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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while doing our final gear check for our climb up Mt. Whitney. Reminder: there will be no Morning Chalk Up on Monday or Tuesday. If there’s no edition on Wednesday, then that’s probably not a good thing for anyone!
Countdown…6 days until Weightlifting National Championships…14 days until Regionals.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Change occurs when the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change.” — Unknown
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Flashback Friday…You think today’s Games athletes do insane workouts. Well flashback to three years ago when Aja Barto and Chad Vaughn did heavy Grace at 315 pounds.
Team USA lifter Hayley Reichardt wins three silvers at the 2017 Junior Pan Ams. Because it’s Friday, Demi Bagby drops into a globo gym and does handstand walks on a treadmill. The Vitamin Shoppe is now the exclusive retailer of Paleolithics supplements and products. FitAid will now be sold in all Whole Foods nationwide. Watch Tasia Percevecz’s evolution of going from snatching 165 pounds to 210 pounds. The TSA inspected Tia Wright’sbag because she packed her metal weight vest in her suitcase. Jacob Heppner might not be competing this year but he hit a 510 pound deadlift and a 341 pound clean PR.
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THINGS TO…
WATCH: Lifting Invisible Limits
Brittany Zezima was born 13 weeks premature at 1 pound 8 ounces. She was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Growing up, Brittany never wanted anything to do with athletics or athletic people. This is the story of how she found her “fit” through CrossFit.
START WATCHING.
START WATCHING.
HEAR: How Bad Do You Want It?
Mantras & Macros sits down with Alyssa Ritchey a week before she’s set to compete at the USA Weightlifting Nationals and talks about being small and lifting big, and how to use nutrition to reach your goals.
TUNE IN.
TUNE IN.
DO: Train with Julie Foucher
Head over to Cleveland, OH for a weekend retreat with Julie Foucher. There are still a few spots left for the June 9-11th retreat, which will of course include some time training with the 4x CrossFit Games athlete.
FLIGHT BOOKED.
FLIGHT BOOKED.
EAT: Blackened Salmon Tacos with Forbidden Rice and Mango Guacamole
Just the title of that alone paired with a Corona sounds like the perfect Saturday. Which is why we’re sending it to you now so you can hit the grocery store on the way home.
TACOOOOOS.
TACOOOOOS.
BUY: PurePharma Liquid O3
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GET YOURS.
GET YOURS.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Fitness and Ministry — In a small town in Iowa, a group of students join their youth pastor at 5AM, five days a week to lift weights, get fit and build a stronger community. The nearest affiliate is more than 15 miles outside of town and they’re running out of good equipment and space, so they’re trying to crowdsource help from the greater CF community to buy a few bumper plates.
A star senior at Coosa Christian High School remembers watching the 2014 CrossFit Games and thinking, “I just really like the aspect of pushing yourself to the limit and seeing how much you can do.” She’s heading to University of Alabama-Huntsville on a softball scholarship, but after college she wants to compete at the CrossFit Games.
Congratulations to Moscow CrossFit in Moscow, ID for being voted the 2017 Best Gym/Workout Facility by the Inland 360 Readers’ Choice Awards. They received 53% (1,239) of the votes cast.
An Officer in Need — A Filipino-American LAPD officer is in dire need of a bone marrow match from someone of Filipino Heritage. CrossFit Live in Norwalk, CA is helping to get the word out.
CHALK UP READS
Last year, I had a very successful friend quit her job in the financial world and move to an island to help her mother’s travel agency. She took a gigantic pay cut and her health benefits went with it. Some people didn’t understand. How on earth, at 30 years old, was she already burnt out? Maybe she was lazy or selfish.
She’s neither. She’s healthier, happier, able to travel more and see friends. Could she have pushed through another few decades chained to a desk non-stop? Sure. But for what?
We hail people who work 60-hour weeks and juggle training two-a-days. Or athletes who continue when they’re injured. “They’re such hard workers! No pain, no gain!”
We are encouraged to push and push and push. And then we break.