March 2025 Newsletter

Expensive Roots Crew, 

The 2025 Open is right here! CrossFit Roots at the moment sits eleventh on the earth for member Open participation! Congrats to the 217 Roots athletes who signed as much as take part, and thanks for representing Roots!

For a lot of, the Open serves as a reminder of what our our bodies can do and the way onerous we are able to push. That reminder serves us properly in so many areas of our lives yr after yr.

You’ll construct your private health resume as we proceed by means of the three weeks. You should have strengths, and you’ll have weaknesses, and that is exactly the following step to have the ability to hone in in your efforts for the next yr.

It’s possible you’ll undergo a wave of feelings as properly. Some weeks, you’ll be on a excessive, proving to your self that you’re fitter than you thought, whereas different weeks, it’s possible you’ll be tasked with a exercise that stumps you. All of that is invaluable info, and The Open is probably the most invaluable technique to acquire it. And, on the finish of the three weeks, we’ll take a second to evaluate our progress in lessons and make a plan for the longer term.

Now, there’s one space of the Open the place we actually want you to place your strengths on show! That is the Intramural one-off challenges of trivia, bowling, and passion horse driving. Be sure to are within the know for the upcoming schedule of thrilling occasions that ship as many factors as they do laughs!

Thanks to everybody working to make this Open particular. From our sponsors (listed beneath!) to the athletes serving to present new athletes the ropes as clipboards and sheets of paper grace the ground on Fridays – you assist make the magic that’s The Open, and we couldn’t do it with out you.

Right here’s to Weeks 2 and three!Nicole

QUICK HITS

Mark Your Calendars – Trivia, Bowling, and Passion Horse!

Shout out to our 2025 CrossFit Open Sponsors!

Congratulations to our Latest Stage 3 Coach!!

CrossFit Children Spring Session – Register Now

Spring Break Schedule

The “Not a Problem Well being Problem” – Begins early April!

Summer season Efficiency Camp for Center College Women

Be On Time or Make the most of Open Store

The 2025 CrossFit Open Key Dates!

And we’re off! 25.1 kicked off with all the vitality, enjoyable, laughs, and efforts that we might count on from a Friday at CrossFit Roots through the Open.

In case you did the exercise and haven’t signed up but, there’s nonetheless time! Join the Open at the moment, log your rating at video games.crossfit.com by Monday at 6pm, and signify CrossFit Roots as one of many associates with probably the most members IN THE WORLD!

Intramural Workforce Key Dates to Mark on Your Calendar NOW!

Tuesday, March 4 at 7pm – Workforce Trivia Night time @ CrossFit Roots

Saturday, March 8 from 4-6pm – Bowling Occasion @ UMC on the College of Colorado Campus

Friday, March 14 at 6pm – Passion Horse Showcase @ CrossFit Roots

Shout Out to All our 2025 Open Sponsors

We couldn’t run a bomb Intramural Open with out our sponsors. Shout out to those members and distributors for serving to us set up an incredible occasion this yr!

Congratulations, Amy – CF-L3!

We’re thrilled to welcome Amy to the Licensed Stage 3 Coach membership! Final week, Amy handed this rigorous 4-hour examination, incomes her the CrossFit Stage 3 Coach title!

Amy started teaching at Roots over two years in the past after establishing herself as Roots’ Common Supervisor (the place, she crushed it, clearly!). As a GM, she shortly grew to become a pure and integral a part of nurturing Roots’ tradition, group, and dedication to the requirements of teaching and enterprise that we maintain so expensive.

Together with her precision, dedication, and need to excel irrespective of the duty, Amy discovered a pure place to begin on the teaching ground – and ran with it. At all times conditions by means of the lens of a coach, her dedication to studying and rising in each state of affairs to supply the most effective expertise for the athletes she coached has made her growth and progress within the area actually spectacular – and is a testomony to her efforts and need to be taught.

The CrossFit Stage 3 credential is held by only a few thousand trainers worldwide. The credential is designed for an skilled particular person who desires to show superior CrossFit teaching information and talent. To earn this credential, candidates should meet particular eligibility necessities, cross the CCFT examination, and decide to a long-term commonplace {of professional} accountability, which incorporates finishing persevering with schooling. The CCFT credential is accredited by the American Nationwide Requirements Institute.

