CrossFit Athletic Group

by, Katie Shakes, of course

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Hello everyone! Just a little update from me to make sure that you know I’m still alive at the gym. My presence at the gym may not be noticed in a session, but I am here almost everyday on my own. It’s not as fun or competitive but I have to make it work with my schedule now. I have a new job from 7:45am-3:45pm and then I took over the head coach position for girls swim from 4-6pm. Where can I join a session with you amazing beasts in that timeframe?! So I have been coming around 6:30/7pm and this will also continue until March when boys swim season is over.   

My new job is at Michigan Math and Science Academy in Warren. This semester I am teaching PE to 8th and 9th graders. The staff is amazing, but the kids… well there will always be bad apples in a bunch where ever you go. I have 45 minutes with each class and all they want to do is play basketball. This is definitely a new experience. I wasn’t given a curriculum to go off of because they haven’t had a solid PE teacher there in years, so they think they can have free time with me. I do have a plan for the semester, but when I do plan to do a unit, that’s to be determined. The kids wear their uniform to PE so I have to keep in mind the workload that gets put on them and make sure whatever they do doesn’t rip their pants. I wish the majority of the students were like the Champions Club kids. Most of the students are only in the class for their credit to graduate so the effort isn’t always there. But, this is experience I’m going to need and will learn to appreciate it. 

Onto swimming. I was not going to do girls swim this year but here we are as a head coach. The next few years are going to be a build up years; filter out the bad and keep the good, like Chris does at the gym. I’ve been doing that with the boys team and I have such a great group of them right now, so if I can get the girls to be like that too, it will be a strong swim program at Mott. We do have our last home meet this Thursday if anyone wants to come by and watch and say hi! 

Now onto the part that was tearing me apart this summer… softball at BFC. I will not be doing softball at Foley this year. I had many reasons, but the main one was stress and my new schedule. I’m already finding it a tad difficult with swim, but swimming is inside and I can move practices to a later time, also the meets are late, too. I am not cutting softball out of my life, I want to pick up more individual lessons with pitching. That is what I enjoy the most because it’s very rewarding to watch someone progress on the skills you poured your heart into growing up. So Mallory and Sissy, be ready to become beasts of pitchers! 

I miss working out with everyone and having the community support during the tough WODs. Side note: My knee is doing great! I’m almost back to my 5k pr and working up on pistols on the box. Thanks for being part of this wonderful community and making sure we keep each other accountable! The Champions Club will always have the best people!