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How do we create the program (workouts) at The Standard?
The metcons we use at The Standard can seem completely random, like we just reached into a hat and pulled movements and numbers of reps
Happy Easter! Assessment Season Second half this week…
Happy Easter to everyone celebrating and for those who aren’t, Happy Rest Day! 🙂 You’re going to need it. Tomorrow kicks off the second week
CF Quarterfinals / Assessment Season
Congrats to our Quarterfinalist athletes! They qualified to participate by placing in the top 10% of all North America in The Open. They completed 5
The End of an Open.
The CrossFit Open has come and gone; some of you didn’t even know about it and some of you lost a little piece of your
New website, new blog, same address.
Last weekend we had a great time hanging out and hitting terrible shots in even more terrible weather. 🙂 Thanks to SeanT for setting it

TOP GOLF IS BOOKED – FOUNDING ATHLETES
Top Golf was such a good time last year, we decided to do it again! Thanks to Sean for setting it up, we’re looking forward

1 MONTH CHECK-IN…
GET THE BLOG IMMEDIATELY EMAILED Welcome to February! This month kicked off with a cold bang— 16” of snow and lots of inconvenience, but we

ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT.
GET THE BLOG IMMEDIATELY EMAILED I mentioned this in the last one, but I’m assuming you’ll be spending some time working on your physical health

3 WEEKS TO… RESET.
GET THE BLOG IMMEDIATELY EMAILED Congrats to everyone that completed the 3 Weeks to Shredded program! I hope you’re suddenly STUPID lean! What’s more likely

OK, THE GROOVE IS BACK…
GET THE BLOG IMMEDIATELY EMAILED 2022 is here and it feels like everyone has settled into some new routines and has the bustle of the

BASICS OF NUTRITION…
Many of you have joined us on the 3 Weeks To Shredded adventure, some of you have not and that’s all good. The regimented program

NUTRITION FOCUS TO START THE YEAR… STARTS TOMORROW. GET IN!
THIS IS AN ENTIRE CHANNEL OF VIDEO RESOURCES FOR YOU!! Check it out. FIRSTLY, LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK ALL OF YOU AGAIN

NEW YEAR… INFLATION… SIGN UP FOR 3WTS
Merry Christmas y’all! I hope you enjoyed a few days with loved ones and made memories worth recalling for decades. 🙂 We’re moving into the

SATURDAY’S CHAMP V CHAMP, HOLIDAY POTLUCK, AND SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK.
Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday for Chaos of Christmas, to participate in the Champ V Champ, or to witness the finale for the

BIG SATURDAY 12/18!!
This weekend I spend a few days with the Level Method team in Colorado and helped them plan their marketing and sales strategy, along with

$7 T-SHIRT SALE!!
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday… psssshhh Whatever. I have too many shirts sitting around and would rather you guys be wearing them than

FOCUS ON THE CONTROLLABLE. …PLUS… A FAIR FIGHT HINT.
Happy Sunday everyone! Winter is now here since I’m watching snow fall outside my window. REJOICE!!! Let me be clear: I don’t like winter. Winter

NEW WORKOUT, NEW SWAG, NEW MEMBERS, OH MY!
There were a lot of goings-on happening at The Standard this week! Coach Sam picked our 1st Fair Fight workout, we got our pre-ordered swag

FAIR FIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 2021
Watch the video below! I’m super excited to kick off the Fair Fight Championship again this year. It’s always a great way to spend a

BECOME HARDER TO KILL.
Many of you know this, but some of you don’t, but I didn’t care at all about fitness until I was 31. I’ve never been

FALL/HOLIDAY SCHEDULE – LAST DAY TO ORDER CHRISTMAS GIFTS & STANDARD SWAG
As we head into the final stretch of 2021, we have a lot of fun things coming up! The year BLEW by, but it seems

CONGRATS VARGO’S! ONE WEEK ONLY – POP-UP MERCHANDISE STORE!
If you’ve been to a noon class, you’ve met our resident RN, Maghan. Always in good spirits and friendly, there’s nothing bad that can be

THE CLOSE OF ASSESSMENT SEASON! 🙌
What a whirlwind three weeks that was! I continually hate the class experience during assessments, but every season confirms the importance of doing these. We
HYBRID ASSESSMENT WEEK 3…
^^ Watch that ^^ Assessment schedule is changing, so we can get back to normal class vibes sooner. Amended schedule for this week; HYBRID WEEK:

ASSESSMENT SEASON 5, FALL 2021
What a 1st week we had during Assessment Season! We saw over 250 levels entered, with the vast majority of those being level-ups. We saw

GOOD BYE SOLHEIM… THANKS FOR THE NEW PARKING SPOTS.
Solheim Cup is almost done, but the events downtown are. It was a whirlwind of excitement and inconvenience. A completely bipolar experience; annoyed to ride

SOLHEIM CUP WEEK AND NEW STANDARD BRAND SHORTS!
We all know the Solheim Cup has been slowly approaching, bring us new parking and new city beautification. It also brought with it some nuisances.

