Community of Progression

Back in 2019 when CrossFit Cairngorm first opened its doors we started our first week of training together during the CrossFit Open. This worldwide competition happens once per year and is the first stage towards qualifying for the CrossFit Games. For most of the other - almost half a million - people who take part each year its a way to benchmark your fitness against the rest of the world and track the progress in your training.

In the years since, we have had more and more members of our community take part, getting together every Friday night for 3 weeks to take on another challenging workout and see how the stack up this year. We have dressed up in hilarious outfits and pushed ourselves hard and had a good mixture of fun and fitness.

This year however, some of our members took things a little further and pushed themselves a lot further than they previously had to show how far their training had taken them and finished in the top 25% of athletes worldwide in the 2024 Open. This incredible result has qualified 7 awesome members of our community for the next stage of competition, the Quarterfinals.

Wendy Adamson, Rebecca Badger, Izzy Dubois, Ellie Dubois, James Bracher, Kyle Barnes and Ian Webster. All people you may know from within the community at large and awesome contributors to the CrossFit Cairngorm community who train together with the whole crew day-in-day-out. They have trained hard and progressed skills so they could not only complete movements like strict handstand pushups, rope climbs, weightlifting to a high degree but do them fast and competitively.

They have proven themselves fit enough to compete against the best and whether or not they progress to Semifinals in France or their season ends here they should be super proud of their performance. Representing our little highland gym on the world stage is a pretty incredible feat!

For most of our members, CrossFit is the way they complement the training they do for other sports and we are super proud of Wendy Munro, Nicki Diggins and Becks Ferguson completing the London Marathon along with all of our members completing qualifiers for upcoming summer competitions all in the same weekend.