Pricey Roots Crew,
Welcome to 2026!
On this month’s e-newsletter, you’ll discover a rundown of all of the issues we’ve put collectively to make your upcoming 12 months the most effective but at CrossFit Roots.
From sound-mitigation enhancements to open coworking entry to new courses and a year-long vitamin development, to persevering with to push the envelope on program growth, execution, and athletic growth and assist – we chosen every of those efforts to enhance your day-to-day expertise right here on the store and past.
On the coronary heart of every determination we make on the store is a dedication to our athletes: will this enhance their efficiency and well being, will it additionally enhance their expertise at our small enterprise? Our choices are equally about what we select TO do as about what we select NOT to do.
We hope these choices and efforts have a constructive affect on you and your life in 2026!
Respectfully, and never written with AI,Nicole
QUICK HITS
Acoustic Enhancements
Membership Replace: Coworking!
Diet Problem – Part 1 Begins January fifth
Store Etiquette – 2026 Revisit
Class Updates: Olympic Weightlifting, Power, and (new) Endurance
The 2026 CrossFit Open & Open Prep Courses
Bodily Remedy for the CrossFit Athlete
Introducing the Nice Attendance Problem Winner
Misfit Camp!
Clearer Sound, Higher Expertise
Since we moved to our new location in Might of 2024 we now have observed that the acoustics of our area are much less splendid. The echo all through the store impacts communiation, understanding, the timeliness of sophistication operations, and your expertise.
We’re excited to announce that we now have employed the Sound [Isolation] Firm to convey clearer and higher sound to our warehouse area. You’ll see the enhancements in February.
This doesn’t imply we’re turning the music down, however it is going to enable you to hear from throughout the room when you need to push your knees out!
Membership Replace: Coworking!
We’re excited to announce a membership improve beginning January eleventh, 2026! – all recurring month-to-month memberships now embrace entry to our coworking area!
Based mostly on suggestions, we now have discovered that many individuals would like to have use of the area for 2-3 hours a couple of occasions per week. Possibly you should take a name simply earlier than class (we now have a cellphone sales space), or possibly you may have 90 minutes to kill between class and college pickup and wish to punch out some work. Or possibly you come to the center college session together with your child and wish to bang out a couple of emails.
Regardless of the cause, we wish to assist make your exercise match seamlessly into your day and scale back the additional journeys and friction of driving from place to position.
We’ll ship extra particulars earlier than we open the area on January eleventh, however right here is the overall overview to get you began:
1. Pay attention to others utilizing the area and be courteous. It’s not your new dorm room.2. Don’t go away belongings within the area. If you happen to work for a couple of hours after which go to class, take your belongings with you to the cubbies, even when you plan to return again. 3. It’s not a library zone. If you would like absolute quiet whilst you work, please convey headphones!4. Espresso is offered for buy (simply scan the QR code), however please convey your individual mug. 5. The area is for particular person work.
When you’ve got questions on utilizing the area or are fascinated about a devoted desk, ship us an e mail at [email protected].
The #800g Problem Begins January 5 – Are You IN?
Now could be the time to enroll!
The #800gChallenge is a straightforward, easy and wanted basis on the trail to well being and efficiency. It’s the launching level for our yearlong effort of enhancing the best way we eat.
Dates • Monday, January 5 – Monday, February 2
Value• The Problem is $39/month. Athletes will join a month-to-month subscription to the problem app to entry the problem, day by day schooling, factors logging, and extra. You have to entry to the app for 2 months. • Moreover, athletes will do two InBody Scans at a reduced value of $50 for 2 scans (earlier than and after the problem.
Signal Up• Join the problem HERE after which schedule your InBody scans HERE (January 6 & 7).
Need Extra Data?• Watch the problem overview video HERE.
Store Etiquette – 2026 Revisit
Etiquette is outlined as “the customary code of well mannered habits in society or amongst members of a specific occupation or group.” At CrossFit Roots, we now have an inventory of store etiquette that we ask every athlete to know and decide to.
We wish you to contemplate Roots your own home away from residence, and we additionally require a communal dedication to assist everybody’s mixed effort towards our in-person coaching expertise.
Every merchandise on this listing ties again to enhancing your athlete expertise AND the expertise of others.
As we kick off 2026, we needed to cross on a couple of athlete reminders:
Please evaluate our etiquette listing. Thanks!
As we enter into chilly and flu season, we needed to cross on a pleasant reminder that washing your arms goes a great distance (ask the docs and nurses on the store). The kitchen sink is a good place to do that after class!
Being on the waitlist doesn’t imply you might be at school or will probably be added to the category. In case you are on the waitlist you could verify with a coach about taking the category BEFORE class begins. Many components go into including an athlete from the waitlist, and in some cases, you’ll be informed no or requested to attend a later class with area out there.
Are available clear, washed garments. Put on deodorant. Heck, give your knee sleeves wash! Respect your fellow gymnasium mates by sustaining private hygiene as we prepare collectively.
Need some extra background on the why behind etiquette at our brick-and-mortar coaching facility? Take a look at this text from 2017.
Class Updates
Along with the exercise of the day courses, we provide Strongman, Olympic Weightlifting, Power, Gymnastics, and new/developed for 2026 – Endurance! We’ve additionally added extra group courses to the schedule at prime occasions similar to 4 and 5pm. Anybody with a membership membership can reserve a spot in these courses.
Updates and new cycles for 2026:
Olympic Weightlifting will start a snatch cycle within the new 12 months. Based mostly on class attendance, courses will probably be supplied at 11:30am on Mondays and 5:00pm on Tuesdays.
Power class will stay at its presently scheduled occasions and can dive right into a entrance squat cycle alongside designated accent work to assist the event of this carry.
