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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TRY CROSSFIT — Zak McGathey, a firefighter in Chicago Heights, IL, also owns CrossFit Chicago Heights. He recently visited Bloom High School to speak about fitness and firefighting through a kinesiology class the school offers and extended an invitation to his gym for all the students to try CrossFit.
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BUSINESS NETWORKING NIGHT — CrossFit Recursive in Madison, WI is hosting a business networking night tonight. Wine will be provided for guests to network with other business owners in the community.
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SPECIAL NEEDS CROSSFIT — Die Empty CrossFit in Kennewick, WA hosts a class every Thursday night for athletes with special needs.
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POWER MONKEY CAMP — CrossFit Waterside in Orlando, FL is hosting a Power Monkey Fitness clinic with Dave Durante and Chad Vaughn March 16 – 17.
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IRON SHARPENS IRON — FAITH RXD is hosting an Iron Sharpens Iron camp in Nashville, TN from April 5 – 7 to help athletes gain a new mindset, discover spiritual strength reserves and challenge the body.
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TORCH RUCK CLUB — CrossFit Frederick in Frederick, MD has started the Torch Ruck Club, a ruck club whose mission is to inspire, promote and support rucking while also strengthening their community.
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES (a highlight reel around social media of CrossFit pros and average joes)
Leenie Quinn, who has one hand, gets her first full snatch • Happy birthday to Chris Rawlins the CrossFit Jump Rope course instructor • Sebastian
Paz gets a 325 pound front squat PR • Twenty-year-old Nikolai Kaganovitch overhead squats 345 pounds • Tommy Vinas did an EMOM clean complex at 315 pounds • Tia-Clair Toomey and Mat Fraser are headed to Columbus, OH for the Arnold.
…and Margaux Alvarez uses that fitness as she trains for America Ninja Warrior.
Yesterday on Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland and Tommy Marquez discussed last week’s live Open announcements:
Tommy: “You hope that it’s going to get remedied going forward. I don’t want the Open to continue to be this product that people lose faith in it because it should be a community rallying point. And I think there were other issues on top of that including some technical issues from my personal standpoint trying to watch the Open…It’s unfortunate that things stumbled out of the gates, to put it lightly.”
Sean: “The thing that I fear now is that after seeing this that now people who said ‘oh I’m done with this, I’m turning this off, no more,’ those people are probably going to come back, they tend to, but how much more of that can they take? That’s my question. If this happens again, if this is what they’re getting for 19.2, at what point are people just going to go ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’”?
A quick peek at Open broadcast numbers on Facebook:
— France: 145,000
— England: 463,000
— Brazil: 92,000
…FLASHBACK to 18.1: 2.2 million. Granted, the video has had a year to rack up views, whereas the others only a week.
How to Watch 19.1 — Broadcasts from Australia and Germany will be going live a around 4:30 PM PT. The workout will be announced at 5:00 PM PT. Both live streams will be broadcast on Games.CrossFit.com.
— 2019 CrossFit Open Movement Tracker.
— “These 9 Open Workouts Won’t Be Repeated, Probably”
…Grab your popcorn and join Armen Hammer and the Scale as Needed Crew who’ll be a live companion stream commenting on 19.2.
The Love Story Behind the Asia CrossFit Championship — Max Ma and Carrie Yan, the two organizers behind the Asia CrossFit Championship, tell the story of their engagement, which took place while cleaning up after last year’s event.
— “This year has been the most challenging year so far. But it has also been the smoothest one. I had the same conversation with her on working together again. We are doing what we love on a daily basis and doing it with the people we love. How can you not take that?” said Max.
What Life Long Health Looks Like for Julie Foucher — Sharing some throwback photos from when she was a CrossFit Games athlete, Julie Foucher writes, “One of the first thoughts I had was ‘I wish I could look that fit again’…how common it is for us to make comparisons to former versions of ourselves or other people who have goals and lives that are completely different from our own.
— “I have trouble letting go of this vision of looking or performing the way I did when this photo was taken. I find myself thinking that if I could just do an extra workout this week or track my macros maybe I could get back there…How we look on the outside doesn’t always correlate with health on the inside, and today I train not to be the fittest but for my own health and longevity, alongside trying to get enough sleep, manage stress, cultivate relationships, and develop a purposeful career that serves others.”
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