Wareham CrossFitters win team competition
A pair of Wareham CrossFitters took home the team title at the 2015 Team Summer Throwdown competition sponsored by Whaling City CrossFit in New Bedford on July 18.
Jennifer Kulak, of Rochester, and Lauren Keirstead, of Marion both train at Seaside CrossFit in Wareham.
“We never thought we would win anything,” said Kulak, a Rochester School Committee member. “It was just a fun thing to do.”
The competition featured four sets of workouts with various exercises that were timed and scored.
For one test, Kulak and Keirstead lifted 475 pounds during a tandem deadlift. The exercise, usually performed alone, had them raise a loaded barbell to hip level.
The teammates trained in order to make sure the weight was lifted evenly.
“That’s usually something you do on your own and we had to practice,” Kulak said.
“You meet a lot of awesome people. It’s competitive, but not nasty,” she said.
