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QUOTE OF THE DAY
GRAB YOUR BICYCLES LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
WHAT HAPPENED.
PREDICTED?
ANYTHING ELSE?
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
JUST LAUNCHED…RPM Fitness just launched a new line of ladies swimwear.
LAUNCHING…CrossFit Invictus’ weightlifting program designed by Jared Enderton.
What to watch with your second cup of coffee...this Asian jump rope battle that’s a cross between America’s Got Talent and the Voice.
Dave Castro on the move to Wisconsin…“The Stub Hub Center had a really nice setup for hosting us with the tennis stadium and with the soccer field co-located, but what happens is it’s a template and it’s a template that we have to get creative with and program certain events around, so I just felt like it was getting tired or maybe it was time to move so we have a new template to work with…At the Alliant Energy Center we saw the vision of the Games happening there.”
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Road Trippin with Brooke Ence Episode 1
EXCELLENCE.
HEAR: Body Maintenance
HEADPHONES ON.
DO: Iceland with Girls Gone WOD Podcast
LET’S DO THIS.
EAT: Coffee Rubbed Steak Tacos
EAT MORE TACOS.
BUY: The Official 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games T-Shirt
GET THE GEAR.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
CHALK UP READS
Eight years ago, elite powerlifter and Strongwoman competitor Charity Witt was sleeping in linen closets and working 60-80 hour weeks in another country as she tried to put a bad childhood behind her.
Witt, who stayed in Canada working at the same event center that she “lived” at, did this for two years until she moved back to Georgia and —with help of the Hope Scholarship— was able to study biochemistry. It would, she envisioned, change her life.
So would picking up the barbell.
Witt, who is a world-record holder as a 75 kg (165 lb.) lifter, can squat and deadlift more than 400 lb.. She is an elite level powerlifter, a middleweight Strongwoman and full-time med student. But none of this comes easy. She was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia at 17, works around scoliosis (likely from being thrown from a horse as a child) and dealt with a ton of backlash from the moment she took an interest in strength sports.