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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while reading the Morning Hangover, country music’s best M-F daily read (just think the Morning Chalk Up except for country music). If you enjoy country music, you’ll probably wanna subscribe.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” — G.K. Chesterton
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Further evidence CrossFit is becoming more mainstream, Gameplan-A’s 12 inspirational quotes from top athletes includes Katrin Davidsdottir, James Harden, Olympians, and World Record holders. This is what it looks like to flip a 837 pound tire. Jason Khalipa’s kids started their own garage band. Here’s a look at what went down at Ben Bergeron’s Competitive Excellence training camp in Florida this week. Annie Thorisdottir gets on the muscle-up/ring work bandwagon. Esquire magazine really enjoyed watching the liftoff between Hafthor Bjornsson and Alec Smith at the WOW Stronger competition in Reykjavik. Sara Sigmundsdottir become the first Icelandic woman to lift over 200kg combined and set a new Iceland record in both the clean and jerk and snatch.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Carol Burrell, who is 63 years old, share why CrossFit has the ability to make the biggest impact in her age group and why she’s competing in the CrossFit Open this year.
ON THE RADIO
Are you birthfit? That’s the question of the day on this week’s Brute Strength Podcast. Lindsey Mathews, the founder of BIRTHFIT, sits down to discuss her new company aimed at empowering and educating women about their pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum phases including how you can stay fit through your pregnancy.
CHALK UP READS
“No rep!”
In less than a month, CrossFit athletes everywhere will echo the two most famous words of CrossFit Games judge Adrian “Boz” Bozman.
We test our fitness in the gym every day, but once a year we keep score on a worldwide whiteboard. The best advance to Regionals and eventually the CrossFit Games, but for most of us, the Open is our Games: a chance to measure our growth, see where we stack up and note what needs improvement.
But how do affiliate owners turn accountants and nurses into Bozmanites fit to scrutinize the squat?
“CrossFit Kids Research Brief: Intensity and Cognition” by Jon Gary, CrossFit Journal
The prescription for youths doing CrossFit is the same as for adults: constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity (relative to the individual).
In this brief we’ll discuss a couple of papers that support the application of relatively high intensity when training children. While improved fitness might be an outcome obvious to this community, the papers investigated how intensity affects cognitive abilities.
During the CrossFit Specialty Course: Kids, a general workout structure is discussed for each age group (3-5, 5-12 and 12-18 years old), and eliciting higher intensity is one of the primary goals with each group. Some example options include programming short as-many-rounds-as-possible workouts and keeping the prescribed number of repetitions per round and any associated loads well within the capacity of the athletes.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Causes We Support and Your Affiliate Can Too — Introducing the Worldwide Underground, an community of CrossFitters raising money and awareness of child sex trafficking. Right now, a month-long pledge is taking place, which ends February 14th, but there’s still plenty of time to make a donation and get your members together (or some friends) for the WOD. At least one member of the Morning Chalk Up team will be doing this and if you’re in the SoCal area hosting, we’ll come down for the afternoon.
TAKE THE SURVEY: Box owners, we’re super curious to hear the story behind your affiliate name. Tell us how you came up with your name and your story could be featured in an upcoming edition.
Here’s a view from Jason Khalipa’s new NC Fit affiliate in Chileno Bay Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.