Unofficial Top Ten of 19.3

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Getting Adaptive Athletes to Use Their Fitness Outside

Some background.

Everyone should have the ability to enjoy fitness outside and try new sports. Which is why we think what Eagle Mount, a nonprofit based out of Bozeman, MT is doing is super cool.

What is it?

Eagle Mount was founded in 1982 by a retired Air Force General named Robert C. Mathis and his wife, Greta, who worked as a special-education teacher for years. Their mission is to provide outdoor experiences for “people with disabilities and young people with cancer, and to provide support for families of participants so that they shall mount up with wings as eagles.”

Originally, the program was only downhill skiing. They’ve since expanded to 19 acres that they use for everything from horseback-riding, swimming, and rock climbing.

They even have a fully outfitted, specialized gym for people with spinal cord injuries and also an adaptive playground.

Fitness for all.

Jen Hedrick, executive director of Eagle Mount, says the idea is to make the grounds a place that everybody can enjoy. “When you see kids playing on the adaptive playground, they’re having a blast and they don’t even see their differences.” 

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“Exactly what I needed to do:” Noah Ohlsen finishes top 10 in 19.3, inches closer to qualifying

Week 3 of the 2019 CrossFit Games Open gave Noah Ohlsen an invaluable opportunity: to finish high up on the leaderboard and make up some ground.

“I went to bed before it was announced Thursday so I didn’t see it [until] Friday morning! [I] liked it when I saw it.”

Ohlsen, a five-time CrossFit Games athlete, wants to qualify for the CrossFit Games through the Open this year, but had a rough start with a 796th place finish on 19.1.

Where his start was uncharacteristically low on the leaderboard, both 19.2 and 19.3 show off what Ohlsen is capable of.

Coming off a stellar 32nd place finish worldwide on 19.2, Ohlsen “knew [19.3 would] be good but didn’t know how good” until it was all over. His first attempt was a lightning fast 8:11, but lightning fast isn’t good enough when every rep counts.

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• WODS FROM A TO T — On Saturday, April 6 M Squared Fitness in Manchester, England will be working through the CrossFit alphabet doing named WODs from A to T. That’s 20 workouts in 10 hours for seven-year-old Rose, who has a rare disease called Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) that put her in a wheelchair but has the opportunity to participate in a trial to potentially get her mobile again.
• RESCUE ROAD FUNDRAISER — CrossFit North Fulton in Alpharetta, GA has partnered with Do Good Health to help build a hospital in Rwanda and help our local first responders. Rescue Road: An Obstacle Course Event to Support First Responders will take place on April 13. 
• FINNEGAN STRONG — On Sunday, March 24 CrossFit St. Helens is hosting Finnegan Strong, a team row-a-thon for max meters. All funds raised will go to the Sheeley family for their son, Finnegan, who just underwent a heart transplant.

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

Kate Nye back squats 330 pounds for ten • CrossFit Gymnastics instructor Sean Velas did the 50 HSPUs in 19.3 unbroken • Dean Linder-Leighton did
touch and go power snatches at 225 pounds • Happy one-year anniversary to CrossFit Kekaha • Cassandra Ambrosius deadlifted 240 pounds for a PR • Michelle Basnett got a 220 pound power clean PR.

…and this is what every coach out there is dreaming about.

19.3 Unofficial Top Ten — As of 9:00 PM PT last night, here are the unofficial top ten 19.3 performances after we removed some of the clearly erroneous scores:

1. George Wong — 7:12 | Kendall Kitts — 6:37

2. Ricky Bandejas — 7:19 | Karissa Pearce — 6:46

3. Jean-Simon Roy-Lemaire — 7:20 | Lilly Rosko — 6:54

4. Jacob Heppner — 7:25 | Brooke Wells — 7:09

5. Mat Fraser — 7:27 | Carol-Ann Reason-Thibault — 7:23

6. George Sterner — 7:38 | Sthefanny Bottcher — 7:35

7. Brian Horwath — 7:39 | Tia-Clair Toomey — 7:26

8. Spencer Panchik — 7:41 | Jevon Thompson — 7:37

9. Rich Froning — 7:54 | Alexis Raptis — 7:38

10. Noah Ohlsen (9T) — 7:54 | Marisa De Los Santos — 7:40

— And check out Nevin, who has Down syndrome, and PR’d 19.3 by going RX with the 50 pound dumbbell at CrossFit The Challenge in Cedar Rapids, IA. 

