New location is 58 Victoria St, Petone. 1st class is 6pm on Monday 6 Feb.

Thanks to all those you came out yesterday and helped put the new place together. Special thanks again to Paul and Alisha for the trucks.

Good teamwork getting the floor laid

We will be doing more work on the space tomorrow but it is looking pretty good.

CrossFit Games 2012

The 2012 CrossFit Games Open registration started on the 1st  of Feb! We have a team registered and its time for you all to cough up US$10 and throw your hat in the ring.

For those of you new to this process, here’s what’s happening.  The entire CF community will be competing at 5 workouts over 5 weeks.  Every week a workout will be released, we will do the workout, you will enter your score into the on-line database, and we will validate your score.  There are individual rankings, team rankings, and masters divisions.

The top ahtletes and teams will qualify to go to a regional competition where they will compete for a spot in the CF Games 2012.  The top masters from the Open will qualify directly to the Games.

We want you all to participate, regardless of age, fitness level or athletic ability, in the Open this year.  We will allow our members to scale the workouts where scaling is appropriate.  Although scaling will eliminate you from qualifying to move on, you will still be allowed finish the 5 week competition, and you will know where you stand against the entire world of CF’ers.

Like last year, we will be making our Saturday WOD the weekly open workout.  So even if you choose not to participate in the Open, you are still going to be forced to do the workouts.  We believe that participating in the “Sport of Fitness” is an important part of participating in CF as a fitness program.

To register, click on the image above and follow the process.  After you register, on the right hand side of the web page, join our an affiliate, then join our team.  Obviously you will choose MaD CrossFit for both affiliate and team.

We are doing this together as a gym regardless of whether or not you actually register, so just do it.

We move to the new premises on Saturday. All are welcome to the Move WOD at 9am on Saturday to load and unload a couple of trucks. A huge thanks to Paul and Alisha for providing the vehicles. Thanks also to all those who have helped out with the fit-out so far.

Due to it being Waitangi Day on Monday and therefore a public holiday, there will ONLY BE ONE CLASS AT 6pm.

Monday is Superbowl day in the USA and Donna’s team the New England Patriots are up against the New York Giants in the NFL Grand Final. If you need another reason to support the Patriots, John Welbourn of CrossFit Football played for them.

Looking forward to April, Bron is keen to put together a team for The Ultimate Team Challenge, who else is in? It is out at BrookField, the same location as the Bog Challenge so it should be a good time.

On Friday,  a few of the coaches headed to Capital Gym Sports to try an adult gymnastics session. It is always helpful to get some coaching from specialists in some of the sports we borrow from in CrossFit. We had a blast playing with handstand walking, hand springs, back flips, the high bar and uneven parallel bars.  As it says in World Class Fitness in 100 words “Regularly learn and play new sports.”

Nutrition Challenge

One week into it. How are you all doing?

Wild pork bacon, no added preservatives, perfect

and now for some more about Insulin.

and Cholesterol.

If these prompt any questions, fire away in comments. Enjoy your rest day.

Donna and Kyle at Fil Fest 2009

Nutrition Challenge

The Nutrition Challenge starts next Saturday. This time it is an all out effort to clean up our nutrition habits for 30 days.  If you want to participate send donna@madcrossfit.com an e-mail by Wednesday this week and she will sign you up and send you the details. The challenge will kick off this Saturday with the Nutrition Session at 10am and finish on Sat Feb 11 with another Nutrition Session at 10am.

Competitions

A reminder the Hawkes Bay Open is coming up Feb 4th, sign up HERE if you want to compete.

The CrossFit Games Open starts on Feb 22nd, it’s your chance to see how you rate against the rest of the world, more info HERE.  Last years Open was good fun so we will be hosting all five weeks of the Open workouts at the new space.

Then 5 Rounds For Time:

200m Run

15 KettleBell Swings 24/16kg

10 HR Push Ups

We hope Leda is enjoying her stay in NZ

Hope you all had a good time welcoming in the new year.  Enjoy your 1st rest day of 2012, as we look forward to a year of new challenges and accomplishments. We are looking forward to seeing you all back in the gym after a well deserved break.

Action from the Christmas Eve Partner Challenge

We reopen with the 5pm and 6:30pm classes on Monday. Then we are back to the regular schedule.

We had a great time at the partner challenge yesterday. Thanks to all who took part, a great atmosphere and fun time. Also some new PR’s for the leaderboard. Thanks for hanging out after for the BBQ, sorry about the gas issue, won’t happen next time! Also thanks for all the gifts, much appreciated.

Now for the results, winning partners were:

Men – Thomas and Morelli

Women – Anita and Sarah

Mixed – David and Aroha visiting from CF Darwin – Best MaD Team Mel and Daniel

Best results from the 3 Events.
Event 1 – kg for kg Deadlift and Shoulder to Overhead – Nick and Amy
Event 2 – Relay – David and Aroha
Event 3 – Chipper – Mel and Daniel

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Thanks to all those who contributed to our “Wood” fundraiser last Friday and through this week. We raised $270 for the NZSAS Trust. A great workout for a great cause.

Christmas Eve Partner Challenge and BBQ.

Just a reminder if you can’t make the Partner Challenge we hope to finish by noon and start the BBQ right after. All members, family and friends are welcome to the BBQ.

Christmas Hours

Last session for 2011 is The Day Before Christmas Partner Challenge starting at 9am on Sat 24 Dec.

We will be closed from Sun 25 Dec through to Sun 1st Jan.

Monday Jan 2nd will be evening classes only.

From Tue Jan 3rd normal classes resume.

Christmas Hours

Last session for 2011 is The Day Before Christmas Partner Challenge starting at 9am on Sat 24 Dec.

We will be closed from Sun 25 Dec through to Sun 1st Jan.

Monday Jan 2nd will be evening classes only.

From Tue Jan 3rd normal classes resume.

Open Gym

Open Gym next Saturday Dec 17 at 10am, come in to work on a skill or make up a workout you missed. This is your opportunity to do what you want in the gym. “Filthy 50″ again anyone? or maybe “Murph”

Christmas Eve Partner Challenge and BBQ.

Last chance to get on board for this one. Get signed up online HERE. Starting at 9am and consisting of 3 different workouts. We hope to finish by noon and start the BBQ right after. Family and friends are welcome to the BBQ or to come by and cheer you on.  The workouts will suit all levels.

Please ask around if you need a partner, if you are looking for one, we’ll toss the names in a hat and you can pick from there. We will do that this week, so please sign up as soon as possible.

Survey

Thanks to all who took the time out to complete the survey. We have taken your feedback on board and will endeavour to make changes and improvements where you have requested them.