Expensive Roots Crew,
We’re excited to see everybody on the 4th of July celebration tomorrow, the place we’ll additionally have fun Roots’ sixteenth birthday.
Of the 300 or so present Roots members, 89 of you’ve gotten been coaching with us for 10 years or extra. Coy and Dizon are on observe to turn out to be the primary two members to hit 3,000 class attendances. And Roots now sits among the many longest-running associates (high 100) of the 14,000 worldwide.
I say all this as a result of the bedrock of those numbers is the work you’ve gotten put in day in and time out, persistently, over a few years. This isn’t regular. At a current seminar I used to be educating in Colorado Springs, somebody lamented to me that they might really feel bizarre or stand out in the event that they didn’t eat the standard American food regimen.
My reply was “sure” – to actually drive your well being and health on this day in age, you could first settle for that you just’re not going to be regular. With 129 million People having at the least one main power illness (coronary heart illness, Kind II diabetes, weight problems) it’s important to settle for that the approach to life you undertake to be wholesome and drive efficiency will by default imply you’re not “regular.”
For instance, it’s not regular to carry rooster breast, oranges, and almonds on a 12-hour airplane trip. It’s not regular to put on your ruck all through 8 hours of your child’s soccer sport as a result of that’s the one means it’s important to get weight in your body for the day. It’s not regular to coach on the 4th of July. It’s not regular to weigh and measure your protein consumption to optimize your muscle mass. And, it’s not regular to stroll right into a “health class” the place the smallest deadlift going up within the 60 minutes is 240 kilos.
So don’t be regular. Be CrossFit. And personal it.
See you on the 4th!Nicole
QUICK HITS
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Benchmark Week
Teenagers Program Fall Schedule
Lindsay Ramsey, DPT – July Particular
Summer time Studying Checklist
Who Is On Observe for The Nice Attendance Problem of 2025?
Double Birthday Celebration: This Friday!
This Friday we’re celebrating two epic birthdays in a single – America’s birthday and Roots’ Candy 16!
Be part of Eric and Nicole to kick-off your 4th of July with an epic exercise at 9 am. Stick round for espresso and breakfast burritos on us to have fun Roots’ 16 years of CrossFit-small-business-awesome-athlete-epic-health-and-fitness vibe.
Join the 4th of July class within the CrossFit Roots app.
Benchmark Week
The second installment of Benchmark Week is BACK! 3 times a yr, we program the identical 5 exercises, Monday by way of Friday for athletes to return in, check after which repeat all year long.
In the event you accomplished Benchmark Week again in April, evaluation your outcomes and reserve your spot at school for the exercises you need to repeat. If that is your first Benchmark Week, we advocate aiming to finish 4-5 exercises, log your scores, and preserve detailed notes. Then be looking out for the Benchmark Week within the fall to repeat!
What’s Benchmark Week? Why will we do it? Take a second to learn this text, as it can assist body your understanding of programming, working weaknesses, and dealing towards a aim of basic bodily preparedness. Critically, give it a learn!
2025 Benchmark Exercises
Monday: 1 rep max Squat snatchTues: DTWed: Max rep strict pull-ups, Max Time L-Sit, Max distance burpee broad leap, 30-sec a max cal bikeThurs: JerryFri: Choose a CrossFit Benchmark Lady
Need to know much more about why we do Benchmark week at Roots? Take a look at this weblog submit.
Center and Excessive Faculty Teenagers Program – Fall 2025

The teenagers have been crushing their coaching this summer season, and we’re pumped with the progress they’ve made to date! Under are particulars in regards to the fall program, which can tackle a brand new construction. The summer season session ends July 31, and the autumn session will start August 18th. Extra info and registration will comply with within the subsequent few weeks!
Fall Session: August 18 – December 19
Courses: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Center Faculty: 6:00-6:45pm
Excessive Faculty: 6:45-7:45pm
Lindsay Ramsey, DPT – July New Affected person Particular

On the lookout for somebody that will help you work by way of a tweak, harm or limitation? Lindsay Ramsey has helped quite a few athletes at Roots and is providing a particular to new sufferers in July!
NEW PATIENT SPECIAL FOR JULY
Schedule your preliminary analysis in July for simply $90 and any extra follow-up periods in July maintain that price!
About Lindsay:
Lindsay’s focus is on sports activities medication and orthopedic handbook bodily remedy. Her therapies embody myofascial work, joint mobilization, therapeutic train and dry needling. Dry needling is a way designed to assist deal with musculoskeletal or myofascial ache. It entails inserting a skinny needle into the set off level to reset the fibers of that muscle. The outcomes are sometimes speedy and supply noticeable enhancements in each ache and vary of movement.
Lindsay is understood for being aggressive with accidents and specializing in discovering and fixing the mechanics behind the harm. She likes to get individuals again to what they get pleasure from most as shortly as potential. She believes that you will need to proceed to study the most recent and freshest strategies; her subsequent certification will likely be in facial stretching.
To schedule, name or textual content 720-441-5001.
Summer time Reads!
Want dose of inspiration whereas snagging some downtime on a seaside, in a tent, or on a airplane? Look no additional than these reads!
Health, Luck, and Well being – CrossFit is a lot greater than a stylish technique to sweat. It’s a strategy grounded in science, with an outlined aim to extend work capability throughout broad time and modal domains. And if one goes to drive well being and efficiency, the methodology should additionally handle and remedy for power illness – the reason for 70 % of deaths worldwide.
Therapeutic Again Ache – Have you ever ever realized the attitude we placed on again points? For instance, if we tweak a shoulder, we simply tweaked our shoulder and work by way of it, but when we tweak our again, we “have a nasty again.” Why the distinction? Dr. John E. Sarno’s groundbreaking analysis on TMS (Pressure Myoneural Syndrome) reveals how stress and different psychological elements could cause again pain-and how one can be pain-free with out medicine or surgical procedure.
CrossFit Degree 1 Coaching Information – The definitive information to understanding CrossFit, maximizing your outcomes, and driving your long-term efficiency and well being.
Monitoring for the The 2025 Nice Attendance Problem
The 2025 Nice Attendance Problem is off and working! Attend 225 lessons in 2025 and be entered to win a FREE YEAR of membership at CrossFit Roots! Study extra in regards to the problem HERE.
Members who attend 19 or extra lessons every month keep on observe to attend 225 in a single yr and now you can observe your month-to-month attendance within the CrossFit Roots app!
Right here’s who’s on observe for 225 with 114 lessons by way of the primary half of the yr.
Aaron Evans
Allison Scahill
Austin Moss
Ben Weiner
Cherilyn Sackel
Chris Risma
Drake Smith
Greg Hertz
Jennifer Kievit
Katie Wei
Kelli Rayburn
Khem Seng
Liz Ropp
Margaret Hegwood
Martha Buttner
Phoenix Martin
Robby Larkin
Ryan Lewis
Sarah Williamson
Steve Calla
Taylor Haskell
The next members are SO shut, just some lessons away from being on the midway mark!
Amy Lombardo
Caitlin Durling
Danny Garbe
Dave Conway
Finn White
Jake Croxdale
Jake Durling
Jon Sisenwein
Josh Haimes
Megan Wei
Melissa Gallagher
Mollie Knapp
Molly Ware
Sara Sisenwein
Steve Fezler
Tina Garbe
Thom Defranco
Don’t see your title on this record? There may be nonetheless loads of time to go to class!