We are so happy to announce that Coach Sam and David have welcomed to the world a healthy baby boy.  Westley Mitchell Mapeltoft was born yesterday at noon.  Mom and baby are doing great!  

“Toes To Bar”. They are a basic movement that lend themselves terrifically well to all of our other gymnastic bar movements. Controlling, or “linking”, our T2B is a great starting point for those butterfly pull ups, butterfly chest to bar and linking bar muscle ups.

What does ageing look like? Sometimes we think it’s inevitable that we lose all muscle mass, end up a little soft around the middle and not able to move so well. It may also seem pretty normal that a few medications in the cupboard are just a part of the process. As I get older, I want to make sure that I can do anything that I can to ensure that I can have a good quality of life as I age. I don’t want to think that there is a time that I can’t care for myself. Maybe that time does come, but I want to do whatever I can to make that as short as possible. I have often wondered how much “nature vs. nurture” affects us. Were some just born to age better? While I believe that nature does play a role, I also think that nurture plays a bigger role. Think of your body as this house. On the left, you didn’t clean regularly or keep up with the yard. You didn’t care for it and just let tme and the elements take its tole. The house on the right, well, you did your yard work, regular maintenance, cared for it and stayed on top of up-keep. Just like the house, the same can be said for people…

Rest Day Blog - by coach TJ

When To NOT Come To The Gym

For many of us, our time spent at 306 is our “get away”. Time to forget about the day to day rigours and just move. We get to socialize and catch up with our friends in the community and spend time making ourself better. However, sometimes “more” time in the gym will not make us better…

We teach kids healthy habits. To be better at sport, and life. Register today for our twice a week kids program. All details and registration available on our website at

https://www.reebokcrossfit306.com/kids-fitness/

Time to prioritize you! Ladies only bootcamps at Reebok CrossFit 306 are designed for all you ladies that are always putting everyone's needs ahead of your own. Join our bootcamps and start focusing on you!

Our next bootcamps start Thursday August 30th!

Classes are offered MWT at 8pm or MTT at 9AM. Find out more and register by visiting:

https://www.reebokcrossfit306.com/crossfit-bootcamp/

Limited spots, so don't miss the chance to start living better now.

It is with great excitement that we would like to welcome TJ Nicholson (@nich.tj ) to our staff. TJ will officially be our Sales and Operations manager along with being our dedicated full time morning coach . He will be covering the 6,7 and 10 am classes. Please join me in congratulating TJ on his new position. #reebok306 #reebokcrossfit306 #saskatoon#saskatchewan #coach…

On June 09th and 10th, the CrossFit and Endurance communities came together to celebrate a friend and loved one, Bruce Gordon.  Bruce LOVED fitness and his communities.  We thought this was a great way to honour the man who touched so many people.

Exactly a year ago today, April 25th, 2017 was the first day I had ever stepped into a CrossFit gym not knowing a single thing about it nor did I know anyone at the gym. After emailing back and forth for a few days, I met with Jason for a 1/2 hour or so and we went over the reasons I wanted to try CrossFit and I gave him the typical guy reasons, “I needed to get into better shape”, “I needed to get healthier”…etc, after that I sat in the gym and watched my first CrossFit workout.  Kelsey was coaching, and I’ll admit that I sat there on one of the blue boxes right beside the exit door on the side of the gym watching people do things, that either I’ve never done or even seen done before or haven’t done since I was a child ( yes I mean skipping! ).  Kelsey coached the workout and it was 100 Du, 25 hang cleans, 25 front squats ( 6 Mins on, 3 mins off twice). I vividly remember thinking to myself that there’s no way I could ever do that and if I just slip out the side door no one’s not even going to notice that I had left!  Unfortunately or, actually maybe now that I think of it, fortunately my jacket, truck keys and shoes were in the front room and I couldn’t leave without those!…

Big news! We are excited to share that Grzegorz has accepted a coaching position with us and starting next week he will be coaching classes daily. Please join me in congratulating Grzegorz on his new position.  #crossfit #coach #saskatoon

Grzeg has 12 years of pro soccer experience, combine with extensive CF coaching and soccer coaching experience.  We are very fortunate to add someone of his caliber to our team of coaches.

Congrats to the following three athletes who will be representing Reebok CrossFit 306 at the online CF Games Qualifiers in April. Polina leads all teenagers in Canada West, and Coach and Janice Peterson are both third in Canada West. Let’s cheer them on as they ramp up their training for the next four weeks in hopes of qualifying for the CF Games! #jcaintrained #crossfit #open2018

Attention all soccer lovers!  This is your change to bring your game to the next level.  Reebok CrossFit 306 is excited to partner with Pro European Soccer player and strength and conditioning coach Grzegorz Skowroński.  Grzeg will take twelve men  (14-21 years old) and twelve ladies (14-21 years old) through an intensive two month strength and conditioning  program.  The program will begin the week of April 2nd and conclude on May 26th.  The program will mirror the same training that European based clubs use to ensure their athletes are in excellent shape entering their competitive season...

I joined Reebok Crossfit 306 two years ago and my only regret is not joining sooner!   It has changed my life.  Not only physically (I’ve lost 25 pounds and I went from a 32” to 26” waist) but mentally, it has made me a better person.  So why have I “drank the cool aid”?  Well when I joined Reebok Crossfit 306, I was 39 years old, 162 pounds and although I did my best to hide it, I hated the way I looked, the way I felt and what I had become.  I was a mother of 2 young children, wife to a great guy and had a rewarding career, but something was missing… ME… I was so busy taking care of everybody else that I had lost myself along the way.

A reflection on why I compete and what I focus on.

In the last six months I've competed in three big competitions, The Canadian National Master's Weightlifting Championships, the Saskatchewan Powerlifting provinicials and the Wodapalooza Fitness Festival. I've been competing in sport for 30 years and I'm still learning on how to improve. I find that nothing is menatlly more challenging then a sporting competition. I find that so many of us start off as so extrinsically focused. Looking only at the standings and only being happy if we won. Heck even only picking sports or events that we could medal in just to say you medalled. I'll admit to falling prey to this myself at times. But I love the challenge of focusing on delivering on my game plan. I found that over time I've become the happiest not by my final standing (though I love winning as much as the next guy) but how well I did on the things that I can controlled. Here are the five things that I control and therefore focus on:...

306 is so proud to have qualified three lifters to this year’s Jr National Weightlifting Championships. @jacknash5 @polina.bes and @tekman17 (not present for the photo) have trained diligently and have made great strides into becoming national caliber weightlifters. Let’s wish them the best of luck as they fly to Halifax tomorrow and get ready to compete on Saturday.

Happy New Year!!!  2018 is upon us and I am not sure how that happened.  I swear, it was like yesterday when we were freaking out about what would happen the morning of the year 2000 (turns out nothing crazy would happen;)). 

So, it’s that time for me to reflect on 2017 and look in to 2018.  2017 was filled with some amazing things along with some devastating things.  I think that happens every year, it’s just that as we get older, we are more aware of things outside of ourselves and we know more people.  We enter a new stage of life and, all-of-a-sudden, it feels like we are attending way more funerals and getting more divorce announcements in a year than we are attending weddings and getting birth announcements.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!  I love this time of year.  Maybe you could tell with my Christmas sweater and tutu ;).  The reason that I love Christmas is because in our house it has always been a time when we can relax, come together and honour old traditions and welcome in new ones.