CrossFit Lions Affiliate Team Tryouts

Hello everyone. As you may or may not know this will be the second year in a row that they will hold a team (gym) competition at the CrossFit Games. Last year it was first come first serve, this year you need to qualify. 6 teams will represent Canada at the CrossFit Games in California. These team will be selected by competing against each other at the Regional competition in Calgary May 29th and 30th. Teams are comprised of at least 2 men and 2 women with two other spots available. There will never be more than 4 people able to workout at one time. The workouts are all team oriented which means normally you will have a big chipper, where lots of work needs to be completed and only one or two people can be working at a time. You might also have a team strength test where you add up all the weight you can individually lift at a particular exercise. Really fun stuff.

Obviously I would like to have as many people as possible want to represent the gym in Calgary, so that it will allow us to pick the best team we can. If we have more than 6 people wanting to be on the team than we will hold a one day trial to select who will go to Calgary and go to war on Team Lions. This tryout will be held on May 1st with at least three workouts on the schedule, maybe more. If you can't make May 1st than let me know and you can do it on another day. I want the team in place with at least three weeks to prep some of the workout options that will thrown our way from OPT.  Even though I will be attempting to qualify for our team, I will also be making up the workouts for our team tryout. I think I have a pretty good idea what OPT will be looking for in a team environment and yes expect athletic movements all over the place. We will break down everyone into girls and guys and the top two of each will be on the team. The next two places are wildcards and I will decide who makes up those spots based on their performance and how I think the team dynamic will unfold. It might turn out to be 3 guys, 3 gals or may maybe it will be 4 and 2.

A couple notes here.  Those who have qualified as individual competitors for the Regionals, you will not be able to do both. I personally believe you earned your berth from the Sectionals in Squamish and you should compete in the individual comp and try and be one of those top 6. However if you would rather do the team competition you are welcome to tryout for the team off course.

Another important note is if we qualify for the Crossfit Games in California, it doesn't necessarily mean the same 6 people will be representing the Gym in California. This is because if some of individual competitors don't make the games, they are allowed to represent the gym even if they didn't help qualify it at regionals. If we qualify out of Calgary it will be my decision who will be on the team for Aromas. So please treat the trip to Calgary as the pay off as it will be very challenging to come out of the regionals and should be one hell of a good time.

I want as many people trying out for the 6 spots as possible, so don't hold back even if you think you aren't good enough to make it. You never know and the competition to tryout will be fun. Please leave a comment on this post if you are interested in signing up to represent the gym this May 29, 30th for the Regional competition for the affiliate Cup at this year CrossFit Games in Cali. If you have any questions or comments on this please ask them or leave them here. Thanks.