Midline March3 rounds for time of:25 GHD sit-ups50-foot handstand walk50-foot overhead walking lunge, 155 lb. Anniversary Party in One Week! Don’t forget!  The Anniversary Party and Family Picnic is SUNDAY, AUGUST 17TH AT 11AM at North Boulder Park! Please RSVP to the Evite this week.  Additional details this week!  Read more

Five posts you won't want to miss covering how we program at Roots.Read more

Every minute on the minute for 15 minutes:10 kettlebell swings (24/16)5 chest-to-bar pull-ups 2015 Season Competitor Interest Meeting Roots will hold the 2015 Competitor Program interest meeting on Wednesday, August 13th at 7pm.  This meeting is mandatory for anyone who would like to be a part of the program this season.   The meeting will cover an overview of the 2015 season, training protocols and programming, training schedule, expectations, and goals. If you are at all curious about the possibility of competing in CrossFit at The Open through to the Regional level – come to this meeting. There is no set skill or ability level for the Competitor Program – we require only 100% dedication to the program and a commitment to improve.Read more

CrossFit Roots presents SugarWOD as the chosen method to track workouts at the shop.Read more

Front Squat 2-2-2-2-2then,25-15-10Slam Ball (30/20)Burpee Sit-up Planned Benchmarks for the Year So far this week we’ve dropped a lot of information on the blog about our plans for programming and workout logging starting in September.  If you’ve missed the information so far this week, be sure to go back and read these two posts: A (Perfect) Storm is BrewingProgramming – Innovate or Die Yesterday, we described in detail, our plans to evolve the programming at Roots beginning in September.  The goal of the changes is to get even better results from the time you spend at the shop and help athletes get more out of the goal of CrossFit – “increased workout capacity across broad time and modal domains.” Because of the constantly varied nature and black box concept of CrossFit programming, one must build in a method to test the programming in relation to the goal.  Benchmark testing has long...Read more