2025 World Fitness Tour Details – Prize Purse, Point System, and Movements

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

• Last week, World Fitness Project athletes received a welcome packet of information that includes prize purse details, point system breakdowns, and more. Check out the details and what WFP Pro athletes Justin Medeiros, Dallin Pepper, and Jayson Hopper had to say about them.

• As an affiliate owner, finding your North Star is critical. Learn more about how busy gym owners can prioritize and avoid distractions from Jason Ackerman, co-host of Best Hour of Their Day.

• We know intensity is where the magic happens in the CrossFit methodology, but new research also highlights how “relative intensity,” or moving at a more comfortable pace, can increase the desire to work out and improve long-term fitness goals.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The World Fitness Project is an organization where people come first. We are committed to creating a culture where athletes, partners, and community members are valued and prioritized.” - From the 2025 WFP Athlete Welcome Packet.

COMPETITIONS

World Fitness Tour: 2025 Prize Purse, Point Breakdown, and Movement List

Last week, World Fitness Project athletes were sent a packet containing pertinent information regarding the upcoming season. 

• The document included a list of all the movements that could potentially be programmed in Tour Events, the prize purse and point breakdown for the 2025 season, a list of contacts, and a statement from Medical and Safety Director Joshua Hicks. 

Here is the full statement from Hicks: 

• “The World Fitness Project is searching for the best. We are placing safety into every aspect of the process with input from experts and resources along the way. Medical Teams will be assembled with some of the best professionals in the world and their talents will be added to our roster. While you are testing your fitness to the highest capacity possible, rest assured, that we are keeping a watchful eye on your performance and progress. Should the unfortunate situation arise that you need assistance, we will be there, prepared, available, and ready to give you our best as you lay your best on the competition floor! Your best is safe with us.”

The Details

Movements

The list of included movements is separated into multiple categories:

• Barbell

• Gymnastics

• Monostructural

• Burpees (variations) 

• Axle bar 

• Dumbbell

• Kettlebell

• Strongman

• Other

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SPEED READS

🚨🚨 The CrossFit Open Is Coming: The 2025 CrossFit Open will take place from February 27 to March 17, so sign up now!

• Bundle and save on 2025 CrossFit Open shirts and Judges course registration here.

🌎 🎟️ 2025 Qualifying Event Updates: Here are a few quick updates from some of the 2025 CrossFit Games Qualifying Events. 

• French Throwdown: The French Throwdown, one of two In-Person Qualifying Events in Europe, has announced all three online qualifier workouts, as well as several athletes who are already confirmed to compete in Montpellier, France.  

• Syndicate Crown: Earlier this week, Wilson Pak, event organizer for the Syndicate Crown, announced that JR Howell, owner of CrossFit Crash and the Crash Crucible, will program the “North America East” CrossFit Games Qualifying Event.

• Copa Sur: Announced earlier this week, the Qualifying Event in Brazil will feature a podcast recording space that overlooks the competition floor. Plus, a professional A/V team will handle audio and video editing. 

🦣 😂 Wooley Memeth Open Fundraiser: John Wooley is throwing down against Sevan Matossian during the 2025 CrossFit Open, and he is raising money for the affiliate community, especially those affected by the Southern California wildfires. Donate or buy a shirt. Also, be sure to check out Wooley’s new website.

💪 👴 Age Group Athlete (Teens and Masters) Feedback: Jason Grubb, five-time Games Masters champ and member of the CrossFit Athlete Council, has asked for some feedback from age group athletes (teen and masters) that he can take to CrossFit HQ. Learn more here.

ICYMI: The Open Report is back for week four. Check out Known and Knowable’s Open registration insights and updates on the 2025 CrossFit Games prize purse.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

Drowning in Distraction: Finding Your "One Thing" for Affiliate Success

As affiliate owners, we're no strangers to chaos.

• Each day, we're bombarded by a hundred things vying for our attention – the classes that need coaching, the endless stream of emails and messages, the fires that need putting out left and right.

Amidst all this, it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters for moving our affiliate forward.

The Power of Priority

In my years as a Navy rescue swimmer, I learned that ruthless prioritization is the key to thriving in chaos.

When you're in the water with a drowning victim, you have to zero-in on the one thing that will keep you in the fight. It's a matter of life and death.

• While the stakes may not be quite as high in entrepreneurship, the principle still applies. As affiliate owners, we face our own form of drowning – not in water, but in the daily deluge of distractions and demands.

To stay afloat and move forward, we must identify the linchpin actions that will create the most impact and drive measurable outcomes.

THINGS TO…

WATCH

Buttery Bro, Marston Sawyers’ Heart Health Scare Video

• Most known for his work behind the camera, Marston Sawyers recently found himself awake during heart surgery. Find out what happened and how the fan-favorite videographer is recovering.
  ROLL THE FOOTAGE!

WIN

A Custom Rogue Barbell from Games Champ Justin Medeiros

• Check out this post and grab your calculator. Guess the total weight (of the liftable equipment, i.e., not the rig or machines) in pounds in Justin Medeiros’ Shred Shed and win a custom Rogue barbell.
  LET‘S GOOO!

HEAR

New PRVN Fitness HYROX Coach, James Kelly and CrossFit GOAT, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, Discuss Her Shift to the Fitness Race

• “I’ve been a HYROX athlete for a month,” Toomey-Orr says to start the conversation. Tune in and get all the details on her training and plans for 2025.
  LISTEN HERE.

RESEARCH

For Best Results, Move at an Intensity You Enjoy, New Research Suggests

As CrossFit athletes, we have been groomed to believe intensity is the be-all, end-all for making fitness gains.

• After all, the very definition of CrossFit tells us constantly varied functional movements, done at a high intensity, is the key to success. 

Further, remember Pukey the Clown, CrossFit’s original mascot, so to speak? 

• Pukey created a culture where vomiting after a CrossFit workout was seen as a badge of honor. And in case you thought Pukey was an outdated relic of the past, even today, Rogue Fitness sells a Pukey the Clown t-shirt.

The point is that CrossFit has gone hand-in-hand with pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zones and coming close to redlining every time we’re at the gym.

• It’s an approach I adopted when I started CrossFit in 2008 and an approach I maintained until 2015. Until I no longer could. Or at least until I no longer wanted high intensity to dominate every workout.

And now, new research out of Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal, suggests I was onto something when I abandoned high-intensity efforts all the time. 

The research in a nutshell: A better approach to achieve consistency over the long term might be to stick to an intensity you enjoy. 

Reading this was music to my ears. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Celebrating a PR, hosting a fundraiser, this, that, or otherwise? Send us a tip.

• 💕Happy anniversary (2/22) to Jayson and Grace Ann Hopper.

• Great job to Amari from Core City CrossFit in Detroit, MI, on this ring muscle-up.

• 🐕 Congratulations to Anikha Greer on the new addition to her family.

• Check out these pause front squats from heavy lifter Bayley Martin at 140 kilos/308 pounds.

• 👏Congratulations to Jo of CrossFit Tenacity in Australia on his first bar muscle-up.

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