Friday 101231

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Marc Lamberty of Yankee CrossFit (CT) in Times Square, NYC.

Daniel G. talks about shifting perceptions at CrossFit Academy of Lions (Canada).

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." -- Henry Moore

Thursday 101230

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Peter Egyed of CrossFit Fury (AZ).

"On Why I Quit A WOD" by Dan Hollingsworth of Kitsap CrossFit (WA).

Ever quit a WOD yourself? Ever have a client quit a WOD?

"End of the Year Reflections" by CrossFit Scars (AL).

Wednesday 101229

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CrossFit Ocean City (MD).

Affiliate Question: How do you man the holiday hours? Members want classes but your trainers want time off. What do you do?

"Why You Matter Enough To Face The Pain" by Alec Hanson.

"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages." -- Edwin H. Stuart.

Tuesday 101228

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CrossFit Crave (OH).

"Defining CrossFit" by Greg Glassman in the CrossFit Journal.

"The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010" by the Harvard Business Review.

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -- David Lloyd George

Monday 101227

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CrossFit Affliction (FL).

Graham CrossFit (WA) hits the news.

"Basking in a Workout's Long Mysterious Afterglow" by the New York Times.

"Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. F****** leave and go somewhere else. Or don't." -- Henry Rollins

Sunday 101226

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CrossFit Nation (MD).

Photoblog? Check out this site by CrossFit L.A. for member uploads.

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." -- Tom Landry

Saturday 101225

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CrossFit Sweatshop (CA).

Santa Claus, before (and after) he found CrossFit: Video.

Happy Holidays from all of us at CrossFit!

Friday 101224

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Southern Maryland CrossFit.

"Twas the Night Before Christmas" by a member at CrossFit Bathurst (Canada).

"Be Better" from CrossFit Lisbeth.

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large." -- Henry Ford

Thursday 101223

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Twin Freaks CrossFit (CO).

"Who Calls You Out?" from CrossFit L.A.

"Becoming a Better Leader" from Inc.

"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." -- Don Galer

Wednesday 101222

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Chase Ingraham from CrossFit Dallas Central (TX) holds the $1000 satchel at the All Cities Open Competition. The Fran Challenge winner received the satchel.

Affiliate Scenario: You talk, you write on the blog, you remind your trainers and your members, but still the equipment is getting trashed and the gym is a mess. What else can you do?

"People Buy Feelings" from Primer.

"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline." -- Henry Parry Liddon

Tuesday 101221

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CrossFit Mission Gorge (CA).

Learn about one of the first CrossFit affiliates, CrossFit Vancouver, in "School of Fitness: Part 1" in the CrossFit Journal.

"The Value of Ritual in Your Workday" from the Harvard Business Review.

"Popularity is not leadership." -- Richard Marcinko

Monday 101220

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CrossFit CenterMass (MA) held a Toys For Tots fundraiser triple WOD recently.

"We Need To Talk" from CrossFit Invictus (CA). Has this happened to your blog? Is it inevitable in the age of Facebook? Or not?

"The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself Before 2011" from The Practice of Uncommonsense.

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it." -- T.S. Eliot

Sunday 101219

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CrossFit Ocean City (MD).

"Google's New Body Browser" from New Scientist.

"To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?" -- Katharine Graham

Saturday 101218

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CrossFit King of Prussia (PA).

"The First Ten Pounds" by CrossFit Epiphany (WA).

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." -- Virginia Woolf

Friday 101217

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Desert CrossFit (CA).

CrossFit after brain surgery: Tech Sgt. Carmen Colon-Alemany recovers with the help of CrossFit Oahu (HI).

"Why the Kids Don't Blog and Grandma's on Facebook" from Fast Company.

"We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid." -- William Faulkner

Thursday 101216

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After the CrossFit Movement and Mobility Course at Trident CrossFit (VA): Chriss Smith and Andrea Seward (owners) with Zach Even-Esh (CrossFit Underground) and Kelly Starrett (CFHQ Mobility guru and owner of San Francisco CrossFit).

"Burpee Penalties" for infractions (being late to class, dropping KBs, etc.) -- what's your opinion? And should the penalty be assessed on the entire class or just the offender?

"An Ode to the CrossFit Box" by CrossFit West Santa Cruz (CA).

"What Would Happen?" from CrossFit Lisbeth.

Wednesday 101215

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Training plates at MaD CrossFit (New Zealand).

Wooden training plates: Do you use them at your affiliate? Or do you let members drop unloaded bars?

"Change Your Life" from SnoRidge CrossFit (WA).

"In play you realize simultaneously the supreme importance and the utter insignificance of what you are doing. You accept the paradox of pursuing what is at once essential and inconsequential. In play you can totally commit yourself to a goal that minutes later is completely forgotten." -- George Sheehan

Tuesday 101214

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CrossFit Redline (FL).

