CrossFit is the ultimate test of fitness and athleticism.
It requires speed, coordination, aerobic and muscular endurance, experience with Olympic lifts, raw strength, skill, and a healthy serving of guts, determination and power.
All the above will be required tomorrow when the second annual E-Networks Crossfit Games is staged at the National Park’s tarmac.
The sum of 35 gladiators will push their bodies to the limit for the right to be called Guyana’s fittest male and female.
From powerlifters, bodybuilders, track and field athletes to persons who serve in the disciplined forces, these athletes from different backgrounds of fitness will have one thing in mind, winning.
Winning will ensure a place in local fitness history for whoever emerges victorious after the grueling series of events.
According to one of the main coordinator and sponsor of the event, Jamie McDonald, the tasks for the athletes will include: Olympic snatches, a combination of running and deadlifts and a mixture of Cross Fit movements like jumping over walls and pushing sleds.
“The prescription for Cross-fit is employing constantly varied functional movements performed at a high intensity against the clock” McDonald surmised.
It will truly be a test of fitness when activities get underway at 10:00hrs.
The athletes (male/female) placing first will take home $200,000 each.
Dillon Mahadeo, Anis Ade Thomas, Carlos Rodrigues, Osmond Mack, Marissa Lowden, Paul Meusa and Semonica Duke are some of the favoured athletes for tomorrow’s event.
Notable sponsors include E-Networks, Fitness Express, Banks DIH Limited, Courts Guyana Inc, 704 Sports Bar and Baganara Resort.
