Warm-up This Winter Season using the MapMyFitness Workout Games

Full Body Hop a 4-5 minute crazy fun CrossFit warmup that involves the following equipment.
1. Humans.
2. Wall balls.
3. Kettlebells.
4. Two lines of plates 10,15,25,35,45,35,25,15,10.
You need at least 4 people total to play, 2 or more to each team..
As soon as the coach says go you must hop on and off each plate (focus because the height is different every Hop)..
-Then get into a side walking plank where the fingers from each hand must tap each kettlebell..
Then do 3 wall ball squats.
Then one (or more) burpees..
As soon as the last person jumps on their final burpee he next teammate goes!! (Remember it’s important to harass as many people as possible to make it more fun!) ��.
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The CrossFit Journal (http://journal.crossfit.com).
In six minutes at the start of Coach’s Prep Seminar Staff training at NorCal CrossFit in San Jose, Calif., Matt Chan takes CPC Seminar Staff members including Austin Begiebing, Zach Forrest, Jason Khalipa, Austin Malleolo, Lindsey Smith, Chris Spealler, Nadia Shatila and Hollis Molloy through a dynamic warm-up..
And because Chan’s leading the charge, you can expect quips and sarcastic remarks while he’s getting the athletes moving..
As he puts the class through 25 jumping jacks to be performed in unison with Chan calling the tempo, he gets to the 14th rep before pointing to Malleolo and singing him a quick tune to laughs from the rest of the class: “One of these kids is not like the other.”.
Then there are lunges that require touching the elbow to the ankle, followed by torso rotation and pointing to the wall behind..
“It’s coordination, it’s coordination—it’s difficult for Jason,” Chan says of Khalipa, who finished second at this year’s CrossFit Games. “I’m just messin’ with ya, Jay, come on.”.
Next it’s a slight bend at the waist with tight abs and side-to-side swinging of the arms like a speed skater..
“Old iron ankles, you look terrific there. Terrific,” he says to Eric O’Connor, who laughs. “Worst thing I’ve ever seen.”.
Humor aside, Chan has quickly identified several mobility issues and even found a modification for Spealler, who suddenly starts struggling with push-ups..
Video by Jon Gilbert and Eric Maciel.

Class Warm Up Game.
“Smack”.
Coach Adam Klink.
Instructions: There are two variations to this game. I play each round for 30 Seconds. Loser has burpees. The first game, partners stand across from each other and hold each other’s right hand like a handshake. The object of this game is for you to touch the back of your hand to your partner stop by. If you do this successfully you get one point. Highest score wins..
The second game is set up the same way except partners are not touching each other. Partners may only make contact with each other using the palms of their hands and they may only hit their partners palms of their hands. The object of this game is to throw your partner off balance. If you get off balance and move your foot, your partner gains a point. Most points wins.

This Sunday we shook it up at CrossFit Crestview with a little “old school” hokey pokey warm up. Instead of standing we did almost all of it while in the plank position..
We had 15 people in class do the warmup but when I “thought” I was recording I wasn’t ��. So these guys stayed after class and did it again when they were exhausted!!
Every time we “turned yourself about” we did a 180 degree walking plank turn. When she sang “that’s what it’s all about” we would do a burpee..
Watch to see what we did for each of he movements. More challenging than we expected!! As you can see, athletes could scale as needed from the plank position making it beneficial for everyone in a group fitness class.

Mailman a 4-5 minute crazy fun CrossFit warmup that involves the following equipment.
1. Humans.
2. Wall balls.
You want to pick one wall ball per person but have different weights. That way their is strategy with it. Each team had a 30,24,20,14, & 10 pound wall ball. The “mailboxes” were broken into exact equal intervals using cones in the middle..
Each person had to either deliver the mail or pickup the mail once. Whenever an athlete received a ball they had to go into an air squat holding it. My high level athletes held the ball with no support without letting their elbows touch their knees, others….. did not. ��.
When the mailman had the last ball to deliver they would just tag someone that had not done it yet and switch places while they both kept their balls..
We chose to power walk after our first try ended up with an athlete slipping on the ground….. it’s been raining outside so the box is very damp inside….. always modify based on weather and humidity..
We have a “special” athlete that is partly crazy and so much fun…. he makes these videos so entertaining… we will just call him “Josh, the bearded wonder” for now. ��.
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Chris Hinshaw is a professional triathlete, renowned endurance coach and instructor for the CrossFit Aerobic Capacity Course. At Tennessee Tech, Hinshaw leads a group of elite CrossFit Games competitors through a series of warm-up drills..
The drills—24 in all—begin with prep work for the hips and lower body. The first five are called high-knee karaoke, over the hurdle, knee to chest, figure four and lunge..
“So what we do … is we focus on the hips. We do a lot of emphasis there early on because that’s the area where CrossFit athletes are really the tightest,” Hinshaw explains to the group, which includes Games champs Rich Froning Jr. and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet..
Drills six through 12 are called lunge with a torso twist, toe touch, high knees, butt kicks, straight leg, sidestep and sidestep jumping jack. Hinshaw then moves on to warming up the upper body with sitting arm swings and standing arm swings..
The next drills work on the knees and ankles: toes-out walk, toes-in walk, walk on heels, walk on toes, walk on outside of foot, walk on inside of foot and 50-yard hashmarks. The final drills feature short runs of 20, 40 and 60 yards at about 80 percent of max effort..
“The key to a good running warm-up is really not to overstretch your muscles. You want that tension. You want that spring-like effect,” Hinshaw says..
Video by Heber Cannon..
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Fitness games have a beneficial effect on health and can significantly improve agility, motor skills, hand eye co-ordination, cardio endurance, as well as sensory motor learning amongst other things..
This is critical for kids but important for everyone as adults are losing these properties as well which deteriorates health and ability..
Beyond those reasons we use games because it gets people to have fun..
Watch someone playing a parter animal move game and tell me if anyone isn’t smiling and laughing while working hard. It takes us back to kid like playing and connects play to fun..
It also creates positive competition and challenging one another to be better which creates connection and community..
This is how healthy individuals and communities are built..
Take tag, why it’s universally so popular is that it taps into something primal and fundamental about what makes us human beings. For centuries children have been chasing each other around on playgrounds, and before that, they merely chased each other around in open spaces..
There are so many physical skills involved in playin tag skills that children grasp intuitively without formal instruction. They learn how to control their muscles by accelerating, stopping while sprinting around. They improve their agility, balance, co-ordination, accuracy and precision. They learn how to pivot, focus, and reach. And they learn basics of tactics and strategy too..
Like I mentioned before, there are social benefits in tag (and any other partner game). It’s high intensity activity but one that leads to laugher and fun. It’s impossible to play without laughing, shouting, and having a good time. You can play with friends or strangers..
With that said, we wanted to share just some of the games we incorporate into our programs so that our clients (both kids and adults) can develop the above skills, while creating bonds, and enjoying fun high intensity training..
Try one (or a couple) of these fitness partner games next time you’re “working out.”