Ok. Here’s a really good one! I try to avoid direct linking in blogs too much. A lot of times things are overly-wordy and difficult to understand (maybe it’s just me! Ha). This article from Pat Sherwood in “The Morning Chalk Up” is super simple and offers some very black and white things to avoid in your fitness journey. I opened the link from them the other morning expecting to read it and get some good insight for a blog topic. The article was so good in itself that I wanted to share it directly with you. There are so many good points in it.

This past weekend the five fittest men and five fittest women in the world had an opportunity to compete against at the CrossFit Games. “The Games” essentially represent our sports world championships. It’s an opportunity for the rest of us in watch the very best in the sport do their thing. Other than watching some real good fitness and spending some time on the couch, why do we really need the Games? After all, Crossfit is for everyone!

During our daily wods at 306, we do all kinds of movements. We do all kinds of time frames, rep schemes, intervals and domains. That is Crossfit at it’s essence. Jason does an amazing job of programming and our coaches do an amazing job adjusting so every single person who comes in to the gym gets the desired stimulus.

Approaching two years ago our community gained an angel. Benjamin Sawatzky passed away from cancer and the loss to Chad, Carla and the rest of the Sawatzky family was, and continues to be, unimaginable. As our community does when members are in pain or in need, we rallied around them for support. We created a hero WOD for Ben and had a completely packed house to perform his workout, “Benji”. Since that time I have grown closer to Chad and i am fortunate to call him a “friend”. I share this with his permission.

It’s coming! Throughout all of the CoVid shut down and limitations there have been quite a few online competitions announced and ran by different facilities around the world. Some of the athletes at 306 have competed in several different competitions during this time and had great success. Jay and myself have had the opportunity to both participate in and watch other athletes partake and we have took the good and the “not-so-good” from each of them and started brain storming.

The ring muscle up. It’s one of those movements that everyone in the gym looks at with awe and aspires to get. It’s a beautiful display of strength, skill and technique. It requires all three of those in order to execute. There are all kinds of drills out there to help you build the strength and/or awareness of being on the rings in order to work towards the end result.

CoVid. It’s been a real bummer on everyone. As much as it has been a bummer on all of us adults, i think it has been more of a bummer on the kids. Their school stopped suddenly (probably not the worst thing in the world to most of them but...), they weren’t able to go out and play with friends and then most of their regular activities and sports were cancelled. They’re left with empty pop bottles and rocks to play with! Ok. Well maybe not quite but if your kids are anything like mine, they need something to do!

I had to scroll back through my list of blog titles to see if I had shared this before. I was looking for a simple nutrition tip to write a blog on for tonight and thought I had for sure already covered this. Turns out, I haven’t. It’s the most simple, basic nutrition tip I give to just about anyone I do personal training or goal setting with. It is one that is easy to follow, easy to understand and ease to execute. No fancy measuring. No reading labels. No counting calories.

In our last blog I shared a video from CrossFit Invictus’ Jared Enderton on the “uppercutting the bar” as we perform a snatch. It was a good, simple video with great instruction and break down of exactly what he means and why to do it. If you haven’t already, go back to the last blog and give the attached video a watch.