On Monday, Ryan kicks off a new 12-week strength cycle that meets 3 days per week.Read more

Join us for Roots’ Seventh Annual Paleo Crocktoberfest crock-pot cooking contest! Bring your favorite crock-pot creation and compete against your fellow athletes for the title of Roots’ Ultimate Crocktologist.   [button link=”https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=6203&stype=-102&sView=day&sLoc=0″ type=”big” color=”orange” newwindow=”yes”] Sign-up HERE.[/button] Compete in Three Categories! There will be 3 categories of competition – Entrees, Desserts, and Crocktails. There will be a winner in each category as well as an overall crowning of the 2017 Roots’ Ultimate Crocktologist. Entries are judged by our all-star panel of paleo culinary experts based on taste, creativity, and presentation. Don’t Want to Compete? – Come Socialize and Eat! We encourage everyone to come, whether or not you’re entering a dish. This event is attended by tons of members! Please come join us, even if you don’t plan on entering a dish to mix, mingle, and try all of the fantastic entries. Please bring a dish or drink to share!  The Nitty Gritty… Judging starts...Read more

Last week we discussed the importance of the arch position when kipping pull-ups. This week we’re going to dive into the details of the other half, the hollow. In general, I find that this one gets a lot more attention and focus than the other, because it’s where the pull-up actually happens. Now, with the arch position dialed-in and creating tons of tension we can refocus our efforts on the hollow, and more importantly trying to arrive there as quickly as possible. The hollow position is a shape in gymnastics that allows the entire body to move as one entity. It is characterized by posterior rotation of the hips which flattens out the lower back. Arms and legs are also fully extended and squeezed tight. When done properly this shape can create so much tension throughout the entire body that a passer-by could simply push one part of the athletes...Read more

I learned at the CrossFit Gymnastics Seminar that gymnastics is about making shapes. We spend a lot of time at Roots drilling the proper shapes of a kip, so by now you know that the kip consists of 2 shapes; the hollow and the arch. To kip is just to move from one shape to the other efficiently. We kip forward into the arch position and then return to the hollow and pull, and we just did a kipping pull-up. Because the actual pull-up happens in the hollow position many athletes move through the motions of the arch but in anticipation of the pull-up they miss the focus of the arch shape completely and leave a lot of power on the table that could have been applied to the pull-up. In larger sets this becomes more of a problem and when we switch to higher skill movements like the bar...Read more

Jackson's Honest to host a world premiere viewing of its SharkTank episode on ABC!Read more