NEWS

YOGA-MOBILITY

Hello Batteroaven,

We would 🖤 to inform you about our new class Yoga-Mobility.

The name Yoga sometimes evokes crooked toes, but unknown is unloved.

Yoga involves more than just moving with a spiritual touch. Almost all mobility, stretching and gymnastic exercises originate from a 5000+ year old science of body and mind.

Within Batteroaf we will offer and develop a Yoga-Mobility form to improve your mobility, flexibility, balance, body awareness and mindset.

Body awareness is crucial for a CrossFitter, often we only become aware of our body when a problem or injury occurs. And by body we mean the skeletal structure, the muscular system, diaphragm and breath, organs and your mental and emotional state. Increasing attention to the details in movement and how breath naturally supports movement make you gain more control over your movements. This increases the balance and flexibility.

Why is flexibility important, put simply; strength exercises shorten the muscles and the flexibility decreases. For a CrossFitter it is crucial to maintain the balance between strength and flexibility because you are an all-round athlete and the gymnastic exercises require mobility of your muscles and skeleton.

To support those muscles and provide them with oxygenated blood, breath is important. Functional Breathing is one of the most underestimated elements in sports and our daily life. You cannot breathe incorrectly, your breathing is an indicator of your condition. So if you are tense, or your mindset is pessimistic or you are not there with your attention, it will immediately translate into your breathing pace and rhythm. So instead of breathing incorrectly or correctly, we speak of functional or non-functional breathing that also serves as an indicator of how you feel. In addition, with targeted breathing exercises, we are able to increase our lung volume and strengthen our diaphragm, it can help us regulate tension and increase mobility in the rib cage and back. This is a discipline that will not only support you in sport but also in your daily life.

From breath we automatically enter mindset, when we learn to read our breath, we become more aware of how we are doing. Your sports performance requires you to be aware of your body, you learn this by increasing your flexibility and working with the limitations you encounter in it. So do not push, wanting and ignoring your limitations, which only provokes resistance, but develops attention / awareness for where the space is in your body. A mindset or a different way of looking at performance is a crucial element in this. In our western thinking we are focused on action, result, perseverance. Great attitude, but that mindset is exactly what often gets in our way to bring your performance to a higher level. Because here comes mental stress and frustration.

Yoga-Mobility awareness increases your attention to neutral attention, observing, without purpose, intention, only perceiving both positive and negative sensations in body and mind. Your mind is also a muscle that you have to train, in CrossFit perhaps the most important one.

And finally we will pay attention to the usefulness of relaxation. Recovery processes can only take place at rest. You can’t refuel a car when it is driving. In addition to sleeping, conscious relaxation is an important element to make your own. Doing nothing is making sure that your muscles, organs, cells have the opportunity to put things in order. Doing nothing is not doing nothing.

Josepha and Monique, together with Richard and Marjan, have the intention to bring Yoga-Mobility to a higher level within Batteroaf.

Josepha and Monique will regularly go deeper into the functionality of Yoga-Mobility through Facebook posts. And we hope you take up this challenge and see you on Sunday 13.00-14.00

L1 TRAINER INTRODUCTION

Hey everyone!  I'm Betsy and I'm addicted to CrossFit.  :) 

About me:
- I'm originally from Dayton, Ohio (USA), but I've lived all over the US (Ohio, Colorado, Florida, and Georgia)
- I'm a Logistics Officer in the US Air Force and am currently stationed at the NATO Joint Forces Command Headquarters in Brunssum. I absolutely love my job and the people I get to serve with. 
- I moved to Maastricht in October 2016 and will be here until June/July 2019...who knows where I'll end up next.
- I was a swimmer for 14 years and competed at the collegiate level.  

My CrossFit Story:
I started CrossFit in September 2012 at CrossFit Body Mechanic in Tampa, Florida.  While at CFBM, I was a member of the Competition Team and placed in the top 10 at several local competitions.  In October 2014, I moved to Warner Robins, Georgia and started training ad coaching at Praetorian CrossFit.  I took a break from competing and focused more on coaching while I rehabilitated a major shoulder injury.  I briefly came out of retirement to compete at a local competition, Box Wars, where my partner and I placed FIRST in Women's RX.  I've since gone back into retirement and have no intention of competing again.  I also trained at CrossFit 1394 in Kabul, Afghanistan for 7 months while deployed to Headquarters Resolute Support.  

I received my CrossFit Level 1 Trainer certificate in October 2013 and hope to get my Level 2 Trainer certificate later this year.

Why I Became a Batteraof Back-up Babe
One of my favourite things about coaching is helping athletes do things they never thought they could do.  We all start somewhere and it inspires me to see someone do things they thought were impossible.  

If you really want to know more about me, check out the documentary "Functional Fitness" on Netflix! 

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L1 TRAINER INTRODUCTION

Dear Batteraoven!

I have to disappoint you: I am not the gifted with Shakespearian writing as my fellow back-up babes! Ok, now we got that out of the way.

