March 2010 Newsletter
March Happenings
So there are a lot of things going on
this month. We have official word that we
will be able to send an affiliate team to the
2010 Affiliate Cup, so we will be having
team tryouts on March 15th. The tentative
days for the Affiliate games are May 8-9.
The team will consist of at least 4-7 athletes,
a minimum of 2 women and 2 men. Try-outs
will
The 30 day paleo-diet challenge
ends on March 15th, so we will be weighing
in and calculating your change in body
composition to determine the winner of the
challenge. The winner will win a month of
Free CrossFit.
The 2010 So-Cal Sectionals are on
March 13th and 14th at UCLA’s Drake
Stadium. Let’s all try to attend and support
Emily, as she represents CrossFit Chula
Vista, and competes to get to the CrossFit
games!
Here is the itinerary for the event.
Wednesday (March 10)
12 noon - WODs 1 & 2 announced
Friday (March 12)
5:00 - 9:00pm - Athlete Registration at
CrossFit LA
Saturday (March 13)
6:00 - 7:15am - Athlete arrival and late
registration.
7:30am - MANDATORY pre-event athlete
meeting.
8:00am - WOD 1 Start
1:30pm - WOD 2 Start
7:30pm - Announcement of WOD 3
Sunday (March 14)
7:15 - 8:30am - Athlete arrival and check-in
9:00am - WOD #3 Start
1:00pm - Top 20 Men & Women
Announced
GOOD LUCK EMILY, KICK BUTT AND
HAVE FUN!
CrossFit Endurance
We have now become an official
CrossFit Endurance Gym. If you or anyone
you know is interested in becoming more of
an endurance athlete, for example,
marathon, ultra marathon, triathlon, 5K, etc,
please be aware that we offer specially
designed anaerobic endurance programming
that is meant to supplement the daily
WOD’s. It is a program that is meant to be
done hours before or after the regular WOD.
These workouts are proven to be effective
even though they do not require hours of
long slow distance as most non CrossFit
athletes succumb themselves too. Longer is
not better! This programming is also FREE
to CrossFit Chula Vista members. You just
need to get your butt to do it!
CrossFit Endurance
Certification
If anyone has been interested in
being a CrossFit coach, a CrossFit
Endurance Certification will be held here at
CrossFit Chula Vista on March 20-21st. And
it will be taught by a CrossFit Chula Vista HEAVY OHS BABY!
veteran, Piper!
Sign up at www.crossfit.com.
Upcoming Events
MIDLINE STABILIZATION
March 13th- Affiliate Cup team try-outs.
An excellent means to improve
midline stabilization and develop sound March 15th- end of Paleo-Diet Challenge
control of overhead loads is to do a lot of
overhead squats. Workouts such as March 20-21st- CrossFit Endurance
“Nancy” 5 rounds of 400m run and 15 Certification
overhead squats are fun for us crazy
CrossFitters. But what about the secular San Diego/Arizona Sectional- March 27-
athletes (non-CrossFitter, haha)? Many 28, 2010
non-CrossFitters believe that abdominal
strength is just so that you can actually do Affiliate Cup Regional Qualifiers May 8-9
crunches on a swiss ball. But have you ever (tentative)
thought about what would happen to those
swiss ball huggers if we were to ask them to Rock and Roll Marathon with 4 man
do a weighted overhead squat? First of all, I relay team- June 6th 2010
don’t recommend you do this for safety CrossFit Chula Vista
purposes. Do you remember the first time 821 Kuhn Dr. Suite 106
your cocky self came into CrossFit and tried Chula Vista, CA 91914
to do a weighted overhead squat? Exactly, (619) 934-9934
not a pretty sight right? www.crossfitchulavista.com
“Core strength is not achieved
through isolating movements like crunches
because they focus on such a small part of
the body. They do little to help how a
person’s physique works as one. Doing
crunch after crunch won’t help improve your
ability to punch and kick or run and jump.
Nor will it help you lift or move more
weight. It might make your abs look pretty,
but that’s really where the benefits of
isolated ab work ends.

Instead, CrossFit promotes moves such as

the overhead squat or the L-sit to build
strength through the midline. The overhead
squat is a great exercise for this because it
engages all components of a person’s
physique thereby requiring a tightening of
the core to ensure good form. Those with
underdeveloped midline stabilization will
have difficulty holding the overhead squat
and will be wobbly, particularly as they
increase the load.”