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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while watching teachers at Kansas City High School tell individual students how special they are.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.” — President Teddy Roosevelt
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Emily Bridgers and Ben Benson celebrated their one year anniversary yesterday. Here’s your definitive guide of who to watch and how to watch the 2016 American Open. Tia-Clair Toomey dropped into NC Fit in NorCal for a class WOD. Becca Day got her first grey hair! Kelsey Kiel squatted 315 pounds for 5 reps.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Chinese Olympic Weightlifter Zhou (last name unknown) complete the CrossFit WOD BSU in 15:05. If you can beat his time by Wednesday at 5PM Pacific, CrossFit will fly the fastest athlete to China to visit the Beijing Sports University.
CHALK UP READS
For the Holidays –> “Foolproof Your Nutrition With Nick Shaw” by Athlete Daily
“What are your goals, inside and outside the gym? It’s a good time to be strict with your diet when you have very set, structured goals, and if you can give yourself 2-3 months of dieting. Not when you have a month-long vacation looming or a few weeks at work where you know you won’t be able to meal prep or get into the gym.
“What tends to happen with a lot of people is they’ll say ‘I want to lose 10 lb.’ and they’ll go and have a bunch of cheat meals or something during the course of their diet. If you’re just trying to lose 10 lb., maybe you can do that at 10 weeks. But then you start throwing in more cheat meals and all of a sudden, what could have taken 10 weeks now takes 12, or 14 or even 16,’ Shaw said.
P.S. Who is Nick Shaw you ask? He’s the CEO of RP Strength, and he’s basically helped everyone look better in a bikini or board shorts.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
CrossFit Big Dane in downtown Wisconsin shares their guide to getting the most Madison has to offer next summer at the CrossFit Games.
Jason Cooper and David Weddel of CrossFit Enoch haven’t even had their grand opening yet, but when they heard about a local high school student who suffered a traumatic brain injury, they decided to throw a fundraiser; and they don’t even know the kid.