Fight Gone Bad IV

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On September 26, 2009 athletes from CrossFit affiliates all over the world with engage in this workout. Fight Gone Bad began as a fund raising event in 2006. From those humble beginnings and with the support of the Crossfit community, we’ve proven what a small, totally committed group of people can accomplish.

In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. The event is in the 3 round format. The stations are:

• Wall-ball: 20 pound ball, 10 ft target. (Reps)
• Sumo deadlift high-pull: 75 pounds (Reps)
• Box Jump: 20″ box (Reps)
• Push-press: 75 pounds (Reps)
• Row: calories (Calories)

• The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. On call of “rotate,” the athlete/s must move to next station immediately for good score. One point is given for each rep, except on the rower where each calorie is one point.
• The first three additions of Fight Gone Bad have raised a combined total of more than $1 million to provide funding for programs of the Wounded Warrior Project and Athletes for a Cure.

Fight Gone Bad IV – One day. One brutal workout. One purpose.

The Wounded Warrior Project – Meet the needs of our wounded heroes today.

Athletes for a Cure – Prostate Cancer Foundation

******************UPDATE******************

The day started off early with some hard boiled eggs that turned out to be bad, so we scrapped those and went with a protein shake and an apple. Knowing we would be standing around waiting for a while before actually starting we brought some extra goodies (protein, fruit). There was a great turn out, which you can’t see from the photos above as they are just photos of the FGB IV “grounds” at Bayou City CrossFit. Overall I think there was about 150 or so people there and probably 80-100 athletes that took part in the workout.

I had the opportunity to judge/count for a friend and it was an awesome experience, it’s amazing to see how hard people can push past their physical barriers and see it become a mental game. Everyone did awesome and I think it was a wildly successful event for Vic at Bayou City CrossFit.

I woke up with a nervous stomach because I knew that I was shooting for a certain score and hadn’t done a legit FGB before. I didn’t really know what to expect, I knew it was going to be tough, but I thought about why we were even doing this event. Wounded soldiers and Prostate cancer patients, if they aren’t tough then I don’t know what the word means, it put it in perspective for me, sure I wanted to get a good score, but I thought a bit about how it wasn’t really about me in the grand scheme of things and I should just power through it, don’t bitch about how hard it is or how tired I am and just “do work”‘, like something Rob & Big would say… DO WORK!