THE BIPOLAR WEEKEND
This weekend was filled with some incredible highs and an unfortunate low. A team of 6 #standardtrained athletes participated with the Battle of the Boxes

OUR SWIMMING LEVELS ARE AWFUL. (BUT WE HAD FUN!!)
…good thing we’ll be working on them more and more often! lol We had a great time at the Eastern Community YMCA in Oregon this

WAVES OF LIFE AND WAVES IN A POOL…
Hey team! We made it through Jeep Fest and seeing our place in the background of a number of pictures was really surreal. Each and

ASSESSMENT SEASON IS COMING SEPT 13TH + NEW PROMO VIDEO
ANNOUNCEMENT: Assessment Season #2 for 2021 is scheduled for September 13th. You have 6 weeks to shore up the areas you struggle in the most!

KONG’S WEIGHT-LOSS AND HEALTH JOURNEY DOCUMENTED ON WTOL…
All of us know Kong (John). We know he’s been on a tremendous journey of weightless and self-renewal and we know he’s a kind-hearted good

IVY DANIEL BAER-GENSON ARRIVES!
Many of us have known that Logan and Jordan have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of their daughter and finally, on Friday, she made her

HAPPY 4TH! NEW PARKING!
Hey all! We hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend! We had a special 4th of July workout on Sunday and by “special,” I

NEW COACHES, NEW ATHLETES, NEW HOLIDAY CLASS!
The Inaugural Lexi & Maddy Show debuted Friday at the noon class. Fresh from their L1 seminar, they both did an excellent job presenting the

A MUDDY FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND…
Firstly, we have some of the best Dad’s as members at The Standard. We hope all of you felt loved and appreciated for all you

A PEEK BEHIND THE PROGRAMMING CURTAIN…
A little look behind the curtain. We don’t talk about these concept much publicly, but the workout planning— what happens when, how often, how heavy,

WHAT A WEEKEND!
Yesterday was pretty historical for a number of reasons! 1) Coach Sam and Ben Holt lead their team to an incredible showing at Lex Artis’

MURPH EXPLAINED…
The weather has turned, Memorial Day is almost here, and school is almost complete! There’s a lot of transitions in play, so as you’re working

WE ARE COVID-RESILIENT HUMANS.
Good afternoon! Greetings from the other side of COVID, where I had two days of feeling like trash and then basic nuisance symptoms since. There

EXPECTATIONS POISON REALITY.
Hey guys! I’ve been under the weather for the last couple of days and that’s given me time for processing and relaxing and healing. I

MURPH PREP EXTRA CREDIT…
Every Memorial Day, CrossFit gyms around the world embark on a journey of self-discovery, misery, empathy, and achievement; all to honor one of our fallen

DEADLIFTS & RUNNING & … SNOW?
Remember when it snowed 5 inches in 12 hours and disappeared over the next 12 hours? It was pretty, at least. 🙂 We’ve been working

SONOS SOUND UPGRADES!
When I originally laid out how the inside of the gym would be structured, I never imagined we’d be using the “entry,” area so often

JUMP ROPE UPGRADES 🙌
Have you been one of the unfortunate folks who have had one of our two-year old ropes explode on you? Parts go everywhere, you can’t

THE OPEN CONCLUDES!
We’re back to regularly scheduled training! There are some good ones in here! Can’t wait to smash goals this week!

TWO MEN WALL WALK INTO A BAR…
Week 1 of the 2021 Open kicked off with a new movement that’s typically a drill; the wall walk. It was fun to watch so

THE OPEN, WEEK 1, STARTS THURSDAY NIGHT!
It’s Open season again. It’s been a while. We haven’t done an open workout since October of 2019, and this year has so many more

WELCOME COACH TIM! …THE OPEN. …FEES.
Hey everybody! There’s some big things coming up and happening, so hopefully you’re not just scrolling to the bottom and ignoring all of the vital

MARCUS AURELIUS
I always have things to say in these blogs and sometimes they’re useful, sometimes you skip them, sometimes they’re self-indulgent. Instead of writing out a

