Steph Peckham has been doing classes for 2 months and she is pumped  to have a crack. Her husband Grey will be throwing down also

The CrossFit Games Open is ON and registration has opened. For 5 weeks starting Feb 25- March 24th we will be doing it for EVERYONE at BKAthletics and any other box.

Register here and it will lead you into joining an affiliate link into ; CrossFit Performance and then join our team; BKAthletics

http://games.crossfit.com/

   Last year we had 101 athletes registering and participating in the workouts  and would love for you all to have a crack again. Those of you new to the game, its for EVERYONE more the merrier.We will be running the workouts as a 'Game Day Saturday' from 8am- 12pm and we invite you to bring your friends and family along for this super fun event.

What about.........

1.  You don't have to be a rockstar to compete.
2. You can scale the workouts accordingly to your skill level- we want all to be involved and have a bunch of FUN.
3.  Just out of On Ramp? - Yup have a crack.
4. The top 6 scores ( 3 men/3 women) from each week in our box goes toward our team score for regionals. We finished 2nd in the whole Northeast last year!
5. The more people we have here- the more atmosphere - the better we will do. 
6. I know some of you want to do it Friday. I want you to do it Saturday in a fun setting.
7. I will do whatever needed for everyone's wishes for specific start times
8. The workout that comes out 8PM EST every wednesday night we will practice thursday morning.
9. Friday will be our designated rest day throughout the open.
10. You do not have to do all 5 workouts- even though it will be pretty cool.
11. You are gonna get very freaking fit in the next few months participating.

ITS THE NEXT LEVEL 

Register today.

http://games.crossfit.com/

Percy - the young spunk of a man, is on the shortlist for the USA v Ireland Rugby League Test match on March 17th. Seventeen  men will get picked for this game with another scheduled for July versus Japan in Honolulu.

http://www.amnrl.com/news/usa-player-pool

No beating around the bush ....

'The Twelve Apostles ' on the picturesque Great Ocean Road in Victoria, where the pic just doesn't do it justice.....

Thousands of years of the pounding ocean swells formed this marvelous view - it was priceless!

Strength and Conditioning Youth Program For 13-17 Year Olds:
Three times per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
3:30 – 4:30
February 6th Through March 30th
$150 per Month
 
What is it?
'We teach and ingrain correct skills in agility, strength, speed and power and train it to allow our young fire breathers to excel and outlast their opponents when it matters most – on the field and in competition.
 
Who is the class for?
It is for:
•                High Schoolers who Play a Sport
•                Athletes who want to become better at their Game
•                Your Child . Boy or girl( we have 3 girls signed up)
 
Sports Conditioning is for Teams and Athletes Who Want to Be Great.  Really.
 
What is the class designed to do?
It is designed to help student athletes and teams develop the mentality of warriors and achieve the ultimate goal: THE CHAMPIONSHIP.  We can help you turn your bench-warming underclassmen into varsity leaders and turn your varsity all-stars into championship winning, scholarship achieving, draft picks.  We do this by exposing, addressing and training the weaknesses in athlete across ten key aspects of athleticism: 1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance
 2.Stamina
 3.Strength 
4. Flexibility  5. Power
 6. Speed
 7. Coordination 
8. Agility
 9. Balance
10. Accuracy
 
Taught by:
BK
 

There was 1 reply to the post from yesterday when I thought that it would have created a flood of responses from parents in the BKAthletics community. Not real sure what to think of this.

I received this response from Julie via email. Thanx for sharing .....

 

Hi BK,

Thought my response was too long to post, but wanted to tell you about my experience feeding children. Although I have no children of my own, I am responsible for the 1,000 children in all of the Domus programs. 20 of these children live with us, so we are responsible for all the meals, every day, every week; another 300 go to school with us so we feed them breakfast, lunch and a couple of snacks and the rest are in after school programs, so snack is mostly what we feed them.  Over 90 percent of the kids we work with qualify for free or reduced lunch, mostly meaning that they don't eat a lot at home, and the quality of the food they eat is often not fresh or high quality--many exist on donations from food pantries.

There are three struggles we encounter: kids want to eat junk, adults want to reward kids good behavior with junk, and it is expensive to not feed kids junk--fresh fruit and veggies and meat (not to mention if it is organic and/or locally grown) are very costly, are infrequently donated, and go bad quickly.

Here is what we have done to move towards healthier eating by our program participants and have found is effective:

Cut up all fruits and veggies into bite sized pieces. Our kids will rarely grab an apple. But they will grab an apple when it is sliced.

Get them to eat good stuff, even if paired with not so good stuff--i know it may make you cringe, but if the only way I can get them to eat an apple is if they get to dip it in caramel, I let it happen.

We also supply yummy dips for veggies.

Presentation is everything--how they are arranged on the plate is important and we make sure everything looks good.

We don't sell crap in vending machines at school or at our school store.

We have worked with adults to not use food as a motivator or as a reward. We limit the gift cards we give kids to fast food restaurants.

We offer good choices in our programs, knowing that adolescents will make poor choices when left to their own devices. I am not going to stop them from going to McDonalds, but that does not mean that I am going to provide it for them.

We got a grant from whole foods for a salad bar and we have a group of young adults in a work and learn culinary program that make the salad and dressing for the bar every day for our middle school students. We also grow our own greens and Le Farm is going to start having them on the menu--we use this to talk to the kids about what the difference is when something is grown locally and organically

We talk to kids about their food choices and how they feel. So, were you able to concentrate in your math class after the cupcake? Things like that.

There is so much more we could and should do. Ignorance and financial limitations continue to be struggles. Many adults I work with make such poor food choices that it is frustrating to me that they are guiding children--and food choice is like religion for people, I have had arguments with people about feeding kids muffins and pop-tarts for breakfast.  If we had more financial resources, we could offer even healthier options for our kids. I know that you pay now or pay later in regards to buying quality food, but it costs us $60,000 per year to feed just the kids that live with us, so going to an organic Paleo diet would be a financial burden that we just could not incur.

I think in regards to building resiliency, you do have to let kids, especially from about 10 years old on--make their own choices or they will rebel. But I think it is our responsibility as adults to guide them in the right direction and to offer them quality nutritious meals and snacks. The more they recognize how it makes them feel, the more likely they will make good decisions when on their own. And even if they choose poorly, they know what is good and will hopefully come back around to better choices when they mature or get serious about how they look, feel and perform. I think the most difficult part for many people of all ages is clearly defining what is and is not a good food choice.

I do think it is such an important issue today. Especially considering the number of young people with whom I work that are overweight and obese at such a young age.

Thanks for asking and let me know if you think there is more we can do to help our kids and families get healthy. I am pretty passionate about this; poor children are at such a disadvantage already, pairing that with poor nutrition just compounds the issue.

-Julie D