2025 CROSSFIT OPEN
BATTLE FOR THE BOX
Battle for the Box is a celebration of fitness and your chance to show off your Be Strong pride by representing your team with weekly themes and doing fun, fit things with friends.
Each year during the CrossFit Open, Be Strong athletes battle it out to find out who is truly the best in the box!
We will have two teams trying to accumulate the most points across the span of three weeks. Each team member can score points for their team by achieving the following markers.
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| 1 Point for each |
-Dressing in theme or wear the Be Strong CF open shirt
-Keep score for an athlete (limit 1 point)
-Posting an IG story picture at selfie station and tag Be Strong
-Complete the Open WOD
-Pop-up point TBA
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Team 1: 5am, 6am, 7am, Lunch Crew and Power
Team 2: 9:00, 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:45pm
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Week 1: Friday Feb 28th
Week 2: Friday March 7th
Week 3: Friday March 14th
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Regular class times and workouts will be put out by CrossFit LLC the Thursday prior. All levels are welcome to participate: RX, Scaled, Beginner, Age group and Disability.
The winning team each week will get to vote on the following week's theme!
-Team 1 was the winner of the Holiday Food Wars, so they will pick the theme for Week 1. All theme voting will take place on Be Strong's Instagram stories from Feb 17th-Feb 21st. Each theme will be announced the Sunday prior to the Open, so keep your eyes open for weekly announcements on our newsletter, Sugarwod, or Instagram.
Overall winning team gets bragging rights and will pick the gym party location date and location ... TBA.
Looking for an additional reason to register for The Open? CrossFit is introducing the Community Cup this year - an added layer of tiered competition, motivation, and performance data, based on individual rankings from The Open.
Read all about it here.
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What is the CrossFit Open?
Structurally, the Open is a series of workouts spaced across three weeks. Individuals can do the workouts from anywhere in the world and submit their scores on the CrossFit Games online leadboard. The CrossFit Open is first qualifying round for athletes looking to make it to the CrossFit Games. (If you're new here, the Games is like the Super Bowl of CrossFit.)
I'm not an RX athlete - Can I still participate in the Open?
The Open is for everyone! Similar to your daily workouts at Be Strong, you'll find a division that's right for you.
Here are some of the divisions you will be placed in based on age and gender:
- Individual - All athletes aged 18-34 will be placed in the individual division.
- Age Groups - There are nine age group divisions for teenage athletes aged 14-17 as well as masters athletes ages 35+.
Once you are placed in a division, you will have the opportunity to choose a variation of the workout based on your fitness level:
- RX'd - Do the workouts as written. This is the most challenging option, yet many individuals have moved from scaled to Rx’d as they progress from year to year.
- Scaled - Not quite ready to tackle the workouts as written? No problem. The scaled division offers classic scaling options for many of CrossFit’s common gymnastics movements and includes lighter loading.
- Foundations - Just started CrossFit or maybe this is your first Open? The foundations workouts are a great place to start.
What if I don't want to register for the Open but still want to participate?
Not everyone will sign up to see where their scores rank worldwide and that's okay. That's where Battle For The Box comes in - Be Strong will be hosting our very own simplified version of the Open in-house, using the same workouts seen in the Open.
The workouts programmed during the Open are no different than those you perform at Be Strong each day. Come prepared to work towards becoming 1% Better.
Will we be dressing up as Adam Sandler again this year?
Only if you can convince Coach Katie to make a guest appearance.
Do I need to sign up for Battle For the Box if I'm not signing up for the Open?
Nope. The sign up link above is only for those wanting to officially submit their scores to compete in the Open.
To participate in Battle For the Box, simply reserve your class time on Zen Planner per usual and show up to class.