19.4 Live Announcements — Here’s who will be hosting the 19.4 announcement events so far. All streams will be available at Games.CrossFit.com.

On Thursday at 5:00 PM PT/ 8:00 PM ET / 12:00 AM GMT +1:

— CrossFit Italian Showdown at CrossFit Varese in Azzate, Italy.

— Brazil CrossFit Championship at inVicio CrossFit in São Paulo, Brazil featuring Elijah Muhammad v. Brazil’s Guilherme Malheiros.

— CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown at Mobilis CrossFit in Amsterdam with Team Vondelgym. 

On Friday at 5:00 PM PT/ 8:00 PM ET / 12:00 AM GMT +1:

— The first live streamed Friday night lights at CrossFit Raid in Bensalem, PA.

CrossFit Italian Showdown Finalizes Details — CrossFit Italian Showdown, which takes place April 26 – 28 in Milan, has announced that Reebok has joined the event as main sponsor and will be the event’s exclusive provider of apparel and footwear. They also revealed their finalized roster as well as a preview video of day one. 

— Prize Purse Rasied to 25K:

1. $7,500 and 2019 CrossFit Games invitation

2. $3,500

3. $1,500

Rogue Invitational Online Qualifier — Registration for the Rogue Invitational qualifier is now open. Set to take place from April 3 – 8, athletes will have the chance to qualify for the Rogue Invitational and compete against the top CrossFit athletes in May.

— FINE PRINT…Rogue is using Beyond the Whiteboard for their qualifier registration. Used primarily as the Official CrossFit Workout Tracker and also publisher of awesome Open workout stats, this is the first time a major competition is using BTWB in lieu of Competition Corner, which manages all 2019 sanctioned events except for Fittest in Cape Town, CrossFit Italian Showdown, Rogue Invitational and Reykjavik CrossFit Championship.

— Full roster of invited athletes.

Down Under CrossFit Championship — The Down Under CrossFit Championship announced their first Individual WOD for the sanctioned event kicking off May 17 in Wollongong, Australia.

D.C. United “deeply disappointed” in live broadcast — Via The Washington Post, Washington D.C.’s MLS team signed a four-year deal last year with FloSports to provide the live stream for a majority of their regular season games. During their season opener, the first several minutes were unavailable for some, while others experienced poor quality. The issues were reportedly improved in the second half.

— Why we’re telling you this: Because FloSports owns FloElite, the streaming partner for 2019 Wodapalooza CrossFit Festival and Granite Games.

Photo Journal From Las Vegas International Weightlifting Meet — William Breault was on the floor during the USAW International Weightlifting Meet in Las Vegas, NV over the weekend. Here’s his behind-the-scenes photo essay from the event. 

“Does Eating Fat Make You Fat?” by Alex Leaf, Examine

Whether you gain or lose weight depends on your total caloric intake, rather than on your macronutrient ratios. That said, there are reasons why, in theory, eating fat is more likely to make you fat. 

Dietary fat is the macronutrient that can most easily increase your body fat: the two types of fat are essentially the same, so making the former into the latter is easy for your body. Dietary fat has a TEF of just 0 — 3% (of the three macronutrients, it requires the least energy to digest, relative to the energy it provides), and it gets stored with 90 — 95% efficiency (compared to 75 — 85% efficiency for carbs).

When you eat carbs, your body can, in order of priority, burn them for energy, store them as glycogen, burn them off as heat, or, as its very last choice, turn them into fat. So if you overeat with carbs as your main source of calories, the excess might not translate as fat gain.

When you eat protein, your body can, in order of priority, use it for protein synthesis and many other metabolic purposes, burn it for energy, or, rarely, turn it into glucose or fat. So, again, if you overeat with protein as your main source of calories, the excess might not translate as fat gain.

When you eat fat, however, your body has only two options: burn it for energy, if neither carbohydrate nor excess protein is available, or store it as body fat. If you overeat with fat as your main source of calories, even for just one day, the excess translates as fat gain.

