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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while waking up looking like Jenn Dancer. Yesterday came in late. We’re sorry. Your author hasn’t been home for 19 days and he’s a little tired.
The correct answer to yesterday’s trivia question was Richard Gurley Drew, who invented scotch tape, and our hookgrip thumbs thank you for it. Winners, RockTape will be shipping our your tape soon!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You got to get it started if you want to get it done.” — Aaron Tippin, Working Man’s Ph.D
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
SHHHH…a new speakeasy just opened in downtown Madison, WI and if you’re really nice we’ll tell you where it is, but you’ll need the password. Chalk this one up to things we’e never seen before: Carly Fuhrer does banded Fran. Lacey Baumgart got a kettlebaby onesie for her unborn baby. Talk about bottoming out, Lu Xiaojun snatches 180kg/396 pounds and holds it overhead nearly an inch from the ground. Reebok’s new HQ in Boston will house a FitHub store, a CrossFit gym and a mile-long track. We don’t even want to know what WOD Chyna Cho did to look like this afterwards. How exactly did Emily Abbott get a barbell out to a waterfall? Cole Sager takes the Nike Metcon 3s for a test drive at Nike HQ.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Nathan Helming of San Francisco CrossFit sits down with Entrepreneur Magazine to talk about what CrossFit has taught him about success, passion and hard work.
ON THE RADIO
Joy and Claire from Girls Gone WOD Podcast sit down with dietitian Sarah Pierce, who discusses how stress affects your hormones and what happens when we eat too much sugar.
CHALK UP READS
“Charity Witt: Strongwoman, Elite Powerlifter, and Full-Time Student” by BarBend
Charity Witt is more than your average strength athlete. She balances being a full-time student – studying to be a Naturopathic Doctor ND – along with excelling in not one, but two strength sports: Powerlifting & Strongwoman.
Charity’s first powerlifting records were in the APC where she competed in the 75kg weight class, and became the first woman in APC history to receive overall best lifter in competition, while setting two American records (deadlift 345 lbs and bench press 170 lbs).
“Yeah. When I first started powerlifting, it wasn’t just society, it was also my family. I had relatives telling me that they didn’t want me to do that, or it was stupid…It was hard, but – it’s the feeling of being empowered, feeling strong, and knowing that I can be good at this – you have to ignore all the other voices.”
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
On Tuesday, CrossFit Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, held a memorial WOD in honor of one of their members – Angela Lefler – who died December 9th of a brain aneurysm at age 34.
Six UK athletes are competing in the 24hr AMRAP Challenge, a global competition where competitors will have to complete more than 48,000 reps of any combination of movements within 24 hours. Why you ask? They saw footage of a young boy praying to God asking to live through the night and help him get better from cancer and were compelled to raise money.