Special bar muscle-up clinic with Nicole today at 10am.  No sign-up, just show up. Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 7 minutes of: 10 power snatches 3 bar muscle-ups Men use 75 lb. Women use 55 lb. A lot of people were calling it; bar muscle-ups.  Well, they’re here and it’s time to put them to the test.  One thing’s for sure, mentally or physically, by the end of the day Friday we’ll all be fitter, and full of delicious gluten-free fried chicken! Heats for the Friday Night Lights will be posted Thursday night in MBO after 8:30pm.  You must sign-up for a heat in MBO to reserve a space! A huge thank you to our Week 3 sponsors, Kill Cliff and Yellowbelly Chicken!  We hope to see you all there!  Read more

Last chance to pre-order your Yellowbelly for Friday night! 5 rounds: 5 weighted strict pull-ups 1min max-effort slamballs 1min max-effort abmat situps Rest 2min It’s week 3 of our 5 week journey through the CrossFit Open.  Tonight we’ll learn what’s in store for us in 16.3.  Come by the shop at 6pm for the announcement.  Here are the highlights for this Friday night at Roots. Sponsors Kill Cliff is supplying the prizes for this week.  If you’ve never tried any of their recovery drinks, you should!  They’re tasty and they have a cold-brew coffee option that can be helpful in a drowsy-pinch. Food Yellowbelly is back again and who doesn’t like gluten-free fried chicken?!  This week is different in that you have to pre-order your food if you want any by the end of the day Thursday.  Use the link at the top of the blog! Warmup Coach Kirk will be taking care...Read more

Pre-Order your Yellowbelly for this Friday night! 3 attempts to perform 15 bodyweight overhead squats This is part of your yearly benchmark series.  Log your score! Michael Pollan has a new documentary series out called “Cooked”.  It’s a 4 part series with each episode focusing on one of the natural elements (fire, earth, water, and air) and how they’re used in cooking. It’s very informative and it presents ideas that may go against some of your beliefs.  For instance, there is a piece on gluten that explains how gluten today is not at all what it used to be and suggest that maybe the real bad guy is the processing involved with gluten and not the gluten itself. Whether you agree or not, it’s always healthy and educational to acknowledge other perspectives. Overall, the idea seems to be to reconnect us with the lost art of cooking and to develop a more...Read more

Pre-Order your food from Yellowbelly for this Friday night! 5 rounds of: 12 dumbbell snatches 9 bench presses 6 bar muscle-ups Roots and our awesome new neighbors, Roadhouse Boulder Depot, are excited to announce the Roots Roadhouse Run! What: A weekly FUN run starting from Roots and ending at Roadhouse. Distances will be offered for all abilities. Who: Members and friends and family are welcome to come join in on the fun. Why: The Roots Roadhouse Fun Run will build distance over the 2 months leading up to the Bolder Boulder. Following the run, enjoy a free beer and social at Roadhouse! When: Every Thursday beginning Thursday March 24th! We will launch from Roots at 5:30PM. Come run, eat, drink and be social!  Read more

Log your 16.2 Score! 3 rounds for time of: Row 1,000 meters Run 800 meters I was texting with a good friend of mine a few weeks ago and amidst the friendly banter he referred to CrossFit as the “luxury service industry.”  It caught me off guard at first because I thought to myself, that’s just not true!  We help everyone.  Our health isn’t a luxury!  But as more time passed I realized, he was right. We live in a culture where our health and well-being often takes a backseat to other aspects of our lives.  Our jobs, our stuff, and our comforts are often placed first, even though we all understand that without our health none of these things matter. So while people may spend every free moment they have working their butts off for their job so they can make their car, house, school-loan, and cell phone payment they consider making time to improve their health...Read more