Our goals at Torque are to educate and inspire our members. You have to show up though in order fort his to happen. We want all of TorqueNation to participate in our 2nd Annual Intramural Open. Everyone is encouraged to participate – Adults, ForeverFit, Teens, and Personal Training – all are welcome!
Competition helps with the ‘inspire’ part: the pressure to perform pushes you to train harder; the social boost of dozens of your friends cheering for you will help you reach a higher plane. Heck, watching your teammates GO is inspiring.
Every year, CrossFit HQ runs a three-week event called “The CrossFit Open“. We are taking the idea and putting our own spin on it. We’re not interested in finding out how fast you can exercise against 400,000 other people worldwide. (although if you are, you can sign up thru the link provided below).
We ARE interested in helping you push to new levels in fitness, level up your life, and get 1000 fist-bumps from the Torque family.
Can we bring that worldwide thrill home? Can we deliver all the fun of competition without causing any anxiety attacks? We know we can.
The Intramural Open is our semi-new tradition at Torque (and thousands of other gyms worldwide are doing the same!) We will use the three workouts from the CrossFit Games, and then week 4 will be one of our own workouts!
This will be our second year! Team Quad Squad won last year 🙂 We’ll divide you up into three teams, each with two Team Captains and a really great and funny name.
You can earn points for your team 8 different ways!! (see below)
Registration will happen between now and February 6th. On Draft Night (6th), you’ll be invited to watch your name be pulled from a hat and randomly assigned to a Team. The Captains are tasked with recruiting members to participate with it having NO influence on who ends up on their team.
Yep, we chose the FUN bunch to Captain, not our traditional top scorers. We want you to sign up this year; are you really going to say no to them 🙂 ? We don’t think so.
REGISTRATION
We’ll be using a whiteboard at the gym to visually show who is signed up to have fun! To Officially Register, please choose one of the following:
You can also sign up for the Open at the CrossFit Games Site to check your rank worldwide. (Note, sign up on official Games website does not equate to a Torque registration – they are separate).
POINTS
+2 Points – Attendance: every member of a team that completes an Open workout at Torque each Friday will earn one point. Maximum one point per athlete per workout.
+1 Point – if you wear your Team’s shirt to Friday’s class during the warm-up.
+1 Point – Top 3: every male AND female member who places among the Top 3 at Torque in their division for each workout gets a point for their team. Divisions are: women 39 below, women 40 above, men 39 below, men 40 above.
+3 Points (team) – Spirit: The team with the most noise, pride, and PRESENCE each week will receive 5 bonus points.
+1 Point – leave a positive social media review on Facebook or Google – screenshot and send it to us!
+1 Point – sent us a :30-:45 sec testimonial video of how much you love being at Torque!
+1 Point – attend our Nutrition zoom meeting the Tuesday March 1st – time TDB
+1 Point – every social media tag you make, your name is entered into a weekly random drawing to win the 1 point!
WORKOUTS
In 2022, Our Intramural Open will have four workouts.
The workouts are released Thursday’s at 3pm, so any of our Torque Group class times on Friday’s during the Open is when you can complete the workout.
PREPARATION
For most of our members, the Open is an annual measuring stick to test their improvements in fitness. For some, this will be the first one ever – how exciting!
Our Saturday GOAT sessions we have been hosting are a chance to get ready for some of the skills needed for the four-week Open!
If you missed out and you’re dying to get your first toes-to-bars, or link your pull-ups, tell your coach! We’ll get you some 1:1 time and homework!
PRIZES
The top team (points) will earn themselves bragging rights and a banner to be hung at the gym!
Our focus is on FUN. We want 100% participation (Adults, Teens, Kids, ForeverFit, Personal Training) because it will make you fitter, and it will get you fist-bumps and you’ll be happy and love life more.
Let’s start this party!
-Amanda, Sara & Torque Staff!
2022 Torque Intramural Open!
