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Overhead Squat5-5-5-5-5 Saturday Olympic Weightlifting Meet Tomorrow is the second meet in the two meet CrossFit Roots Olympic Weightlifting Meet Series.  Come out and cheer on your fellow Roots athletes! Meet Schedule:9:00 AM Check-in/Weigh-in/Warm-up10:00 AM lifting begins Details: Contested lifts are the snatch and clean and jerk. Prizes:Yes!  Winners determined by the Sinclair Total.  Competitors who lift in both meets are eligible for the overall man and woman Series Winner and prize recipient. Questions: Email Ryan Landis
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Complete as many rounds as possible in 12 minutes of:10 Burpees25 Double-unders Schedule Updates and a BIKE WOD! Three important announcements:  1. Beginning this Monday, all lunch hour workouts (11:30 and 12:30pm classes) move to 12:00pm.  This means there will be two classes at the 12pm hour. 2. Tuesday Open Shop moves to 1-3pm 3. Saturday’s workout involves a bike if you choose!  Ride your bike to the shop and we’ll give you the lowdown.  If you don’t have a bike or it’s not feasible for you to bring it to this workout, no worries.  Come as you are and we have a non-bike option as well!  
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Modified BruckFour rounds for time of:Run 400 meters185 pound Back squat, 12 reps135 pound Jerk, 12 reps Is the Obesity Crisis Hiding a Bigger Problem? Chicken or the egg?  Diabetes or obesity? Thanks Sandy for passing along this TedMed talk.  Great insight to a deep seeded national health issue. Peter Attia has dedicated his medical career to investigating the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. A surgeon who developed metabolic syndrome himself despite the fact that he ate well and exercised often, Attia realized that our understanding of these important health issues may not actually be correct. He devoted himself to using vigorous scientific inquiry to test both our assumptions and new hypotheses through the Nutrition Science Initiative, the nonprofit he co-founded in 2012. Attia also writes the blog Eating Academy, which charts his own adventures in nutrition and examines scientific evidence surrounding food, weight loss and disease risk. Overall, he hopes...
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How to create a Big Hearty Paleo Meal. Recipes from Nom Nom Paleo and Zone Paleo breakdowns.
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CrossFit for Hope pictures and event recap.
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