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Eikestad Mighty Oaks Sweeps Team Division at Fittest In Cape Town June 2021

CrossFit Eikestad — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:49:12 +0000

While the team competition has been fierce at Granite Games this weekend, in Africa, there was one team that stood head and shoulders above the rest to dominate the competition.

One big thing: At the close of the team competition at Fittest In Cape Town, not only did CrossFit Eikestad punch their ticket to the Games, they also became the first team to sweep a semifinal and the first CrossFit gym to have two teams standing on the podium.

Over the course of the weekend, the Eikestad Mighty Oaks dominated the competition winning every single event, beating their fellow competitors by multiple minutes in almost every single workout.
This will be CrossFit Eikestad’s first team ever at the Games and with a largely rookie roster, it will be the first time at the Games for everyone on the team.
Their first place finish, however, comes as no surprise to anyone, after a first place finish in the team quarterfinals and team member Mariska Smit’s first place finish in Africa in the Open.

The Roster:

Callum Deeble
Mariska Smit
Jaco Brits
Nadine Roos

The intergym battle: Not only will CrossFit Eikestad’s Mighty Oaks be competing at the Games, Eikestad also put another team on the podium in third place overall.

“The dream for the Mighty Oaks to go to the CrossFit Games started at the end of 2019 when we realized we had four athletes that will be able to compete and train together for the foreseeable future,” said CrossFit Eikestad.
“As soon as the rumors started that Crossfit HQ was going to be returning the Affiliate Cup we knew the dream was alive and we started working and planning. It made it so much better when we received the news that FICT will be the official semi-final for the Africa region,” they said.
We felt everything was falling into place and that motivated us to train even harder. So for the past 4 to 5 months we’ve been living and prepping for this moment,” they continued.
“To have a second team on the podium is a testimony to the culture, training and support that is the CrossFit Eikestad community,” they concluded.

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Our experience of the 2017 CrossFit Games.

CrossFit Eikestad — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:42:49 +0000

For so many of us having the opportunity to watch the CrossFit Games live is a dream come true. In 2017 Things worked out perfectly for us to tick off the CrossFit Games from our bucket list and wow, what an experience it was.

Not only did we get to see the worlds fittest athletes compete but we also experienced one of the best and most organized sporting events we’ve ever been to.
The entire event just spelled out fitness. From the food to the clothes, tech and all
sorts of new fitness trends. Even the spectators looked fit and healthy and some of them could even pass for games athletes.

For both of us, it was mind blowing having so many ‘Fit’ people in one spot. You’d see 60+ year olds in their nanos and CrossFit gear with what would seem like their grandchild also dressed in the same attire, excited to be at the Games. People of all age groups and body types together at one venue witnessing and striving for ‘True Fitness’.

It was such an eye opener of what still lies ahead in the world of fitness, and if we ever wondered about the longevity of the industry, having had the opportunity
to attend the Games definitely changed that and we are certain that CrossFit truly is here to stay and not just another fitness Trend.

In our opinion, there is NO better way of training.
How blessed are we to have experienced such a great event where the community have the same mindset of working hard at CrossFit not only for the physical benefits, but also to be part of something that only CrossFitters would understand.
Hush to the Haters!

Cillié & Ielsje

Crossfit Games

CrossFit Eikestad — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:33:50 +0000

Register for the Open

The CrossFit Games Open is the world’s premier test of fitness. Since 2011, the five-week five-workout online competition has accurately ranked the fitness of thousands of competitors.

Held in CrossFit affiliates and garage gyms, the Open is designed to be accessible to all athletes while rigorous enough to challenge the world’s fittest. Fourteen-year-old high school freshmen compete in the Open, as well as their 77-year-old grandparents and everyone in between.

Sign up for $20, do the workouts, enter your scores, and you will be ranked in relation to your peers in your age division, competition region, state and country.

Workouts are released online each Thursday and athletes have until the following Monday to submit their scores.

It all starts February 22, 2018.

Learn More

The CrossFit Games stand alone as the ultimate test of fitness. No test, regardless of its lofty claims, can grant legitimate title to the best without first providing access to all.

The Games season begins with the online Open. Registration is open to all comers. All you need is $20, access to basic equipment commonly found in CrossFit affiliates, and the will to compete in the five-week, five-workout competition.

More than 272,000 people from around the globe competed in 2015. As the largest CrossFit community event of the season, the Open ties together athletes from within the same gym to those in their broader city, country and world.

For five weeks, you—and the hundreds of thousands of other people who signed up—are at the whim of the Director of the Games Dave Castro, taking on workouts that may push you to learn a new skill, improve the skills you already have, or go into a darker place than you’ve ever been before.

You can complete the workouts at a participating CrossFit affiliate in front of a judge, or film your performance from anywhere you want and submit a link as proof.

The week’s workout is released each Thursday at 5 p.m. PT, and scores are due four days later (before 5 p.m. PT Monday). You are free to make as many attempts at the Open workout as you please; your only limit is time.

The best of the best will use the Open to launch themselves into the next stages of the Games season. Though for most, the Open is an end in itself. Completing the same workout as the world’s fittest athletes is an accomplishment, as is logging a score for all five weeks.

Each time a workout is released, athletes will be given two versions: Rx’d and Scaled. With reduced loading or less challenging movements, the scaled option will be designed to make the Open even more accessible.

There are four divisions: Individual, Team, Masters (ages 40+) and Teenage (ages 14-17).

Registration begins: November, 2017

The Open begins February 22, 2018.

Feb 22 – Mar 26 2018