JAYDON Tiberi is ranked 43rd in the world.
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In any other sport that might make him a well-known Aussie sportsperson.
However the Tamworth 15-year-old student is competing in the almost unheard sport, if you can call it that, of Cross Fit.
And he’s competing in a 16-17 year age group where the teenager still has another year.
So what is Cross Fit.
Essentially it’s a training method, a strength and conditioning program, said Jake Douglas.
The former representative rugby union player runs the Snake Cross Fit gymnasium at Hinkler Street West
Tamworth.
Cross Fit, he said, is designed to make the athlete more well-rounded, in fitness and shape.
From that training regime the Cross Fit Games have emanated.
“It’s a world-wide competition in three stages,” Douglas said.
“It’s designed to find the fittest man, woman and junior.
“Anyone can enter.
“You work out once a week over five weeks.
“You have four days to complete the work-out.”
Cross Fitters are judged by video and they work through their regions to eventually reach a world ranking.
Douglas was competing but has had to take a back seat with a broken rib.
Not so Tiberi.
“He’s going well, 43rd in the world for his 16-17 age group,” Douglas said.
“And he’s a year young.
“He’s not 16 yet, has another year.”
Tiberi is just one of some 40 Tamworth cross fitters taking on the Cross Fit Games challenge.