Hi Awesome Members
Contents:
- Thank you!
- Prize Giving Results
- Coaches Graduation
- Holiday WOD’s
- Holiday Skeleton Schedule
I hope you are all well and looking forward to the Christmas Holidays!
It’s been a great year! Our Jingle & Mingle Christmas Party and Prize Giving was a blast!!
Thank you to Cindy, Janet, Sam and Channelle for all the assistance in setting up the Christmas Party!
A massive thank you to Cindy, Janet and the entire Competition Committee Fundraising Team and everyone who got involved for all the Fundraising in getting Eva and I to the CrossFit Games, and making this trip possible!!!!!
A massive Thank you to all Our Sponsors who make what we do happen, from our Endurade East Cape Champs through to competing abroad at the Reebok CrossFit Games…a big thank you goes to: #nutritechfit #fitnessnetwork #forceusa and #freeform #markandersonphysiotherapy #urbanEspresscoffeecompany #itensity #reeboksa #bronscor
A massive thank you also goes out to all our CrossFit Algoa Members…for choosing us and entrusting your health, fitness, and performance into our hands! We are truly blessed to have such an awesome Community and we look forward to an even better 2019!
Thank you to everyone who managed to bless Gladmann with something for Christmas!
Committed Club
We started our Committed Club in June 2017. This year I decided to do a final Committed Club achievement at year end.
The idea of the Committed Club is to help incentivize diligent attendance. In simple terms, good attendance = good results!
The attendance results are based mostly on the Itensity logging of scores…except for AFL competitors. The following criteria were used:
- Top 25 members i.t.o attendance through the year OR
- A min of 10 classes each month, achieved in 8 of 11 months (Jan to end Nov), except in cases of newer members OR
- The Total Classes divided by 10 months (if someone was just missing on the above criteria). In this way I could pick up for members who had attended a large volume of classes but maybe missed a week or 2 because of holidays or illness but who still deserved to make it because of high attendance levels)
Committed Club 2018 (alphabetical order)
1 Aidan Battison
2 Anelet James
3 Anje Adams
4 Ashlynne Abrahams
5 Audrey Flemming
6 Belinda Bloem
7 Bob Yuil
8 Bonita Francis
9 Chad Comley
10 Clyde Abrahams
11 Dave Levey
12 Deane Ketzner
13 Donovan McLagan
14 Dorian Wilson
15 Elandre Van Eck
16 Eva Thornton
17 Gary Thomson
18 Grant Potgieter
19 Iain Maughan-Brown
20 Ivan Deetlefs
21 Jason Every
22 Jay Maughan-Brown
23 Jemima Samuel
24 Kristen Fletcher
25 Lance Fourie
26 Malvern Potgieter
27 Okkert Brits
28 Phoebe Fourie
29 Prabshan Pillay
30 Reghardt Meyer
31 Rob Edelson
32 Roxy Stottelaar
33 Samantha Van Thiel
34 Taryn Potgieter
35 Thando Makamba
36 Vicky Edelson
37 Wendy Heasley
38 Wilma Meyer
Some of our Committed Club Members
Athlete’s of the Month
Our “Athlete of the Month” award is made to members who have achieved some level of greatness relative to the competition, or relative to themselves, in sport and or life in general! The following were awarded “Athlete/s of the Month” in 2018:
January (Yolandi Van Tonder – judging FiCT and King of Mountain),
February (Delme Redcliffe – Half Ironman),
March (All Open Athletes and Calvin Parry – Small dealer of year Toyota Uitenhage),
April (Delme Redcliffe – Ironman)
May (Pamela Clarke – Miss PE finalist)
June (Hilda Lapere – Federation Colours – Masters Marathon World Cup – Canoeing South Africa)
July (Coach Deane Ketzner – Passing his Certified CrossFit Trainer exam 1st time – this is the 1st time that a South African has passed 1st time)
August (Coaches Eva Thornton and David Levey – Both competed in Madison Wisconsin at the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games – Eva placed 1st , winning the title of Fittest Women on Earth for Women 50-54 yrs and Dave 2nd Fittest Man on Earth for Men 40-44 yrs )
September (All ECC Volunteers and Bob Yuil placing 1st in the Men’s Intermediate Division at our Endurade East Cape Champs)
October (Cade Ferreira – elected for Prefect at Theodore Herzel); Edin Heasley and Jancke Blume elected for Prefect at Collegiate Girls High)
November (All Transformation Challenge Members having completed the Challenge – members and T/C members)
(Donovan Mclagan – Represented SA at the Brazil World Cup Coffee Championships – as the no. 1 SA coffee taster)
(Richard Pearce and Julien Nel – Dr Evil Mountain Bike Race)
(Iain Maughan-Brown and Stratton Stone – Wine to Wales Mountain Bike Race)
December (This has been a long time coming for this athlete… ….We actually awarded this prize for December last year also… this athlete has made remarkable progress and continues to do so! He puts in the work day in and day out! He did not come from an athletic/sporting background and is a true example of how hard work pays off … Thando Makamba)
Some of our Athlete’s of the Month
Transformation Challenge 2018
This Oct-Dec was our 2nd Transformation Challenge– a 6 week program that would change peoples lives for the better!
