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Help Us, Help You

The conversation is all too familiar to the coaching staff. An athlete returns to the shop after a period away, say 1-2 weeks, and a coach asks them, “where have you been?” The athlete replies that they haven’t been in because they suffered a tweak – inside or outside the shop – and they didn’t […]

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What Did You Have For Breakfast?

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Ali and Stefanie broke down the Spring 2017 Food Challenge at Wednesday night’s chalk talk. One key component to this habit based challenge to eat a vegetable at breakfast. Why did we include that? Because the old adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day has a lot of […]

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Roots Spring Food Challenge

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Gymnastics Ring Clinic

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Lucy Activewear Boulder & Roots April Partnership

We are excited to announce that coming up in April, Roots is partnering with Lucy Activewear in Boulder! Lucy has awesome “fashion-forward workout wear for women who love to move.” If you stop by the store this month, you’ll see a mannequin decked out in Roots gear up front and information about our Women’s Only […]

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April – Mobility Stability Month

Now that the 2017 CrossFit Open, we are pleased to announce a fun focus for the month of April – Mobility and Stability! For the month of April, we will remove the yearly Skill Work incorporated into each week (handstand push-ups, chest-to-bar pull-ups, toes-to-bar, rope climbs, and muscle-ups) and take some time to consistently address […]

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The Open Comes to a Close

Another Open is in the books and this year, like years past, was full or surprises, PR’s and fun!  This year the dumbbells were introduced, we saw bar muscle-ups yet again, and we had a repeat of 16.4 as a check-up on our fitness progress since last year. Each week was sponsored by some of […]

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2017 CrossFit Open: Week 5 Guide

Here comes 17.5! We know some of you may be saddened that The Open is coming to a close – but fear not – we’re going out in STYLE! This week we feature a stacked line-up of sponsors, musical entertainment, food, and drinks that are sure to make your 17.5 finale one for the books. […]

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2017 CrossFit Open: Week 4 Guide

We start with an on-site wine tasting with the great folks at Boulder Wine Merchant and pair it with handsome food from Biju’s Little Curry Shop. Finally, we layer on top the tremendous work of SufferBetter and the charitable donation efforts of this year’s 2017 CrossFit Open to the Achilles International local Boulder Chapter. It’s a recipe for a four star evening! Oh, and we’ll also do 17.4!

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2017 CrossFit Open: Week 3 Guide

We’ve made it into Week 3 of the CrossFit Open at Roots and this week we’re celebrating, DUDES! That’s right, it’s Dude’s Week at the Friday Night Light Series this Friday evening so come by and throwdown on 17.3 and if you’re a dude, possibly win some sweet schwag from our sponsors.  See below for […]

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