3/14: Open Announcement 19.4 (Online)

3/16: 2019 Shamrock Showdown (Pittsburgh, PA)

3/16 – 17: The Tactical Games (Burnet, TX)

3/21: Open Announcement 19.5 (Online)

3/23: Down for Donuts (Ocala, FL)

3/24: The Rockwell Championships Series Team Qualifiers (Online)

3/30: Game of Barbells (Houston, TX)

3/30: Row for a Reason 2019 (Nashville, TN)

3/30: Reps For Rescues at CrossFit Hanover (Hanover, PA)

3/30: Crossfit Redoubt Open Competition (Slovakia)

3/30: Cru’s Crusaders Fundraiser WOD (San Clemente, CA)

3/30: Burritt Built Throwdown (Port St. Lucie, FL)

4/5 – 4/7: Iron Sharpens Iron Camp (Nashville, TN)

4/1 – 4/8: Northern California Classic Online Qualifiers (Online)

4/1 – 4/11: The Liege Throwdown Online Qualifiers (Herstal, Belgium)

4/6: Feed, Clothe, Love and Lift (Amarillo, TX) 

4/6: St. Peters CrossFit Fitness Awards (Saint Peters, MO)

4/6: Powerstroke Partner Throwdown 2019 (Fallon, NV)

4/6: Metcon Meltdown (Flemington, NJ)

4/6: Two Peas in a POD Competition (Burlington, MA)

4/6: Rookie Rumble at CrossFit Diversion (Williamstown, NJ)

4/6: Rise of the Machines IV (Austin, TX)

4/6: Bay Area Beatdown 2 (Webster, TX)

4/6: Rookie Rumble at CrossFit Cornerstone (Cincinnati, OH)

4/10 – 4/24: Granite Games Online Qualifier (Online)

4/11 – 4/14: CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown Online Qualifier (Online)

4/12 – 4/13: Capstone Caveman Clash and Cook Off (Lubbock, TX)

4/12 – 4/14: Mid-Atlantic CrossFit Challenge (Washington, D.C.)

4/13: Capacidad De Dos Amigos (San Antonio, TX)

4/13: The Craic Throwdown (Norwood, MA)

4/13: Warrior Affiliate League Deuces Wild (Chino, CA)

4/13: Battle of the Ages (Pineville, NC)

4/13: 5th Annual Battle for the Mountain (Dawsonville, GA)

4/13: The Requisite Masters Classic (Philadelphia, PA)

4/13: HandSTANDUP for Haiti (Smyrna, TN)

4/13: WOD Wars Fit Fest (Dunedin, FL)

4/13: CFL Loganville Lockdown (Loganville, GA)

4/13: CrossFit Katy Team Classic (Katy, TX)

4/13: Rescue Road: Obstacle Course Event (Alpharetta, GA)

4/14: To Hill and Back 2019 (Albemarle, NC)

4/15 – 4/27: Top Of The Box Online Qualifier (Clarksville, TN)

4/19 – 5/1: CrossFit French Throwdown Individual Online Qualifier (Online)

4/20: The Wodfather VII 2019 (Keller, TX)

4/20: Rookie Rumble at Bucktown CrossFit (Chicago, IL)

4/20: Barnyard Throwdown (Ohatchee, AL)

4/26: Rookie Rumble at CrossFit Nashua (Nashua, NH)

4/26 – 4/27: Gameday Competition (Mankato, MN) 

4/26 – 4/28: CrossFit Italian Showdown (Milan, Italy)

4/27: 4th Annual Spring Fever Partner Masters Comp (Souderton PA)

4/27: Rookie Rumble at CrossFit KOA (Cranford, NJ)

4/27: The Gnardog Challenge (Reedley, CA)

4/27: Festivus Games (Worldwide)

4/27: Raising the Bar for Charlotte (Medina, OH)

4/27 – 4/29: Asia CrossFit Championship (Shanghai, China)

4/27: Autism Rocks and Rows (San Clemente, CA)

4/27: Garage Games Xs and Ys (Hiram, GA)

4/27: The Explode Individual Classic (West Chester, PA)

4/27: Fast Times at West Tech High (Las Vegas, NV)

4/27: Tyler’s Voice CrossFit Competition (Jefferson City, TN)