ATTENDING THE CrossFit Level 1 next weekend at Roots?  Click here for local information. AMRAP 30 minutes: Run 400mrest the exact amount of time it took you to run the 400Row 500mrest the exact amount of time it took you to row the 500mScore: total distance ran/rowed Reminders! Stronger, Faster, Healthier (extra) pre-oder is now through Friday!  Place your order at the front desk of the shop! Cool Cruel Summer Series 2 is THURSDAY!  Sign-up for your chicken and wings at the front desk and get ready for the second workout and happy hour of the summer!!Read more

5-4-3-2-1power snatch (155/105)box jump (40/30) Cool Cruel Summer 2 & SFH Pre-order – Don’t Miss Out. The second Cool Cruel Summer Series workout and happy hour is this coming Thursday!  Don’t miss out on the next series workout (it’s a good one!) or the festivities that go along side.  Also, many folks missed out on the last SFH pre-order.  Read at the bottom of this post about an additional pre-order starting this week. READ ALL THE DETAILS IN THIS POST SO YOU’RE IN THE KNOW AND DON’T MISS OUT ON THE FUN! How to Order Wings: Order your wings and/or salad combo TODAY through THIS Friday.  Mark your order on the order form at the front desk and put your check or cash in the envelope attached to the order form.  You must pay for your order in advance! What is the Cool Cruel Summer Series?This summer, from the months of May though August, join...Read more

New rings at the shop and a call for new music.Read more

“Chelsea”5 pull-ups10 push-ups15 squatseach minute on the minute for 30 minutes.  your score is 30 or the number of intervals you completed before falling off.  missing the start of the next interval means you are out.  scaled options?  yes (duh). When to Clean Up and When to Hold Tight. 3-2-1-Go!  You’re off, storming through the workout.  You finish and call out “time!”.  Now what?  Around you lies boxes, barbells, and athletes, some of who are also done and some of whom are still working to finish the workout. Hold tight!  As a general rule we want you to sit tight.  Grab a foam roller, a lacrosse ball, encourage others to finish, or simply sit on the floor and soak it all in. When everyone has completed the workout, then is the time for you to break down your barbell and clean up shop.  There are many reasons for this, a...Read more

12 minute AMRAP:20 KB swings20 GHD sit-ups20 wall ball You Are Not Special. As a caveat, you probably want to watch the video before you read this post… At my high school graduation a well-known congressman gave the commencement speech as his daughter was in our graduating class.  It was pretty good.  Two years later he gave the exact same speech at my brother’s baccalaureate.  Really, did he not think that any other family in the entire high school also had two children two years apart? – and did he really think his fellow Americans were that dumb not to realize?  I’m not bitter…but I sure wish the guy in THIS video would have spoke at my graduation. In the above video, David McCullough Jr. gives the commencement speech to the 2012 Wellesley High School graduating class.  In short, he reminds them that they’re not special. I think, occasionally, we...Read more