2010 Northwest Regional Event 1 Three rounds for time of:135 pound Overhead squat, 10 reps50 Double-unders Row 100,000 Meters Ever heard of the Concept2 Holiday Challenge?  The challenge, officially organized by Concept2, is to row 100,000 meters from November 22 to 11:59 p.m. ET December 24. The organized and coached program at Roots is coached by none other than our very own Lauren Rubini.  For those of you who don’t know Lauren or haven’t yet taken an erg class, check out her bio and background below! The program consists of 4 coached workouts, access to the regularly scheduled erg classes, additional erging times for athletes who sign-up for the challenge, and programmed workouts for the athletes to complete on their own. DATES: November 25th to December 24th at midnight PROGRAM INCLUDES: Four coached workouts led by Lauren – These sessions meet on Sundays at 9:00am beginning November 25th, and will consist of 6-8,000 meter...Read more

Seated press10-10-10Good mornings12-12-12 Reminders. Stay up to date! TODAY – The last day to pre-order PaleoKits and Stronger, Faster, Healthier products in 2012!  Fill out an order form at the front desk. WEDNESDAY – Athlete Happy Hour at The Attic (November 21st), 4:30-6:30pm THANKSGIVING – Join us for a Thanksgiving throw down that brings a new twist each year, lots of fun, and good company.Read more

Three rounds for time: Row 500m21 burpeesRun 400 meters Happy Hour on Wednesday Join us Wednesday, November 21st from 4:30-6:30pm at The Attic for drinks and celebration.  Please RSVP to the Evite by this weekend.Read more

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1power clean (185/125)1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10handstand push-up Struggle. In this NPR podcast, Alix Spiegel interviews UCLA professor Jim Stigler and Brown professor Jin Li about the differences between Eastern and Western school children and their actions toward struggle. As I listened to the observations and studies about Western children and their quickness to give up, I couldn’t help but think of my own struggles and my actions.  Stigler spoke about a specific study done with Western and Eastern children that struck a chord. “We did a study many years ago with first-grade students,” he tells me. “We decided to go out and give the students an impossible math problem to work on, and then we would measure how long they worked on it before they gave up.” The American students “worked on it less than 30 seconds on average and then they basically looked at us and said, ‘We haven’t had this,’ ”...Read more

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