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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while watching the best doughnut eating contest EVER.
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This has nothing to do with fitness but it’s damn funny and should make your Tuesday morning.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.” — Annie Thorisdottir
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Customized Nike Metcon 3s now available for order. A challenge for you and your significant other to try during the holidays. Kelsey Kiel makes this clean complex EMOM look a little too easy at 205 pounds. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet hits a double body weight clean and jerk. Graham Holmberg is growing a beard. Jen Cadmus and Dan Bailey? This guy looks old but squats young. Lauren Fisher and Rasmus Andersen celebrate two years together. 12 Labours CrossFit to CrossFit Mayhem: “We’re coming for you guys this year.” FitAid is coming to a grocery store near you. Watch this guy solve a Rubik’s Cube while pause squatting 350 pounds. Maddy Myers hits a 255 pound squat clean. Sheila Barden does 30 135 pound snatches in as few sets as possible. Chyna Cho wears the most California winter outfit possible.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Meet Sydney Sullivan, who won the 2015 CrossFit Games 14-15 division while battling Autoimmune Hepatitis Type 2. She needs a liver transplant. “The beautiful thing about her that keeps her going is when people say ‘optimism prevails over pessimism…’ Syndney would never give up, if anything it would make her work harder.”
CHALK UP READS
I am not an elite lifter or a gymnast. I am not a high level CrossFit or a Strongman athlete. I am not the strongest person I know.
I am not even the strongest person at my gym.
But I believe that I am strong and that strength has resonated long after I leave the gym doors.
“Sign Here, Squat There?” by Brittney Saline, CrossFit Journal
It’s the beauty of the affiliate model: CrossFit gyms can be run in many ways.
But as new affiliate owners quickly learn, running a CrossFit gym requires tough decisions—such as whether to hold your athletes to a membership contract.
“My gut tells me that (having membership contracts) certainly has a positive impact on our bottom line and our fixed revenue stream,” said Tucker Jones, owner of Ballston CrossFit in Arlington, Virginia
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Just Opened — Stephanie Munds just opened CrossFit 4982 in Loveland, Colorado. What’s with the name you ask? Loveland sits at an elevation of 4982 feet. Congratulations on the new box.
Coming to an affiliate near you, the Row’d Royalty, an online rowing competition to find out who’s the best overall rower. The Open style competition takes place over four weeks and they’re giving away a Concept2 rower each week. Last year, 400 affiliates in 45 states and 20 countries participated.
Student of the Month, Zakary Todd — The 5-year-old from Prescott, Arizona started gymnastics when he was 1 and joined CrossFit for Kids at age 5. “At home Zakary has a younger brother with Autism. He models confidence and resilience by showing his brother how to play, how to be happy and how to talk through songs.”