What is the CrossFit OPEN?
The Open is a global celebration of all the individual reasons we CrossFit and also serves to find the "Fittest on Earth" through being the first step to the CrossFit Games.
Maybe it’s to live healthier lives. Maybe it’s to lift your kids or stay healthy for your family.
Maybe it’s just to prove we can do more than we ever believed possible.
The OPEN, for the vast majority of CrossFitters from around the globe, serves as an inclusive and fun way to test your fitness with the global CrossFit Community.
Whatever it is, this is the time to show the world your unique why with #ThisIsWhy
Read more from the official CrossFit OPEN page HERE.
How will it be run this year for the CrossFit Wild South Community?
This year’s Open will be the most accessible in CrossFit history, with flexible options for participants to compete either at their local gym or at home and features new divisions including foundation and equipment-free options as well as new adaptive divisions, in addition to the usual Rx’d and scaled divisions. There is an option for everyone
This year's format has 3 workouts, released weekly (Friday 17th February, Friday 24th February and Friday 3rd March NZ Time) that can be completed at CFWS - or any of the other 14,000+ CrossFit Affiliates worldwide - or from your home, garage, park, or any flat space, with or without workout equipment.
For the 2023 OPEN, we have allocated specific classes for you to complete the workouts in, they will be Fridays at 5:30 pm OR Saturdays at 8 am.
Those classes will be run as heats (the size and number of them will depend on the workout released, gear required and judges available) and coaches will be available to help with warm-ups, scaling discussions and also strategies for those that need them.
If those times are not suitable for your schedule, then one of the other options (the at-home with or without equipment division) may be your best option to participate.
This year's format has 3 workouts, released weekly (Friday 17th February, Friday 24th February and Friday 3rd March NZ Time) that can be completed at CFWS - or any of the other 14,000+ CrossFit Affiliates worldwide - or from your home, garage, park, or any flat space, with or without workout equipment.
We will have class plans, warm-ups and strategies available very shortly after the workouts are released.
After the 5:30 pm Friday session has been completed, we will head down to the Tuatara Cafe for a bit of a debrief and some deep and meaningful analysis.
After the 8 am morning session, we will hang around in the box for coffee and share snacks as the debrief and analysis. You will be most welcome to bring along some treats for snacks to add to the ones provided.
