GULF BREEZE — Dr. G. Daxton Steele, an orthopaedic total joint surgeon at Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, finished second in the 150-pound weight class master’s division during Rogue’s 2016 CrossFit Liftoff.
The online weightlifting competition was held during the first week of November. Competitors had to complete a CrossFit workout and two max-effort lifts at a CrossFit affiliate location in front of a certified judge, or they could be recorded on video and submit the filming for online judging.
"Most of the time, CrossFit events are broken up into the categories of scaled, as prescribed and elite, Steele said. For this event, you were broken up by your age and weight. That’s something that appealed to me because I am a smaller guy and I always tend to be competing against a lot bigger guys."
The biggest attraction to CrossFit for Steele is the quantitative aspect including measurements involved.
"We’re constantly doing workouts where we are measuring our performance,” Steele said. “That constant evolution and that constant awareness of how you are doing, whether you are falling back a little or you are making improvements, really speaks to athletes, especially to me."
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