January was a great start to the fresh New Year! We came out strong with our Baseline Benchmark Workouts to establish a clear picture of our fitness after the holidays and the roller coaster of the year leading up to them. These will be retested in July and again at the end of 2021. Our goal for the beginning of this year was to begin implementing Skill work twice a week as we lead into the revamped Open schedule that is officially kicking off on March 11th! As far as our other Benchmark Workouts go, we saw some classics as well as newly created ones. In those classics, "The Chief '' reared it’s vicious head...and not for the last time this year! We also have begun highlighting some of our favorite workouts of the week as a new Benchmark named workout, this month’s was "Punch Out"! Expect to see new named Benchmark each and every month ahead!

Going into month 2, February, we will continue with our theme of Skills and Drills as well as putting ourselves into some inescapable AMRAPs simulating the stimulus we will inevitably see in the Open. Our Bi-Monthly plan for Jan-Feb began with some foundational Skills such as the Strict Pull-Up and will continue to gear towards higher skill movements like Muscle-Ups and Handstand Work. These two movements, in particular, now come with different options in the Workout description to better serve our athletes and coaches with movements designed to reach the intended stimulus of that high skill.

Benchmarks for the month include everyone's classic favorites...Fran and Grace! Along with these masterpiece benchmarks we also include build to a Heavy Single in the Snatch and Clean and Jerk. Since we’re on the topic of a barbell, you will be pleased to know that "Cali-Bear" is coming out of hibernation in February....GET HYPED! Some of these Benchmarks don’t particularly line up with our Skill and AMRAP focus, but are necessary to get tested early to get an effective snapshot before we see them again later in the year.

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Congrats to our January 2021 COMMITTED CLUB:

Carey Mantici
Tom Rohe
RoMi Dunning
Steph Miller
Brooke McClelland
Katherine Lopa
SJ Desai
Jason Honsel
Mark Lashey
Chris Danese
Lauren Rainey
Tarik Rahme
jaclyn mahle
Jessica Mahoney
Kady Dempsey
Jessica Whisler
Lisa M Hutton
Keith Al-Chokhachy
Shannon Strosser
Ashley Dekker
Steven Lebischak
Ruby Lebischak
Denise Wells
Mike Oreskovich
Shenese Owner
Chris Townsend
Brynn McKenry
Clarence Swift
Elizabeth Beckley
Ryan Mahle
Rob Melvin
Haydeliz Opio
Laura Morris
Jennifer Maguire
Brian Dekker
Bob Grove
Eileen Brown
Neeka Grove
Tiara Santos
Michael Baker
Christopher Solda
Stephanie Solimini
Melissa Koerner
Jaclyn Mills