With the CrossFit Games a week away our little gym has been abuzz with competitor times/weights and past accomplishments. However, Level 10 Crossfit has some certified CrossFit Diva’s and ME (Max Effort) Manimals.
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Heidi
Age: 40
Height: 5′4
Weight: 120
Started Crossfit: Summer 08′
Fran: 7:04
Helen: unattempted
FGB: 266
Cindy: 14 rds + pull-ups
Back Squat 127×5
DeadLift: 180×3
Favorite Lift: Double Unders
Least Favorite: Press
Favorite WOD: Annie
CrossFit Goal: Complete CrossFit WODS with RX’d deadlift weight
Chris has a unique hobbie for his “active rest” days. Here he is pictured in the back ground bracing this 2,600 lb beast of a machine…looks to me like the ability to stabilize your midline is important to rock crawling as well!
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Emily,fresh off her honeymoon in Maui, tackles “10 minute Cindy”
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A huge thanks goes out to Greg Mauldin and his father who were kind enough to lend their expertise in assembling our new med ball rack.
Greg putting on the finishing touches
Here is our fashionable and functional med ball rack…No more sifting through the mound of med balls to try and find the proper weight.
Aside from the fact that we had a ton of our core Crossfiters missing for this weekends “Gym Wide Workout” the day couldn’t have gone better. The crew that joined us from Redding brought out the best in everyone- which led to some phenomenal times from both Crossfit Clans.
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On the girls side Melia rocked the house by cutting close to five minutes off her previous filthy fifty time. While Zach, after only four Crossfit workouts, posted a solid sub 30 minute effort!
Our mind body online software is officially off the ground! The features of this product are phenomenal and ever expanding. The most important of which is the ability to set up autopay/recurring billing. This means no more checks or trips to the ATM when your membership is due.
Register and set up your account by clicking (here) or you can update your account at the gym either before or after class.
After you click on the link you will be promoted to create a username and login. Once you have submitted a username and password you must wait for approval for administrative approval-i.e me. Following approval you can begin to make changes to your account, and provide the necessary information to begin auto pay.
My hope is that everyone will be registered with mindbody by July 4th. This change will significantly improve the business side of Crossfit, and ultimately give you a better experience each and every time you workout…So, Ready-set-go-register!!!
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Congratulations to to our Graduates…School is one area that you definitly want to get done with in record time!
Tommy: A lot of people go to college for seven years.
Saturday June 20th will mark our third “gym-wide-workout”. For our latest installment we will again be joined by CrossFit Redding-who will prove once again that they thoroughly enjoy a good’ol fanny kicking WOD. As usual the warm-up will begin at 9am with the workout to begin shortly after. Once everyone has finished the madness we will make way to Papa Wensel’s for some grass-feed beef and vitamin D synthesis.
__________________ The Ranch gets an upgrade
Poking around on the Crossfit One Word site and what did I see? Well it was the “Ranch”, site of the CrossFit Games, with some particularly appealing upgrades. Guess this is how they are going to accommodate a few hundred athletes. For those who have never been to the site of the games, the asphalt is newly poured, the hills have been smoothed out and bleachers should be installed by the time we make our trek back.
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Speaking of the Games
Our affiliate team is almost complete. Currently our girls are set: Heidi, Skylar, Megan, and Cari will bring the ruckus on the ladies side. While Brett will carry the torch for the guys. The last male spot will be filled in the coming weeks. If competing is something your interested in, either this year or the next, the criteria is as follows: Have fun and give your best effort every workout.
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Skylar fell short of making this years CrossFit Games, However, she deserves huge props for give some inspiring performances.
You may have noticed more barbell work- cleans, jerks, and overhead squats in the wods and post workout skill sessions. Like many you may have found yourself challenged and inspired to perfect your form on these more complicated of lifts. If that is the case we will be gauging interest for an Olympic lifting team that will practice and prepare for regional competitions. Connect with Santos in order to throw your name into the pool of willing victims….ah, I mean volunteers!
We are 10 days away form launching our new MindBody online business management software. Soon you will have the ability to pay for classes online, set up recurring billing, and pay for merchandise as easy as going through the grocery checkout!
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Emilee is one our newest members here at L10XF and is already showing amazing ability and determination. Infact, she got a kipping pull-up and double-under after a whole 10 minutes of instruction. Great work, Em!!!!
Bently’s halloween costume has been chosen for him!
Well, Bently’s frequent disappearing acts has finally been solved. Turns out our beloved mascot has taken to “mowing down” the leftovers at Jake’s Burger. This comes as a relief since we had been noticing that his food bowl was staying mysteriously full.
Chris cut out soda and immediately sets a huge PR on the deadlift….Hey, I was at the beach the day we discussed “correlation vs. causation” in College!
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Record keeping should be a part of every committed persons training regimen. How can you compare progress over time if you don’t know the weight used previously for a given workout?
Rick and Tammy have recently completed their foundations classes and are now tackling our new 6am class. Hope everyone is ready because these two are ready to bring the heat!
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May marks the 1st anniversary of Level 10 Crossfit. The pick above is of our very first workout at our currently location (some will remember the dark ages of what we dubbed “Crossfit livingroom”). Stay tunned for a formal anniversary get-together complete with food, friends and of course a crazy workout!
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Here is a short excerpt from the documentary, “fat head” it examines the real factors that makes us fat, as well as how we got so far off track in the first place. For more reading on this topic see Good calories bad calories by Gary Taubes, or Protein Power life Plan by Michael and Mary Eades, M.D.
This past weekend Sklar and Brett put their hard work to the test and competed in the Nor Cal Regional games. The competition was intense as over 200 athletes competed for only 10 spots in this years “CrossFit Games”. The workouts were brutally hard which forced a large number of athletes to scales the workouts down in order to even finish them. This is a testament to the quality of athlete, as well as the splash that the North State intends to make once the CrossFit games roll around.
Saturday saw both Brett and Skylar complete two workouts. They each performed the workouts as Rx’d and had strong showings which earned them a shot to compete on Sunday. Sunday’s workout was a beast that had the crowd a buzz hours before it was officially announced. Once all eligible competitors has sufficiently tortured their bodies, the points were tabulated and the winners announced. Sklar impressed all with a solid #14th place finish proving beyond a doubt that she will be in contention for the games for many years. Brett placed an impressive #34 place out of roughly #150 male athletes!
Our Nor Cal Neighbor Crossfit Nor Cal and Crossfit Redding also worked extremely hard and had some truly impressive performances. Once again the girls stole the show with Katie DeLuca and Vanessa Lambert of Nor Cal Crossfit placing 10th and 12th respectively. John Fragoso, also of Nor Cal Crossfit, went after Sundays insane workout with incomparable drive and determination. Unfortunately John finish in tenth place and failed to earn a trip to the Crossfit Games. Other impressive finishers were: Victor Dowel #11,Cubby at #19, and Jordan Atwell #22, all of Crossfit Redding. Also, Captain America, Adam Lambert finish a solid #32nd place.
For the finalized standing for the weekend click (here)
