Good Monday morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. The storm in the Eastern Sierras lingered so we pushed our launch back one day to Tuesday so we’ve published a truncated version. There will be no Morning Chalk Up on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Current summit temperature: 0 with wind chill.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
#NotMyShorts…Alexis Johnson forgot her shorts so had to borrow someone else’s.
With Your Second Cup of Coffee…Exercise is fundamental to good health. So why do few Americans stick with it?
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Catching Up with Camille Leblanc-Bazinet
WATCH.
HEAR: Women in Weightlifting
PRESS PLAY.
EAT: Coconut Cream Chili Mango Frozen Margaritas
SUMMER’S HERE.
WIN: A Year Supply of Mission6
ENTER TO WIN.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Heather Gonzales, a single-mom, art teacher and strongman competitor from CrossFit Boro of Statesboro, GA, has breast cancer. The weekend after she finished up a round of radiation, she was back competing.
CHALK UP READS
With warmer weather comes talk of hydration—unfortunately, most people don’t have the facts about hydrating while exercising.
Hydration expert Sandra Fowkes Godek, Ph.D. (Courtesy of Sandra Fowkes Godek) Sandra Fowkes Godek holds a doctorate in exercise physiology and is director of the Heat Illness Evaluation Avoidance and Treatment (HEAT) Institute at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She specializes in thermoregulation, hydration and electrolyte replacement in football players, and she’s worked with top athletes at the NFL level.
Fowkes Godek busts five common hydration myths you’re going to hear from “experts” in the coming months.
“This is Why Monday is the New Friday” by Gameplan-A
Monday morning – we all know the feeling. It’s past 9 a.m. and you’re peeling yourself away from social media to try and plough through those countless emails sat in your inbox. At the same time, you’re thinking about how today is a ‘new day’; time to get the diet back on track after slipping again over the weekend. But not this week. And so it begins.
The weekly cycle of ‘Motivation Monday’ to pick up where you dropped off before the weekend took hold. Thinking back it’s Friday, when you throw caution to the wind because your mood has naturally lifted – thoughts of food, cocktails, wine maybe – it’s the weekend after all.
But what if you could swap the Monday blues for Friday’s optimism?