Beginning today, we will have a free 30-minute CrossFit class twice a week. Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 6:00 in the field house gym, you can receive coaching on the CrossFit movements and get in a short, intense workout. In the half-hour, there will be about 10 minutes of instruction, followed by a workout of about 15 minutes. Come at 5:30 ready to learn—and to work!
If you are thinking of coming would you mind adding a “count me in” to the comments section. Thanks!
Okay fitness fashionistas,
The time has come to order the shirts! They are American Apparel 50/50 shirts, which are sweet for working out in. Several CrossFit boxes use them, including CrossFit OKC.
They are $21. Order as many as you’d like. Give them as gifts. Tell your friends and family. If you want one, send Dan Burns an e-mail (djburns5@gmail.com) with your size, and put a check for $21 per shirt, payable to Dan Burns, in Laury Burns’s mailbox at the Hall of Ad. The deadline is Monday, November 28, by 1 p.m. (Those who meet the November goals they posted will receive a crisp or possibly wrinkly $5 bill from Mr. H as a refund.)
These pictures aren’t exactly what the shirts will look like as far as the cut, but they give a decent idea of how the logos should look, and the approximate colors. Front, then back.
Here’s an idea for a HQCF t-shirt … four possible designs for the front and two for the back.
Would something like this interest anyone? I would like to get a nice, high-quality shirt. So they might get a little pricey.
This idea is HWAC yellow and black on a blue or gray shirt. The picture, by the way, is the end of a kettlebell snatch. I just thought it was a cool dynamic image.
Everything is up for discussion—the name, the logo, the fonts, the colors. Give me your ideas.
So—the Feast is over and we’re back in the swing of things. Let’s seize the opportunity to take our HQ CrossFit community to the next level. I (Mr. H) am putting out feelers for how we can do this in order to create more motivation and make the whole experience more rich and enjoyable. Any thoughts and ideas are welcome. Two possibilities I’ve considered:
• Set times during the week to do specific workouts. My preference: Sunday 9:30 a.m. to do the Challenge WOD; 6 a.m. powwow on Monday and Wednesday to do the other two WODs; and each session we could mix in some SWOD, GWOD and MWOD stuff to make it 45-60 minutes. If anyone else is interested, I’m willing to start next week. I’m sure other groups could also form at other times. Any suggestions? Even two or three people is more fun than one, but four to six would be even more delightful.
• Goals. We could post personal goals for each month and then cheer each other on. PR on a benchmark WOD, 1RM lift or max effort, being able to do pistols, consecutive double unders …
• Here’s a third idea—of a little different variety: What would you think some kind of incentive system where you get rewarded for doing all or more of the week’s work posted on altius? Ray K. and I talked a few months ago about the possibility of stars or titles (“Generalissimo Laskey,” “Speal”) or Starbucks gift cards or T-shirts or something if you complete a certain baseline of work over a certain period. Maybe a chart on the website where you can check stuff off, and when you finish, you receive a little digital celebratory snifter of ruby port. Maybe this is all too kindergarten. See what my wife has to put up with?
• Actually, the T-shirt idea is just cool in and of itself. What about a T-shirt design contest? Maybe we need to start by giving ourself a name that doesn’t make you go, “huh?”
My basic thought is, every time I’ve tasted something closer to a community experience, it has been terrific. It’s fun and motivating. I believe we have the interest … we just need coordination. Anyone who’s interested in participating to whatever degree, take a moment to post.
Laskey’s organized a small van heading to a box in OKC that has a two-hour open gym on Sunday afternoon.
Tentative plan is to do next week’s Challenge WOD there (which we’ll decide upon once we’re there).
We’ll leave from HQ about 12:30 and would be back 3:30 at the very latest.
We’ll have a couple of spare seats. If you’re interested, post to comments and we’ll see if we can make it work!
You’ve reached the gathering place for HQ CrossFitters!
Altius Athletics is intended to take advantage of and build the HQ, college and local congregation CrossFit community. It is our little CrossFit campfire around which we can all gather to get workouts; learn and pass along helpful tidbits; share experiences good, bad and ugly; post times and results; and motivate each other through encouragement and even healthy competition.
How it works: Each Saturday night or Sunday morning, the entire week’s worth of work will be posted. This gives everyone maximum flexibility to do what you can during the week as you have the inclination. Included in the week’s posting will be:
Altogether we’re talking about somewhere between 9 and 13 individual elements each week, ranging from the brutal to the quite short, maybe even just a warm fuzzy stretch. Overall we want to make the work challenging but not punishing. Consider the week’s post an a la carte menu–you are welcome to do all of it or any of it you would like. We are considering adding some tasty incentives for completing more or all of the work; if you have any ideas, please share!
We’re starting simple, but we want to grow and develop over time with input from the community. You are welcome to participate as much or as little as you have the inclination. However, we will be looking for creative and fun ways to cultivate participation.
Building the community means using the website; doing the same stuff, possibly at the same times–finding times to work out together; it means posting times and comments and creating some buzz; it means meeting minds in order to create more motivation and to make the whole experience more rich and enjoyable. The community is simply whatever we make it to be.
Scroll down to see this week’s work. And please record your comments, ideas and suggestions!
Game on!
Mr. H
