From the Beach to the Box

Mitchell Day is a professional beach-soccer player. The 32-year-old member of Grasshopper Club Zurich found CrossFit when a friend challenged him to compete in the 2014 Reebok CrossFit Games Open. “At the time, it seemed like a great idea,” Day says. “Now it seems like the best thing I’ve ever done.” Day completed Open Workout 14.1 on his own in a globo gym where he worked. Soon after, he walked into CrossFit Thames, where he completed the rest of the online competition and found a community he didn’t exp