Skyline Ultimate Test of Fitness

SKYLINE'S ULTIMATE TEST OF FITNESS

@SKYLINE CROSSFIT

Friday September 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and October 5th.   6pm - 8pm

We’ve long desired to offer a fitness competition consistent with our fitness model and have found the task fraught with difficulties. Greg Glassman long before The CrossFit Games was a thought designed just that. He put together a competition consisting of 5 tests to find how fit you really are.

Early we realized that the logistics of running an on-site fitness competition are both complicated and ultimately limit the number of participants. The Skyline Ultimate Fitness Test, or competition, that we offer  is conducted at Skyline CrossFit every Friday in the month of September 6pm to 8pm.

Our initial hope was a competition that would not only reflect CrossFit’s broad fitness concept but would also accommodate men and women, large and small athletes, the young and seniors, and individuals of all fitness levels. Additionally, we wanted a competition that would motivate and reward fitness improvements among our members. Specifically, we set out to motivate an improvement in the absolute strength, relative strength, and gymnastics foundations of all CrossFit participants.

Looking at the ten general physical adaptations to exercise (cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, stamina, power, speed, flexibility, agility, accuracy, coordination, and balance) we saw that advanced calisthenic and weightlifting movements present an excellent opportunity to advance neurological skills like agility, accuracy, coordination, and balance.

While we make no apologies for offering a fitness test that best serves the already very fit, we have developed several strategies whereby others can participate and, more importantly, benefit from practicing for and working toward completion of the test. For every phase of our test we have Scaled, Intermediate, and RX. This test will not only benefit the already fit athlete but also set us up to improve in the future.

One aspect of athlete testing that remains tricky is balancing elements favorable to larger and smaller athletes. We referee debates between our bigger and smaller athletes almost daily. The big guys want to deadlift, bench press, and throw. The smaller guys want to run, jump, and do pull-ups.

Our design requirements included but were not limited to the following: quantifiable results; consistency with the CrossFit fitness concept; raising our commitment to improving absolute strength, relative strength, and gymnastic foundations; balancing intrinsic abilities of smaller and larger athletes; emphasizing exercises critical to and foundational to advanced training; mixing training demands within each test and, of course, over the total competition; a design that would identify an athlete’s weaknesses and possibly stand as a workout plan for improving overall fitness; and, finally, we wanted to design a competition that would be “hard as hell.”

The competition that we’ve designed comprises five tests. One test is performed for each of five Fridays in September in the order given.

Unlike the CrossFit Games Open, this test we will know the events. These events will stay the same throughout time.  This way we can attack what we are not good at to improve for the next years test. The score you get on the test will show how fit you are and in turn what we need to improve.  This will make us more fit and ultimately lead us in the direction on improvement over time.

We will set this up the same way we do the CrossFit Open. Also conveniently placed exactly 6 months after the Open giving us two fitness goals a year instead of one.  Each event will be held every Friday night for 5 nights in the month of September.. We will have judges and scoresheets. We will keep score for each week and for all 5 tests.  We will have a podium for Men and Women RX, Intermediate, and Scaled.

Prizes and Trophies for all of the Podiums.

Skyline members: $30

Non-Skyline Members: $60

Date: September 7, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Skyline CrossFIt
551 N. Shepherd Suite 200
Houston, TX 77007 US
Date: September 14, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Skyline CrossFIt
551 N. Shepherd Suite 200
Houston, TX 77007 US
Date: September 21, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Skyline CrossFIt
551 N. Shepherd Suite 200
Houston, TX 77007 US
Date: September 28, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Skyline CrossFIt
551 N. Shepherd Suite 200
Houston, TX 77007 US
Date: October 5, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Skyline CrossFIt
551 N. Shepherd Suite 200
Houston, TX 77007 US
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