Affiliate Scenario: You're hosting a local throwdown. Do you allow scaling for the WODs? Or not?

"Burpees" from Trident CrossFit (VA).

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Monday 101213

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Tucker kids (GSX CrossFit) on a break during a roadtrip in Colorado.

Christmas is coming. Do you do a "12 Days of Christmas" WOD? Or other CrossFit Christmas traditions?

Applying Maslow's Hierarchy to CrossFit by CrossFit Proper (CA).

"Anais Nin's Top 5 Words of Wisdom" from the Positivity Blog.

Sunday 101212

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James Gordon's daughters having fun at work with him at CrossFit Orillia (Canada).

CrossFit Morristown (NJ) is holding a different kind of daily challenge this holiday season. Take a look at one day.

"It Was the Other Guy's Fault" from Fast Company.

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." -- Oliver Goldsmith

Saturday 101211

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Scene from a "Civil War" throwdown between I Am CrossFit and CrossFit Gables (FL).

"5 Ways to Make Your Blog Stand Out from the Crowd" from Social Media Examiner.

"(Fitness) Debt" from Triangle CrossFit (NC).

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." -- Coco Chanel

Friday 101210

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CrossFit Aspire (NJ).

"Basic Gymnastics Progression": A video from CrossFit Saint-Hubert (Canada).

"An Epiphany" from Shoreline CrossFit (CT).

"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn." -- Miguel de Cervantes

Thursday 101209

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Anni of Lamorinda CrossFit (CA).

Affiliate Question: Holiday gifts for your coaching staff? Do you give them? If so, name some good ones!

"Three Things Brands Must Do To Reach Millenials Online" from Mashable.

"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects." -- Lord Jeffrey

Wednesday 101208

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Anthony, a wrestler with a success story at CrossFit Underground (NJ).

"A Thin Timeline Between Love and Hate" by CrossFit South Bay (CA). Would you agree?

"Why Some E-mails Go Unanswered"from The Oatmeal.

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." -- Henri F. Amiel

Tuesday 101207

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Over time, every Wednesday at CrossFit Ireland became "Wear a Blue Shirt or Face Public Harassment Day." Does your affiliate have some tradition or quirk like this?

"Cold Motivation" from CrossFit Progression (MN).

"Intuition: An Untapped Resource" from Open Forum.

"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait -- you can kick their ass right now." -- Cameron Diaz

Monday 101206

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An Arizona CrossFit Affiliate Competition hosted recently by CrossFit Flagstaff (AZ).

You might have heard a little bit about the upcoming changes for the road to the 2011 CrossFit Games. More information to be announced soon. Hang tight.

"Mental Strength" from CrossFit Epiphany (WA).

"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing." -- Giuseppe Mazzini

Sunday 101205

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Expansion work does not stop the workout at CrossFit Roots (CO).

"Got Resolutions?" by CrossFit Sioux Falls (SD).

"The Inanity of Overeating" by Gary Taubes, the first post on his new blog.

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges." -- Thomas W. Higginson

Saturday 101204

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Matt of CrossFit PB, at the summit of Mt. Woodson (CA).

24 WODs in 24 hours when CrossFit Zurich hosts a "24 in 24" charity event for their Malawi kids.

"Quotably Arianna: 12 Insights from the Huffington Post Mastermind" by Social Times.

"Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead." -- Howard Cosell

Friday 101203

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Mike A. at CrossFit Marysville (WA) warms up before hitting a local food drive.

"Stop Being So Negative" from CrossFit North Arlington (TX).

"U Were Right Pal. Life Changing!" from CrossFit Performance (CT).

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding someone to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." -- P.J. O'Rourke

Thursday 101202

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Sometimes, a CrossFit affiliate owner has a "day" job . . .

Ian Carver (kneeling, bottom left) is the owner of CrossFit Centurion (CA). He is shown here with the Sacramento Sheriff's Dept. Special Enforcement Detail (SED-SWAT) after receiving the Silver Star and a lifesaving medal for his role in Operation Jackpot, a 55-hour hostage stand-off. Next to him is Todd Henry of CFC, who along with Orrlando Mayes (center) was struck by gunfire during the operation.

The Sacramento Sheriff's Dept. SED-SWAT Team uses CrossFit workouts in their PT and firearms/tactical training to prepare them for situations like Operation Jackpot.

Wednesday 101201

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Paula of Rainier CrossFit (WA) at their Strongest Man and Woman 5 event, where they raised over $8000 to fund Fragile X research.

The CrossFit affiliates in WA are having a "meating" next weekend. Meat, CrossFitters, ideas. Win-win-win. Do you have something like this going on in your local area? And how do you contact folks? E-mail? Facebook group? Tin cans and string?

"Black Friday" (a reflection on training and holidays) by Kate Rawlings of Coca CrossFit (OH).

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." -- Sun Tzu

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