2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD Preview

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

• The 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD is coming to San Antonio, TX. We’ve got your event preview below.

• Are your coaches looking for feedback? Learn how fostering a culture of feedback can unlock the full potential of your coaching staff.

• How much can genetics impact the ten physical skills of CrossFit? A new study provides some answers.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It’s been a month since we lost one of our own in a way none of us could have ever imagined or been prepared for. This tragedy shook me, my family, and our team to the core. Lazar’s passing left us with more questions than answers about the future, but it’s sparked a sense of duty in me to step up and be part of the solution.” - Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, seven-time CrossFit Games champ via Instagram

CROSSFIT GAMES — ADAPTIVE

The 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD, Preview

The 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD is coming up in just a few days. 

The event, featuring the fittest Adaptive athletes around the globe, is set to be held in San Antonio, TX on Thursday, September 19 through Sunday, September 22. 

Remind me: CrossFit HQ announced earlier in the season that the Masters, Teams, and Adaptive athletes would have their end-of-season championships separated from the elite and team divisions. 

• The Masters and Teens each had their own events at the end of August. 

The Pit Teen Throwdown hosted the Teenagers, while the Legends Championship hosted the Masters divisions. 

WheelWOD has taken over the Adaptive divisions in hopes of expanding the field of athletes and bringing more attention to the athletes and their abilities. 

The top ten athletes from each division will get to compete in San Antonio and the field of athletes has also jumped from eight divisions to 15. 

Check out the full leaderboard here.

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SPEED READS

🏃 🏃 HYROX ‘24/’25 Rulebook Updates: The World Series of Fitness Racing has updated its rulebook for the ‘24/’25 season. The updates include movement standards, women’s wall ball volume, and the Elite 15 qualification process. Read the rulebook here.

🦣 🏎️ Constantly Varied Conversations x Known & Knowable: Earlier this week, John Wooley, host of Constantly Varied Conversations and the creator behind Wooley Memeth, held a live Q&A with Mike Halpin from Known & Knowable about the timeline of Event 1: “Lake Day” he researched and published.

😎🌴 TYR Wodapalooza Miami is Back: The team at Loud and Live announced dates for the annual fitness festival and online qualifier yesterday.

• TYR WZA Online Challenge & Qualifier

  • Week 1: October 17-21, 2024

  • Week 2: October 24-28, 2024

  • Week 3: October 31-November 4, 2024

• TYR Wodapalooza Miami 2025

  • January 23-26, 2025

💪📋 Rogue Invitational Update — “The C”: Athletes can compete in this community challenge through the month of September. Registration is open now. Learn more here.

ICYMI: Claudia Gluck and Hattie Kanyo qualified for the CrossFit Games for the first time in 2024. Learn about their experiences in Fort Worth.  

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

Are Your Coaches Craving Feedback? Unlock Their Potential & Elevate Your Affiliate

As an affiliate owner, you've poured your heart and soul into creating a community that thrives on the shared passion for fitness and personal growth.

• But are you nurturing that same growth mindset within your coaching staff?

Building a culture where feedback is encouraged, valued, and sought after is the key to unlocking your coaches’ full potential. 

As CrossFit OG Chuck Carswell wisely says, "What happens at your affiliate, you create or tolerate."

By providing specific and actionable feedback, you will actively shape the culture and success of your team and, thus, your affiliate.

The Power of Feedback

Feedback is the fuel that propels your coaches to excel in their craft. 

By providing regular, constructive feedback, you create an environment where continuous improvement is expected and celebrated.

When your coaches feel valued and supported in their professional development, they become more engaged, motivated, and committed to delivering exceptional classes and member experiences.

Your aim should be to create a culture where your Coaches see feedback as positive, encouraged, valued, and wanted. You set the stage for growth and success by fostering such a culture.

RESEARCH

You Might Be Able to Blame Genetics for Your Tight Hamstrings, Study Suggests

Some people are born more or less athletic than others. Natural talent will always be a real thing.

• That being said, are some fitness and athletic traits more inherently genetic than others?

A new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise in July suggests this to be the case. 

• And the result might surprise you: Flexibility appears to be the fitness trait that is most determined by your genes, while explosive power is arguably the least.

The details: The international research team based out of the University of Helsinki analyzed 198 pairs of Portuguese twin pairs, between the ages of 6 and 18.

All of the participants were put through a battery of 15 fitness tests to determine how much variability there existed between each twin.

• The tests included the flamingo test (balancing on one leg), a sit-and-reach test, a standing long jump test, a hand grip test, a sit-up test, a push-up test, a bent arm hang test, a plate tapping test (moving your hand back and forth between two plates as quickly as possible to test for reaction time and quickness), a shuttle run test (the Beep Test), and a 12-minute run or walk, among others.

The results: The test with the biggest genetic contribution (meaning twins had the most similar scores) was the sit-and-reach flexibility test, where the genetic contribution was determined to be 79 percent.

HIGHLIGHTS

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• 🎂Happy birthday to Snorri Baron.

• Check out this flashback from 2020, when Sam Briggs destroyed the “Last Man Standing” workout for the Rogue Invitational online qualifier.

• Take a look at Bethany Flores’ newest addition to their family. Welcome home, Barry!

• Great work to everyone at CrossFit Camden Frontier in Camden, MI, who competed in the Kilometers for Kash fundraiser event over the weekend.

• 🙌Great work to Lena and Hannah from Verdant CrossFit in Boise, ID, on their work at the Northern California Classic last weekend.