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Double-Down!

Saturday classes at Roots at 7:30am or Centennial Middle School Track at 9am. Shop Wod Front Squats 5-5-5-5-5 Track Wod Every 2 minutes for 20 minutes, alternating: partner wallball passes partner wallball run Two classes this Saturday?!  That’s right, and you can crush both! This Saturday we’ll be holding an early morning class at 7:30am at the shop, and […]

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Friday Night Lights: 16.3

Special bar muscle-up clinic with Nicole today at 10am.  No sign-up, just show up. Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 7 minutes of: 10 power snatches 3 bar muscle-ups Men use 75 lb. Women use 55 lb. A lot of people were calling it; bar muscle-ups.  Well, they’re here and it’s time […]

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16.3 Coming Soon!

Last chance to pre-order your Yellowbelly for Friday night! 5 rounds: 5 weighted strict pull-ups 1min max-effort slamballs 1min max-effort abmat situps Rest 2min It’s week 3 of our 5 week journey through the CrossFit Open.  Tonight we’ll learn what’s in store for us in 16.3.  Come by the shop at 6pm for the announcement. […]

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Cooked

Pre-Order your Yellowbelly for this Friday night! 3 attempts to perform 15 bodyweight overhead squats This is part of your yearly benchmark series.  Log your score! Michael Pollan has a new documentary series out called “Cooked”.  It’s a 4 part series with each episode focusing on one of the natural elements (fire, earth, water, and air) […]

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Roots Roadhouse Fun Run

Pre-Order your food from Yellowbelly for this Friday night! 5 rounds of: 12 dumbbell snatches 9 bench presses 6 bar muscle-ups Roots and our awesome new neighbors, Roadhouse Boulder Depot, are excited to announce the Roots Roadhouse Run! What: A weekly FUN run starting from Roots and ending at Roadhouse. Distances will be offered for all abilities. […]

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Luxury Service Industry

Log your 16.2 Score! 3 rounds for time of: Row 1,000 meters Run 800 meters I was texting with a good friend of mine a few weeks ago and amidst the friendly banter he referred to CrossFit as the “luxury service industry.”  It caught me off guard at first because I thought to myself, that’s […]

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Soda, Death and Taxes

Log your 16.2 score!  Want to make-up 16.2?  Sign-up for Monday at 6:30am or 11:30am. Clean and Jerk 3-3-3-3-3 Is a tax what we need to deter sugary drink consumption?  It’s been done in a couple of states and this article explores both sides of the idea.  Check it out. Soda, Death and Taxes  

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Got Water?

Log your 16.2 score! For time and working with a partner, partner 1 only working on the odd minutes, and partner 2 only working on the even minutes: 125 chest-to-bar pull-ups 95-lb. push presses, 150 reps 95-lb. back squats, 175 reps P1 work from 0:00 to 1:00 and rest from 1:00-2:00 while P2 works, P1 […]

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Friday Night Lights: 16.2

“16.2” Beginning on a 4-minute clock, complete as many reps as possible of:   25 toes-to-bars   50 double-unders   15 squat cleans, 135 / 85 lb. If completed before 4 minutes, add 4 minutes to the clock and proceed to:   25 toes-to-bars   50 double-unders   13 squat cleans, 185 / 115 lb. If completed […]

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Obstacles Don't Define Us

Come by the shop tonight at 6pm to see the 16.2 announcement. 21-15-9 reps for time of: 225-lb. deadlifts Overhead walking-lunge steps Burpees, jumping over the barbell Use a pair of 50-lb. dumbbells or kettlebells for the overhead lunges. “I believe that the only way to have the best life that you can have is […]

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