Unofficial: Liberation

10/19/2023

Dear Fit Fam,

Did you know…CrossFit Kingstowne is turning 10! And not only is this our 10th year in business under the flag of CrossFit Kingstowne, but it is also the start of the 14th year since we opened the doors to our first affiliate (CrossFit Liberation).

This is a HUGE milestone for any CrossFit gym and we couldn’t have done it without the support of the many wonderful members and coaches who have been a part of our amazing Fit Fam over the years.

To celebrate our 10th anniversary and our incredible community, we will be rolling out a few fun events over the next few weeks. We want to invite all of our current and past members of both CrossFit Kingstowne and CrossFit Liberation to join us in our Anniversary celebrations, as you have truly been the bedrock to our community. All events are open to any individual who has been a part of our community at any point over the last 14 years. Below are a few of the events we have planned. If you are able to join us, please register via the links below as it will help us in planning some of the logistics for the events! You can also send me a DM via (703-408-7887) or email (info@crossfitkingstowne.com) if you have any questions or want to attend, but not necessarily participate in the activities.

Trick or Treat Throwdown
When: Saturday, 28 October
Where: CrossFit Kingstowne
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
What: Fun, internal community throwdown for teams of two. We will have two workouts for the day and include Rx and Scaling options. Teams can be male/male; female/female, and male/female. Since this is the weekend of Halloween - costumes are encouraged and may even result in prizes for best costume! We will serve up coffee and donuts and have prizes for top placing Rx and Scaled teams and for best costumes! Please be sure to register your team via the link below. This link is also available on our instagram bio link tree. If you do not yet have a partner, but wish to do the throwdown, please add your name to the roster and leave the partner side blank so that someone else seeking a partner can easily find you. We will also work to assist in finding you a partner/buddy.
TRICK OR TREAT THROWDOWN REGISTRATION

10 Year Anniversary Party and Corhnole Tournament
When: Saturday, 4 November
Where: CrossFit Kingstowne
Time: 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
What: To kick off our 10 year celebration, we will host a corn hole tournament starting at 4 p.m. After the tournament we will hold our 10 year celebration party. We will have light snacks and adult beverages and encourage everyone to bring a dish or beverage to share. All current and former members of CrossFit Kingstowne as well as CrossFit Liberation are welcome to join us. Friends and family may participate in the corn hole tournament as well. In order to run the tournament smoothly, we will need extra corn hole sets for the evening. We will likely need about 10 sets. Please register your team for co****le via the link below. If you don’t yet have a partner, but want to participate, please add your name to the roster below and leave the partner link open so another wandering soul can find you. If you plan to attend the party, but not participate in the co****le tournament, that is of course fine too - please add your name to the second worksheet - just to help us in planning and logistics (headcount).
CORHNOLE TOURNAMENT AND PARTY REGISTRATION

Bring a Friend Week:
Monday, 30 October through Sunday, 5 November
We will be hosting another “Bring a Friend” Week at CrossFit Kingstowne. If you have friends or family who are interested in trying out CrossFit - please be sure to let them know about our Bring a Friend Week where they can try out classes all week for free. They are also welcome to join us for our 10 year Anniversary Celebration Party on the 4th. They can register for Bring a Friend Week via the link below.
BRING A FRIEND REGISTRATION

Member Appreciation Week:
Monday 6 November through 12 November.
We will be holding a member appreciation week the second week of November that will include, Friends and Family Membership Specials, Daily Discounts in our Fit Collective Shop and some other fun announcements, prize raffles, and some recognition/love for some of our Veteran Members. Please Stay Tuned!

Veterans Day WOD: CHAD
Saturday, 11 November (Veterans Day)
Where: CrossFit Kingstowne
What: We will be hosting the CHAD 1000X WOD on Veterans Day. This workout is in honor of Chad Wilkinson who took his own life after a long battle with PTSD. This workout is to raise awareness of Veteran Su***de and to honor his life, service and memory. We will offer several variations of the workout which consists of 1000 Box Step Ups with a Vest or Ruck Sack. There will be scaling options as well as partner options for those who have not trained for this volume or are new to this workout. It doesn’t matter how you complete Chad, what is important is that we come together as a community to help bring awareness of the effects of PTSD and Veteran Su***de which is growing at an alarming rate within our service branches. This often hidden struggle directly impacts many within our own community where more than half our membership is composed of service members and families. To learn more about the Chad 1000X workout and foundation, follow the link below. We will post a heat registration form as we get closer to November 11th. WEBSITE: https://chad1000x.com/