There’s not part of Roots that Amy has not made higher, and we’re proud to have her as a flexible drive – a Swiss Amy Knife if you’ll – pushing the envelope and pushing us all to be higher.

Clocking in at a whopping 120 kilos, what Amy lacks in measurement she MOVES in kilos ON the barbell. An achieved weightlifter and CrossFitter, don’t chalk up her prowess on the store ground as childhood expertise or “genetics.” As somebody who didn’t work out or play sports activities as a baby and didn’t begin figuring out till her mid-30s, Amy has earned her health in her 30s and 40s.

Amy, we’re so pleased with and comfortable for you! And good luck as Masters Nationals in April!

Spring Break at Roots

Are you going to be round throughout Spring Break? Superior! So are we. We’ll maintain all common grownup lessons through the week of March 24 – March 28. There will probably be no Teenagers lessons this week.

The Not a Problem Well being Problem

We’ve all finished it – the four-week problem that leaves us wanting shredded solely to slip again just a few months later.

We’re not knocking short-term challenges. We’ve held our fair proportion of them and can proceed to take action, as they’ve tons of advantages to them and they’re a significant a part of any effort to make long-term adjustments to your health and well being.

In the identical approach coaching at Roots isn’t a one-time excellent dash – it’s a collection of buying extra habits that ship long-term, constant outcomes – we all know that the identical efforts and mindset could be utilized to constructing meals and way of life habits that additionally ship constant and wonderful outcomes.

Exit: “habits in/habits out”

Enter: The Not a Problem Well being Problem

After working with lots of of athletes and understanding what drives long-term habits and efficiency enhancements, we’re introducing a 3-month guided occasion that will help you construct habits, one or two at a time, that you could preserve for all times.

By the tip of the problem, you’ll have realized to include wholesome each day habits for the lengthy haul.

Right here’s what you possibly can count on:

4 3-week phases introducing 1-3 new habits associated to meals, health, and way of life

InBody scans at the beginning and all through the three-month interval

Info and Sources explaining the WHY behind the weather being launched in addition to the instruments to achieve success

Winner earns a free month at CrossFit Roots PLUS a Free Foundations Course to present to a buddy or member of the family

Study extra at one of many Informational classes:

Sunday, March 9, 10am

Thursday, March 13, 6:30am

Friday, March 21, 6:00pm

Particulars!

Begin date: April 14

Hosted by Amy Smith, CF-L3 and Precision Diet Licensed Coach

Price: $250 and contains three InBody scans valued at $105

Questions? E mail [email protected]

CrossFit Children Spring Session

The CrossFit Roots Children Program focuses on having enjoyable, studying to maneuver your physique, and creating a love for problem. Children be taught correct mechanics and consistency in a secure, supportive, structured atmosphere.

Center College Camp for Women

Coming summer time 2025…the CrossFit Roots summer time Efficiency Camp for center college women.

We’re happy to carry a four-day summer time camp for rising and present center college women to CrossFit Roots. This camp will deal with energy and conditioning and athlete schooling for each sport-specific and on a regular basis athletes.

By way of coaching classes, actions, and hands-on time in our in-house kitchen, women will learn to navigate the load room, discover areas of energy and conditioning, be taught the fundamentals of meal preparation, and perceive the worth of being sturdy.

The camp is led by Nicole Christensen and Lukas Augenstein. Nicole is the proprietor of CrossFit Roots, a Stage 4 CrossFit Coach, and at the moment coaches quite a few aspiring {and professional} feminine athletes. Lukas Augenstein is a professionally skilled chef and trainer who most just lately was the pinnacle chef for an outside schooling college for fifth graders.

Keep tuned for camp dates! When you’ve got questions, electronic mail [email protected]

Be On Time

What’s up Roots!? I perceive the door was damaged for a very long time, stopping many individuals from getting within the door on time. However the door is fastened, and we ask you to hit a tough reset in your class arrival time.

We decide to you that we’ll finish class on time and ask you to, in alternate, present up on time. That is the distinction between becoming a member of an enormous field gymnasium and becoming a member of a spot the place coaching occurs.

Every time we put up this, somebody thinks, “Oh shit, was it me?”

The reply is straightforward – sure, possibly, in all probability, presumably. Solely you possibly can reply that query…

Thanks to your efforts on this.

The 2025 Nice Attendance Problem & MORE

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 monitor to attend 225 in a single yr. Right here’s who’s on monitor for 225 by means of February!