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🤔 Who's on the WFP Path to Copenhagen?
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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.
In today’s edition:
🎟️ Top 10 WFP Challengers earn a ticket to Copenhagen — who's it gonna be?
🧗 Stop losing coaches — give them a ladder to climb.
🌱 From tragedy to triumph — the resilient roots of CrossFit Green Leaf.
🚨 Not For Time with Sean Woodland and John Wooley, live episode tonight!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
It was a hard time for everyone. You could feel it in the air. It was a solemn mood.”
COMPETITIONS
The Race to Copenhagen – World Fitness Project Challenger Athletes Fight for Their Season
Credit: Scott Freymond
As the dust settles on the 2025 CrossFit Games, many elite athletes will soon set their sights on the World Fitness Project Tour Stop II.
The WFP Tour Stop II Challenger Qualifier video reviews concluded in July, and invitation emails have been sent to inboxes worldwide, offering athletes the opportunity to compete in Mesa, AZ, from August 29 to 31, 2025.
The unique format of the WFP allows us to follow three races simultaneously.
The race for the title of WFP Champion.
The race for one of the 20 Pro Cards for the 2026 season.
The race to make the finals in Copenhagen. The WFP-signed athletes earn an automatic berth to the finals, but only the top-10 point-earning Challengers (11 on the women’s side) on the season will join them.
Today we’re focusing on the latter, and in each division, we’ll break down which Challenger athletes are well-positioned and which have some work left to do to earn one of the 10 available roster spots to throw down in Copenhagen, where the points are doubled.
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SPEED READS
🚨🎙️ Not For Time, Live Tonight: Tune in for a live episode tonight at 7 p.m. ET on the Morning Chalk Up YouTube channel. Hosts Sean Woodland and John Wooley recap the 2025 CrossFit Games.
🌎 📋 Now Hiring: LRX is hiring a part-time Community & Events Coordinator to help grow its national presence through fitness, pop-ups, and purpose. If you’ve got a passion for people, a knack for logistics, and love making things happen — this is your shot to build something bigger.
🏋️♂️🔁 Back to Basics: In this CrossFit Training video, coaches Eric O'Connor (CF-L4) and Stephane Rochet (CF-L3) break down why the humble air squat still reigns supreme as the foundation of CrossFit training. From first-timers to 10-year vets, mastery never ends.
🎽🔥 Games BTS with the Two-Time Champ: Justin Medeiros reflects on nerves, the road to redemption, and hard-earned confidence throughout all three days of the 2025 CrossFit Games. After a rollercoaster year in 2024, he was back in fighting form — peek behind the curtain from Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 in Albany.
🇺🇸💪 Presidential Fitness Test, Revived: A new executive order brings back the classic school fitness exam, aiming to fight youth inactivity and reignite national pride in physical health. Could this mark a turning point for the fitness industry’s role in U.S. policy?
ICYMI: 🐐 Make it eight for the greatest CrossFit athlete of all time.
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE
How to Build Real Career Paths for CrossFit Coaches
Credit: @besthouroftheirday / Instagram
Every affiliate owner eventually faces a critical turning point: you can't be everywhere at once, yet getting off the floor seems impossible without sacrificing the quality of your service.
This challenge often stems from a deeper issue — the lack of clear career pathways for coaches.
When I sat down with Alec Corley, owner of South Hall CrossFit and a 10-year affiliate veteran, he identified the lack of a viable career path for his coaches as his biggest challenge.
While he has five coaches on staff, including two potentially full-time, he's still struggling with the cycle of constantly developing new coaches only to lose them months or years later.
This revolving door isn't just frustrating — it's draining your time, energy, and resources as an owner.
TRIVIA
🥇🥇 How many athletes have won at least two events in both of their first two CrossFit Games appearances? |
Last week we asked: 🏋️🏆 How many athletes have competed -- as an individual -- in every CrossFit Games since 2021?
2
4
6 ✅
7
Bonus: Who are they? 🤔
The correct answer was six, and 40.5% of you answered correctly. That list includes — Jeffrey Adler, Justin Medeiros, Jay Crouch, Jayson Hopper, Danielle Brandon, and Arielle Loewen.
COMMUNITY
Built on Belief: The Story Behind CrossFit Green Leaf
Credit: @cfgreenleaf / Instagram
When the owners of CrossFit Bullseye decided to close their doors last June, the gym’s community refused to be broken up.
So several of the gym’s members convinced the gym’s manager and coach, Sasha Jones, to open another affiliate.
“People were like, ‘You can’t abandon us. Why don’t you just open a gym?’ And I was like, ‘No, that’s crazy,’” said Jones, who holds a Ph.D. and works full-time as a Scientific Apparatus Engineering Technician at the University of Texas at Arlington.
The members were serious, though, and they gathered the money to help her start a new gym.
Things moved quickly, and Jones opened CrossFit Green Leaf’s doors in August 2024, the same weekend the 2024 CrossFit Games kicked off just 21 miles away in Fort Worth.
That’s when things got a bit dark for Jones and her community, as, during their gym’s grand opening, they learned about Lazar Đukić’s tragic death during Event 1 at the CrossFit Games.
Read on to learn how Sasha Jones and her community navigated their tumultuous first year.
HIGHLIGHTS
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🎂Happy birthday to CJ Martin.
Congratulations to Julia Kato and her partner, Netto, who are expecting a baby next year.
Try out this max push-up challenge from Tom Wright. How heavy can you go?
ICYMI, check out this 163-kilo/360-pound back squat from Rookie of the Year Mirjam Von Rohr to win Event 5 of the CrossFit Games.
🔥And in case you missed this one, here’s Justin Medeiros’ 229-kilo/505-pound back squat that took fourth place in the event.
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