Today, while speaking with some other “over 35″ CrossFit trainers regarding the upcoming Fight Gone Bad workout on September 27, the subject came up regarding whether or not CrossFit should employ age groups for competition.

Personally, I’m on the fence.

On the positive side, creating age groups, similar to running races or olympic lifting competitions, would create a more level playing field for competition. In this scenerio, the forty-five year old crossfit trainer would not have to match the blistering pace of an elite, 22-year old, 3-minute Fran monkey; and instead, compete with other masters crosfitters more likely to offer more realistic competition .

But, as a thirty-eight year old myself, I’m not sure that I’m ready to give up the drive and determination to go after an athlete like Speal, OPT or a Mike G.

Do I currently have the ability to challenge an athlete like that today? – hell, no – but aspiring to get to that level is what keeps me training so hard and with so much intensity. I want to get better. Better than better. To push my kippings to a  blistering pace …to learn the butterfly …to squeeze out a sub-three minute Fran …to take my fitness to levels that I never thought possible.

These may be far reaching goals; but to me they are very real and the possibilities are endless.

A Masters division in CrossFit would only allow older dudes to settle and scale – and in my opinion, that’s not in the spirit of CrossFit competition.

Settling? now way.

Anyone can do CrossFit for fitness training – all one needs to do is scale to ability level.

But if you want to compete in CrossFit, then you need to bring it – fight the same fight as everyone else and give it your absolute, uninhibited 100% effort.

Do that and you’ve already won. 9 years old or 90.

Thoughts?