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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while driving family to the pier to get on a cruise. How come we don’t get to go on a cruise?
Story of the Day…“This gym was no longer a safe space.”
Share Your Story — How has CrossFit helped you achieve your goals?
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The miracle is not that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” — John Bingham
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Move over Ben Benson, Joff Bunt from CrossFit Sands in Dubai rowed 1 million meters in 9 days, 4 hours and 6 minutes. Why? To see “how far I can push my body but the second and equally important factor comes down to if I can inspire or motivate someone to get out and do some form of exercise.”
The number 2 seed going into the South Regional, Roy Gamboa announced he’s withdrawing from Regionals competition, the leaderboard shows that he previously accepted his invitation. US Rowing and USA Weightlifting will hold combines (think open tryouts) at the South, Central and Atlantic Regionals for spectators interested in seeing if they’ve got what it takes. Reebok CrossFit One team athlete Rachel Martinez dislocated her elbow after 17.3 but appears to be making a comeback to compete at Regionals.
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THINGS TO…
WATCH: Road to the Games, EP. 2
Basically the who’s who of CrossFit Games athletes were down in Cookeville, TN for CrossFit Open 17.1. Think Sigmundsdottir, Davidsdottir, Tia Toomey, Froning, Dan Bailey, Camille, etc. This 30+ minute episode follows the crew as they train at Mayhem over the course of several days.
PRESS PLAY.
PRESS PLAY.
HEAR: Wired to Eat
What’s the future of diet and nutrition? How are our bodies wired different to support different diets? That’s the topic of discussion on this week’s episode between Fed and Fit and renowned author Robb Wolf.
TUNE IN.
TUNE IN.
EAT: Bacon Wrapped Carne Asada Pepper Rolls
The sun is going to be out this weekend, so start planning your Saturday and Sunday BBQs. And honestly, who doesn’t want to kick off a party with bacon wrapped anything?
SEND THE INVITES.
SEND THE INVITES.
BUY: Free Tote Bag from PurePharma
The suns coming out so think farmers markets, beach days, and poolside grillin. PurePharma is giving away a free tote bag when you buy Vitamin D3 with code “SUNSHINE.”
TOTES Y’ALL.
TOTES Y’ALL.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
CrossFit 302 in Victoria, TX partnered with a local veterans center to offer a space for therapy yoga classes.
Alea and Gary Helmick of CrossFit ReVamped in Columbia, MD are organizing a fundraiser WOD May 20th in support of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a leader in childhood cancer research. After the WOD, one of their CrossFit Kids, Braeden, will be shaving his head. Braeden decided that for his birthday this year he wouldn’t accept gifts and instead would like his friends to donate to St. Baldrick’s. CrossFit Revamped decided to do a fundraise WOD right before his CrossFit Kids birthday party at ReVamped.
CHALK UP READS
“Itty Bitty Behemoth: The Smallest, Strongest Lifter You’ve Never Heard Of” by Athlete Daily
At 4 feet 11 inches, Alyssa Ritchey’s intimidation factor is low.
She walks out onto the platform and grips the loaded barbell, head down as she shifts her weight and feels the knurling in her hands. Back and forth she rocks, settling in, until her whole body goes rigid and she raises her eyes forward to begin.
In the seconds that follow, you forget how small Ritchey is and are captivated instead by her power. By the time she locks out the jerk overhead and gets the OK, the trance is over. She leaps into the air in excitement as the loaded barbell drops below her.
You start to add up the plates on the floor. The lift is 226 pounds, an impressive number for a female weightlifter. Then you remember that Ritchey weighs in at 112 lb. She’s just the fifth United States female to clean and jerk double body weight and now she’s added on two kilograms.
“Survival of the Fittest” by Andréa Maria Cecil, CrossFit Journal
After more than five months, doctors still don’t know why Katie Sheehan suffered a sudden heart attack. What they do know, however, is the 37-year-old wouldn’t have survived had it not been for CrossFit.
Sheehan had been training at White Mountain CrossFit in Concord, New Hampshire, for almost exactly one year. She came to the 4-p.m. class on Sept. 8, 2016, just like any other Thursday. After six 25-meter sled pushes, she hopped on the rower with the rest of the class to begin a long workout that started with 750 meters on the erg. On either side of her were a police officer and a National Guard recruiter, both of whom had served in the military.
That’s when the two men flanking Sheehan started yelling at Butman. “I looked over and she was seizing. She was purple, and she started seizing on the rower.”