306 3 on 3 Throwdown! Jul 2013

The First Ever '306 3 on 3 Throwdown' will be held at Rebook Crossfit 306.

This will be an all day event held on Saturday September 28.  Come and throwdown with all of your fellow 306 athletes as well as athletes from boxes all over the Prairies.  This promises to be a super fun event with a unique style of competition.

Registration Opens August 12 at 6:00PM

All day event Saturday September 28 2013.

Teams must consist of 1 female athlete and 2 male athletes.

 Divisions:

 Divsion1 (RX)

 Division2 (scaled)

Each team is guaranteed to compete in 3 WODS

After party to follow Saturday Night!

Registration Link will be posted at http://www.reebokcrossfit306.com/

Cost of the event is only $150 for the entire team.  Generous swag bags will be included for all as well as prizing for the top three teams.
 

2013-2014 A look ahead

As we look forward to the 2013-2014 season it's time to set some goals.  Goal setting is one of the most important part in achieving success.  Goal setting leads to deliberate action and results.  

As such our coaches have all agreed on our mandate for the upcoming competitive season.

1. Qualify 4 athletes to the CF Regional championships 
2. Qualify 10 athletes to the Canadian Power Lifting championships
3. Qualify 4 athletes to the Canadian Olympic Lifting championships

To help achive some of these results we are proud to intoduce a new membership option:

The 306 Strength and Power Membership -
Includes all of the following for only 110$ per month
1.Two weekly Olympic Lifting training sessions with Jason Cain (Best Lifter 35-40 Pan Am Championships) and Rob Lovelace
2.Two weekly Powerlifiting training sessions with Connor Lutz (Jr. World Bronze Medallist) and Marc Morris
3. Open Gym time on weekends

If you currently hold a 306 membership, then you are already eligible to participate in all of these classes.  This new offering is only for those who do not wish to WOD but simply focus on lifting.
Coach. 

306 brings down the house at the Spring Fling!

Couldn't be happier to be a 306 coach today. We sent a dozen members down to Regina for the annual Spring Fling hosted by CF Regina. Our team had an exceptional performance. Our boys swept the podium in the scaled division with Adam Holtzman taking gold followed by Logan Brown, and Guy Sveinbjorson. Daniel Wolfe finished 10th in this division.  Kristen Major won the women's scaled division winning three out of four WODs.  Chelasea Sveinbjorson finished 22th in the women's scaled.   Sam Mitchell earned the silver in the women's Rx division with consistent performances throughout the day. Bruce Gordon took silver in the masters division behind Corey Borelien.   Jamie's Turuk finished 22nd as his muscle weighed him down too much for the the swimming WOD:)

Overall 306 athletes picked up 6 medals across four divisons, more then any other affliate in attendance.

Next up on the list for competitons
- Power Lifting meet - July 13 Moose Jaw
- Olympic Lifting meet - Aug 3 Moose Jaw
- CrossFit Comp - Aug 10 - CF 204 Winninpeg
- CrossFit Comp - Aug 17 - Sweat Rx Toronto 

Great day in Chicago

This past weekend I travelled to Chicago to compete at the Pan Am Masters Weightlifting Championships.  This was the biggest Pan Am weightlifting event ever with 260 competing athletes from all over the Americas.  The competition was stiff with Ex-Olympians and former national team members in attendance.  The Latin countries brought an exciting flair to the usual business like demeanor of these events.  When the day ended I won my weight class and received a Gold medal at the Pan Am Championships.  I also posted a 243kg total that when adjusted for my bodyweight gave me the title of best lifter in the 35-40 age group across all weight classes.  I also hit a personal best on my clean and Jerk with 138 KG/304 llbs and improved on all three provincial records that I currently own (M35, 77KG, Snatch, C&J, total).  I am also now within striking distance of the overall provincial record of 140kg in the clean and jerk.  Overall a great memorable experience that I will cherish for a long time.  A big thank you to Richard Gonsalves for coming in from Toronto and coaching me at this event.
Coach 

Rob Lovelace

306 is excited to welcome Rob Lovelace to our coaching staff. Rob will be taking over our Olympic lifting program, with the mandate of qualifying four 306 athletes to next year's Olympic Lifting National Championships and improving everyones technique.  Please help me in congratulating Rob on his new appointment.

Coach

Canada West Regionals...3-2-1-GO!!

Well, after months of prep work, Regionals are finally here!  It has been a very rewarding experience both as an athlete and a coach.  As a coach, coming into the gym everyday and seeing each of you push hard past your limits always inspires me to push harder in my workouts.  Watching you push through adversity makes me want to be better.  Each of you are on the 306 team and play an important role, even though you may not realize it.  Sure, there are 6 athletes that will throw down on the weekend, but each of you have been training partners, friends and cheerleaders.  We are honoured to represent 306 in Vancouver this weekend and will give everything that we have knowing that you are all rooting for us.

We are very lucky to have some amazing resources in our gym as well.  I would like to take a moment and give a big thank you to Marc Morris, our power lifting coach for putting together our programing leading up tho this weekend.  We appreciate your expertise and experience in helping us along the way.  Aaron Johnson has been a lifesaver for us for sure.  Aaron is a 'miracle worker' when it comes to myofascial therapies and has volunteered his services to the regional athletes during training and he will be with us in Vancouver to make sure we stay limber and injury free.   We also have Sam Mitchell who is on the team but also a nutritionist and 'food guru'.  She has been very helpful to ensure that the athletes are fueling correctly and eating to perform.  Jason has also taken a lot of extra time to do individualized programing for our athletes to ensure that we can hammer out our weaknesses and go into the weekend feeling ready to go.  THANK YOU ALL!!!

"Victory Loves Preparation"...and I can honestly say that we have done all we can to prepare for this amazing opportunity.  No matter the outcome, we have done all we can to put forward the best version of ourselves next weekend.  You can follow the action at games.crossfit.com.  Aaron Parker will be competing as an individual and the rest of us on the team.   

So, now for logistics...as our coaches are competing this weekend, there will be NO CLASSES on Saturday or Sunday.   Normal schedule resumes on Monday morning.  I might be a little sore and groggy, but I will be here;).