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Good morning. It’s Tuesday, June 14, and this is your Morning Chalk Up. Did we miss something? Send us a tip at tips@morningchalkup.com.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” – Vince Lombardi
THE COMPETITION FLOOR
35 days until the 2016 CrossFit Games.
Here’s how you can watch the 2016 CrossFit Games.
The 2016 NPGL schedule has been released.
GAMES PREP
Sheila Barden is collecting some nice training bloopers. Someone bring the helmet next time. Noah Ohlsen squat cleans 350 pounds. Kara Webb grabs her rucksack and starts hiking. Alessandra Pichelli’s close-grip overhead squats are looking strong. Jamie Hagiya might be the Steph Curry of CrossFit. Brooke Wells heads up to New England to get her nails done with Katrin Davidsdottir and Cole Sager.
GRANITE GAMES
The registration for athletes has closed. Here’s an update on the slow scoring on the leaderboard.
SPEED READ
MEET MICHAEL MILLS, the 39 year old adaptive athlete from Georgia who’s life has been changed by CrossFit and wants to get an adaptive division in the CrossFit Games. “Twenty three years ago, Michael Mills was fighting for his life, fighting to live a life that he’d just started. At only 16 years old, Mills was hit head on by a drunk driver. Unable to move, laying in a hospital bed in a coma, he’d soon wakeup to another kind of paralysis – the use of his legs.‘I laid in the bed a lot at the hospital questioning, What did I do wrong? Did I make God angry? Was he playing some sort of horrible joke on me? Was I really a bad kid? All of these things were running through my mind at such a young age and I couldn’t answer anything. It took several years to realize that I was here for a reason and that God allowed me to live a life like this and I would use it for every aspect of my life to grow.’
IN 2 MINUTES…
For all you educators out there, here’s how one teacher applied CrossFit training principles to help her students succeed in the classroom. Alyssa Ritchey is training for NPGL doing ring movements that we have no idea what to call. The CrossFit commercial filming in Delaware we mentioned yesterday is for 5.11 tactical, and will feature “an actor ‘on the way to work’ will climb a fire escape and do a little zip line action from the top of the deck.” The team at Men’s XP gave CrossFit a try and actually got it pretty right, saying: “If there’s one complete test of fitness on the planet, it’s got to be CrossFit…Contrary to the popular belief that ‘only athletes can do CrossFit’, it’s actually a sport for people from all walks of life.” Ava Khalipa takes a little dip in the spa after a tough week of Chemo.
Redefining Body Image – “When I was her age (I’m now 47), a girl wanting to get stronger might have provoked snorts of disapproval and mockery, even disgust. Ordinary young women weren’t supposed to want muscles or to bother with being strong. Such desires were deemed unfeminine. In the 1980s, girls like Juliet might have hoped to get as skinny as Jane Fonda in one of her workout videos…When Juliet chose to lift weights, she was embracing one of the key features of this new fitness movement: an emphasis on working out for performance and a rejection of the increasingly outmoded aesthetic of emaciation.”
HEALTH & MOBILITY
Jared Enderton on the clean: “Ya gotta SHRUG UNDER [the bar].” You don’t need high rings to practice muscle-ups. Melissa Doss shows you one under-used exercise that will destroy you glutes.
WHAT YOU’LL WANNA BUY
Buy a RX Smart Gear jump rope and use Scott Panchik’s code and you could win 2 tickets to the 2016 CrossFit Games.