A year ago Corey Lewis took a humanitarian trip to an orphanage in Haiti, he returned home feeling the need to help the over 40 children who resided there. Two weeks ago he did just that as he and three others did 24 workouts during a 24 hour span to raise awareness and money for the Brace for Impact 46, a non-profit foundation which supports the orphanage.
CrossFit Connection: Lewis went on that mission as a guest of Kyle McClellan, founder of Brace for Impact 46. McClellan started the nonprofit after he retired as a Major League Baseball player. He and his wife wanted to help not only their local community in St. Louis, MO but outside the midwest.
Lewis and McClellan met through mutual friends and their love for CrossFit, Lewis as the owner Xtra-Mile Fitness in Fenton, MO and McClellan who picked up CrossFit after retiring from his 12-year baseball career.
Making a “Impact”: Brace for Impact 46 supports the IDADEE Children’s Home in Haiti and sustains community development in that local community. The foundation also assists inner city youths and development in St. Louis.
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🙏🙏🙏 The Ruck Raiser is taking place today. Five members of Reebok CrossFit Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head, SC will ruck for 22 hours to memorialize Corporal Jacob Novitski and to raise money for Operation R and R. Donate now.
Catching up with Annie Thorisdottir, today on Instagram Live. Don’t miss out — 8:00AM PT/11AM ET/4PM GMT.
Pat Sherwood joined the SimpliFinance podcastthis week to discuss CrossFit, investing, entrepreneurship and real estate
Sherwood, on founding CrossFit Linchpin, a fully online affiliate: “As far as I knew, when I started Linchpin in 2014, I was just going to post the workouts on the Linchpin Instagram channel and a cool little photo and that was going to be that. I didn’t know it would grow into a business and a community…[it turned into] a small side business and eventually a big side business and eventually, now my full-time occupation.”
Annie Sakamoto, one of the original “Nasty Girls,” appeared on The Clydesdale Fitness and Friends podcast to talk about why she didn’t want to compete in the Games originally, how she feels about her benchmark workout “Annie” and about her affiliate, CrossFit Santa Cruz Central.
Sakamoto, on “Nasty Girls”: “It was just another day…Lauren gave a workout and was going to film it for the main site…after watching it for years, I felt like I don’t get what’s the big deal, now looking back at that video, I see that so much of it is Nicole [Carroll’s] effort.”
“Work Harder It’s Not Chemo”: Project Purple is hosting an awareness campaign during the weekend of February 6, called “Work Harder It’s Not Chemo” and asks everyone who can to put their body to work for 12 minutes and 57 seconds (because every day 1257 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer worldwide). Registration is free, but there are also options to donate cash to Project Purple and some great free gifts.
Steve Moore: Choosing Zoom Classes Over Booze during COVID Lockdowns
When COVID-19 hit and the world shut down, Steve Moore realized he had a choice to make: He could let the stress of life and raising two kids get the best of him “and turn to alcohol,” or “train my ass off,” he explained.
Moore has been a member of CrossFit Tewkesbury in the UK since September, 2019. “I really could have gone either way,” he said.
At the time, Moore had just turned 40 and was no longer playing rugby, and he thought to himself, ‘Right, I need to do something with myself. I have this knackered shoulder from rugby and I’m fed up with being called a big bastard,’ he said of what was motivating him to make a lifestyle change.
And after a year of training hard and eating well, Moore has lost 35 pounds since the first lockdown. “I’m a lot happier and have loads more energy, too, and I can do things which I never would have been able to do 18 months ago,” Moore said.
The details: Moore’s transformation journey this past year has included three key pieces: commitment to exercise, to nutrition and to mobility.
Rx Smart Gear Founder David Newman on Going Bankrupt: “It Was Probably the Best Business Lesson I’ve Ever Had”
Although he’s known as one of the CrossFit world’s most successful entrepreneurs as the founder of Rx Smart Gear and his company’s wildly successful customized jump ropes, there was a point in David Newman’s life when all felt lost.
Working as a realtor in the San Diego area during the 2000s, Newman and his wife got hit hard by the 2008-09 economic downturn. Their veritable boutique real estate empire quickly dwindled away as they lost clients, properties, and found themselves unable to pay bills.
The 2021 CrossFit Open is just six weeks away and whether you’re training at home or in the gym, one lucky athlete will win the chance to eat, train, sleep and recover like a professional athlete.
Registration is open from January 25 – January 29. The winner will be announced in the intro of Saturday’s Morning Chalk Up newsletter.
Prizes:
3 months of one-on-one nutrition coaching with Working Against Gravity.
One one One coaching with Brute Coach Daniel Condon.
A free account and 1 hour consultation call with Kelly Starrett from The Ready State.
A one month supply of beam recovery products including Dream, Revive and the Fixer.
Open registration paid for by Morning Chalk Up.
Fine Print
Emails must be submitted by January 29th at 6PM PT.
You can only enter one valid email per person.
Only U.S. residents can win.
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The New PRVN Fitness Squad's First Training Session
The new PRVN Fitness Youtube channel just dropped its first training video and it introduces the team -- Brooke Wells, Alec Smith, Will Moorad and Street Hoerner -- as well as some new coaches. Tune in to see how the first session with the full squad at CrossFit Trivium in Nashville, TN panned out.
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