Regional 16.5 3 rounds for time: 400-m run 40 GHD sit-ups 7 deadlifts M 405 lb. F 275 lb. Do you have plans for the 3 day weekend?! Well don’t forget that CrossFit Roots will be hosting our annual Memorial Day Murph, and like any good shindig the more the merrier so we hope to...Read More
Regional 16.2 (Regional Nate) 10 rounds for time: 4 strict muscle-ups 7 strict handstand push-ups 12 kettlebell snatches M 70 lb. F 53 lb. What’s wrong with science? Nothing, says John Oliver, but what the media put forth as the scientific process is a fraudulent version of what you learned in 7th grade. Exploratory and...Read More
Karen for time: 150 wallball shots (14/20) This is part of your yearly benchmark series. Log your score! Root Lisa Jhung wrote a great article in Women’s Running magazine about her experience incorporating CrossFit into training for her true passion: running. She discusses a laundry list of injuries she had accumulated running and how CrossFit seemed...Read More
Tabata row Rest 1 minute Tabata squats Rest 1 minute Tabata row The Tabata interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals. Your Tabata score is the least number of calories rowed or reps performed in any of the 8 intervals. If you’ve been doing CrossFit for more...Read More
Thruster 5-5-3-3-3-1-1-1-1 We have passed the half-way point in the Spring Nutrition Challenge. Great job to all who have made it work over the past 5 weeks. We’ve heard a lot of great things happening for people and I think that if you walk away with nothing more than just making conscious decisions about what you...Read More
EMOTM for 15 minutes: 1 snatch pull 2 hang squat snatch 1 overhead squat The annual Memorial Day Murph workout and potluck will take place Sunday, May 29th. We will host two heats of the workout followed by a potluck breakfast. This is an annual event that many many Roots athletes come out for each year. Class begins...Read More
For time: 1,000-meter row 100 push-ups 750-meter row 75 push-ups 500-meter row 50 push-ups And we’re back for Week 2 of the 2016 CrossFit Games Regional Qualifiers! This week check out all of the action from two regions: Atlantic West We’ll have Regionals on the shop TV all day long and you can tune in...Read More
Complete as many reps as possible in 5 minutes of: 165-lb. squat clean and jerks Skill Work: 10×2 deficit handstand push-ups Check out Ali Minton’s account of Bill’s journey from torn biceps to first muscle-up in one year! I first met Bill in late July 2014, shortly after his first workout at Roots. Since day...Read More
For time: 1,200-meter run 75 pull-ups 800-meter run 50 pull-ups 400-meter run 25 pull-ups As we roll toward Memorial Day, it can mean only one thing in Boulder, Colorado – The BolderBoulder 10K! We’ve heard rumors that a few shop athletes have run the race for over 30 years! Are you running the BolderBoulder? Post...Read More
