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CrossFit at 6AM. 41 degrees.

Terry
Wayne
Dave
Connor
Kelly
Miranda
Alex
Brett
Will
Steve
Stacia
Wanda
Eric
Caryn
Brian coaching

14 people in class. That is the biggest Monday class I can remember.

The time before class was spent with the new rope. Some people, like Will, Brett and Conner spent their time climbing the rope. For myself, I just spent time watching the rope. It’s a nice rope.

I still have to work on getting down into the squat for the snatch. That is a really difficult movement for me.

Eating—Working on it.

What hurts today—-Feeling better than usual. Still pain in the right heel. The back pain I had last week has passed.

Debbie got back from her weekend in Columbus and her sister has been moved to a nursing home. Hopefully she will continue to improve but she will have to want to get better. My prediction is that she will soon be back in the hospital.

Coach Glassman will be here on Saturday. The following information is from Wikipedia

Greg Glassman, a former gymnast[citation needed], created the CrossFit training methodology in the 1980s. The program gained the attention of various military and law enforcement agencies. In 1995, Glassman was hired to train the Santa Cruz, CA police department. The first CrossFit gym opened in Santa Cruz in 1995. The CrossFit website, launched in 2001, now includes an extensive video library of exercise demonstrations and a very active discussion forum.

The number of CrossFit-affiliated gyms has grown from 18 in 2005 to over 1,500 in 2009, with 500 more affiliation requests pending. According to Canada’s Business News Network, CrossFit is “one of the fastest growing fitness movements on the planet.”[5] The privately-held company was described as “hugely profitable” in a CrossFit Journal article that estimated annual revenue from just one of CrossFit’s three revenue streams at $6.48 million [1].

CrossFit’s affiliate model rejects franchising and requires few start up expenditures. CrossFit headquarters certifies CrossFit trainers, approves applications for gyms to become affiliates and publishes “The CrossFit Journal”, but does not share in revenue from membership fees. Affiliate owners pay either $500, $1,000 or $2,000 annually for affiliation and are then free to develop their own programming, instructional methods and membership fee structure. CrossFit says this de-centralized model, which shares some common features with open source and crowdsourcing projects, allows best practices to emerge from a diversity of collaboative approaches.[5] Monthly membership fees generally range from $85 to $300, with $150 a fee often charged. Many affiliates feature small group classes that allow for individual coaching. Classes often include a warm up, a skill development segment, and a high-intensity timed workout that lasts 10 to 20 minutes.

Some Crossfit athletes perform the “Workout of the Day” posted at the CrossFit website and never visit a CrossFit gym. Others formulate their own workouts based on CrossFit’s principles.[citation needed]

In 2007, the United States Marine Corps began a shift in its physical training program. The emphasis is moving away from aerobic training and toward more combat-oriented “functional fitness training” [6] by incorporating CrossFit principles. Many U.S. and Canadian police and fire departments, U.S. Army Special Forces and the Canadian Forces now base some of their physical training on CrossFit principles.[7][8]

CrossFit is also being adopted by a growing number of high school physical education teachers and by teams at both the high school and college level.[9]