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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while saying goodbye to my Reebok Nano 3.0s.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Nothing worth having comes easy. There are no shortcuts. If you want it, you have to WORK for it.” — Thuri Helgadottir, CrossFit Games athlete
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Dave Castro offers the first glimpse at the 2017 CrossFit Open. Robbie Hudson sketches 12 CrossFit Games athletes. BarBend publishes their 12 favorite strength movies of all time. Ben Bergeron’s definition of family: Forget About Me I Love You. Maddy Curley invents a new ab routine at a globo gym. Colleen Fotsch lifts weights in Uggs. Sara Sigmundsdottir has trouble lighting a match. Bacon and Squats author Finley Amato uses her Evolved Motion travel backpack to do some Turkish get-ups while vacationing in Jamaica. Mattie Rogers has her first day back lifting. Will the new Reebok Nano 7.0s come with a rep counter? Mia Akerlund finished off 2016 with a 310 pound back squat. Lauren Fisher’s first full weighted squat since surgery.
JUST RELEASED: “Pages of Purpose,” an 80 page eBook featuring the voices of 22 women in the fitness industry discussing how they approach training, nutrition and wellness. Featuring athletes like: Krissy Mae Cagney, Leah Casciano, Adee Cazayoux, Chloe Johnson, Kelsey Kiel, Sarah Loogman, Kristin Pope, and Molly Vollmer.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Red Bull and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet have a little New Years Day fun with fitness and cleaning the house.
ON THE RADIO
In this week’s episode, Brute Strength sits down with Brooke Ence to discuss vulnerability and mindset, looking closely at Brooke’s life as an athlete, missing the 2016 CrossFit Games, and how she’s motivating herself for the 2017 season.
CHALK UP READS
“A Thank You Letter” by Tommy Marquez, CrossFit Media
The 2016 season comprised seven unique competition stages, sprawled across ten months and crescendoing in July as the CrossFit Games celebrated their landmark 10th year.
Over 320,000 people signed up to compete during the five grueling weeks of the Open. Bar muscle-ups and overhead walking lunges showed up in the Open for the first time. “Average Joes” had the opportunity to compete alongside some of the world’s best, and both a garage gym and a military base played host to Open announcements.
It may have been the 10th year of the CrossFit Games, but it’s still just the beginning. From a backyard barbeque in 2007 to a worldwide phenomenon touching every part of the globe, the first 10 years of the CrossFit Games have been nothing short of spectacular.
None of it would be possible without you, the community. So on behalf of myself and our studio team,
Thank You. (and please, no repeat of 12.1)
“Rogue Fitness at 10” by Bill Henniger, CEO
“This business started in my garage in 2006 while I was still working at General Motors..In the minimal free time in between, I began working out at home, buying gym equipment from niche vendors around the country…I began sketching concepts and ideas for building a network of drop ship vendors and launching an e-commerce store. Once I realized this may actually work, I created a plan and took a leap of faith, leaving behind a great job at GM…American manufacturing is still clearly something that works and that I firmly believe in. And at Rogue, we’ve made it our personal mission to bring it back as best we can.”
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Causes We Care About — Introducing Chase Infinite, a husband, wife and dad run company that sells tanks and tees focused on empowering women and fighting domestic abuse and breast cancer. Chase Infinite donates a portion of every sale of tees like “Strong Women Empower Women” and “She Will Endure All Things” to charities like the National Coalition Against Domestic Abuse.