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Change can be challenging. We like to think of change as an opportunity for growth. With the New Year right around the corner, many of us are beginning to think about those resolutions. Why wait until January to make a commitment to yourself?! You can start now and set yourself up for success by committing to focus on yourself and your habits for 6 weeks. You can do the prep work between now and the start of the challenge to not only get through the holidays with a healthier mindset, but roll into the challenge likes it’s no big deal with some major growth to look forward to.
We also hope that this challenge will create habits that cover the usual resolution suspects like weight, working out, eating well, etc… so you can shift your New Year’s resolutions away from health and fitness goals (because they’ll already be in place!) and make more goals surrounding having fun in 2019!
During our last challenge, we saw some awesome results and had great time working through the challenges & celebrating our weekly wins with our teammates. We hope you’ll consider joining us on this journey again! We introduced some awesome new opportunities the last time around and we’re excited to be adding more with this challenge! Stay tuned for what’s to come 🙂
Whole Life Challenge is part fitness, part nutritional and body composition, and part accountability challenges. Our goals for each New Year 2019 Whole Life Challenger are:
- Mental + emotional preparation for the longevity of a healthy lifestyle {awareness + action}
- Individual fitness gains
- Deeper knowledge and understanding of your own make up, so you can create more specific goals
- Creation of lasting habits for individualized nutritional and body composition success
- Physical & nutritional preparation to get you through LIFE and be the best version of yourself
You + Whole Life Challenge = Team CrossFit Austin
Challenge = Change // Goals = Gains
{What is it?}
While everyone wants to look and feel better, it can be a challenge to know how or where to start. The Whole Life Challenge focuses you on the key areas of your life that produce real, life-long changes. Playing together with your friends and family in a fun and motivating daily game, you’ll create new healthy habits that last long after it ends.
The Whole Life Challenge focuses on 7 daily habits that you will learn and create for yourself as you journey through.
These 7 Daily Habits are:
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- Nutrition. Your food choices have the single greatest impact on your health, well-being, and community. When you make choices that keep you healthy, you give yourself the fuel to fulfill all of who you are. There are 3 levels to choose from that allow you to start making changes in a realistic and attainable way. Â {Choose the level that is right for you}
- Exercise. Humans are designed to move daily. Whether through workouts, activity, or simply enjoying the full use of your body, daily movement keeps you healthy and vital. You’re already moving regularly with us!
- Mobility. In a sedentary world, our bodies get stuck. Daily mobility and stretching helps you move the way nature intended and continue enjoying freedom of movement into your later years.
- Sleep. Modern schedules tend to dictate how many hours of sleep we’re entitled to. A practice of increasing that time, even by a little bit, can make big strides in robust health. You set the sleep goals that are right for you.
- Hydration. More than anything, your body is made of water. This habit ensures that your body gets enough of its most basic resources for life.
- Lifestyle Practice. The {WLC weekly lifestyle practices}turn a life into your life. Learn to step back, take stock, connect, and turn your attention to what is really important to you.
- Reflection. Looking back, looking inward, or looking forward, daily reflection draws your awareness to what is working and what needs your attention today.
{How Do I Play?}
The {Challenge}Â begins with taking your preliminary measurements and completing a workout (that can be scaled to your level) that will be repeated at the end.
Throughout the 42 day challenge you will post your scores in the 7 categories listed above. The Challenge is designed in a way that we can work as a team to check in with and support each other on a daily basis.
To close out the Whole Life Challenge, you will repeat the preliminary measurements and workout to gauge how far you’ve come! But, it doesn’t end there! The Whole Life Challenge is designed to help you make healthy lifestyle changes that last.
{How Do I Register?}
You can register and join Team CrossFit Austin through the Whole Life Challenge {website}. Make sure you do join our team to participate with the community!
CHALLENGE BEGINS ||Â CHALLENGE ENDS
January 19, 2019Â Â Â Â March 1, 2019
- Early Return Player Registration
- November 15 – January 3
- Price: $29.00 (save $20.00)
- Early Player Registration
- November 24 – January 3
- Price: $39.00 (save $10.00)
- Regular Registration
- January 4 – January 30
- Price: $49.00
{What’s New This Year?}
Well, for one, the challenge is a little shorter. What used to be an 8 week challenge is now a 6 week challenge, but regardless, the goal is still the same. We’re here to create long-lasting, healthy habits to
We have partnered with {Body Analytics USA} to offer fast, accurate body composition testing. Their Hydrostatic Testing method uses a three component model which separates the body into 3 areas:
- Bone, muscle and organs, along with connective tissue, collectively known as lean mass, sinks (is more dense than water)
- Body fat floats (is less dense than water)
- Total body water which is neutrally buoyant, but must be removed from your actual weight
By obtaining your dry weight and water weight, based on buoyancy, our specialized computer program can scientifically calculate your body fat as a percentage of your total weight. The ordinary scale cannot tell you if weight loss is muscle or fat while testing with Body Analytics will tell you exactly what took place with your body during your weight loss regimen.
This will be an additional service offered at CrossFit Austin both pre & post WLC. We will post back here with dates as soon as we confirm!
Single test – $49
Pre & Post-test – $80
Last challenge, we partnered with Grxub Prepared Meals and had healthy, delicious, COMPLIANT meals delivered straight to the gym. We are excited to be partnering with Jon and Grxub again this cycle!
There are still more exciting things to come for the New Year challenge (stay tuned)! Commit to yourself for 2019 and start your year out right by joining Team CrossFit Austin!
