CrossFit Intrepid » Kids

Ali’s PR!!

ruth — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:07:46 +0000

Jassim Al-Nasser

Congratulations to Ali on becoming a father in the wee hours of the morning. The much anticipated Jassim Al-Nasser weighed in at 7 lbs, 12 oz and was 20 in. We’ll definitely get CrossFit Kids up and running by the time Jassim is old enough!

Epigenetics: Your Kids Are What You Eat

Marcus — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:40 +0000

After all, we have had a long-standing deal with biology: whatever choices we make during our lives might ruin our short-term memory or make us fat or hasten death, but they won’t change our genes — our actual DNA. Which meant that when we had kids of our own, the genetic slate would be wiped clean.

New scientific discoveries are lending credence to the old adage “you are what you eat” in this recent article in Time magazine. Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation. Sadly, it is now showing that the poor choices we make in our lives can negatively affect our children and grandchildren.

We all know that you can truncate your own life if you smoke or overeat, but it’s becoming clear that those same bad behaviors can also predispose your kids — before they are even conceived — to disease and early death.

This just further underlines how nutrition can affect your life in a powerful way. Feel free to ask any of the trainers for more information on how you can improve your dietary habits to achieve your goals.

Further reading: Baby Steps Paleo Style, Paleo or Die,

WOD 1.14.10

Make Up Day

Childish Behavior

ruth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:52 +0000

This past weekend, Sean and I had the privilege of attending the CrossFit Kids Cert in Ramona, CA. Here, we witnessed amazingly humbling feats by 3-17 yr olds from flippin’ burpees to 50-something inch box jumps. We saw 3 year olds squatting and pressing, 8 year olds deadlifting, and 12 year olds cleaning and jerking. It was not only inspiring, but it was a vision of what the future could hold if we got our young ‘uns CFing early. Not only could wecreate an environment where these kids can become tomorrow’s firebreathers, but (more importantly), we could reduce their injuries well into their golden years.

These children learn at a young age how to set goals, attack them, and set new ones. They take the lesson they learn from finishing every WOD and apply it to real life, realizing that no task is too great to accomplish and no problem too difficult to solve. Very soon, CrossFit Intrepid will be offering these classes to the kids in our own community. Bring your kids by on a Saturday and have them see what we do in a workout! Tell your friends who have kids about CrossFit and what it can do for their families!

Check out the above video of CrossFit Agoge’s kids program and see what CrossFit can do for our little ones.