Chad Smithey
No performance history
I have been training for 25+ years. At first, it was solely for sports, football and track. I played college football and ran track. After college I played 2 years of arena football. I got cut after that 2nd year and I was just done with it. By that time I was addicted to training but I had nothing to train for, so I just meathead lifted to see how strong I could get. I felt like I was just wasting my life and I was missing something. I decided to join the Army, because of that feeling. I signed an infantry contract and went off to basic. While I was in, I broke my back at Ranger School by falling down a mountain. I didn't know that at the time, so I got up and kept going. Needless to say it didn't heal great. After Ranger School is when I started Crossfit. I started Crossfit because I missed competing and I saw it had a lot of recovery stuff in the programming. That really helped my back and I got to compete. I got stationed at Ft. Carson and I joined Progressive Fitness Crossfit. I was trained by Beth and Chris Hoppe. I was primed to start doing very well in the open because of the guidance those two gave me. Unfortunately, I ran into the roughest part of my life. I found out I had no cartilage in my knee, I had a pulmonary embolism, I found out I had 5 herniated disc, found out my back didn't heal right, and I had a appendicitis. Right before the open that I was primed for is when I had my PE... I was heart broken because of the work I put in just to have it ripped away. I did the open anyways but I had to be very careful to not get my heart rate too high. I got out of the Army in 2015 and the place I moved back to didn't have a crossfit gym. I trained at a local gym until I built my garage gym. The last open I did I drove up to San Antonio to get judged at Lonestar Crossfit and I did very well in my age group. I had the flu the first two weeks of that open but I was able to push through my 103 temp and pull out top 200. I couldn't get up to San Antonio to do the qualifier. That was the last open I did because I just don't have the time to get up to a gym and I don't have the money to buy a 1000 dollar rower to be able to do the open every year. Now I just train hard and I train two girls that I'm talking into completing because they are beastly.
Open
Year | Rank Worldwide | Rank by Region | Rank By Country | Rank By Affiliate | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | 2652nd Men | 192nd Men (35-39) | 157th Men South Central | 10th Men (35-39) South Central | 1515th Men United States | 110th Men (35-39) United States | – – | |
2015 | 16385th Men | 917th Men South West | – – | – – | ||||
2014 | 9003rd Men | 527th Men South West | – – | – – | ||||
2013 | 10485th Men | 847th Men Mid Atlantic | – – | – – |
Age Group Quarterfinal
Year | Rank Worldwide | |
---|---|---|
2017 | 198th Men (35-39) |
Benchmark Stats
-
Back Squat -- Chad1000x -- Clean and Jerk -- Deadlift -- -
Fight Gone Bad -- Filthy 50 -- Fran -- Grace -- -
Helen -- L1 Benchmark -- Max Pull-ups -- Run 5k -- -
Snatch -- Sprint 400m --