TOP GOLF!
This week culminated in a road trip to Top Golf in Cleveland; organized by our M.C. Sean Timmons. Thanks for setting it up! Seemed like

FIRST WEEK BACK… WE’RE PACKED. WOW.
It seems you all were very anxious to get back to the structure of typical class (!) at The Standard as we watched many classes

2021 WINTER ASSESSMENT SEASON RECAP
What a wild 3 weeks it has been! Let me just say that I’m incredibly proud of all of you. The effort you put out

WEEK 2 OF ASSESSMENT SEASON WINTER 2021
This report is so crazy to me. It’s proof that what we’re doing each day inside the walls of the gym is working. This week

WEEK 1 OF ASSESSMENT SEASON WINTER 2021 IS DONE!
3-2-1… 321. That’s the number of levels entered this past week… 90%+ of them are improvements! That’s unreal and freaking amazing! Way to go. Congratulations
STANDARD ASSESSMENT SEASON – WINTER 2021
Watch this. ALSO CLICK HERE …we could use your feedback on a couple things.

WELCOME TO 2021. LET’S PLAY!
Alright! We’re off to a good start with 2021 already. Massive workout on Friday and a spicy, very technical workout yesterday left everyone needing a

NEW YEAR, NEW PROBLEMS, LESS WORRY.
Hey everyone! Congratulations to all of you for successfully completing the Boss Mission of Life called 2020. None of us would’ve expected any of the

CHAOS. WRECKAGE. FUN. 🙂
We have 6 days until Christmas, so many of us took on the Chaos of Christmas workout yesterday. Some went it alone, some went with

THE CHAMPIONSHIP COMES TO A CLOSE & ON TO THE CHAOS OF CHRISTMAS THIS WEEK.
The Inaugural Fair Fight Championship is complete and we crowned the Champ Champ yesterday morning. It was so much fun to see all of you

MEET YOUR FAIR FIGHT CHAMPS… THEY BATTLE THIS SATURDAY…
2020’s Fair Fight Championship results are tallied and the victors have been named! Brown Level Champ is Ben Holt Purple Level Champs are Sam Harmon

THANKS TO YOU, WE SURVIVED 2020. HERE’S WHAT WE’RE BRINGING TO YOU IN 2021…
WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR? Has anyone had the best year of their life in 2020? If so, please share your methods with us! It’s been

FAIR FIGHT FINISHES AND THE GYM IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION…
Whew! We made it through Fair Fight Fridays! We hope you had a great time challenging yourself to do things you normally wouldn’t in the

BULLET DODGED – THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY SCHEDULE!
WEEKLY WORKOUTS DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL DON’T SCROLL I know you do this. Read this: **HOLIDAY SCHEDULE**

MENTAL PREPARATION
Happy Sunday afternoon, friends! We had a pretty tremendous week of training, capped off with a stellar Round 3 for the Fair Fight Championship that

ROUND 2 (AND 3!) DONE IN JUST 20 MINUTES!
Hey everyone! Congrats on this week’s Fair Fight Friday workout! That requires some strategy and a real understanding of what we’re capable of. Hopefully you

FAIR FIGHT ROUND 1 – DONE! TAKE A SHORT REST AND BE READY FOR ROUND 2!
Fair Fight Championship kicked off Friday with a bang! Lots of really impressive performances and even more misery, but a good time was had by

FAIR FIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP & THE SHIN-SAVING UPGRADE ARRIVES…
This week marks the kick-off of the 2020 Fair Fight Championship! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out the video below.
THE MAINTENANCE & CONTINUATION…
ALRIGHT – for those of you who took on 3 Weeks To Shredded, you’ve arrived. How did you do? More importantly, what will you do

ARE YOU SHREDDING YET?
Lots of us are! It’s been awesome to hear about how you guys are smashing The Dolce Diet and losing significant pounds! You’re on your

RE-INVESTMENTS AND PERSISTENCE
This past week was a tremendous week of training that saw a lot of people understand and move better across various skills, culminating in a

NEW WEEK! 3 WEEKS TO SHREDDED…
Hey everybody! I hope you had just as good of a weekend as I did! I spent the last few days playing golf with my

THE HARD WORK IS DONE. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES! …ANNOUNCEMENTS…
This was a CRAZY hard three weeks in a wide variety of ways! The assessment workouts are some of the hardest we encounter because we’re
ASSESSMENT SEASON WRAP-UP
Alright ladies and gentlemen! We’ve come a long way and have just a week left to go. Some of you have completed all of the

ASSESSMENT SEASON BEGINS!
MINDSET, WEEKLY WORKOUTS Tomorrow begins an exciting and tough stretch of challenges around The Standard. Each day, we work our way through our daily training sessions

ONE WEEK UNTIL ASSESSMENT SEASON! …AND PEOPLE ARE ALREADY LEVELING UP.
Happy Sunday everyone! I’m getting pretty pumped about some things that are coming down the pipeline, but mostly the Assessment Season we’re about to start

SEPTEMBER ASSESSMENT CYCLE!
We’re long overdue for an assessment cycle due to COVID, so I’m pumped to announce we’ll be kicking off our 3-week process on Aug 31st!

