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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I’m gonna whoop yo ass.” — Rory McKernan throwing down the gauntlet at Team Morning Chalk Up in the CrossFit Games Team Series.
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
The popular Mid-Atlantic based SuperFit Games are coming to San Diego. Sean Sweeney had to withdraw from Legion Of Beasts Games due to wrist and hip injuries but still managed to have some fun with a 155 pound single arm snatch. Alethea Boon is competing at the preliminaries for the Commonwealth Games today. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet might actually be crying from these leg presses. This is what Tia-Clair Toomey is eating on a daily basis. Julie Foucher redid Double Grace from the 2014 CrossFit Games and beat her time by 37 seconds.
ON AMAZON PRIME — CrossFit’s newest documentary “Ogar: Will of Steel” is now available on DVD or to stream on Amazon Prime.
Games Masters athlete John Lynch, who placed third in the 45-49 division, on the driving force behind staying fit…“I want to set a good example for my kids by being fit and working hard, because they learn from example.” He also dedicated his performance at the CrossFit Games to the son of his coach at Shoreline CrossFit who passed away.
Greg Glassman dropping into a L1 certificate course in Aromas…“[we] as crossfitters…sit collectively in unique possession of an elegant solution to the world’s most simple problem. The problem is chronic disease. Basically chronic disease has two causes: 1). it’s sedentariness, and 2). it’s excessive consumption of carbohydrates…and our solution is off the carbs and off the couch.”
THINGS TO…
WATCH: “Without love, none of this is possible.”
Meet the Ohio couple with five children, who then adopted SIX. Grab a tissue! It’s not CrossFit related but the Sanders Family, 13 strong, is a story you need to stop and watch.
GRAB A TISSUE.
HEAR: Kara Webb on the 2017 CrossFit Games
Kara Webb joined Michael Cazayoux, host of the Brute Strength Podcast for a live interview with the Second Fittest Woman in the World.
TUNE IN.
EAT: Breakfast Fried Rice
If you’re anything like us, you’re waking up hangry AF in the morning ready for an awesome meal. If you like sweet potatoes, bacon, peppers and onions, spices and eggs you’re basically going to be eating this every day until you run out.
HANGRY NO MORE.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
WHAT TO TELL YOUR FRIEND WHO ALWAYS HAS AN EXCUSE…
Have you meet Terry Garrett? He’s blind and he could be using all the excuses in the world as to why not to show up, or do box jumps, running or wall balls. Seriously, the guy runs and does box jumps! But Terry doesn’t use any of those excuses. Oh yeah and before CrossFit, the guy was doing triathlons. Denver Box Life sent us the story and we just had to share.
WHAT TO TELL YOUR FRIEND WHO REALLY HATES STATISTICS…
One in three third graders are overweight or obese, and one New Mexico family practice doctor has taken notice. Dr. Anti Nelly Soto Hernandez and her husband went to the school district to start the Firehawks Fit Little Beasts, an optional after-school program based on CrossFit’s methodology that will also teach kids about nutrition, hydration, and the importance of sleep. This year, they’re starting at one elementary school meetings twice a month with plans to expand to all ten schools next. If it wasn’t already obvious, the Hernandez’s are CrossFitters and they WOD at CrossFit Hellbox.
ROUNDUP — The Australian city of Port Lincoln welcomed their first CrossFit affiliate to town, CrossFit Eyre. Italy and France got their own official Facebook pages so fans can follow in their own language. This summer, CrossFit Rebuild in Cambridge, Canada launched heir first 12-week PhysioFitness Cancer Rehab Program designed specifically for patients and their families going through treatments and post treatment.
Spotted in the New York Times Sunday, owner of CrossFit Undercurrent Joe Waldrop walking around Dickinson, TX looking for stranded residents. (Original photo: Reuters)