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⌚️ The First Wearable Built Specifically for CrossFit Is Here

November 25th, 2025

Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • 📈 CrossFit gets its own wearable — HWPO Training teams up with WurQ, the first tracker built for barbell cycling, burpees, and brutal WOD variability.

  • 🦃 How to enjoy Thanksgiving and stay aligned with your goals, no tracking apps under the table required.

  • 💪 A million push-ups, zero quit. Meet the 74-year-old CrossFitter who’s four years into a decade-long plan to knock out one million push-ups by age 80.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
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I’m at approximately 427,000 push-ups. I’m a little ahead of schedule.”

Bruce Snethen, 74-year-old CrossFitter, on the progress he’s made toward his 1-million push-up challenge from ages 70 to 80.
INDUSTRY

WurQ, the Wearable Built for CrossFit, Partners with HWPO Training

Credit: HWPO Training + WurQ

Amidst a sea of step counters, sleep trackers, and heart-rate gadgets, one company is betting heavily on something different: a wearable explicitly designed for CrossFit. 

  • WurQ is the first commercially available device designed not just for Zone 2 cardio or 10,000 steps, but for the variability of functional fitness: heavy barbells, kipping pull-ups, burpee sprints, and everything in between.

Its promise is straightforward: to automatically track a user’s WOD and turn it into meaningful training insights.

  • After the jump — why step counters fail CrossFit and what WurQ is doing differently.

SPEED READS

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⚠️🧪 Protein Powder Concerns: Consumer Reports says most tested powders exceed its lead “level of concern,” sparking expert pushback and major questions about supplement safety. What’s actually safe—and what should athletes do now?

🪢⚡ Double-Under Fix, Fast: The biggest jump-rope mistake? Bad sizing. This video shows how to set the right rope length for your height, clean up your posture, and unlock smoother, faster reps.

🏋️🏃 Test Your Fitness, Not Just Your Workouts: CrossFit’s five-day physical test is a full-body audit: absolute strength, relative strength, stamina, gymnastics, and mixed-modal grit. It’s less “PR party,” more “truth serum” for your training.

ICYMI: 🔍 CrossFit’s Athlete Council met 12 times this year, and their latest notes reveal details about season changes, new safety measures, and what’s coming next.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

How to Navigate Thanksgiving Day, Without Losing Your Sanity

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Ah, Thanksgiving—the day of gratitude, family, and one more scoop of mashed potatoes!

If you’re working hard on your nutrition goals, this holiday can create some real inner conflict. You want to stay on track and honor your progress, but you also don’t want to be that person quietly logging cranberry sauce into MyFitnessPal while your aunt is telling stories from 1987.

  • You can stay on track with your health goals while still truly enjoying Thanksgiving. And perhaps most importantly, it’s about remembering that nourishment isn’t only what’s on your plate.

TRIVIA

🥇 Tola Morakinyo was a member of the 2025 Fittest Team in Earth, CrossFit Oslo Kriger. How many times has Morakinyo competed on a team at the CrossFit Games?

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Last week, we asked: 🐐 How many times has the G.O.A.T., Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, won the CrossFit Open?

  • 8 (33%)

  • 4 (12%)

  • 2 (11%)

  • 6 (13%)

  • 1 ✅ (7%)

  • Toomey-Orr has never won the Open. (24%)

Surprisingly, the legendary Aussie has only won the worldwide Open once, in 2021. (H/T as always to Fran Lung Analytics.)

COMMUNITY

A Million Push-Ups, Zero Excuses: Meet the 74-Year-Old CrossFitter Refusing to Let Parkinson’s Win

Credit: Priority CrossFit

Like most working dads, Bruce Snethen, in his 40s, focused on his career and his children. He sat at a desk all day and paid little attention to his own health.

  • “I weighed 206 pounds at one point, and I’m only 5-foot-6, so that’s way too heavy for a guy my height,” he said.

Fast forward to today: Snethen, now 74 years old, weighs 160 pounds and, during his last body composition test, had only 10% body fat. 

  • Furthermore, he can deadlift 400 pounds and squat 310, and is stronger in his 70s than he ever thought possible. 

He has CrossFit to thank for this.

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