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Two Workout Options

7am Workout at Roots For time: 30 strict muscle-ups 9am Workout at North Boulder Park AMRAP 10 minutes: 5 burpees* 200m run *Add 5 burpees every round. REST 10 MINUTES: AMRAP 10 minutes: Creative twist… What is a “creative twist” you ask? Come find out at North Boulder Park – the answer won’t disappoint!

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Ladies Happy Hour at Fresh Thymes!

“DG”  Complete as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes of: 8 Toes to bar 35 pound Dumbbell thruster, 8 reps 35 pound Dumbbell walking lunge, 12 steps DG is part of the Yearly Benchmark Series. Log your score! What’s the best sports bra for rope climbs? Which tank top brand enhances your shoulders the best? […]

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Open Shop Hours.

5 rounds, each for time, of: Run 800 meters Rest 3 minutes Beginning Tuesday, August 6th we will expand Open Shop Hours to the following weekly times, listed below. We are excited to offer this added gym time and hope you will use it to get in skill and practice work or make up a workout that […]

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Need a Partner or Want to Help?!

10 rounds for time of: 3 deadlifts 1 back tuck The 2nd Annual Harvest Hoedown is going down on Saturday, October 15th at CrossFit Roots and we are looking for volunteers! A kickass staff of volunteers helped this premier event run smoothly and we are looking for volunteers to help us again this year. We will need […]

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The Glute-Ham Developer

21-18-15-12-9-6-3 reps for time of: 35-lb. dumbbell burpee / hang squat clean / thrusters Pull-ups The “dumbbell burpee / hang squat clean / thrusters” is a burpee with dumbbells followed by a hang squat clean and then a thruster. Check out this video on the Glute Ham Developer (the GHD) that features Josh Everett. If […]

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The 5 Gallon Bucket

Push Press 5-5-5-5-5 Push press 5×5 is part of the Yearly Benchmark Series. Log your score! Suppose that everything you needed or wanted to accomplish in a day (or week or month) had a finite total. In other words, you had a 5-gallon bucket from which you had to fit all of your work and life […]

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Happy Sunday!

Annual Shop Closure (Thursday-Sunday) Have you checked out the Roots Flickr page? You’re probably in it somewhere, and it goes all the way back to 2010. It’s a perfect lazy Sunday activity so check it out!

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Top 10 Craft Tequila

Annual Shop Closure (Thursday-Sunday) Suerte Tequila, owned and operated by our very own Roots’ members, has been nominated by USA Today as part of the 10 best Tequila brands.  You can read more about how they choose HERE, but know that ultimately they choose based on votes which we can all contribute to through this […]

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Meet a Root – Jean Sanson

Annual Shop Closure (Thursday-Sunday) 1. Vitals: Jean Sanson, joined CrosssFit in February 2016 2. Where were you born/raised? Born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida 3. Married, kids, family? Married to Chuck Sanson (retired CrossFitter) with two girls, Leah 12 and Brooke 10 (both apprehensively considering CrossFit) 4. What do your days consist of? Days consist […]

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CrossFit Withdrawals

Annual Shop Closure (Thursday-Sunday) CrossFit Withdrawal Syndrome (CWS) is a real thing.  Symptoms of CWS could include: – constantly checking the blog – giving excessive fist bumps in Sugarwod for past workouts – immediately dropping down into a burpee at the call of 3,2,1 – yelling “time” at the completion of any/every task (this is a veteran […]

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