Upcoming Events

There is a lot going on this month at Crossfit Central! This week you can sign up for a few upcoming events:

Spartan 300 Challenge

....limited to 50 people (indoor clients)....sign up begins Tuesday at noon (tomorrow)

What is the Spartan Challenge?
The Spartan Challenge is a 7 week program that will be highly focused and personlized to get all participants in the best physical shape of their lives. It is open to Men and Women and scaled to ALL levels of fitness. It doesn't matter what your current physical condition is or whether or not you're knowledgeable in health and fitness - This program can meet you where you're at physically. If you're already in great shape you can always be in better shape...this program will rock your world and be a lot of fun. If you're not...guess what...you're going to come out of this a Champion and better because of it!!!

Trojan Challenge

...limited to 100 people...open to both indoor and bootcamp clients...sign up begins Tomorrow

Details of the challenge:

The Trojan Challenge will go on during the same 7 weeks of the Spartan 300 Challenge (May 8th-June 26th), but will have different components. Each participant will be assigned a CrossFit Central Relentless Coach that will help keep them accountable and offer guidance with their nutrition and workouts. The workouts will be kettlebell focused, and each participant will get a kettlebell with their registration. On the kick off date, May 8th, you will have your before photo taken and will go through the benchmark workout. The final benchmark workout will be on Saturday, June 26th.

Both Challenges begin on May 8 and run until June 26. Make this your fittest summer ever!

Go Get Em!

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."
-Evan Esar

Good luck to all you Spartans tomorrow!

Your Challenge

Ok people.  It's one week until the Spartan Finale. Are you losing steam? Can't eat one more cup of spaghetti squash? Even if you aren't doing the Spartan, let's ramp it up and get back on track. I looked at my food log for this past week and, well, it was pretty pathetic.

It is so easy to get in a food rut.  And, as the saying goes, "Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail."  It is imperative to have a menu planned out so you are all set for the week. 

So....

I challenge you to spend some time this weekend preparing for the coming week.

1. Make a menu
2. Go to the grocery store
3. Visit one of the Austin Farmer's Markets on Saturday
4. Chop veggies and fruit (you can even measure them out into bags or containers for easy snacking)
5. Grill meat (if you don't have a grill, go get a George Forman Grill. They are great)

Today Mel posted some great food resources- some go-to websites and recipes. I've gotten some super yummy recipes off of her blog.  

Here are a few sites I visit regularly:

www.ZoneDiet.com 
www.integrativenutrition.com

www.PerformanceMenu.com
Robb Wolf- nutrition guru  
Paleo Diet.com

There's a lot going on this weekend.  Saturday is Carey's Women's Olympic Lifting Workshop from 8-10am.

Sunday is the Lululemon Sizzlin' Summer Sampler from 10-11am. See you there!  

 

Halfway to Spartandom

Here we are- the halfway mark. It's been 3 weeks of Spartan workouts, Spartan eating, and general Spartan badass-ness.

How are things going?

Are you hitting your goals?

Are you doing absolutely everything you can to reach your goals?

It's time to hit it. Hard. 3 weeks left. Need some motivation? Make sure you read the latest success stories here . Reading those stories literally brought tears to my eyes. But you know what? Every single person has a success story of some kind. Big or small. Be proud of yourself and celebrate your accomplishments.

Bodies are changing.

Moods are changing.

Lives are changing.

Every day.

Come get an extra workout this weekend at Lululemon- Sunday 10am- Women's only Kettlebell workout. Bring a friend!

Have a wonderful amazing fabulous Friday :)

What a day!

This morning was the kickoff of the Spartan Challenge.  Participants got their "before" pic snapped, body fat pinched (ugh), and then did a pretty grueling workout.  It was

25 Pullups

50 Deadlifts

50 Pushups--- (there was some great form out there!  Must be the 100 Pushup Challenge!)

50 Box Jumps

50 Floor Wipers

50 KB Clean and Press

25 Pullups

Whew!

I was a volunteer this morning, so I counted reps and cheered people on.  It was so much fun to watch everyone give it their all.  The Floor Wipers seemed to be the hardest.  Here is a pic of Mel rockin' the Floor Wipers:

I was really inspired by all the sweat, grunts, and smiles.  For the next 6 weeks, participants will be food logging, checking in with their coach, and doing extra workouts on their "off" days.  In 6 weeks there will be a Spartan Finale and everyone will do the workout again- smoking their previous times I'm sure.  I can't wait to be there cheering you all on!!!