We look forward to celebrating with all of our amazing Fit Fam and look forward to welcoming back some of our OGs! If you have any questions about any of our upcoming events, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

Regards, Carrie

Sara Wilkinson and GORUCK present the hero workout "Chad", in honor of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson who took his life on October 29, 2018 due to the effects of numerous deployments, several TBIs, blast wave injuries and PTSD. Our goal is to honor Chad's life and legacy and by raising awareness for suici...

10/24/2022

Hey Fit Fam, I wanted to put out an update on our progress in raising funds to support the Overstreet/Souza family in Katie's battle against Hodgkins Lymphoma. In just four days we have managed to collectively raise nearly $19,000 for their family getting us close to meeting our initial goal for $25,000. Its absolutely incredible and I know that Victor and Katie and the rest of the Overstreet family are overwhelmed with the love and support they have received from this incredible community. It is truly amazing what we can do together as a community and it warms my heart that we helping to positively impact their lives and ease some of the many burdens they will be facing over the next 6-12 months. But we are not done yet! I know we can hit and possibly surpass our initial target. So please be sure to help share our posts to help this incredible family. Every donation helps. Additionally, we have put out a pre-order form for the Overstreet Strong Fundraiser T-Shirt. We have ordered a limited quantity, so if you plan to purchase one, please add your name to the pre-order form. If we get close to the number we ordered, we will put in a request to add more t-shirts - but I will need to do that in the next day or so. So please don't wait to add your name to the list if you plan to get a shirt so we can make sure we have enough for everyone. You can pre-order your shirt via the link below.
OVERSTREET STRONG PRE-ORDER T-SHIRT FORM
https://docs.google.com/.../12A4FOqemykA4zHYAFOr5.../edit...
KATIE'S GO FUND ME PAGE
https://gofund.me/aef2b609

Dear Fit Fam, We are calling on the love and support of our … Carrie Satterlee needs your support for Help Katie "Overstreet" Souza Battle Lymphoma

10/20/2022

Dear Fit Fam,

We are calling on the love and support of our amazing community to help one of our most beloved member families battle lymphoma.

Our member community has come to know and love the Overstreet Clan. Their family, headed by Brian and Kristin Overstreet, have been members of our community since 2010, when we opened the doors of our first location, CrossFit Liberation. Brian and Kristin have been with us since the beginning, and their children, Katie, Samantha, and Molly, have grown up with our community from their early teen years into adulthood. Their oldest daughter Katie, her husband Victor, and even his older brother Emerson were members until a few years ago when work opportunities and Katie and Victor’s dream of starting their own little family relocated them to Manassas.

The Overstreet's are like family to Ruben, me, and so many others within our community. They have been embedded in the Alexandria/Kingstowne/Springfield community for over 50+ years. They are genuinely some of the best humans we know; always there to help a friend or loved one when they are in need. And now, it Is our turn to show them that same love and support.

We were devastated when we learned a few weeks ago that Katie was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkins Lymphoma at about 34 weeks pregnant and only 30 years old.

As Katie was nearing the end of her pregnancy, with about six weeks until her due date, she came down with a bad case of COVID. While at work as a teacher in Manassas she started having trouble breathing and went to the hospital to get checked out and to make sure that she and the baby were okay. They kept her overnight to run some tests and later discovered that Katie had Hodgkins Lymphoma. In a matter of 24 hours, their families’ lives were turned upside down. They were suddenly being forced to make tough decisions they never thought they would have to make, including expediting their second child's birth so that Katie could begin treatment immediately.

On September 30th, they were blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby boy named Luca, who arrived five weeks early. Katie was given a few days home to enjoy their wonderful new blessing but then had to begin to prepare herself for an incredible fight. Last Friday, a little over a week after Luca was born, Katie started her first round of chemo treatments.

No new mother or young family should ever have to face this ordeal. While she should be at home resting, snuggling and loving her two little ones, and allowing her body to heal and recover from the trauma of giving birth, she is instead having to put all of her energy into fighting this horrific disease.

