5 rounds for time:15 back squats (135/95)15 burpees PR Your Life Challenge – Your Questions Answered Read below for the details on the fall food challenge.  This has everything you need to know to understand the structure of this food challenge. How long is the challenge?6-weeks What kind of food challenge is it?It is a Paleo food challenge.   The Paleo way of eating mimics the way our ancestors ate before the invention of modern agriculture and among a few other specifics, excludes all dairy, grains, and legumes. When does it start? It begins November 3rd.  Other important challenge dates are listed below. October 20th – Sign-up Week (Sign-up Open MONDAY, spaces limited)October 27th – Intake Week and Chalk TalksNovember 3rd – Challenge Begins, 6amDecember 13th – Challenge Ends, 6pm How can I sign-up?Sign-up will be available on MBO beginning Monday. How does the food challenge work?You will log every meal into a google...Read more

10 rounds, each for time of:Row 250 metersRest 2 minutes PR Your Life Food Challenge: What is Paleo? The average American consumes 70% of their diet from refined sugars, cereals, grains, refined vegetable oils, alcohol, and dairy products. Research has strongly associated the modern Western diet with the current epidemic levels of obesity, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, and inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. Think about your circle of family and friends and you probably know at least one person with one of the above mentioned diseases.  It’s an epidemic and it’s avoidable with food. It is our experience at CrossFit Roots, both personally and professionally, that a Paleo style of eating is the first step in the journey to health. It yields the greatest results for athletes in a host of areas including athletic performance, physical appearance, cholesterol levels and other blood indicators, mental...Read more

Holleyman30 rounds for time of: 5 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 3 Handstand push-ups 225 (155) pound Power clean, 1 rep Presenting the PR Your Life Food Challenge Fall is here.  Maybe you were a mountain babe or an altitude hottie or maybe you sipped one too many beers while partying it up this summer.    Or maybe you’re ready for the next evolution in your pursuit toward lifelong health and fitness. Whatever the reason, we have crafted the food challenge that brings together the look good naked side of the way we eat and train with the health and longevity indicators that make it all worth our while now and long long into the future. This fall’s challenge is a pilot study that CrossFit Roots and Dr. Molly Ware have put together to evaluate cardiac risk factors with a Paleo Diet.  Our goal is to use this initial study...Read more

Clean5-5-3-3-3-1-1-1-1 It Begins Tomorrow… Tomorrow, right here, we announce the EPIC 2014 fall food challenge. The PR Your Life Challenge.  Tune in tomorrow!Read more

CrossFit Roots recaps the 2014 Harvest Hoedown.Read more