A very big congratulations to all of you that participated in the T/Challenge. It was a competition and so we will award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place to the top 3 finishers based on our points scoring system for both current members and for Transformation Challenge members.
The points scoring system was set-up so that appropriate and healthy behaviours were incentivized!
Many of you have made some amazing physical changes and improvements. That is great but I do believe that our Transformation Challenge was more than that.
It was not about weight-loss or even loss of body fat %, but rather about the sum total of positive and healthy behavioral changes that occurred, and these will influence health, fitness and wellness over time. This I believe is the best way to achieving a longer term Transformation!
A number of you will be staying on with us at CrossFit Algoa on a longer term basis…we look forward to helping you in the next step in your health and fitness journey! If you are still interested in joining us, our door is always open for new and longer term members!
Our Member Winners 1st Jemima, 2nd Lance and 3rd Phoebe
These were the top 20 Member placings out of 38 participants, from 1st to 20th:
MEMBERS
1 Jemima Samuel
2 Lance Fourie
3 Phoebe Fourie
4 Richard Pearce
5 Gerald Males
6 Kathy Pearce
7 Wendy Heasely
8 Dave Ho
9 Jancke Blume
10 Andrew MacDonald
11 Anelet James
12 Aidan Battison
13 Okkert Brits
14 Angeline McLagan
15 Kristen Fletcher
16 Taryn Potgieter
17 Jen Galic
18 Wilma
19 Brad Miller
20 Hannah Potgieter
Our T/Challenge Member Winners 1st Shaun, 2nd Carlin and 3rd Angus
These were the top 20 T/Challenge Member placings out of 37 participants, from 1st to 20th:
1 Shaun Benn
2 Carlin Hambury
3 Angus Blaauw
4 Michelle Benn
5 Karen van Wyk
6 Claire Scott
7 Shikara van Antwerpen
8 Anlen Murray
9 Henry Froneman
10 Xavier Du Plessis
11 Gaynor De Kock
12 Peter Ponsonby
13 Amy Eales
14 Pierre Moolman
15 Mariette Jordaan
16 Rudi Brits
17 James Stern
18 Barbie Perks
19 Nondwe Mkhangazi
20 Abby Leo
Coaches Graduation
I have trained at quite a few boxes around the world and I must say that our coaches are truly world class! We have a rigorous Internship program besides the CrossFit Level 1 cert that needs to be passed.
Our coaches have to complete 40 shadowed sessions/40 classes and then after passing their CrossFit level 1 Cert, they need to coach 10 or more classes that are evaluated by Deane or I.
In December we had a number of coaches who have finished (or almost finished up) with their coaches program barring 1 or 2 shadowed classes… Our coaches graduating in 2018 are:
Coach Sam – completed in March 2018
Coach Iain – Dec 18
Coach Anje – Dec 18
Coach Grant – Dec 18
A big congratulations to these Coaches! We are all proud of you!
Our awesome CrossFit Algoa Coaching Staff, from left Dave, Bob, Cindy, Grant, Sam, Iain, Anje, Thando, Jesse, Hannah and Eva (Absent – Deane and Les)
The Christmas Holiday and Holiday WOD’s
Many of you will be traveling over Christmas and New Year… travel safely and enjoy the break and time with loved ones as well as the great celebration that this time of the year brings!
John 3:16 (NIV)
“16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Remember to check our daily WOD’s (workout of the day) at https://crossfitalgoa.com/category/crossfit/ if you are traveling. We will include Holiday WOD’s for the duration of the holiday period so you can get in a workout even when you are away, with minimal to no equipment required!
Please find our holiday schedule below after this Christmas Newsletter. You can also find this schedule at: https://crossfitalgoa.com/schedule/
Our Holiday Skeleton Schedule runs from 17 December 2018 to 12 January 2019.
NB – Please book the CLOSEST class for the respective time on Itensity. Otherwise walk-in and book as you enter class!
Have a Blessed Christmas!
Your’s in Health, Fitness and Performance
Dave and the CrossFit Algoa Team
17th Dec Monday (Day of Reconciliation for 16th)
9:00 – 10:20 CrossFit Class
10:20 -12:00 Open Box
18th Dec Tuesday
5:25 – 6:30 CrossFit Class
8:30 – 9:30 CrossFit Class
9:30 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
19th Dec Wednesday
5:25 – 6:30 CrossFit Class
8:30 – 9:30 CrossFit Class
9:30 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
20th Dec Thursday
5:25 – 6:30 CrossFit Class
8:30 – 9:30 CrossFit Class
9:30 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
21st Dec Friday
5:25 – 6:30 CrossFit Class
8:30 – 9:30 CrossFit Class
9:30 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 18:00 Open Box
22nd Dec Sat
9:00 – 10:20 CrossFit Class
10:20 – 12:00 Open Box
23th Dec Sunday
Closed
24th Dec Monday (Christmas EVE)
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
25th Dec Tues
Christmas DAY – Closed
If any coaches train they will leave a message on the what’s app group!
26th Dec Wednesday
Day of Goodwill – Closed
If any coaches train they will leave a message on the what’s app group!
27th Dec Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
28th Dec Friday
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 18:00 Open Box
29th Dec Saturday
9:00 – 10:20 CrossFit Class
10:20 – 11:30 Open Box
30th Dec Sunday
Closed
31st Dec Monday (Old Years Eve)
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
1st Jan Tuesday
New Years Day – Closed
If any coaches train, they will leave a message on the what’s app group!
2nd Jan Wednesday
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
3rd Jan Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 17:30 Open Box
17:30 – 18:30 CrossFit Class
4th Jan Friday
9:00 – 10:30 Open Box
16:30 – 18:00 Open Box
5th Jan Saturday
9:00 – 10:20 CrossFit Class
10:20 – 12:00 Open Box
6th Jan Sunday
Closed
Mon 7 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
5:25 – 6:30 ; 8:30 – 9:30 ; 12:00 – 13:00 ; 16:00 – 17:00 (OPEN BOX) ; 17:00 – 18:00 ; 18:00 – 19:00
Tues 8 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
5:25 – 6:30 ; 8:30 ; 16:00 – 17:00 (OPEN BOX) ; 17:00 – 18:00 ; 18:00 – 19:00
Wed 9 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
5:25 – 6:30 ; 8:30 – 9:30 ; 12:00 – 13:00 ; 16:00 – 17:00 (OPEN BOX) ; 17:00 – 18:00 ; 18:00 – 19:00
Thurs 10 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
5:25 – 6:30 ; 8:30 ; 16:00 – 17:00 (OPEN BOX) ; 17:00 – 18:00 ; 18:00 – 19:00
Fri 11 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
5:25 – 6:30 ; 8:30 – 9:30 ; 12:00 – 13:00 ; 16:00 – 18:00 (OPEN BOX)
Sat 12 Jan (CrossFit Classes)
9:00 – 10:20 Class (Dave) ; 10:20-12:00 Open Box (Dave)
