Someone beat Froning and Fraser

Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition is fueled by Paleoethics, The Official Sports Nutrition Sponsor of The CrossFit Games. Because Paleoethics loves The Morning Chalk Up, they want to give you an early Black Friday Deal! The first 50 people who place an order for Super Serum today with coupon code “FIRST50” will get 40% off! Offer is only valid today!

“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” — Art Williams

CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES

Roundup — Iran’s 85kg Olympic weightlifter Kianoush Rostami announced he’s auctioning off his gold medal from the 2016 Rio Olympics to raise money for the victims devestated by the earthquake in Iran. C.J. Cummings joins the Rogue Barbell team. Adam Klink and Ben Smith beat Rich Froning and Mathew Fraser in their worldwide Instagram throwdown by more than three minutes. Sara Sigmundsdottir falls in
love with a koala. Elijah Muhammad hits five unbroken power clean and jerks at 265 pounds.

Dave Castro announced that Patrick Vellner will be joining his Ragnar Relay team. We’re still feeling pretty confident over in Team Morning Chalk Up land. 

Shoutout…to Briana Sands, owner of CrossFit Bozeman in Bozeman, MT, who turned 38-years-old last week and then hit a Cindy PR of 25 + 7 rounds. 

Doughnuts and Deadlifts Announces Departure from Athlete Discount Codes — “We are going back to the old fashioned way of sponsoring athletes. We will support them in their sport by funding their competitions and providing them with high quality training gear. They will now act as respected endorsers of our brand simply by wearing it and by being involved in the strength community. We want you to want to wear DNDL because your favorite strength athletes do. Not because of a 10% off code. We don’t need to pump discount
codes to make a living and neither do our athletes.”

SNEAK PEAK: Footage from Julie Foucher’s first Train with JF Retreat — “We wanted people stepping outside their usual day-to-day lives and taking time to just relax, reflect on why fitness is so important to them and what called them to be here with us.”

COFFEE BREAK CONVERSATIONS

What to tell your friend who’s always buying off-brand at the store…

Did you check the label first? CrossFit has had a rocky few months with athletes getting popped using banned substances at Regionals and the Games. A few athletes said they were just plain ignorant that these substances weren’t A-OK, but HQ said it’s your responsibility to look before you leap. This promoted CrossFit Invictus to put together this handy “12 Banned Substances Every Athlete Needs To
Know Before Competing” guide so that you say “pass” next time.

What to tell your friend who’s feeling a little stiff from all that sitting…

Grab your yoga pants. CrossFit Stratford in Stratford, CT, who has their own regular yoga class, invited Lisa Stacey, the manager and yoga instructor at the Wellspring Stratford cancer support centre down this past weekend for a little fundraiser. Instead of throwing around barbells, athletes went down dog for an hour session to raise money for the cancer support center where patients get access to yoga, touch therapy, art therapy, aquatic therapy, coping programs, support groups and more, all free of charge.

THINGS TO…

MAKE: Homemade Holiday Coffee Creamers

For those of you out there that don’t drink your coffee black — P.S. how is that possible? — there are very few healthy options to flavor your coffee. Thanks to Mom as RX, you’ve got a few more that’ll only take you five mins to whip up. 

MOCHA MINT.

HEAR: Fueling the CrossFit Athlete 

Ben Bergeron sits down to discuss why nutrition is so important in the sport of CrossFit, ideal body fat percentages for athletes, and what supplements he recommends CrossFit athletes take to fuel performance.

TUNE IN.

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STORY SERIES: How has CrossFit helped you achieve a goal?

“I have a form of very aggressive heart disease from my genetics.  When I walked into CrossFit San Clemente I weighed 285 pounds and I had been hit with two heart attacks and eight angiograms with seven stents. I now weigh 210 pounds, and while I’ve had another heart attack, four more stents placed, hip replacement surgery and bypass surgery I can say for sure that I would not be alive without CrossFit. My ability to heal and recover and to build my strength and cardio back up for the next ‘battle’ has been vastly improved.” — Mike Payne, CrossFit San Clemente in San Clemente CA

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Quick Hits

• Two athletes from Israel dropped into CrossFit New England and got engaged at the 10 AM class.
• Indian Hills CrossFit teamed up with the Tehachapi Martial Arts Center to raise money for the Wounded Heroes Fund of Kern County. The two organizations raised more than $2,300. 

“How to Raise an Angry Gorilla” by Eric Lemay, CrossFit Journal

As new parents, we quickly discover that our little bundle of joy arrives with a big bundle of worries.

We might coo over our baby’s tiny fingers and toes, but we’re also wondering, “Is everything OK? Is my baby healthy? Happy? Is there some secret parenting trick I can use to make sure my baby never cries, never falls and eventually ends up at the right college?”

When my son was born, I asked our pediatrician that last question. It turns out there’s no cure-all for the worries we have as parents. Fortunately, we are in a great position to lead our kids toward healthier and happier lives, and one way we can do this is by helping them learn how to use their bodies.

Pediatricians call this ability “motor skills,” but CrossFit calls it “movement.” It’s the essence of what happens in every CrossFit workout. I’ve seen it transform the lives of members in my gym, just as it’s done for my wife and me. So I attended the CrossFit Specialty Course: Kids to learn how this methodology can benefit my son. He’s almost 2 now, and earlier this morning he demonstrated he’s perfectly capable of climbing onto a chair, then onto our kitchen table, then into my granola. Clearly, the kid’s got potential.

11/30: CrossFit Liftoff (Online)

12/1 – 3: Atlas Games (Montreal, Canada)

12/2 – 3: Rogue Winter Classic (Cleveland, OH)

12/2: Anthem CrossFit’s Reindeer Games (Pensacola, FL)

12/2: Vekter Games IV (CrossFit ReVamped, Columbia, MD)

12/9: Ho Ho Ho CrossFit Kids Competition (Riverside, CA)

12/9: The 2017 Reindeer Games (Del Mar, CA)

12/9 – 10: WOD GODZ 2017 (Shreveport, LA)

1/27/18: Winter Chiller (Fairmont, WV)