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:

  • Workouts (WOD): Three of them: One “Challenge WOD” (a tough/endurance workout, usually from mainsite; hero WOD or tougher girl; probably 17-to-35 minute time domain); two shorter WODs (CrossFit OKC-type or easier girls; 5-to-15-minute time domain)
  • Strength (SWOD): Elements usually involving barbell lifts: e.g. Deadlift 5-5-5
  • Gymnastics (GWOD): Skill and/or bodyweight strength work (often from Carl Paoli)
  • Mobility (MWOD): Elements aimed at improving your mobility and flexibility (usually from Kelly Starrett)

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

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