Who's Ready to THROW DOWN?!

3rd Annual Garage Gym Throwdown

Sponsors include: Bettysport, FringeSport, Brown Paint, Advocare, Conley Sports, and more! Vendors will be on hand and all attendess will be invitied to the After Party at Abel's on the Lake. 

See you in the garage! 

The M/W 6:15pm Athletic Training class at Fulmore Middle School works through thick bar rows near the school's track. Each Athletic Training & Boot Camp location is unique based on the surroundings. What makes the location where you train challenging and different compared to other classes? Next Monday marks the final week of May classes. The Relentless spirit is spreading across Austin. Come find out what it is all about.

Coach tinyFIT Lauren shares one of her favorite places to dine out in Austin, Takoba. Who says you can't have Mexican food and eat clean. Find out here.

Camp Mabry 5k from Relentless Training Systems on Vimeo.

Competitive, challenging, fierce, and fun was the Relentless 5K this past weekend. Check out all the competitors and the race to the finish with the video above. If you missed the Adventure Race and/or the Relenltess 5K, it is not too late to jump in on the last event of the 3-part Event Series.

The 3rd Annual Garage Gym Throwdown will complete the series with a challenging competition inside the LCRA parking garage. This event is great for Relentless athletes ready to take on a rigorous event and test their strength and endurance among other indoor and outdoor athletes. Join us after the Throwdown at Abel's on the Lake for our series completion party!

REGISTER HERE

**We are looking for 15 judges and volunteers to help with the Throwdown. If you would like to help, please email Events@RelentlessATX.com. Judges must be CrossFit Level 1 Certified and may also participate in the event during the Coaches' heat.

This Saturday, Coach Megan Parsons will be racing up the Frost Bank tower for the 3rd year in a row at the American Lung Association's Annual Fight for Air Climb. Megan has finished in the top of her category and even took home 1st place overall for the women last year. This year, she has decided to kick it up a notch by joining the many Austin-area firefighters who race, by wearing full firefighter gear - minus the tank - as she races! The extra weight and bulk of the suit will be a new challenge that Megan is excited to take on. 

Learn about Megan's personal connection to the fight against lung cancer and her reasons for participating in this event year after year in her post here.

SUPPORT OUR SHOWOUT! 

Help Megan reach her fundraising goal of $300 by donating HERE. Donations will need to be received by this Friday! Megan will represent the CrossFit Central & Relentless community well on Saturday morning. We are proud of her for taking on this fun challenge in support of a cause that is near and dear to her heart! GO MEGAN!!

The IT band/hip is one of our favorite areas to massage with our foam rollers. Hurts so good! 

When it comes to fitness, nothing is more important than keeping you mobile, flexible, and injury-free. We recommend some form of soft-tissue care to all of our athletes, depending of your needs.

Trainers and coaches have know that hands-on soft tissue care techniques like massage and Active Release Therapy (ART) can work wonders on athletes. Although it is not a replacement for more intensive therapy, the foam roller came about as a tool that the masses could use to mimic this type of therapy, at a reasonable cost. 

The foam roller is a cylindrical piece of dense foam that you use to massage muscles and tissue. There are many ways to use it to hit different parts of the body, but the idea is simple: Get a foam roller and use your bodyweight to apply pressure to sore spots.

Most foam rollers that you purchase at sporting goods stores (Bettysport, Luke’s Locker, and Trigger Point Therapy in Austin) come with instructions. For the most part they suggest that you use sweeping strokes to the long muscle groups like the calves, adductors, and quadriceps, and small directed force to areas like the TFL, hip rotators, mid-back, and glute medius.

We recommend that you use your foam roller daily, before you workout or run and again after your workout if you are sore. If you need more intensive therapy, we recommend that you seek the services of a massage therapist, ART specialist or Airrosti therapist. Your coach can provide you with a recommendation if you need one. Stay supple! 

This past Saturday, over 20 teams took on the 1st Annual Relentless 5K, the 2nd event in the 3-part event series. Athletes across all fitness domains showed up to compete! A big congratulations to Denise and Ron in the MWF 6am Lamar Middle School class. They placed 1st in the co-ed division! Coach Megan and Michelle in the 6:30am Tu/Th O.Henry class placed 1st in the female-division! 

View pictures from the race HERE.

Being Relentless meant the workout was more than simply a 5K. Teams of 2 lined up at the start line and took on the following at Camp Mabry:

If you're looking to purchase a top-quality Relentless Training Systems-approved kettlebell, look no further than locally owned and operated FringeSport! 

FringeSport sells new Troy kettlebells to Relentless Athletes at a great per pound rate! Better than any other sporting goods store in town and because they are local, you don't pay shipping fees. You won't find a better deal on a quality kettlebell anywhere else. FringeSport was started by brothers Alex and Peter as a medling of two passions -  First, the undeniable desire for truly painful, going-to-be-sore-tomorrow workouts, and second, the obsession with building a better business. They know what being Relentless is all about! 

If you're just beginning Relentless programs, or are ready to move up in weight, we highly recommend you look into purchasing from FringeSport. Our coaches have invited FringeSport owners Peter and Alex out to their classes to sell you kettlebells on the spot (they accept credit cards and cash). Ask your coach for more details on when Peter or Alex will be coming to your class! If you missed your chance to pick up a new bell at class, contact Peter and Alex via email here. They can bring your new kettlebell right to you, or give it to your coach.

In addition to competing as a team, Peter and Alex at FringeSport have graciously provided prizes for the top teams in today's Relentless Event Series Partner 5K and will be sponsoring the upcoming Garage Gym Throwdown on June 2. Thanks for being Relentless, guys! 

At Relentless Training we celebrate birthdays and college graduations with workouts. The M/W 6:15pm Fulmore Middle School class celebrated 2 of their athletes, Kara and Norma. The workout was devised based on their favorite exercises, and the rounds and rep scheme were determined by age and years spent in college. Try the workout in their honor this weekend. More details here.

Buy-in: 33 KB Snatches (R side) -

4 Rounds for Time:
20 Good Mornings
12 Sandbell Situps

Cash-out: 33 KB Snatches (L side)

Reminder: Feel free to come out and watch the Relentless 5K on Saturday from 7:30-9:00am.
Camp Mabry
2200 West 35th St.
Austin, TX

Brian attends the MWF 6:30am Athletic Training class at O.Henry with Coach Heather Reed. He has only been in class a little over a month and is already seeing huge weight loss results and tapping back into the athlete he was 10 years ago.

Brian writes-- ...over the last 10 years or so I led a fairly sedentary lifestyle with minimal exercise and many poor dietary choices.  A few months ago I made a conscious decision that I was tired of living like that and with the help of my amazing wife, changed my diet completely which resulted in a pretty significant weight loss (about the size of the kettlebell I use in class!).  It was at this point that I decided it was time to "step-it-up" and get some serious exercise in my life - the elliptical at the YMCA wouldn't cut it anymore. I decided to try Relentless because I was looking for a challenge; something that would push me to be the athlete I used to be.  Read more.
 

The Fulmore MS M/W 6:15pm Athletic Training Class pictured above

Relentless Training Systems offers two core programs for athletes: on-going Athletic Training Classes and 6-Week Boot Camp Challenges. Which is right for you? Here's a quick explanation of the two programs to help you decide: