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LIVE This Week On FloElite: 6/27/15

This weekend, FloElite is presenting two top tier fitness events for your entertainment. Between Rush Club 004 in Phoenix and the World Fitness Strongman Challenge in Atlanta, we've got your weekend covered. Rush Club 004 Date: June 27th Broadcast Info: CLICK HERE TO WATCH RUSH CLUB 004 LIVE Middleweight Champ Lindy Barber faces her first title defense against up and comer Nicole Capurso in a match that is going to go down to the wire. We've got Lindy Barber as a slight favorite going into the event. Tune in to catch the action! World Fitness Strongman Challenge Date: June 27th Broadcast Info: CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE WORLD FITNESS STRONGMAN CHALLENGE The World Fitness Strongman Challenge will bring together the top amateur female strongwomen in the United States to battle it out for a single pro-card as well as a coveted invite to the Arnold Amateur Championships in 2016. The action will be intense, with both a farmer's walk and a husafell stone carry as well as an axle deadlift, an axle press, and stone loading for reps.

Jun 26, 2015

2015 Rush Club Pound For Pound Rankings

Fight Club meets competitive fitness...kind of.   Rush Club, the brainchild of CEO AJ Richards, pits the world's top functional fitness athletes head-to-head in a single-elimination competition using a fitness-to-weight ratio approach similar to that seen in combat sports, including: flyweight, light weight, welter weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. For example: Noah Ohlsen, the current Rush Club Middleweight Champion, only competes against athletes who weigh up to 185 pounds. If Noah wanted to claim the Heavyweight belt, he'd have to take on the the likes of 200+ pounders, like Sam Dancer and Jon Pera.  Rush Club is only three events in, so it's a statistical challenge to accurately rank each weight class five competitors deep (there simply haven't been enough head-to-heads). What FloElite can do, however, is give you its debut list of pound for pound rankings.  The logic here is simple: each competitor is ranked according to his/her ability to dominate his/her respective weight class for the longest period of time — so don't come at us with a "Dancer can outlift Ohlsen" type of argument.  Without further ado:  2015 Rush Club Pound for Pound Rankings: 1. Noah Ohlsen (Middleweight - Men) 2. Jon Pera (Heavyweight - Men) 3. Elisabeth Akinwale (Heavyweight - Women) 4. Sam Dancer (Heavyweight - Men) 5. Lindy Barber (Middleweight - Women) 1. NOAH OHLSEN Come on. Who's taking this guy down? In anything? No one. Well...Mat Fraser...maybe. But until the day Fraser comes to Rush Club and rips the title away from Ohlsen, we don't see Miami's hottest young functional fitness athlete losing at this venue. FloElite expects Ohlsen to hold the Rush Club Middleweight belt for a long, long time. Why? Because he's progressing more than just about any other competitor in the game right now, and he's young as hell. Is Ohlsen the Floyd Mayweather of Rush Club?  2. JON PERA Pera's not even a current Rush Club champ, and yet we have him as the pound for pound #2?? Really, p4p #2? Yes, really. Sure, Sam Dancer's got the title but remind us when Dancer beat Pera head-to-head. Never happened. In the meantime though, Jon Pera qualified for the CrossFit Games for the third time (2011, 2012, 2015), while Dancer has not qualified for the Games any year. We've still got respect for Dancer though. Keep reading... 3. ELISABETH AKINWALE No disrespect to Rush Club's Heavyweight Champ, Sarah Urban...but she's basically just baby sitting that Rush Club belt until Akinwale meets her head-to-head (okay, I guess that was a little bit disrespectful). But come on now...Akinwale is a CrossFit Games legend, having finished top 15 at the Games the past three years. She eats, breathes and sleeps this type of stuff. She just needs more at-bats at Rush Club. Stay tuned.  4. SAM DANCER The dude can deadliftt nearly 700lbs. His back squat: 600lbs. He's clean and jerked 385lbs before. We get it: he's a specimen. So why's the Champ at #4 in the pound for pound? Because if he and Pera went round-for-round for ten workouts, we think Pera would win six of 'em. And that's enough to bounce Dancer down to #4 in the p4p. Bring on the hate, Sam Dancer fans. 5. LINDY BARBER We actually expect Lindy Barber to be tested this weekend. The recent CrossFit Games qualifier is putting her title on the line Saturday vs. Nicole Capurso. Here's what we know: the (slight) strength advantage goes to Nicole Capurso, who possesses higher PR's in Clean and Jerk and Squat. BUT Barber has the experience...she has experience competing against the best at the Games, and she knows the Rush Club format. She's the Champ, and she's rounding out our pound for pound ranking until another world-class athlete comes into Rush Club and takes away her Middleweight title. CURRENT RUSH CLUB CHAMPIONS AND TOP COMPETITORS MEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT Champion: Jacob Marinez (Rush Club 001 Winner) Top Competitors: Chris Gartrell (Rush Club 002 Winner), Aaron Martinez, Gene Francis, Max Rossiter MEN'S WELTERWEIGHT Champion: Reza Mashkoori Top Competitors: Tommy Morgan, Mathew Horton   MEN'S MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion: Noah Ohlsen (Rush Club 002 Winner) Top Competitors: Jorge Aragon (Rush Club 001 Winner), Andy Timm, Chris Treanor, Eric Roesler, Brian Kunitzer, Justin Fallon MEN'S HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Sam Dancer (Rush Club 001 Winner) Top Competitors: Jon Pera (Rush Club 003 Winner), Dan Pela, Scott Porter, William Wood WOMEN'S FLYWEIGHT Champion: Melissa Popovich (Rush Club 003 Winner) Top Competitors: Charis Chan WOMEN MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion: Lindy Barber (Rush Club 002 Winner) Top Competitors: Tenni Reed (Rush Club 001 Winner) Melissa Doss, Nikki Carlin, Kelly Sussman WOMEN HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Sarah Urban (Rush Club 001 Winner) Top Competitors: Elisabeth Akinwale (Rush Club 002 Winner), Joy Summers, Kawika Henderson, Krysty Geezy Related Articles:  Lindy Barber To Defend Her Title At Rush Club 004 Sam Briggs: The Trailer 

