Basically Everyone PRed This Weekend

Happy Monday! Welcome to the Morning Chalk Up, your daily roundup of the fittest news in the CrossFit® world.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Do not confuse motion with progress. A rocking horse moves, but does not go forward.” — John F. Kennedy

THE COMPETITION FLOOR

October 12: World Burpee Day
October 15: The Crush Games (Miami, FL)
October 15: The MIA Weightlifting Classic (Miami, FL)
October 22: The Zombie Games (San Diego, CA)
October 24: Wodapalooza Online Qualifier for teams starts
October 30: Battle of the Beasts (Colchester, UK)
November 3: CrossFit Liftoff
November 20: CrossFit Invitational (Toronto, Canada)

CrossFit Invitational — In case you missed it, CrossFit released Team USA’s lineup for the invitation Friday. Just for fun, we accurately predicted 14 of 16 athletes and 3 of 4 coaches. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing, other than we spend way too much time thinking about CrossFit.

Team USA: Mat Fraser, Ben Smith, Brooke Wells, Kari Pearce and Rich Froning (Coach).

WHAT THE ELITE ATHLETES ARE UP TO — Brooke Wells hits a 250 pound clean PR, a 240 pound clean and jerk AND a 200 pound snatch this weekend. Here’s Morghan King’s Olympic ring. OJ Washington got to workout withJason Khalipa in NYC. Nicole Capurso hit a competition snatch PR of 172 pounds. Misfit athlete Tola Morakinyo snatched 325 pounds. Alyssa Ritchey hits a 170 pound snatch twice in the Wodapalooza online qualifier. Sheila Barden: “I want another ticket to the CrossFit Games more than I want to not pick up the barbell again.” Garret Fisher hit a 300 pound snatch PR. Cassidy Lance snatched 185 pounds. Alec Smith hit a 355 pound clean and jerk. CrossFit Games 14/15 year old 2nd place finisher

SPEED READ

IN 2 MINUTES — The International Weightlifting Federation announced a new weight class for women: 90kg (198 pounds), which means the super heavyweight class will be 90KG +. Phase one of Rogue’s new facility is complete and phase 2 is underway. Bottom line, the place is going to be absolutely massive. Actor Kevin Hart and Conan O’Brien do a little CrossFit or something like that. Canadian Running magazine features former pro-triathlete Chris Hinshaw, who has trained some of the best CrossFit Games athletes, and discusses how runners can benefit from more full-body workouts like CrossFit. How does Duchess Kate Middleton stay fit…CrossFit 🙂

“…the best CrossFit athletes…are master pacers.” — 2007 CrossFit Games champ and founder of Opex Fitness writes and explains what many have been thinking: “Games athletes don’t look like they’re going very hard.” According toJames Fitzgerald, they’re really not. “Being a master pacer means you don’t ever push the intensity to a place that will ruin your ability to recover for the next movement, the next round, the next workout, or the next day of competition…’Rich Froning has an unbelievable willingness to understand pace. He knows exactly when to go, when to stop, when to push and when to pull. He knew what he needed to do on Friday night to save himself for Sunday and exactly what he needed to do in every workout in the first round to pace for the last round.'”

Switching to CrossFit After Running for 18 Years — “I have gone through two pregnancies, gaining 50-plus pounds during each, and always ran to lose that postbaby weight. Even running 45 minutes three to four times a week didn’t help me lose those last 10 pounds…Running became a chore. I wasn’t excited to do it anymore because it wasn’t offering the results I thought it should. I decided to take the leap and sign up for a month-long “on-ramp program” for CrossFit…I dove in headfirst, and started going five days a week. After one month of CrossFit, I was shocked at how my body had changed.”

Affiliate Corner — New Jersey’s CrossFit OTG held a Blue Lives Matter Community Strong event to raise money for a wounded Atlantic City police officer who was shot in the head.

HEALTH, MOBILITY & MERCH