Their beautiful little family of four and the rest of the Overstreet clan have a long road ahead of them, steeped with many challenges. We know they will be facing many financial ordeals with mounting and unknown medical bills. Katie and Victor are teachers in Manassas, and Victor is also a US Army National Guard member. As Katie undergoes treatment, she will be forced to go on disability, which will strain their financial security as disability only pays a fraction of an individual’s total salary. And we all know that teachers are already horribly underpaid for their essential work.

We can accomplish amazing things as a community when we come together to achieve a goal. Over the years, we have raised thousands of dollars for countless causes and organizations. And now we can do so for one of our own member families in need. We hope that we can help ease some of the burden, worry, and stress they may soon be facing, so they can focus on what truly matters: getting Katie healthy.

Therefore, we are calling on our community to help us raise funds through this Go Fund Me to help ease some of the daunting living/medical costs that Katie and Victor will soon face. We are asking all of our member families from both CrossFit Kingstowne and CrossFit Liberation to consider donating. Small or Large, every little bit will help. And if anyone in the greater CrossFit community wants to support this family and our event, please join us. Every share, every donation, can help ease this young families burden.

In addition to the GoFundMe page, we will host a fundraising event at CrossFit Kingstowne on Saturday, 12 November. We will be running a version of the Rogue 1000/750 # Challenge and add another fun element of a 1-mile run in addition to the lifts. Anyone who wants to participate can sign up for a heat time to do the lifts, which include the Bench Press, Deadlift, and Squat and then a mile run to follow. We will be calling the event the Overstreet Strong Challenge. We will not be charging an entrance or registration fee, but instead, we ask you to consider making some form of a donation to the GO FUND ME page we have set up, instead of a registration fee. If you do not want to participate in the physical portion of the event, you are still welcome to come out and cheer on the individuals who will be participating and consider making a donation. We will have food and beverages available through the event, along with some awesome raffle prizes, as we bring the community together to support this amazing family. This event is open to anyone who wants to participate, even non-members.

We have also made Overstreet Strong T-Shirts (pictured) as another means of raising money. The shirts are Violet Purple for Hodgkins Lymphoma Awareness. We will be posting a pre-order form where you can sign up to purchase and secure a shirt. The t-shirts will be $30, with proceeds donated to the GoFundMe page.

We will release more details about the Overstreet Strong 1000/750 # + 1 Mile Run Challenge Event on 12 November, along with a sign-up for heats and the pre-order form for the t-shirts, on our SugarWOD page.

We often say that our community is , and its moments like this when we truly live up to that motto. We hope this amazing community will come together to show this incredible family how much they mean to us as Katie, her husband, their two little ones and the rest of the Overstreet/Souza clan begin the fight of their lives.

We sincerely appreciate any level of donation you can make, small, large, anonymous or not; all of it is appreciated. In addition, we will be holding a series of raffles leading up to and during the event on the 12th. We know many of you are extremely talented or have some great connections - so please let us know if any in our community want to donate a service or item to the raffle pool.

Much love to you all, and thank you for helping this wonderful family.

Carrie and Ruben

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https://gofund.me/aef2b609

12/21/2017

I was devastated to learn the news today that one of our beloved, long time members of CFL and CFK died tragically along with her mother and beautiful son Daniel in the tragic tour bus accident in Mexico. My heart goes out to her husband Moises and their eldest son David who miraculously survived the accident. I am truly heartbroken for them as I know so many in our community are. There really are no words to express the heartache that so many of us feel for this beautiful family and their incredible loss. Anna was such a loving and kind hearted soul. She was one of our original members and religiously came to our 6 a.m. classes at CFL and eventually CFK. She always showed up with a huge smile and brought so much joy and light to the class, in spite of the early hour. Her laughter was infectious and you always had a lovely time with her. I loved coaching her and watching her grow as an athlete. She never backed down from a challenge and she always worked hard. Her beautiful son Daniel was one of the first children to join our CFL Kids program at the tender age of five, along with his older brother David. He was such an energetic and loving boy who loved to climb ropes and play with his big brother. They left such an incredible mark on our community and they will be deeply missed. Their family was loved by so many in our local community, and I pray that the wonderful people who surround them can carry them through this tragic loss. Today was a difficult reminder to live each day to its fullest, let the nonsense go, and cherish your loved ones each day you are blessed to do so. My heart and prayers go out to the Behar family and the many friends who loved them dearly.

10/12/2017

Our Fall 6-Week Ladies Fit Camp Kicks off on 30 October. Get Ready for the Holidays and Sign Up Today!

09/27/2017

Excited to announce that our friends from LuLu Lemon Mosaic District will be on site for our Masters of the DMV team competition on 21 October! They will be offering 30% off to our athletes! You don't want to miss out! Tee/Tank order deadline is tomorrow so be sure to get your team registered today!

09/25/2017

Hurry, we are nearly sold out! Only 10 team spots remain for Masters of the DMV Team Competition on 21 October at CrossFit Kingstowne! Sign your team up today before its too late.

OUR MASTERS OF THE DMV TEAM COMPETITION IS NEARLY SOLD OUT WITH ONLY 10 TEAM SPOTS REMAINING!   SIGN UP YOUR TEAM TODAY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, AND COMPETE AGAINST SOME OF THE BEST MASTERS ATHLETES IN DC, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA.   CrossFit Kingstowne, creators of the Cold War Mid-Atlantic Team Competit...

09/01/2017

Our Fall 6-Week Ladies Fit Camp Kicks off on 6 September!| Sign Up Today.

08/03/2017

You're Invited to Masters of the DMV Team Competition

CrossFit Kingstowne, creators of the Cold War Mid-Atlantic Team Competition, invites you to join us for a one-day team competition strictly for Masters athletes. This will be the largest masters team event in the DMV, and will feature three age divisions for athletes 30-39, 40-49, and 50+.  No longe...

08/03/2017

Masters of the DMV Team Competition

CrossFit Kingstowne, creators of the Cold War Mid-Atlantic Team Competition, invites you to join us for a one-day team competition strictly for Masters athletes. This will be the largest masters team event in the DMV, and will feature three age divisions for athletes 30-39, 40-49, and 50+.  No longe...

04/27/2017

Have a spouse, friend or loved one who wants to get fit but is too intimidated by CrossFit? Bring them out this Saturday for our next CrossFit Unloaded Co-Ed Fit Camp class. Our next class is this Saturday at 8 a.m. with Coach Ali! First class is always free. These classes are specifically designed for individuals who want the constantly varied, high-intensity aspects of CrossFit, without the heavy lifting. Sign up online via the schedule link. http://crossfitkingstowne.com/class-schedule/

Have a spouse, friend or loved one who wants to get fit but is too intimidated by CrossFit? Bring them out this Saturday for our next CrossFit Unloaded Co-Ed Fit Camp class. Our next class is this Saturday at 8 a.m. with Coach Ali! First class is always free. These classes are specifically designed for individuals who want the constantly varied, high-intensity aspects of CrossFit, without the heavy lifting. Sign up online via the schedule link. http://crossfitkingstowne.com/class-schedule/

04/12/2017

CrossFit Kingstowne is excited to announce new programs and services starting in April!

Below is a breakdown of each program and links to register.  Stay tuned for more details on some of these exciting new opportunities.

03/01/2017

We are hosting the only nationwide all female team competition Girls Gone Rx at our box on May 6, 2017. We hope you will sign up and join us to support their mission of Compete for a Cure. Make sure you sign up on their website today so your team receives athlete tanks before the big event! To sign up, all you have to do is visit www.girlsgonerx.com or https://www.competitioncorner.net/events/421 and search Girls Gone Rx DC.

Make sure to visit their Facebook today! Also find our event listed under events on the Girls Gone Rx page, and join. That way you can stay up to date on all happenings!

Girls Gone Rx helps women work through their strengths and their weaknesses by creating team events that encourage getting out of your comfort zone while having fun and raising awareness for a great cause.

02/28/2017

Moms and non-moms too, transform your bod with our Fit Mama Boot Camp. Starting March 13, build a lean, mean, skinny jean wearing physique and a killer community of workout buddies. Morning and evening class times available. http://crossfitkingstowne.com/programs/ladies-performance-bootcamp/

01/04/2017

Our Next 6-Week Fitness Boot Camp for Women Starts 1 June!| Sign Up Today.

11/26/2016

LAST CHANCE FOR BLACK FRIDAY NEW MEMBER SAVINGS!

11/24/2016

Hurry only 2 Days Left to take advantage of these incredible savings! CFK Holiday Gift Card Special!