NEW for 2026, we’re introducing Endurance at 5:00pm on Thursday nights. Similar to our different specialty courses, this class places particular focus to longer efforts that demand sustainable outputs. Whether or not you’re stoked on Skimo, incomes your turns, or dabbling in health racing, including this class to the muse of a robust GPP program will yield nice outcomes for efforts out within the wild!
The CrossFit Open Begins Right here
The 2026 CrossFit Open is coming FEBRUARY 26TH and registration opens January 14th.
We’re bringing again the most effective of the most effective: Intramural groups, weekly prizes, and tons of enjoyable! The Open is for EVERYONE, and EVERYBODY at Roots participates – whether or not you’ve been doing CrossFit for a very long time or simply began.
Belief us. You don’t wish to miss out.
Final 12 months, 219 Roots members signed up for the enjoyable – making Roots the twelfth affiliate worldwide for Open participation. We’re happy with this however we’re most happy with the athletes who put themselves on the market, signup, and throw down!
For now, listed below are the three issues you should know and be looking out for within the subsequent couple of weeks:
1. Join the Open on January 14th so that you will be included on this worldwide occasion and the Roots Intramural Open.
Learn this text that Nicole wrote for CrossFit.com to be taught extra.
2. Take the (NEW!) Judges Course. The judges MAKE The Open an enormous success and ship on the standard of the setting we goal to create. Learn this text on how the Judges Course will make you a greater athlete. Enroll and take the course right here – you could acknowledge a couple of individuals!
3. Sponsor the Open: Do you personal a neighborhood enterprise and wish to assist us make the Open further particular and enjoyable? From weekly prizes to athlete giveaways, we goal to make the Open further superior for everybody who participates. E mail [email protected] when you’d wish to be taught extra!
Beginning January 16, Open Prep courses are BACK at 12:30 on Fridays! This replaces the 12:30 WOD for the weeks main as much as the Open.
Bodily Remedy for the CrossFit Athlete — Fullswift Physio + Efficiency
As a part of our efforts to assist our athletes we’re at all times looking out for professionals within the efficiency and well being area who perceive what we do right here and assist how we prepare.
We’re extremely excited to welcome Kyle into the combo. Ideally, you by no means want PT… however when you do, you’ve obtained somebody who really will get CrossFit and athletes.
Our neighbors at Fullswift Physio + Efficiency have opened a satellite tv for pc remedy workplace proper right here in teh store. You’ll now see Dr. Kyle Rogus (Roots member and Fullswift clinician) providing efficiency bodily remedy proper right here on the gymnasium.
Whether or not you’re coping with a nagging situation, dialing in mobility, or chasing a brand new PR, you’ll get one-on-one, hands-on care that matches the calls for of your well being and efficiency targets.
Fullswift is providing FREE in-person consults for Roots members. Go to the hyperlink, choose the Roots location, after which scroll to Roots Members Free Seek the advice of.
Welcome, Fullswift — we’re glad to have you ever within the constructing!
Attendance Problem Winner & 2026 Kickoff
22 members accomplished the 2025 Nice Attendance Problem by attending 225+ courses final 12 months. Each was entered to win a 12 months of free membership dues at CrossFit Roots.
Right here’s who attended 225 or extra courses this 12 months:
Martha B
Phoenix M
Kelli R
Aaron E
Chris R
Sarah W
Katie W
Allison S
Ryan L
Amy L
Greg H
Steve C
Caitlin D
Taylor H
Khem S
Austin M
Ben W
Josh H
Cherilyn S
Liz R
Derek A
Melissa G
One particular person was randomly chosen, and the winner is {drumroll please!}…
What’s the Nice Attendance Problem?
The Nice Attendance Problem was born in 2021 and has continued yearly. It’s easy. Annually, we problem you to attend 225 group courses.
Why? As a result of consistency issues. A stable day by day effort will make one of the crucial important lasting impacts in your long-term health and well being.
So right here’s the way it works.
Go to class. Signal-up in ZenPlanner. We’ll tally your progress all year long. If you hit 225, ring the cowbell, scream it from the highest of the rig, and do a victory lap.
What else occurs once you do hit that 225 mark?
We’re glad you requested.
For all of you who earn that magical variety of 225 – we’ll enter you right into a drawing to win BACK your earlier 12 months’s membership charges and credit score them to the next 12 months!
Right here’s the right way to play: Go to class:).
Let the Nice Attendance Problem of 2026 start!
MisFit Coaching Camp
Are you a passionate CrossFit athlete? Are you hooked on power and conditioning and seeking to spend a weekend studying extra? Or possibly you simply began CrossFit and wish to take a deep dive to maximise your efforts within the store? Be part of us for an unforgettable weekend on the Misfit Athletics Coaching Camp right here at CrossFit Roots!
Signal ups are reside right here and the occasion is January 30-February 1.
This immersive expertise packs health, schooling, and neighborhood into each minute. Over the course of the camp, you’ll participate in a number of exercises, talent classes, and lectures that tie collectively the psychological, bodily, and life-style features of CrossFit. Our professional teaching employees consists of Misfit HQ coaches and particular visitor CrossFit Video games veterans.
The camp’s inclusive setting permits CrossFit athletes of all ranges to feed their ardour and curiosity. Camp has the power to uncover how such an intense sport will be equal components difficult, enjoyable, and endlessly attention-grabbing. If you happen to buy-in to the magic of all of these issues coming collectively, you possibly can convey it residence with you and notice that there’s a rather more sustainable strategy to method your targets.
Don’t miss this chance to be surrounded by like-minded people and uncover the magic that occurs once you absolutely spend money on the Misfit Camp expertise. All you want is an open thoughts and your exercise gear!
