CrossFit Costa Mesa to Participate in Fight Gone Bad IV

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Posted: 08/28/09

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Costa Mesa, CA:   When Costa Mesa resident’s and CrossFit Costa Mesa Owners Alec Hanson and Steve Dugger step up for their 17 minutes of the Fight Gone Bad workout on September 26, they won’t be competing just for themselves. They’ll also be raising funds for the Wounded Warrior Project, benefiting wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and Athletes for a Cure, which supports prostate cancer research.

“CrossFit has changed my life. I am in better shape than I was, even at my collegiate volleyball level at UC Berkeley. This fundraiser is a fantastic way to give back to fight cancer and help those soldiers who have given so much to me.   Fight Gone Bad is a brutal workout and I can think of no better way to support those men and women fighting cancer and those who fought for my freedom than to raise money and sweat it out for such a great cause.”
-Alec Hanson

In the first three editions of the Fight Gone Bad fundraising event CrossFit Affiliates have raised more than $1.4 million. Fight Gone Bad is one of the most brutal workouts on the CrossFit menu, and the members of CrossFit Costa Mesa will ante up for the challenge.

The event will take place on Saturday September 26 at more than 300 CrossFit affiliates throughout the United States and Canada at 6 a.m. EST until 6 p.m. PST. Last year, 700 people participated, raising more than $700,000 for the two charities. This year they seek to break the $1 million mark.

“Through their generosity and commitment, CrossFit athletes are making the most of a great fundraising opportunity,” said Scott Zagarino, Executive Director of The Sportsgrants Foundation. “These athletes are taking their training to a higher level by providing much-needed support for our troops and the more than 2 million American families dealing with prostate cancer.”

To support CrossFit Costa Mesa’s efforts, go to www.CrossFitCostaMesa.com and click FGB IV Logo on the right to Donate.

In this workout, participants move through five stations for one minute each. Upon completion of the “round” of exercises, they get a minute rest and go for two more rounds. Scoring is based on the number of repetitions the athletes can complete in each minute (rowing = one point per calorie burned). The workout was given its name by World Ultimate Fighting Champion BJ Penn, who remarked after finishing, “That was just like a fight gone bad.” The stations include:

- Wall-ball: 20-lb. ball, 10-ft. high target
- Sumo dead-lift high-pull: 75 lbs.
- Box Jump: 20-in. box
- Push-press: 75 lbs.
- Row: calories

•   Athletes for a Cure (www.athletesforacure.org), a program of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, is a fundraising and awareness program that assists individual athletes in their quest to raise money for better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. Every dollar raised from the program goes directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

•   The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research. The PCF has a single, urgent goal: to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. The PCF pursues its mission by reaching out to individuals, corporations and others to harness society’s resources—financial and human—to fight this deadly disease. www.pcf.org

•   Inspired by the difficult stories of the first wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, the Wounded Warrior Project raises awareness about and enlists the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service people and provides direct programs and services to meet their needs. www.woundedwarriorproject.org

•   CrossFit Costa Mesa is the principal strength and conditioning program used by many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide. Thousands of athletes have followed the workouts posted daily on www.crossfitcostamesa.com, distinguishing themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.

•   The Sportsgrants Foundation one of the few nonprofit event production companies in the United States.