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We Could All Learn Something From Sloths

Good morning and welcome to the weekend edition of the Morning Chalk Up. This is Jessica Danger, your Managing Editor, to bring you a quick wrap-up of the major news items throughout the week.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Maybe the Sloth is Onto Something

My youngest son is ten-years-old and has recently become obsessed with sloths. He has befriended a tiny stuffed sloth, a gift from my mother, that he takes everywhere with him, including the dinner table. He has his own little placemat and we make him his own tiny sloth plate. My son feeds him tiny morsels of food. It’s adorable.

What is not adorable is my son’s new habit of moving like a sloth. At all times. Crawling, on the ground, like a sloth. Doesn’t matter if we are in a rush to get out the front door on time or if he is just playing with his legos on the floor. Sloth like speed.

“Mom, why do sloths move so slowly?”

I did like every other mother does when asked questions about dinosaurs or space or human organs or time warps or pop culture that I don’t understand. I googled it. 

From Wikipedia: “The sloth is so named because of its very low metabolism and deliberate movements, sloth being related to the word slow.”

Slow and deliberate movements. The sloth moves the way it does on purpose and with deliberate intention.

What if we were more like sloths in the gym?

Yesterday, a girlfriend texted me how frustrated she was after her WOD becuase it was “just” weighted pull-ups. And I replied that I would scream. “Pull-ups! My nemesis. Give me a heavy barbell and let me rip through that over weighted pull-ups any day,” I wrote back. 

Do you know what was on Wodify for me today? Pull-ups, specifically 10 rounds of Cindy after 35 calories on the rower and 30 power snatches. Pull-ups and push-ups dang it.

And then I considered the sloth, and my son, moving with deliberate intention. And so I channeled my inner sloth, and my time this morning showed that, but I walked away super proud of those dang pull-ups and push-ups and I entered my score with intentional and deliberate pride. And, with a cool story to tell my kid after school. 

To the sloth,

Jessica Danger
Managing Editor 

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As you wrap up your week and enjoy your weekend, here are seven things we want to make sure you know.

1. Weightlifting legend Glenn Pendlay passed away on Thursday.

2. Bodybuilder Franco Columbu also passed away earlier this week.

3. Katrin Davidsdottir was in ESPN’s The Body Issue.  

4. It’s the final week of the Wodapalooza and International Online Qualifiers. Registered athletes have until Monday at 5:00 PM PT to submit their scores. 

5. Tommy Marquez is PRing life with his recent engagement to Tiffany Meeks.

6. Games athlete Helen Harding has started a new Instagram page for Masters athletes called the Masters Movement. 

7. And here is a great one pan recipe, ground beef zucchini sweet potato skillet, to make as you prepare for the coming week. And, you can use some of your free ground beef from ButcherBox.

Oh and let’s not forget…

Is Advice From the Heart Foundation Trustworthy? (Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D./CrossFit) 

CrossFitter Katrin Davidsdottir Embodies the Legendary Icelandic Warrior (Wright Thompson/ESPN)

You Snooze, You Win: How a Lack of Sleep Can Hold Back Your Weight Loss (Stephanie Lee/LifeHacker)

Nine Weeks of Cutting Weight with the RP Diet App (Jessica Danger/Morning Chalk Up)

Do We Really Need Energy Drinks? (Men’s Health)

Do you get tired of checking your e-mail constantly? (Todd Nief/Todd Nief Blog)

Constituent and Emergent Adaptations (Jacob Tsypkin/Anarchos Training Methods)

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