Let’s start with a few highlights from the week!!
Huge shoutouts to these guys! If you see either of them in class, make sure to introduce yourself and congratulate them. Let’s talk about workouts

HERE COME THE BARBELLS… WORKOUTS FOR WEEK OF 8/3!
Hey all! Many of you don’t know, but our programming works through various cycles of concentration based on proficiency of our Standard community and the

TESTING UPDATE & WORKOUTS FOR 7/27
Good Lord. It’s almost August. Time flies when you’re avoiding COVID. 🙂 Typically Level Method, who does the bulk of our programming, will schedule three

GLASSMAN’S FITNESS IN 100 WORDS – AND… WORKOUTS…
WEEKLY WORKOUTS, NUTRITION, MINDSET Here are a couple of pages from the Field Manual we’re building for Standard athletes… Glassman has always said and done some stupid

COVID/MASK UPDATE AND SOME KILLER WORKOUTS THIS WEEK.
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Hey everyone! I hope you’re staying cool, managing to find some water to relax in. This week is going to be crazy hot,

OPERATION MURPH – COMPLETE. WORKOUTS FOR 7/6!
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Happy 4th, everyone! In a moment in time when people have sort-of lost track of appreciation for the nation we live in, it

WORKOUTS FOR 6/29 – MURPH.
Full steam ahead!! This is a big week of training! We’re going to become better every day we step inside the gym this week and

WORKOUTS FOR 6/22 – COVID ADJUSTMENTS TO CLASS…
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Hello all! We’re crossing the one-month anniversary post-COVID, so rejoice! No fines, no confirmed cases, just fun and fitness and friends. The way

WORKOUTS FOR 6/15 – $100 GIFT CARDS FOR EVERYONE NOW (!!) & MUCH MORE.
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Hey all!! WOO, this week of training has variety, difficulty, technicality, and is going to be fun and suck all at the same

WORKOUTS FOR 6/7 – CROSSFIT HQ COMMENTARY…
MINDSET, WEEKLY WORKOUTS Hello friends! Welp… this is a pretty crazy year we’re having, right? One of my favorite things in life is conflict because I

BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULE PROGRAM(MING).
WEEKLY WORKOUTS We made it. First week back! We also made room for a 9th box in the gym to hopefully get more of you

WE… ARRREEE… LIIIIIIVE….
WEEKLY WORKOUTS WELCOME BACK! We’re kicking off this week with some classic CrossFit workouts. Triplets, barbells, AMRAPs, and burpees. 🙂 Yes. Those still exist. Sadly,

AT HOME WORKOUTS FOR THE GARAGE GYM FOLKS!
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Enjoy, guys! If you need anything please text or call me! I’ll help however I can!
PHASE 2: CORONAVIRUS
MINDSET Good evening everyone! How’s your 2020 apocalypse going? I hope you got a lifetime supply of disinfectant, toilet paper, and bread; because hey, friends

CHECK OUT SEAN’S STORY!
WEEKLY WORKOUTS, IMPACT STORY Hey guys! Rob Wagner of our 6AM class often shoots photos for us, but he also produced this video about Sean and

DOUBLE CHECK YOUR OVERALL LEVEL! #MARCHMADNESS
WEEKLY WORKOUTS Hey guys! Zak Hermiller and his company The Media Menu created a series of incredible videos to help us promote what we do

LOTS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS… AND WORKOUTS!
Hey guys! There’s a bunch of info that went out in an email today, if you didn’t get it, please let us know!! Here are

NEW T-SHIRTS & SWEATSHIRTS, A HUGE EQUIPMENT ADDITION, AND MARCH MADNESS ANNOUNCED!
^^Click above to scroll through designs^^ Happy Sunday everyone! A couple of fun announcements today! 1) People have been requesting new t-shirts and to roll

BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING…
We can now breath a communal sigh of relief as our first global level method assessment cycle is finished up. WE HAD 495 LEVEL UPS