Catalyst GO! Newsletter – March 2009

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Happy Murph Month!
March 14 – 9am – Murph Challenge. Get signed up today! 3 'Open' Classes – Male, Female, and Pro. Personal Trainers from other gyms welcome in the 'Pro' category! No entry fee!
What's Murph? Simple. A mile run. Then, in any order, 100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats. And another mile run. Outdoors. For time. Partition the pullups, pushups, and squats as you like. ANYONE can finish this event, and the more competitive will go for a personal best time.


News:
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Our Family Fun Day event at SSMGC was a riot – 71 kids and parents bouncing around, trying equipment and having fun! I know the kids enjoyed it ("Dad, can we get a foam pit at our house?") but it was also fun to see a couple of adults jump in, and we saw Joe's first muscle-up on the Speith Anderson rings!

Save $$$ with our new Personal Training Packages!
Our Rates:
$55/session (1 hour session with an Elite Personal Trainer; includes homework and food plan)
Prepaid Package of 10 sessions – $500 (save $50!)
Prepaid Package of 20 sessions – $900 (save $200!)

$40/session (half hour session with an Elite Personal Trainer; includes homework)
Prepaid Package of 10 half-hour sessions – $350 (save $50!)
Prepaid Package of 20 half-hour sessions -$600 (save $200!)

Train with your buddy or spouse!

$70/hour session (1 hour session with an Elite Personal Trainer; includes homework for the pair)
Prepaid Package of 10 sessions – $650 (save $50!)
Prepaid Package of 20 sessions – $1300 (save $100!)
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Make a commitment to yourself – save money! Keep yourself healthy and working hard – save money! Keep yourself out of the overcrowded healthcare system – save money! Be happy and pain-free – save money!
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Groups:
March 5 – Baseball PreSeason Training Camp. We're very lucky to have Kai Tuomi (Washington Nationals draft pick) helping with this group. Tyler Belanger (Graceland) is the lead Trainer, and we have signups from out-of-town already. Learn exercises specific to your position, get closer to a scholarship, and get a 2-month membership to Catalyst Gym to go with your workout plan and food guide!


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Introduction to Crossfit Group
– Saturday Mornings at 7:30am. Learn all the fundamental movements of human activity: squatting, standing, pressing, pulling, lifting a load to the waist, and lifting a load from floor to overhead. Learn a perfect squat, get started on your road to pullups, and get basic instruction in the clean, jerk, and deadlift! $60 includes 90 minutes' expert instruction, 'Fran,' and a 4-punch Crossfit card (net cost: $0!) to get you started. Location: Industrial Park Gym.


Crossfit Schedule and Rates:

RATES:

DROP-IN RATE: $16

4 SESSIONS: $52

8 SESSIONS: $80

16 SESSIONS: $128

SCHEDULE

Queen St. Gym: MWF at 7am, Noon, and 7pm

Industrial Park Gym: 7am,9am,Noon,6pm, and 7pm

Sunday Morning Salvation – FREE for gym members; every Sunday morning at 9am. Work to perfect one lift or exercise each week.


Commentary:
Sebastien Wetzel is to be featured in the Crossfit Journal. Sebastien competed in our January Virtualmeet (he's hoping to compete in the Special Olympics someday) and caught the attention of the Crossfit Journal staff. As part of his ABA training for autism, Sebastien uses our Personal Trainers and Crossfit to practice linking tasks together, learn complex movements, and focus on task-related goals.


This has been a very popular month for article requests; following a brief write-up on the Zone Diet, we were asked to publish an overview of Insulin.  As soon as we had that up, the queries started flying for an article comparing Crossfit to P90X, the infomercial-based exercise program.  Our Invest In Yourself article series kicked off in February (one new one to come every month,) and as always, ourGym Site had people talking.  Chris spoke at St. Mary&#

39;s College about football offseason training on the 18th, and was given a very flattering introduction by Coach Marty Smith.  Coming up soon: watch for the long-anticipated rollout of our online Trainer software; check the site for details on a new personal training program that we'll be the first in Canada to offer; and look for our Workplace Safe Lifting and Ergonomics seminars.  All are pretty exciting, and all represent the major strides that our little Sault Ste. Marie company is making in the fitness world!

Chris did 3 interviews last week, and we'll have text transcriptions of all three on our site soon. The Childhood Obesity interview, especially, will be of interest to parents.

Also for parents: the Canadian Child Fitness Tax Credit. Click the link for information. You've earned it; claim it!

Catalyst Kids – eligible for the tax credit! – starts March 28! Get signed up now – spots are filling up!

As always, more information is available by calling our Personal Training Centre at 253-0011 or our membership-based Gym at 256-1344.