Let me introduce myself, I am Christophe aka Xophe! I am a proud Batteraof since January 2015 and just been Batteraoffed a bit more as back-up babe.

On a personal note:
· Residence: Maaseik, Belgium
· Date of Birth: some time when Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were leading the charts, singing “I Love Rock ‘n Roll”
· Work: I am a constructional engineer, have a great passion for sewage technology and water treatment. So in 2012 I founded Cofrax. At Cofrax we specialise in all things concerning sewage and water. For now we mainly work in Belgium, but somewhere this year we also hope to cross some borders…
· Sport: this has always been a big part of my life. I spent most of my youth on a tennis court, in college I also did a lot of skeelering and cycling. You could also find me at the local gym, chasing “tha pump”.
· CrossFit: My fascination started late 2013, after seeing a youtube video of Chris Spealler and Heather Bergeron. So you can imagine my excitement when Marjan and Richard opened up Batteroaf! Ever since then I have tried to work hard in – and outside of the box to become a better person and athlete.

Backing up @ Batteroaf:
I am thankful for the opportunity to now share the (little) knowledge I have and passion with you guys. I have a thirst for knowledge if I am passionate about something, so I followed the L1-course as well as some other courses. Other than the courses I followed, I don’t really have any coaching experience. I can only promise to give my all when I am in front of a class and try to infect you with some of my energy while we all work to be better than yesterday.

Most nights you can find me at the box, so if there’s anything else you want to know à holla at me!

Xophe

CROSSFIT GAMES OPEN 2018

The Februari AND March Challenge will be all about The OPEN! THE ONE AND ONLY worldwide CrossFit competition!
We will be listing all the athletes joining us in The OPEN and counting down to the first WOD on the black board. We will also have a customised CrossFit Batteraof Leaderboard to track our scores.
If you want to know how to sign up please visit this link: https://games-support.crossfit.com/article/40-how-do-i-register-for-the-open

The date we will be hosting The OPEN WOD's are:
WOD 18.1  Saturday 24th of Feb.
WOD 18.2  Saturday 3rd of March
WOD 18.3  Saturday 10th of March
WOD 18.4  Saturday 17th of March
WOD 18.5  Saturday 24th of March
* Depending on the WOD's we will be doing multiple heats at different times.
* If you cant make it Saturdays, and you signed up officially, please arrange a judge for another date and time or make a video of your performance.

It would be great if you would also do the online judge course, so you know the standards by heart and can NO REP your buddy ;) Visit this link for the course:  oc.crossfit.com


AND REMEMBER:

  • You can SCALE all the workouts
  • We are hosting the official OPEN WODs on Saturdays (regular hours), 5 weeks in a row.
  • If you don't want to join "officially", you can also do the workouts just for fun, but you wont appear on the customised Leaderboard.

SIGN UP NOW!!! #INTHEOPEN

L1 TRAINER INTRODUCTION

As the box is expanding in members so is the Batteraof crew to help you reach your fitness goals! We would like to introduce to you one of our four new Level 1 Assistant Trainers.


Hi,
My name is Sabrina and it is a huge honour to be asked to be part of the “back-up babes” team.

Some personal info:
• I'm Brazilian and 36 years years old. I am married to my Best friend Fabio and together we have 2 children, Anna who is 14 and Gustavo who is 9. We also own a beautiful dog named Nina. I love playing piano and anything involved with the make-up industry, since I am a formed make-up artist and love everything to do with aesthetics. 
• Love traveling but I HATE the cold weather! 
• I'm a trained nurse and studied 2 years of psychology, which I unfortunately couldn’t finish due to our move to The Netherlands. We moved to The Netherlands almost 10 years ago because of my husbands work transference. We came here to stay for 2 years and yet here we are!
So why don't I speak Dutch? Well…I do, but I don't think I'm good enough and don't feel comfortable using it on a day to day basis. You have no idea how hard it is to learn a language that sounds like Donald Duck! hahaha

Had to reinvent my life when I was 29 and that is the moment when I started Zumba, from there on there have been many courses, many lessons and a lot of learning. At the moment I work as a Zumba instructor at another gym in Maastricht, and teach approximately 12 classes per week.

CrossFit has been my passion and my personal training preference for 3 years now. I don't intend to compete and unfortunately I can’t take the risk of injuring myself, because of the work I do, if I get injured I won’t be able to work! And for that reason I feel like in some moments I'm stuck as an athlete...

Why be a back-up babe at Batteraof?
I completed my Level 1 course a few years ago and ever since I haven’t worked as a coach so I'm looking to improve as a coach and get experience by working in a box.
By having such an "explosive" personality like mine there is always something positive within CrossFit! Finding the ideal balance inside my identity and what you guys, as athletes expect of me, is my biggest objective in this beginning!
I believe that increasing my integration with the community will help me find out the different types of athletes and what they are capable of.

Please feel welcome to come and talk to me about anything!
And any type of feedback is always welcome, especially if they come accompanied with some good whiskey.

Hugs!
Sabrina