Jun 25, 2015

Rush Club 004 Final Events Released!

Men’s Middleweight Horton vs Morga 3 rounds for time: (Cap 8:00) 7 Ring Muscle-ups 8 Shoulder to Overhead 185lbs 9 Over the Box Jumps 24” (bar starts on the ground. hands may not touch the box)   Women’s Lightweight Marquez vs McCall   AMRAP 7:00 9 Bar Muscle-ups 21 Clean & Jerk (any style) 75lbs 15 Handstand Push-ups  15 Snatches 75lbs 21 CTB Pull-ups  9 Thrusters 75lbs    Men’s Heavyweight Wood vs Pela For time: (Cap 9:00) 15 Bar Facing Burpees  15 Hang Power Cleans 225lbs 15 Bar Facing Burpees 15 Front Squats 275lbs (from ground) 15 Bar Facing Burpees 15 Deadlifts 365lbs   Rush Club 004 Title Match-ups   Adaptive Gallardo vs Devila For time: (Cap 8:00) 3 Rope Climbs 5 Squat Clean & Jerks 155lbs 7 Ring Muscle-ups 2 Rope Climbs 4 Squat Clean & Jerks 6 Ring Muscle-ups 1 Rope Climb 3 Squat Clean & Jerks 5 Ring Muscle-ups    Men’s Lightweight Martinez vs Gartrell Min 1: 1 Ring MU/ 1 Squat Clean 225 Min 2: 2 Ring MU/ 2 Squat Clean 225 Min 3: 3 Ring MU/ 3 Squat Clean 225 *Continue until somebody fails to complete the work. If they fail in the same round, the win goes to who ever did the most work. If they complete the same amount of work, the win goes to the athlete who completed it first. Men’s Masters Moseley vs Bourke For total reps: 1:00 1 Burpee + 1 Rope Climb Burpee must be done under the pull up bar and only counts when the athletes chest touches the ground and jumps and touches the bar over head :30 Rest 1:00 1 Burpee + 1 Ground to Overhead 185lbs Burpee only counts when the athletes chest touches the ground and jumps over the bar. Feet must leave the ground together and land together :30 Rest 1:00 1 Burpee + 1 Deficit Handstand Push-ups 6” Burpee must be done under the pull up bar and only counts when the athletes chest touches the ground and jumps and touches the bar over head :30 Rest 1:00 1 Burpee + 1 DBall Over the shoulder 150lbs Burpee only counts when the athletes chest touches the ground and jumps over the d ball Feet must leave the ground together and land together. Each one minute round is an AMRAP.  (1 rep for the burpee and 1 rep for the other movement)   Women’s Middleweight Barber vs Capurso (Cap 9:00) 9 Burpee Ring Muscle-ups  Cluster Ladder 135/125/115 9 Pistol (each leg) + Over the Box Jumps  Snatch Ladder 115/125/135 6 Burpee Ring Muscle-ups Cluster Ladder 135/125/115 6 Pistol + Over the Box Jumps Snatch Ladder 115/125/135 3 Burpee Ring Muscle-ups Cluster Ladder 135/125/115  3 Pistol + Over the Box Jumps (Pistol + Over the Box Jump = 1 pistol each leg and then over the box jump) Related Articles:  Who's Who In The Meridian Regional? The Central Regional: Who's Going To Take It? 

May 29, 2015