Not only is CrossFit like the best fitness method ever… CrossFit as an entity hosts a national fundraiser every year to raise money for a great cause. Does your gym do this?

This fundraiser involves a kick-ass workout called Fight Gone Bad. Well, obviously, every CrossFit workout is a Kick-ass workout… but this one… let’s just say… makes me start my period every time I do it. My body is like (in Wanda Sykes voice), “shit, girl. This is traumatic. Pain like this usually involves bleeding. Squirrrrt.“

Anyone can register as an athlete to participate. Athletes who register can raise funds through donors/sponsors and all of the proceeds go to the charities chosen for that year. To register find a team to join here. (search for CrossFit Coastal if you’re in the Wilmington area).

This year one of the two charities who benefit from this fundraiser is the Wounded Warrior project.

Obviously, this hits close to home for me because Therese my twin sis is a wounded warrior. A couple of posts back “Therese Frentz, it’s time to take your shirt off” I go into more details about her injuries sustained while deployed to Iraq.

On September 26, 2009 Therese will be doing Fight Gone Bad at her gym in San Antonio (with just her sports bra on… the first time her scarred arms will see sunlight since October 2004) at the same moment that I’m doing Fight Gone Bad here in Wilmington, NC at CrossFit Coastal.

A lot of my awesome friends donated to Therese’s efforts – because we said that if she raised over $200 that she’d have to do the workout with just her sports bra on. Well… she’s up to $1,055!!!

As a participating athlete, I can raise funds, too. It all goes to the same pot, but as a representative of CrossFit Coastal, I hope to raise some money, too. If you’d like to donate $1 or $2 please click HERE

Thank you in advance for your support. Even if you want to come out that day (10am to noon Saturday September 26) – it’s going to be an amazing event to witness.

So, for practice we did Fight Gone Bad today.

Here’s a play by play of the workout:

The bell goes off and you start 1 minute max reps of Wallballs (14# for women)
Then the bell goes off again and you immediately start Sumo Deadlift High Pulls (55# for women) and do as many as you can in one minute.
Bell dings again and you go straight into 20″ Box Jumps – your heart is pounding but you have 1 minute to do as many as you can.
Boom – bell rings again and you’ve got to pick the bar back up and do Push Presses for a solid minute (55# for women)
The bell rings again and you jump on the Row machine for a minute of pulling to count as many calories you burn.

And then, at last, you get a glorious minute to rest. You lay on the floor and try to get your blood pressure down… because you have TWO MORE ROUNDS of this.

It sounds a lot easier when you look at it on the whiteboard. When you’re in the middle of it – especially during the sumos on round two — your head starts telling you, “Yeah, TStorm, this fucking sucks.”

Finally when you’re done (and you high five the person who’s been counting your reps and motivating you to push yourself) you fall on the floor and fight off the feeling to puke (if you haven’t already done that during box jumps round 3).

Your score keeper calculates your score — and that’s your Fight Gone Bad total.

Today, I got 267.

My goal when I first started CrossFit was to break 200.

Now I hope to break 300.

I got home and Phizz was totally stoked that my armpits were still sweaty.

Phizz loves a stinky armpit

Then I was stoked, because I used my voodoo focusing technique that the dog trainer taught me and got Phizz to smile for a picture.

Happiness is a focused furbaby

Now, that my friends, was a badass day.