. A perceived lack of time and energy meant she didn’t prioritize her nutrition, and she let her fitness slide. As a result, by the time Augustine and Isabella were born in 2016, she had reached 210 lb. at 5 foot 4.

She felt unhealthy and lethargic and suffered from postpartum depression. In July 2016, when her youngest twins were six-months-old, Valdez hit rock bottom.

“I went on a family vacation to Florida. I saw a picture of myself after the vacation and hardly recognized who I was,” she said.

She knew it was time to make a change—not just for her own sake, but also for her children. So she went to the doctor, who told Valdez she was obese.

After the appointment, Valdez sat in her car and cried.

Valdez immediately turned to CrossFit 630 in Naperville, Illinois, for help.

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