NOBULL Drops a Limited Edition Shoe

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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It’s a direction, not a destination.” — Carl Rogers

PAINT BY CROSSFIT.

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If you’ve ever done Murph and looked down to see a puddle of sweat piling up all around, you know that fitness can get a little messy. Imagine for a second those drops were paint instead of sweat and the floor was a canvas. What would it look like when you were all done with the WOD?

Hmmm good question.

Enter Kent Youngstrom, who experimented with that concept last year creating some wonderfully expressive, CrossFit-inspired artwork. NOBULL noticed and said “we like” and invited Kent over for a little collab session with Kristi Eramo, Sam Dancer, Brooke Ence, Brooke Wells, Alex Anderson and Jared Stevens.

So what happened?

Things got messy. As in paintball party, green, purple, red, yellow and orange all over their hair, clothes and skin kinda messy. 

Each athlete picked a few of their favorite CrossFit movements (think burpees, kettlebell swings, power cleans, etc.), applied paint to a body part or piece of equipment and started to move, creating a unique design out of their workout. Kent and NOBULL took those canvases and created six uniquely designed NOBULL trainers, one for each athlete.

That’s legit. How do I snag one?


A few of the athletes are heading out to London, England to WIT Fitness for a sold out launch party and Q&A tomorrow at 4:45 PM Pacific, which you can watch live.

All six trainers go on sale tonight at 9:00 PM Pacific/5:00 AM GMT for pre-order, and here’s where you can buy them if you’re in the U.S. and if you’re in the EU. Also available to buy will be a replica print of each athlete’s canvas just in case your wall is feeling
lonely.

If you’re feeling particularly impatient you can checkout all the designs and watch the complete video behind these limited edition sneaks.

COFFEE BREAK CONVERSATIONS

What to tell your friend who’s slow AF transitioning off the rower…

Ask your swolemate for help, or just have them watch this video which wins the award for the most aggressively fast and well executed rowing transition of all time. Regionals teams take note. 

DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT

EXCLUSIVE — We got the exclusive drop on Working Against Gravity’s new four-part docu-series following Justin Holte, an everyday CrossFitter working to balance a demanding job, time with his family, CrossFit and staying on top of his nutrition. We’ll be releasing one each day, and here’s Episode 1:

“I’m a father now. I wanna be around when he gets older. In a lifestyle and life that I currently lead that i have very little free time, carving out time for nutrition is exceedingly difficult,” Holte said. “I think at one point I was working 120 hours a week. For me, this is the long game. I’m looking at this nutrition program as a game of chess rather than checkers.”

THINGS TO…

HEAR: CrossFitting with Lupus

Meet Megan Benzik, a 27-year-old Regionals athlete living with Lupus who’s refued to let her diagnosis limit her goals, intensity or outcome in life. She joins the Better Than Yeterday podcast and shares her story of thriving through 15 years of Lupus.

MEET MEG.

EAT: 17 Whole30 Instant Pot Recipes

Whether you’re doing it now, doing it later, or never doing it evah, these 17 Whole30 recipes are going to keep you well fed for the forseeable future with lots of leftovers. 

HEALTHY SELF.

BUY: Free Bacon for 2018

One of the easiest ways to stay up on your nutrition goals is to have all natural, grass-fed meat delivered to your door every month. And if you subsribe today to Butcher Box, you’ll get a free packet of bacon with every order.

DID SOMEONE SAY BACON?

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CHALK UP COMMUNITY

• MEET THE MASTER — How does a 46-year-old athlete go from being unable to perform a push-up to three years later, qualifying for the CrossFit Games five years in a row? Shellie Edington shares her journey to become the Masters champ and even fitnessing through hormonal changes that have come from aging.
• CBS SPORTS — CBS Sports, which announced their official partnership with the CrossFit Games back in July, said of their 9% growth in 2017, “More of a surprise was the interest we found in fitness-oriented sports like CrossFit and Tough Mudder. It was cool to see their passionate communities translate into media audience when we covered those events.”
• BALANCE IN NUTRITION — How are you fueling your body? We’re not just talking about eating until you’re full, but eating to fuel your performance. How should you structure your cycles so you don’t burn out? Adrian Conway takes a five-minute dive into helping find your balance.
• $32K FOR BOOBS — CrossFit Morgantown in Morgantown, WV raised more than $18,000 for Barbells for Boobs, while CrossFit Coal in Mabscott, WV added another $15,000. 

CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES (a highlight reel around social media of CrossFit pros and average joes)

Watch how easily Jamie Hagiya nails the 245 pound hang clean this complex; unreal • Camille Leblanc-Bazinet fails to make a snow angel in her shorts and sports bra • Hafthor Bjornsson has his own stormtrooper security detail • Kristina Switzer of CrossFit Newfound gets her first bar muscle-up ever • Sara Sigmundsdottir joins the 1 million Instagram follower club with the likes of Camille, Katrin, Rich Froning and Mat Fraser • Christian Lucero took a drug test • Congratulations to Haley Spearman on getting her first kipping handstand push-up • Travis Williams actually broke his pinky toe at Wodapalooza when a sled ran over his bare foot. He’s only rocking upper body movements for the next three weeks • Is it just us or is this dumbbell about 1/3 the size of Stefi Cohen’s body? 

Julie Foucher, a former gymnast, reacts to the Larry Nassar hearing…“The biggest message that has stuck with me from listening to these brave women’s stories has been…there is nothing more important than doing what is right even when it’s inconvenient, or scary, or brings undesirable consequences. The truth always comes out, and doing what is right is always more important than doing what is easy or taking the path of least resistance. Because of many who DID do the right thing, even when it seemed difficult or hopeless, this army of sister survivors now has an incredibly powerful voice, and because of them we will witness change that extends far beyond the gymnastics community…I have no doubt that these women will lead the charge in stripping USA Gymnastics down to it’s core and rebuilding it from the ground
up over the coming months and years. Thank you, to all of you, for speaking up and sharing your stories and your pain with the world – you are true superheroes.” 

“15 Years of CrossFit” by Russ Greene, CrossFit Journal

After 15 years of CrossFit training, I have finally completed Fran in less than three minutes.

This is a dubious distinction. I suspect I have taken longer to reach a sub-three Fran than anyone else—ever.

So why should anyone listen to what I have to say about a decade and a half of CrossFit training?

To learn from my errors, of course.

1/27: Winter Chiller (Fairmont, WV)

1/27: NorCal Masters 2018 (Richmond, CA)

1/27: IceBreather Classic (Springfield, IL)

1/27: The Masters Classic 2018 (Spanish Fork, UT)

1/27 – 28: The Fittest Experience (Austin, TX)

1/29: Facebook Live Q&A with Brooke Wells (Facebook)

2/3: No Weak Links “V” (Whitesboro, NY)

2/3: Caution Grounds 7 (Hialeah Gardens, FL)

2/3: Output Fitness Trials (Miramar, FL)

2/3: 6th Annual Women’s WOD Jam (Broomfield, CO)

2/3: 5th Annual Golden State Games (Stockton, CA)

2/3: Garage Girls Tour (Milton, GA)

2/10: Mirror Image CrossFit’s Cupid’s Clash (Panama City, FL)

2/10: New WODs On the Block – The Third Wheel (Nationwide)

2/10: Tuff Love (Boulder, CO)

2/10: A League of Their Own: A Women’s Only Challenge (San Antonio, TX)

2/10: Mayhem Showdown 2018 (Cookeville, TN) 

2/17: Lovers and Lifters (Springfield, KY)

2/17: Steel Rail Shootout 2018 (McComb, MS)

2/17: Wynwood Throwdown (Miami, FL)

2/22: CrossFit Open 18.1 (Worldwide)

3/1: CrossFit Open 18.2 (Worldwide)

3/8: CrossFit Open 18.3 (Worldwide)

3/10: Women Who WOD (Barbados)

3/15: CrossFit Open 18.4 (Worldwide)

3/22: CrossFit Open 18.5 (Worldwide)

4/14 – 4/15: Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Challenge (Columbia, MD)

4/21: Festivus Games (Nationwide)

4/28: Battleground SoCal (Wimington, CA)

4/28: Girls Gone Rx (Cincinnati, OH)

4/28 – 4/29: Walter’s Cup Throwdown (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

5/4 – 5/6: European Masters Throwdown (Budapest, Hungary)