What is the CrossFit Games Open? The Open is the largest fitness competition on Earth and an exciting showcase of the CrossFit community. Here, athletes like you, from all around the world, show up and push themselves further than they ever thought possible over a five-week period. Challenges, PRs, and the unknown awaits.  It’s all about the community and a way for you to be apart of it. Fitness is what we do – but community is what we build. Show up, step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. This is for all skill levels – Rx, Scaled, Teens, Masters. As well as Scaled for the ladder. What are we doing for the Open? We are doing a Intramural Open We will have 5 teams – those teams will be awarded points throughout the open based on participation, success and most importantly spirit on any given week. Teams...Read more

Age: 24 What is something people don’t know about you? Over the past year I have become addicted to cooking shows and I have started trying different meals , expanding past cooking the same three chicken-based meals. On the flip side, while Ilike baking shows, I have yet to try any baking out of concern for my diet! How does CrossFit influence your life? Crossfit is what I am most passionate about out of all my interests. It provides me an outlet to destress, explore my bodies capabilities, and keep myself healthy! As well, it provided me a community that I desperately needed when I moved to Des Moines. That community has only grown in both quality and quantity over the past two years. How long have you been doing CrossFit? How long at CFWDM? I have been doing CrossFit for two years this September (‘19) and all of that...Read more