Open 2027: there are already dates, so you can start inventing an injury now

CrossFit has already published the schedule for Open 2027, and the same thing as always happened at the gym: half smiled and the other half looked askance at the vacation calendar, in case a much-needed trip was fitting right in February.

Dates that matter

• January 7, 2027: Registration opens.
• 27.1: announced on Thursday, February 18.
• 27.2: announced on Thursday, February 25.
• 27.3: announced on Thursday, March 4. There are three weeks and three training sessions, the same as in 2026. In Spain, each workout is announced on Thursday at 9:00 p.m. and you have until the following Tuesday at 2:00 a.m. to do it and upload your result. That is, five days. Five days to do it, repeat it and regret having repeated it. CrossFit has also announced that there will be Open news on October 28, after its meeting with affiliated pits. When I count them, we'll tell them to you.

The four usual strategies

With five days ahead, each the gym athlete chooses their path:

• The early riser: He does it on Friday at 7:00, before anyone tells him how hard it is. Ignorance as a method.
• The analyst: wait until Monday. He has watched 14 videos, has a round-by-round plan and a spreadsheet. He does it once. It turns out worse than the early riser.
• The repeater: does it on Friday, Saturday and Monday.

Improve three repetitions. It takes a week to be able to climb stairs.

• The one who "not this year": says he is not signing up. Sign up for February 17 at 11:58 p.m.

Thursday night: announcement protocol

The workout announcement is a social event. In many boxes there are those who see it live, those who wait for the summary and those who find out through the WhatsApp group at 9:04 p.m., when someone writes only "oh my god" and nothing else. That message generates more anxiety than the training itself. Our recommendation: watch it, breathe, have dinner and go to sleep. Strategizing an AMRAP at midnight hasn't made anyone a better athlete. Worse asleep, yes.

What you can do between now and February

Four months is a long time. For example:

• Finally learn double unders, instead of praying that they don't come out. Ten minutes at the end of each class, three days a week, and in February you will be a different person. With calves marked by whiplashes, but another person.
• Work on your weak point, the one that you know perfectly and avoid with the same perfection. If you hate gymnastics, play gymnastics. If you hate cardio, play cardio. The Open has a knack for finding just what you don't train.
• Practice at competition pace. It's not about training harder, but about learning not to go out like a rocket and die in the fourth minute.

• Take care of yourself: sleep, eat decently and not reach February with three accumulated annoyances from wanting to do in November what you didn't do all year. They also allow you to make a good excuse, but we already warned you: there is no excuse that can last three weeks in a row with the entire box asking you how much you have gotten.

If it is your first Open

Welcome. Sign up. Oh really. There are scaled versions for almost everything, no one expects you to do the workout like those on TV, and the feeling of seeing your name in a world ranking, even in a six-figure position, is strangely addictive. > The Open is not a competition against others. It's a competition against the version of you who last year said "next year, muscle-up for sure." Source of dates: official calendar of the Open 2027 on the CrossFit Games website (Spanish peninsular time), consulted in October 2026.