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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while eating some very tasty brisket.
1 days, 10 hours until the first CrossFit Open WOD is announced.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, and the great teacher inspires.” — William Ward
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Volunteer registration for the CrossFit Regionals is now live. Maddy Myers hits a 3×5 squat session at 297 pounds. Annie Thorisdottir hits a 135 pound 5RM strict press PR. Dimitry Klokov shows Kara Webb the difference between the benchpress and the snatch. 2POOD is now the official belt partner of USA Weightlifting. Julie Foucher only has four more weeks of medical school.
Athlete Watch — The winner of the 2016 CrossFit Open, Jamie Greene announced that she’s going to be competing as an individual this year and competing in the Meridian Regional. In 2016, her team, CrossFit YAS placed 3rd at the CrossFit Games.
HOW TO BRAND YOUR FACEBOOK FOR THE CROSSFIT OPEN
You can now update your Facebook profile image with a special frame for the CrossFit Open. Here’s how:
- Go here.
- Change the filter from General to Sports.
- “The CrossFit Games” starts with a “T” so scroll down to wear you see Texas A&M an Texas Tech, then select The CrossFit Games.
- Choose your frame and click “Use as Profile Picture.”
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Greg Glassman on His Fight with Big Soda
Greg Glassman headed back to Washington, D.C. last week to lobby Congress on investigating Big Soda’s role and influence in health sciences. He gathered with CrossFitters from around the city at CrossFit DC to talk more about his campaign.
HEAR: Anxiety and Expectations, Girls Gone WOD
In real life (not just CrossFit life) how do you react when you feel like you just can’t get ahead? Joy shares some details about her health struggles she’s had in the past year and they both discuss the damage that unrealistic expectations can have on our lives.
DO: Celebrate 200 with Joy and Claire
Joy and Claire from Girls Gone WOD Podcast are celebrating their 200th podcast episode and they want you to join in.
EAT: Coconut and Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bars
Peanut butter protein bars made with simple, healthy ingredients like oats, peanut butter, chia seed, coconut and protein powder. Drizzled with chocolate and a little sea salt. Truly the ultimate protein bar because you can easily make it your own!
INSPIRE: 51 And Breaking Records
Masters athlete Lisa Mikkelsen competed at the CrossFit Games for four straight years and won twice. On top of owning her own affiliate — aptly named CrossFit Never Doubt — she just set an American record in the Women’s 50-year-old 400 meters, running it in 1:02.24.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
AFFILIATE STORIES: OUR NAME | CrossFit Asteria — Seabrook, TX
“Asteria is the goddess of the sky and the stars. My brother is in the Air Force which is represented by the sky, and we knew we wanted to use a star as our logo. It just fit perfectly.”
Members of CrossFit Carroll raised $1300 for the families of two police officers who were shot and killed in Des Moines, IA.
CHALK UP READS
Emily Abbott hit the share button and forgot about it. An hour later, she pulled out her phone and noticed her Instagram post had more than 1,000 comments. “Uh oh—what have I done?” the three-time CrossFit Games athlete thought.
The post—which Instagram later took down after a complaint—was a screenshot of a message a man named Dave sent to Abbott through the popular dating app Bumble. The app requires both the female and male to swipe each other’s pictures to the right in order to express mutual interest. Once this happens, the female must be the one to initiate communication.
Abbott and Dave both swiped right, and Abbott reached out.
My name is Robert Jerome Parcells Jr; I was born with the ability to hear, but became Deaf after by an unknown cause at 1 year 7 months.
I started CrossFit three years ago as a senior in high school at Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C. I found CrossFit through gym class with professor Michael “Darrin” Brecheen. Before I started CrossFit I thought I was in shape, but it was a lot tougher than I imagined. After a few months, I started to improve and realized that I was becoming stronger.
After graduation of high school in ’13, I didn’t work out for a year, and so I began to realize that I really love CrossFit. On December 1, 2015 I decided I do want to become a CrossFit athlete, so I began researching to find a CrossFit box in New York City and I found box called Reebok CrossFit Fifth Ave in Manhattan, NY. On December 7, 2015 I started to work out there and that’s where I work out till this day.