Split Jerk1-1-1-1-1-1-1 You Make the Difference It’s easy to feel helpless in creating real change in global issues, but it really is true that every decision you make has an impact.  Mark Sisson wrote this article discussing the effects of people’s decisions regarding the food they put in their bodies and how those decisions are beginning to steer the market.   In the article he claims that, “what starts as a commitment to ourselves becomes an influence on greater economic and societal forces.”  To me that’s a really cool concept because I think we often feel as though we have no control over such large issues or we feel that we have to go out and do something external to ourselves to make an impact.  But the change that we’re seeing today had nothing to do with us deciding to make a statement or rebel against the norm.  Instead, it all began...Read more

The front half of the parking lot is being sealed so please be prepared to park in the alley or on Mapleton and use the bike path underpass to walk over.  Thanks! CindyAMRAP 20 minutes of:5 pull-ups10 push-ups15 squats This is part of the Yearly Benchmark Series. Log your score! Adaptation to Exercise The benefits of exercise are the result of the body adapting to the exercise stimulus.  Our bodies are efficiency machines.  The body wants to use the least amount of energy necessary to perform any function in life.  So when we hand it a barbell and tell it to do 50 thrusters, and it’s not used to 50 thrusters, it’s going to hurt a lot.  But, if we give it the time to recover and adapt it will be better able to perform the 50 thrusters the next time. Your body adapts to stressors in a variety of ways that...Read more

Today’s class will meet at the Centennial Middle School track. 1min ON, 1min OFF:2 burpee broad jumpsrun remainder of 100yds add 2 burpee broad jumps each round until you can no longer finish the sprint within the 1 minute cutoff or you reach 100yds of burpee broad jumps. Sunday Funday What’s the point of all this fitness if you don’t get out and use it from time to time?  Part of the CrossFit fitness model is to regularly learn and play new sports.  What are you doing today to use your fitness? Read more

Today and tomorrow’s classes will meet at Centennial Middle School. 4 rounds:30 air squats20 pushupsrun 400m The Games are Coming The CrossFit Games begin July 21st!  Are you going?  Who are you cheering for (besides Camille, duh)?  What are your predictions?  Post to comments. Also, don’t forget today and tomorrow’s WOD will be at the Centennial Middle School track.  Please sign-up on MBO. Centennial Middle School2205 Norwood AveBoulder, CORead more

Come join us at 10:30am on the west patio at Whole Foods for the Primal Kitchen launch party! Hall5 rounds for time of:225-lb. cleans, 3 reps 200-meter sprint20 kettlebell snatches, 1.5 pood, 10 each armRest 2 minutes Kettlebell Snatch Today we get to practice a movement that doesn’t come up very often.  And this is a hero WOD dedicated to one of our own from Colorado, so get in here! From CrossFit HQ: U.S. Air Force Capt. Ryan P. Hall, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, died Feb. 18, 2012, near Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa, when his single-engine U-28 aircraft crashed. There were four total fatalities. The 30-year-old was assigned to the 319th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida. Hall is survived by his parents, Dennis and Kliffa; girlfriend, Marianne Vicente; brother and sister-in-law, Brandon and Karin; brother, Damon; grandmothers, Jean Hall and Nayda Nunn; and nieces and nephews, Erika, Natalie, Izabelleh,...Read more