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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“No one ever promised it would be easy. They just said it would be worth it.” — Harvey MacKay
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
17.4 HIGHLIGHTS
Vernal is 82-years-old and he did 17.4. Carleen Mathews literally doesn’t look tired at all after 17.4, like not even a little bit. Brent Fikowski and Katrin Davidsdottir are your current leaders in 17.4 with 311 and 301 reps, respectively.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Tia-Clair Toomey and Alethea Boon took 1st and 2nd in the Australian Open on Friday. Here’s Alethea’s 209 pound clean and jerk. Seventy two-year old Laurie Nelson wants you to know that you can do ANYTHING if you commit to the process. Alyssa Ritchey swept GOLD at the American Open Series 1 hitting a double body weight clean and jerk and is now the 48kg weightlifter to beat. Dani Horan is practicing dumbbell thrusters just in case. Mattie Rogers has joined the 2Pood team. Hayden Bowe squats 602 pounds for three reps.
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Fittest on Earth
The documentary of the 2016 CrossFit Games is finally out and it’s awesome, seriously though, we’ve already watched it twice. You can download it on iTunes for only $12.99.
START WATCHING.
HEAR: Life Has Ruts
What do you do when you get into a rut? How do you draw the line between buying new throw pillows to feel better and selling everything you own to live on a sailboat? Joy from Girls Gone WOD Podcast is in such a rut and they have a conversation about how she’s dealing.
TUNE IN.
EAT: Coconut Butter Fat Bomb Bars
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FEED ME.
FEED ME.
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CHALK UP AFFILIATES
AFFILIATE STORIES | CrossFit AKESO — Des Moines, Iowa
How’d you get your name?
“AKESO is the Greek Goddess of the process of healing. Her name is pronounced A-kee-so, with a long E. I chose this name because I was at a very difficult point in my life where I was faced with making a difficult decision on what I was going to do with my life. And I realized that working out and coaching was my healing process. And I started to notice how CrossFit was the same for many of the athletes I was working with. CrossFit was a healing process. People would come into the box after a rough day or dealing with troubles and after class they left feeling free or relaxed, ready to take on the day. Seeing my athletes improve and get stronger and have confidence in themselves. Something was starting a process and then it dawned on me some version of healing.”
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Congratulations to husband and wife co-owners of CrossFit Alkaline in Salida, CO who just got married this weekend.
Mom who is doing the Open for the first time says this about her daughter: “She has grown so much confidence, she has become strong, determined and always finishes – I must say I am a proud mother. I love it how my girls love muscles and being strong and it is a bonus that we are around positive and successful people. We encourage each other and if I’m feeling lazy there is someone to say ‘come on lets go.'”
Meet the Barclays, a family of five who works out together at Calavera Barbell. Both mom, dad and their 11-year-od Olivia just competed at the American Open in Reno, and Olivia swept gold.
CHALK UP READS
“If I owned a CrossFit gym … .”We’ve all thought about it. Perhaps not the work of building a gym, training the coaches or scrubbing the toilets—but I’d wager almost everyone who’s done Fran has a perfect affiliate name in mind.
“CrossFit Empire!” a fellow Star Wars fan suggested.
“CrossFit Ninja Fairy Dust!” piped an enthusiastic child when I questioned her mother.
“The History of Rowing” by Jesse Friedl, Morning Chalk Up
It’s an incredible sight – watching a crew propel their boat faster and faster through the water, bodies in unison, focused on one goal. In CrossFit, though we don’t often get to literally test the waters, we do get to speed through meters and calories on the ever-challenging indoor rower. And let’s be honest, similar to most exercises in CrossFit, no matter HOW much we practice rowing, it never gets easier. You only go faster.
We thought we’d give you a little taste of rowing’s great history, so that next time you’re on the Concept2, you can thank those who pioneered it.
It was first used as a means of transportation, rooting back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Modern rowing as a competitive sport started in the 17th and 18th century when races were held between professional “watermen” on the Thames River in London. Competition grew with the creation of boat clubs at prominent universities like Oxford and Cambridge in the 1800s (Rivalry between these two universities was FIERCE). And in 1843, the first American college rowing club was even formed at Yale University