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Thank You For The Best 2016

Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while thinking back on the 255 editions we sent out this year. Whew! That’s a PR.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You never know who is watching and you never know who that person is who is going to come in and turn your life around. Life lesson… Be good at everything you decide to do, be nice to everyone (I know that’s hard), and just because it’s temporary doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. The best things can come from almost nothing. I’m living proof.”Ryan Fischer

RESOLVED, PART 4

SAY GOODBYE TO 2016

This is our final edition for 2016 and what a fantastic year it’s been; a little crazy at times, but still amazing. Thank you for deciding to start your day with us. It’s been a pleasure and an honor.

HOW THE FITTEST HAVE RESOLVED 2017

Val Voboril (5x CrossFit Games athlete)

Madeline Shine (2016 Mad Apple CrossFit Regional Team)
Alethea Boon (2x CrossFit Games athlete)
Alyssa Ritchey (4x CrossFit Regionals athlete & 48kg Olympic Weightlifter)
Carly Fuhrer (CrossFit Games Rookie)
Mia Akerlund (2015 CrossFit Games Team athlete)
Jared Enderton (2015 Regionals Athlete and Olympic Weightlifter)
Kristin Holte (3x CrossFit Games athlete)

I WANT TO PLAN MINE!

The use our 2017 goal planner.

CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX

This is what it looks like to try and lift a 300 pound sandbag. Thuri Helgadottir hits 40 unbroken double unders with the heavy rope. Brooke Ence sits down with Footwear News to share her training schedule for making it back to the 2017 CrossFit Games and why NoBull is her training shoe of choice. Qualifying for the CrossFit Games, Masters athlete Matt Cia made Napa Valley’s top 10 sports stories of 2016.

 Friends, through all the times.

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE

Sports Illustrated sits down for a tell all interview with Mathew Fraser, the Fittest Man on Earth…”Initially he started competing just to make a few bucks. At his first event, he remembers, ‘I won it, and the first place prize is $500 cash, and I was blown away. I couldn’t tell you any time I ever had $500. So after, I was like, Hey, are there competitions like this often?’

Fellow CrossFitters began referring to him as Happy Gilmore, because he’d show up in his 1987 Oldsmobile sedan, make a few hundred dollars and drive home. But the more success he had, the more he wondered if there was something there. He refused to quit school and train full-time—like a jilted lover, he was afraid to devote his whole heart to another sport that could easily leave him alone and in pain—but he started training his weaknesses.

ON THE RADIO

On Episode 240, Theresa Larson and Anders Varner of MovementRX join Barbell Shrugged to discuss how to fix lower back pain, in particular how to pinpoint the causes.

CHALK UP READS

What does it mean to have balance? Why is it important and are we missing it in our daily lives? That’s a damn good question. Everyday we wake up, head off to school, work, meetings, the gym, yoga class, whatever it might be, but it’s what we do within our day that can define our balance.

For me it wasn’t until recently that I realized I was stuck in the same routine and it was mentally draining me. What used to be fun for me was now something I dreaded doing and it was everyday. Red flags started to pop up all over the place telling me that I had no balance in my life, or at least not enough, something had to change.

About half of all health-care spending in the United States goes to treat a small group of diseases, according to new research. And diabetes is leading the pack, far outpacing other conditions in total dollars spent.

Diabetes is the most expensive condition in terms of total dollars spent nationwide, costing $101 billion in diagnosis and treatment in 2013. Ischemic heart disease, the second-largest source of expenses, cost a total of $88 billion that year. The survey shows that diabetes-related costs have grown 36-times faster than those for ischemic heart disease, which kills more people than any other condition.

CHALK UP AFFILIATES

Fun Friday Warmup Idea — Partner wallballs over the rig.

Jesse and Paul from CrossFit Back on the Bar did 1000 burpees on Wednesday.

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