Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years. It doesn’t seem like we’re going to sink anytime soon, so I’m optimistic about our chances of making it five more. 🙌 The way I see it is the coaching staff can only be responsible for so much of that, the rest is up to you. You make it a friendly place. You make it welcoming and kind. You make it life-changing. Thanks for doing your part so well. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, so thanks for filling in our gaps. :)
THERE ARE A LOT OF BIG EVENTS COMING UP IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
1) ADVENTUS CLIMBING — THIS SUNDAY 1/28
2) BABY WOD!!
COACH SAM AND HIS WIFE ANNE ARE EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD IN A FEW SHORT WEEKS!! Sat 2/10’s 10am class will be designed to celebrate that! If you’d like to bring some diapers (or anything else, I suppose), that’d be super cool, but just wanted everyone to know we’ll be using the 10AM class for that.
3) The CrossFit Open
Same event. Different structure for us at The Standard.
What’s the same: 3 different workouts. Announced Thursday, scores submitted by Monday
What’s different: We are not running The Open during all of the Friday classes anymore. We will have one main time for Open workouts: Friday night, 5:45pm. I’m going to make myself available for anyone that wants to do it during open gym times on Saturday morning, but outside of that, you’ll have to arrange it with me.
Why: It’s far too disruptive and frankly, not enough people care… which I understand completely and feel similarly. I want to throw down with my friends on Friday nights and go get food or a drink afterwards and have a good time. I don’t want to force people to count reps for people who don’t care to have their reps counted.
So… if you want to sign up for The Open, go right ahead! It's a great opportunity to challenge yourself and have a milemarker to look back at in your fitness journey.
IN-HOUSE UPDATES
TRAINING CYCLES
category focuses are: DEADLIFT + ROWING
❗️ALL OF THE ROWING PROGRESSIONS WILL BE IN EXTRA CREDIT SECTIONS ‼️
Our program is designed to bring a broad and inclusive general physical preparedness to everyone participating consistently at The Standard. That means we have to work in cycles where we focus on certain implements (KB,DB,barbell,etc), energy systems (heavy breathing vs muscular burn), virtuosity (proficiency of a specific skill), and E discipline (neurological learning typically with weights). If we tried to do them all throughout the year, all the time, we would get less progress across the timeline, so we break it up so we can get a specific adaptation. Just in case you wanted some nerd stuff in your blogs. :)
GOOGLE REVIEWS
OK, we really try to resist asking for you to do things to help us, but I can’t do the lifting on my own on this one… It would be really helpful if you’d take a few moments to leave a 5-star review on google. It helps with our ranking when people search for gyms/crossfit/etc. …and it’s free. :) HELP!
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