Sixth Place, Then and Now

CrossFit and Facebook sign a deal to expand the CrossFit Games’ live coverage of events like Regionals and the CrossFit Games as well as two new shows: “Coaches Corner” and “Fredemy Friday.” Facebook will host at least eight hours of each day’s programming from both the East and the South Regionals from May 19 to 21, the Pacific, California and Central Regionals from May 26 to 28, and the Meridian, West and Atlantic Regionals from June 2 to 4.

Julie Foucher and her husband announced their partnering with SteadyMD to begin offering primary care online. Some teachers eat candy on their breaks, others do strict deficit handstand push-ups. When you become the 48kg National Weightlifting Champion you reward yourself by baking smores. Caveman Coffee was voted best paleo beverage in Paleo Magazine. USA Weightlifting announced the 2017 Senior Pan American Weightlifting team. What’s the Reebok Harmony shoe?

THINGS TO…

WATCH: Beyond Bars

HEAR: The Process of Creating a Champion

WIN: A $100 Rogue Gift Card

EAT: Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf

On May 5th, 74 teams from the surrounding Lubbock, TX community gathered at Capstone CrossFit for the Tough as Nails competition. The event, inspired by the story of little Hagan Hill who was diagnosed with Leukemia before his 2nd birthday, was organized by Hagan’s mother Kellie as a way to say thank you to the community hospital that cared for Hagan during his years of treatment. At the end of the day, two cars was full of donated toys and more than $2000 was raised for the hospital. The family decided that each year they’ll feature a new family fighting childhood cancer and name the workout after their child.

Five months ago, Allyson Mallory was in a snowboarding accident that left her paralyzed. Allyson is principal of Ralph Moody Elementary in Littleton, CO and before the accident a regular CrossFitter. Though she remains paralyzed, she’s back at work and has since joined Kevin Ogar’s box CrossFit Watchtower.

If doing a competition or having a heavy training day means you’re digging in to a bottle of ibuprofen, you need to seriously re-think your recovery regimen. Pain is a necessary part of training in any sport, whether it’s chronic, an acute injury or soreness, and there are much better, safer ways to deal with it.

First, you have to understand what taking something like iburprofen does. Ibuprofen is part of a class of drugs known as Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs), and this group has been shown in numerous studies to have some alarming side effects. Particularly if you’re an athlete.

NSAIDs reduce pain and swelling by blocking the chemical messengers involved in the inflammatory response. So, you do feel better. But, by inhibiting that critical response in your body, the healing process —the very thing you NEED to happen — is slowing down.

“Bar None: Deal With It” by Mike Warkentin, CrossFit Journal

Has “Rocky IV” taught us nothing at all about fitness?

You remember perhaps the most famous training montages in the history of film, right? The ones where an unbreakable Rocky Balboa saws logs and lifts rocks on a rugged Russian farm while his opponent cranks steroids and bends bars in a high-performance facility that looks like the transporter room on the USS Enterprise?

If you haven’t watched the montages lately and feel twisted by the lack of barbells in the recently announced CrossFit Games Regionals events, you need to click this link and uncoil yourself.

Rocky lifted not one barbell before he beat the evil Ivan Drago and ended the Cold War at the same time. Life, happiness and fitness exist beyond the bar, I assure you.