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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition is fueled by Paleoethics, the official sports nutrition sponsor of the CrossFit Games.
A Word on Our Schedule — During the next three Regionals weeks, we’re adjusting the calendar to publish Wednesday through Monday so we can keep you plugged in to all the Regionals action throughout the weekend.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Zigler
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Countdown 2 days until the South and East Regionals.
Outfit Upgrade…the Morning Chalk Up beginner’s guide to “what to wear” to CrossFit.This is how Nike is outfitting their athletes for Regionals, which is the last time they can wear anything other than Reebok in competition. James Hobart joins the O2 team. Rich and Hilary Froning welcome a new adopted son to their family. The Barbell Spin looks into whether an athletes Regionals seed is a good indicator of who will qualify for the CrossFit Games. Check out these pirate themed Nike MetCons. Alethea Boon hit a PR of 20 unbroken muscle-ups. Kristin Holte hit a 265 pound front squat PR. Meet Salt Lake City CrossFit, the only affiliate sending two teams to the South Regional this weekend.
For In Between Meetings…a highlight reel of CrossFit Invictus’ individual and team athletes training for the California Regionals.
USA Weightlifting National Championships…too long, didn’t watch? BarBend put together these Day 1 and Day 2 recaps. Still too long? Mattie Rogers set a new American Record with a 295 pound clean and jerk; Jessica Lucero (wife of Games athlete Christian Lucero) became the heaviest woman to clean and jerk double bodyweight; and Alyssa Ritchey clean and jerked double body weight for the second competition in a row.
SAY GOODBYE TO PUREPHARMA
SAY WHAT?
PurePharma announced yesterday that after eight years they’re ditching the Pharma portion of their name, opting instead for a marriage between Pure and Origin.
INTRODUCING PUORI.
Pronounced “pureeeeeeee” with a long E.
In a letter to the broad PurePharma family, founders Julius Heslet and Oliver Amdrup wrote: “We have always wanted to make a real long-term difference for people who can benefit from better options and better choices. With this in mind, neither we nor our products were ever really ‘Pharma’…Our new name is ‘Puori’. A contraction of Pure and Origin. It underlines a shift from fixing symptoms to inspiring people to strive towards reaching their genetic potential, their true origin.”
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Not a ton, yet. They’re sporting a new logo and branding for their packaging, and in conversations with their team we’d expect new products to focus on healthy living as much as training. Keep an eye out though, a new name is often followed closely with a new line of products.
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Road to the Games: Episode 3
Episode 3 of CrossFit HQ’s Road to the Games series, which follows top-seeded athletes training to return to the CrossFit Games, features Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, Kari Pearce, and Jamie Greene who won the CrossFit Open last year and finished third on CrossFit YAS.
WATCH NOW.
WATCH NOW.
HEAR: Truth Talk with Trevor Bachmeyer
Brute Strength Podcast sits down with Trevor Bachmeyer, who was busted for falsifying his 17.5 video submission. In this episode, Trevor opens up about what lead him to fake his video submission, how he did it, and the aftermath of his choices.
LISTEN IN.
LISTEN IN.
EAT: Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas
Straight from the Working Against Gravity kitchen comes this hassle-free topping to your favorite salad, bed of quinoa or just by itself mid-week meal.
CROCK-POT.
CROCK-POT.
BUY: Limited Edition Bumper Plate Nanos
The Reebok Nano 7.0s are now available in the same colors as the Rogue competition bumper plate you see at the CrossFit Games. Hurry up, they’re only here for a limited time, plus when you use code “PLATE” you get a special edition CrossFit Games t-shirt.
BUY NOW.
BUY NOW.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
In December, the Skokie, Illinois Plan Commission voted against a zoning code change that was necessary for Tani Mintz to open a CrossFit affiliate. After the vote, the mayor of the nearby town sent Tami a letter inviting her to try her city as an alternative. Guess where she’ll be heading?
CrossFit Krypton, who sent five individual athletes to Regionals last year, is sending six to the Atlantic Regional which is the most of any affiliate on the East Coast.A high school softball All Star who’s signed with the University of Georgia says that once she’s finished with softball she wants to be competing in CrossFit.
CHALK UP READS
“Ending Skepticism of Paleo Diet” by The Herald-Sun
The Paleo (short for Paleolithic) diet popped up on my radar screen nearly 10 years ago. I didn’t think much about that new diet then, believing it was, for the most part, an historical-based revision of Dr. Atkins’ high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate food plan and a fad.
Turns out, that wasn’t quite right. The Paleo diet’s hung in there for nearly a decade and it doesn’t seem to be the passing fad I believed it would be. Here’s an example.
Meet the Mayfields, Julie and Charles, authors of the “Weeknight Paleo: 100+ Easy and Delicious Family-Friendly Meals” cookbook, and their two children. They seem to be an all-American family, but with a twist: They follow the “Paleo” food plan and have since 2008. How the Mayfields defined that food plan and lifestyle enlightened me about what is a day-to-day Paleo food plan. In fact, I discovered that, for much of it, I currently eat nearly the same way as the Mayfields.
The Mayfields’ Paleo basic food plan includes ” … meat, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and fats.” Their meats come from grass-fed, pasture-raised or wild-caught origins. That’s me, too.