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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition is powered by Paleoethics, the Official Sports Nutrition Sponsor of The CrossFit Games. Don’t miss your chance to get 20% off Paleoethics’ entire line of all natural recovery and protein supplements this week only with code “CHALKUP.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Anything easy ain’t worth a damn.” — Woody Hayes
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
ROUNDUP — The Third Fittest Man on Earth, Ben Garard is going straight Rocky Balboa for his 2018 training; think tires, wood chopping, log carries and all around old school hard work. Reebok and CrossFit Oslo threw Kristin Holte a post-CrossFit Games surprise party. Lindsay Siolka practices legless rope climbs upside down. Faith Rx’d has been down in Houston helping clean-up homes. Introducing the pegboard wheel of death. Adrian Bozman and Dave Castro are currently on a motorcycle road trip through the West. Jared Enderton hits a 385 pound clean and jerk. The first 100 orders of these Wonder Woman inspired compression pants are 50% off.
VINE YARD CROSSFIT RESPONDING TO GLASSMAN’S NEW CHALLENGE — On their blog last night, Vine Yard CrossFit’s Margaux Alvarez and Alex Cardenas wrote: “Coca Cola has infiltrated our medical literature, statins are somehow king and Nestle has convinced millions of health care providers they sell nutrition ( ISOSOURCE)…When it comes to Chronic Disease we are unequivocally mistreating it by placing a higher value on anything other than diet or exercise…we fail [our children] miserably by not protecting them from those targeting their innocence. Through commercials and campaigns, society exploits them all while pushing them away from physical exertion and into sugar addiction.
“The Vine Yard CrossFit will take a step in October to help create change. Coach set a goal recently, so rather than continuing this essay on emotion, we will present a solution. If you find your way to this page and know someone who is overweight or has chronic morbidities but is too intimidated to seek help send them to us via the internet. We will be offering a daily video on our youtube channel that will guide you through a workout that is intended to help spark a desire for more. All we need is 20 minutes a day for 45 days and it is all free of charge.”
THE KICK OFF, WODAPALOOZA — Last night at 8PM Eastern, Wodapalooza kicked off their 7th year releasing the first qualifier WOD. Simultaneously they pushed back the deadline to submit this week’s WOD scores to allow more time for anyone affected by the hurricanes.
— WOD 1: 7 Min AMRAP of Squat Clean and Jerks (225/155, 165/115, 135/95).
THINGS TO…
WATCH: The Team Series with Dave Castro
Tommy Marquez catches up with Dave Castro to talk about the new Team Series format, how that came about and how this off season competition got started in the first place.
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HEAR: Gary and Alea Helmick
If there’s ever been a couple of CrossFit, Gary and Alea Helmick are certainly in the running. The only husband and wife to ever qualify and compete in the CrossFit Games in the same year, and just two good-hearted people.
MEET THE HELMICKS.
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CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Spring Hill, TN is welcoming a new affiliate to town, CrossFit Render. An Army veteran who discovered CrossFit while serving, Shaun Hitchcock went into pharmaceuticals after he discharged. Ultimately, Hitchcock decided to become a force for preventing illness rather than treating it afterwards.
“I want to put as many doctors out of business as I can. Too many of us are being put on medications instead of what really needs to be diagnosed as far as nutrition and natural fitness exercise. I want to push off the nursing home. I want to keep my grandfather who is 98, isn’t in a nursing home, still works everyday, plays golf on every weekend. Why? Because he lives an active life,” Hitchcock told the Columbia Daily Herald.
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WHAT TO TELL YOUR COACH WHO’S ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THAT WORK-RELATED VACATION…
Grab your swolemate and head over to Huntington Beach, CA next weekend (Sept. 22-23) for RockStock 2017. Never heard of it before? It’s RockTape’s annual movement summit for health and fitness professionals dedicated to movement science and innovation. It’s not all work though, there’s going to be hours (literally) of fun like beach WODs, happy hours (multiple), dance parties, and some other fun like that. Bottom line, if you’re a coach or trainer this has got your name all over it. Oh and if that didn’t seal the deal, your author will probably be walking around somewhere so come say hi.