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

Log your 16.2 score!  Want to make-up 16.2?  Sign-up for Monday at 6:30am or 11:30am. Clean and Jerk 3-3-3-3-3 Is a tax what we need to deter sugary drink consumption?  It’s been done in a couple of states and this article explores both sides of the idea.  Check it out. Soda, Death and Taxes  Read more

Log your 16.2 score! For time and working with a partner, partner 1 only working on the odd minutes, and partner 2 only working on the even minutes: 125 chest-to-bar pull-ups 95-lb. push presses, 150 reps 95-lb. back squats, 175 reps P1 work from 0:00 to 1:00 and rest from 1:00-2:00 while P2 works, P1 work from 2:00-3:00 and rest from 3:00-4:00 while P2 works, etc. When I read this post on one ladies mission to drink a gallon of water a day for 1 month I thought, that can’t be that hard.  I was wrong! I stuck with it for about 2 weeks and never finished my entire gallon.  Even though I never got through a gallon it did cause me to drink a lot more water and I felt better because of it.  Yes, I had to pee more but I also felt more refreshed throughout the day...Read more