CrossFit Athletic Group

Harry Potter Theme Workout will be on Friday, September 1 at 10 am. Might sub push-ups for pull-ups if everyone's hands are torn up from Cindy.

There will also be an afternoon session, time TBD, but the main Theme stuff and food will be happeneing at the 10 am morning session. UPDATE - just text me if you need an afternoon session.

Also, a reminder that Saturdays are now at 9 am.

The times for tomorrow (Monday) are:

10 am

5:30 pm

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of Hero workouts the last few days - Murph, in particular. If you are doing our modified versions of push-ups and pull-ups, are you really doing Murph? If that specific workout comes up on the main site, like it did during that fateful week, then yes, get as high as you can on pull-ups and snake the push-ups, but if you get the choice of 200+ workouts, then I think it's best to do one that you can do closer to rx'd. Manion, for example, is closer to rx even if you only do 65 lbs. on back squats.

The 10 am session will have 4 options: Murph for those that have pull-ups and push-ups like that; Sham for the in-season kids; and two more ones that will be sufficiently terrible for everyone else. The 5:30 session will be a choice of some of the chipper options that require more equipment and direction that I want to have at the crowded 10 am session. Last year the afternoon group chose Collin; this year there will be some other ones available.

Lastly, it's important to come at these workouts with respect - not only for the Heroes their dedicated to, but the volume and toll they take on your body; Clovis did some damage to a few of us earlier this month. Sleep well tonight, don't mess around with your nutrition, hang out on the floor or in a squat, and make sure you recover after the workout.

My bad on the mix up. Today (Thursday) is a mobilit day. Just 4:30 session.

Yesterday at the 4:30 and 5:30 sessions we did the workout in two heats, with the help of partner counters. The only thing was, the partners weren't counting reps, they were counting rest.

I left the 5:30 session to go to the basketball camp, but the most common number I heard at 4:30 was somewhere around 2 minutes of rest counted for each person - which means for just over 25% of the workout you were doing nothing. For reference, Tabata has you resting about 1/3 of the total time of the workout. So while yesterday was not written as an interval workout, that, in essence, is how it was treated.

This is... interesting. Sometimes I think just showing reality is a better motivating tool than me trying to build a narrative around what I'm observing. What I'm most curious in is how that number related to your expectation.

Did you rest more than you thought you did? Less? Or was it about what you thought?

The session times for tomorrow (Monday) are:

10 am

4:30 pm

5:30 pm

Tuesday will be mobility, and just a 4:30 pm session

Wednesday resumes the normal stuff.

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As you guys can see, the updates on the website for schedules, pictures, and workout results have been much less frequent than what I'm sure you're used to. I've long known that being the sole contributor to a website was not sustainable when I also have the responsibility of being the sole contributor to the actual living in-person Champions Club - at least, not at the standard I want. In subtracting this stuff, I've added in personal time spent with you guys that I don't think would have happened if I was still concerning myself with getting the times down or the pictures uploaded every day. I think what's needed the most at the Champions Club - in general, not necessarily for every single person - is more individual time with me. And that can only happen if I subtract something first. Non-important website stuff is the first to go. For now, at least, until we figure out how the site can keep up. Also, please make use of having my phone number! Text or call if you need to know a session time, or if you need an odd hour.

Lastly, in September I wrote a post about money talking about how I'm in the brainstorming process of changing how we pay for this place to exist. I'm close to trying something out I think, but I have also been very negligent to the current books. So it would do me a huge favor if you could keep track of when you have and haven't paid, and keeping me updated on your status and such.

Our schedule for the start of next week will be as follows:

10 am

3:30 pm

4:30 pm

5:30 pm

Then on September 1 we'll be having the Harry Potter Workout, which is only at 4:30 and 5:30. We'll figure out the weekend schedule soon.

Starting this weekend, our times for Sundays will be 10 am for the regular group and 11:30 am for the Double-A session. We'll most likely be keeping that as the times through the Summer.

The schedule for Friday (tomorrow) will be as follows:

10 am - mobility

There will not be 4:30 or 5:30 mobility sessions on Friday. Saturday (9 am) and Sunday (11 am) classes are still on, as well as the Babies and Double-A sessions after. If anyone wants to get in around those sessions, just let me know.