Thanks everyone for the great show of support at our open house! We had approximately 50 people attend and ran almost 40 people through the WOD. It was a very fun day for us and we appreciate everyone’s attendance. Special thanks to all the local affiliates that came out. There was representation from CrossFit All [...]
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One thing I took away from the movie “Food, Inc” was to buy locally produced foods. Farmers markets are now open making it much easier to eat more and more foods that were grown in our beautiful backyards, or kind of our backyards. I found an awesome website for finding markets near you, or even [...]
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Open House @ CFS 2.0 Saturday, June 19th, from 10 AM to 1 PM we are having our open house at our new location on Hwy. 9 at 164th on the NE corner. The address is 16326 SR 9, Snohomish. The warm up, coaching and workout will happen from 10 AM to 11 AM. The [...]
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The Warrior Series: Tom’s Battlefield The other day Tom walked into the gym carrying the bent up rebar pictured above. He said, “Well, it looks like CrossFit works.” The story goes like this. He’s out in the middle of Lake Sammamish in his boat with his daughter and her boyfriend.The next sequence of event are [...]
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The Warrior Series: What is your battlefield? “Cry in training. Laugh in battle.” I have used this quote before. Yes, maybe a little dramatic for many of our lives, but the principle holds true. So the question is what is your battlefield? Post answers to comments. All Classes For time: 30 Handstand push-ups 40 Pull-ups [...]
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Got Milk? In the Paleo world dairy is a controversial issue. Technically, it is not a Paleo food source. This is why, when asked, I prefer to use the terminology “real food” when talking about how I eat. I believe whole fat, preferably raw, and especially cultured dairy from grass fed cows has incredible nutrient [...]
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Carb Control In the first half of the year many of you have been working on eliminating grains from your diet and replacing those carbs with fruits and vegetables. The goal of this phase was two-fold. First, to reduce refined carbohydrate intake thus controlling blood sugar and insulin levels helping to maintain or obtain an [...]
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Carlie on Nutrition “If I hang on the bar and I don’t eat any protein, I’ll fall off.” Carlie AM Class For time: 50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 10 Muscle-ups 40 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 8 Muscle-ups 30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 6 Muscle-ups 20 Wall ball shots, 20 [...]
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It’s my favorite time of the week where Jeff logs off and I get to blog about one of my favorite things: food! This week I’m obsessed with the fun phenomena– breakfast for dinner, or b4d as we call it at our house. This idea was received with nothing but cheers when announced and our [...]
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Dave’s Anniversary WOD! Dave is world class when it comes to enthusiasm. When he jumps in it is always with both feet. Well, this enthusiasm has paid off over the last year. Today Dave went back and repeated his first WOD ever. He repeated it exactly as he did the first time. The WOD was [...]
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