BEYOND THE WHITEBOARD: LOGGING YOUR WODS

Hope you are enjoying your Christmas present and playing around with Beyond the Whiteboard for the last 3 weeks! Let me explain some basics and go over how you log your workouts and you scaling results on Beyond the Whiteboard. It's crucial that you're putting in exactly what you did during the WODs, the more comprehensive and accurate the information you put in, the better it can help you (and us coaches!) track your progress.

Let’s get started!
• Log in to your Beyond the Whiteboard account either on your phone or desktop.
• Once you've logged in, your profile with your training calendar should come up. Click on 'Log' in the sub-menu on the upper left of your computer screen or the bottom of your phone screen (iPhone)
• From here, select 'Your Gym's WODs'. This will bring up all of the WODs that we have done at CrossFit Batteraof

NB: we have 4 different programming tracks. Box WODs / Powerlifting / Weightlifting / Gymnastics. Be sure you are looking at the correct track when you go to log your WOD!

One of the best things about CrossFit is it's universal scalability. We can modify the movements so to suit anyone's capabilities. This means that rarely all of you will be doing the exact same movements or weights in a class, so it is important that we account for that in Beyond the Whiteboard.

Let's say that you did this WOD in 7:05. The Rx weight was 45kg, but you scaled to 40kg. To log your results, you click on 'Log Result', which then brings up the workout. First, you need to adjust the weight that you used from 45 to 40 kg, press save, type in your time and click 'Modified' since it was scaled (if you used 45 kg, you would click 'As Prescribed'). The notes section can be used to point out anything that you noticed during the workout that you'd like to remember).

Now, let's say you need to scale a movement, instead of just a weight, i.e. ring rows instead of pull-ups, singles in place of double unders,  what do you do then? 
Bring up the WOD on your profile, click show more, and then click on the movement you want to adjust. Click in the 'Find Movement' search box and type in whatever movement you did for the workout. Click save, put in your rounds, mark it down as 'Modified' and you're good to go!

When logging a result, you'll have the option of choosing between "prescribed" or "modified". Your selection is important to maintaining the integrity and accuracy of our leaderboards and rankings.

JANUARY CHALLENGE 2017

Happy New Year everybody!!
2016 is over and so is the December Challenge, nobody will be very sad it's over and done...
Doing this challenge was really a pain in the calves! Multiple people told us it was hard to walk after the 1000 Double Unders, wonder why....
And the 3 time winner is Stefan Bierbauer, he won a FITAID a Jump Rope and a month free membership for a friend or family member! But the ultimate winner is Betsy Scarberry finishing the 1000 Double Unders in 17 min. and 49 sec. She deserves a special Batteraof Hoodie! Come and pick it up at the box!

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JANUARY CHALLENGE

Is a challenge independant of your skill level, everybody that attends 15 WOD's in 15 days in the month of January wins a T-shirt!

RULES:
• Write your name on the board and 1 dash for every attendance
• Only the regular box WOD's count for the challenge
• If you do 2 WOD's (like Kelly ;) or an extra Specialty class, it's still counts as 1
• Open Gym doesn't count
• Entering the box, hanging around and leaving again doesn't count...

Hope to all see you in the box at least 15 times this month!!!

Batteraof Athlete of 2016

The end of 2016 is near and what a great year it was for CrossFit Batteraof!
Here is a short recap of what all happened in 2016:

• 3 coaches went to 2 coaches with an intern.
• 3 Buddy teams participated in the Beach Throwdown, and had the competition eat sand!
• We rebuild the pull up rig to an amazing wall mounted 20m BEAST.
• In all 3 TIGLON competitions the Batteraof girls participated in the final
• South Side Throwdown, the one and only competition in the South was a big success.
• The monthly challenges got introduced and work like a charm
• Many many visits to Carnal and many visits to Dadawan will follow
• Pr's got crushed
• Lots of GAINZ, some of you are unrecognizable compared to last year

To celebrate the progress we made in 2016 and to look forward into 2017 we would like to invite you to the NEW YEAR BORREL Saturday the 14th of January 2017 starting at 9:30 in the morning!
We will start with a special 2017 BUDDY WOD from 9:30 to 11:30, sign up via MindBody (make sure you have a buddy!) No open gym or other WOD's that day.
After we will be serving food and drinks until it's time to go home.
During we will announce the athlete of 2016. Didn't get the email? You can vote here: https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/8RWTWG6

See you Saturday January the 14th!!!

OCTOBER CHALLENGE

No Stress Bench Press September is over and we got a very obvious challenge winner in the men's category and a not so obvious winner in women's.
In the men's category Remco E. won with +50kg.
In the women's category Rosalie S. won with +7.5kg.
Come and get (order) a Batteraof t-shirt at the box.

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OCTOBER CHALLENGE

This month we got a great challenge for all of you! You can choose between A. As many toes to bar as possible in 1 min or B. As many UNBROKEN Toes-To-Bar as possible. You have to choose between A. or B. Male and female are in the same category.

Toes-To-Bar (TTB) is a movement that is designed to test your abdominal and arm strength as well as your grip strength.
The movement is simple enough; Start in the hanging position on the bar with the heels starting behind the vertical plane. You then get both toes to touch the bar at the same time in between your hands.
Get a judge to count your reps and/or time your minute.
You can do strict or kipping TTB.
Rest while hanging on the bar (without letting go) is still considered unbroken.

Cannot do a TTB yet? Practice Toes-To-Rings! And who knows you get your first TTB this month!

Happy TTB'ing

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE

The August Challenge ended in an epic battle between Danielle and Juan fighting for the best FRAN time. Juan won with 2 min and 58sec beating Danielle with just 41 seconds.
Jeroen caused some confusion during the challenge with his INVISIBLE FRAN time of 1min and 57 sec. but he unfortunately could not get the same FRAN time with 43kg on his bar...

The SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE is a completely different Powerlifting beast. No high intensity workout but pure raw power! 1 rep max BENCH PRESS minus your bodyweight.
Some rules:
• Stand on the scale just before or just after you do the challenge and take your shoes off but keep your clothes on!
• Keep your butt and head on the bench
• Touch your chest with the bar
• Full extension at the top in the beginning and end of the press
• No help. When you cannot lift the bar make sure you have a spotting buddy
• Yes your score can be in the minus, just lift more weight!
We got 2 categories this month, male and female.

NO STRESS BENCH PRESS!

SUMMER HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

Maybe you have noticed some WOD's are a bit more quiet than regular because of summer holidays.
Therefore we are introducing an August Summer Holiday Schedule. From the 1st until the 31st of August the following WOD's will be cancelled:
• Monday 11am cancelled
• Monday 8:30pm cancelled
• Tuesday 8:30pm cancelled, the 7:30pm WOD will be replaced by Weightlifting
• Wednesday 11am cancelled
• Wednesday 6:30pm cancelled
• Thursday 8:30pm cancelled, the 7:30pm WOD will be replaced by Powerlifting

If you already signed up you will get an email of the cancellation. And don't worry about signing up for the specialty classes, it's for all fitness levels. The cancelled WOD's will be replaced by OPEN GYM as much as possible.