The Annual CrossFit Games

As the CrossFit sensation has come about. It is only inevitable that competitors would have to ask the question...Who is the fittest? How do you know?

So Since 2007, the CrossFit Games have been created to answer these questions. 

Each year the event gets bigger and bigger as the sport is introduced into more and more countries and more and more people want to test their fitness levels against the best. Each and every year the CrossFit games is a more comprehensive test of fitness, and the athletes raise the level of competition to unprecedented heights.

So in short the average Games athlete in 2012 will be dramatically more capable than the world’s best in 2007, as they've trained the whole year round doing all sorts of different workouts to prepare their mind and body for whatever may come their way in the competition. 

Several unique characteristics define the CrossFit Games. As The Games change every year, and the details are not announced until right before each event. Athletes will have to train year-round for a competition that is almost completely a mystery. 

But all is revealed when they reach the Home Depot Center, they put their training and mental fortitude to the test and take on a rigorous, broad-ranging test of overall physical capacity. After three days, the Fittest on Earth will have clearly distinguished themselves

The first big news of the 2011 CrossFit Games season was the announcement that Reebok had agreed to a 10 year sponsorship and on top of that they partnered with ESPN to spread the sport of fitness to a wider audience than ever before. 

To begin, ESPN3 covered the 2011 CrossFit Games with live three-hour shows running Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

Six weeks later, ESPN2 ran 12 post-production shows covering the entire male and female competition on primetime TV. ESPN2 and ESPN re-aired the shows multiple times throughout the fall and winter, building new interest in the CrossFit Games as the community geared up for the 2012 Open

This new partnership allowed for a dramatic increase in prize money, from previous years. The winners took home a combined $1 million prize purse, with the male and female individual winners taking home $250,000 each.

The 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games season began with the first ever Open competition. Athletes worldwide competed in six workouts throughout six weeks, posting their scores in real time and online. Anyone could throw their hat in the ring to compete for a position among the fittest athletes in the world. More than 26,000 athletes competed in the Open, making it one of the largest sporting events in history.

So if you are interested in testing your fitness levels to the max and see how you stack up against other people around the world, head over to http://games.crossfit.com/  and check out in detail how you can be among the fittest on earth