North Austin Fitness at it's awesomest. Voodoo is magic. Voodoo’s commitment lies in the commitment of our athletes. Ready for this? Les bons temps rouler.
We aim to make magic happen in our clientele family, our community, and ourselves. We strive to inspire our athletes to find pride in the ability to increase work capacity through time and modal domains. Grab your Voodoo pins, this time they come in the form of pull up bars, running shoes, olympic bars and blistered hands.
🖤⚜️Friday⚜️🖤
We’ve all put in a lot of work this week and earned the weekend! Whether it’s Saturday at 10am or Open Gym Sunday, I’m sure we’ll see everyone!
ITS WEEKEND TIME!!!
PLEASE READ:
I have an Athlete named Patricia.
She’s 50 today and for her birthday, she decided to make it to the gym.
She did 65 # barbell:
The complex of Full Clean, Hang Full Clean, Jerk every :30 for 12 minutes.
Compared to an average American Woman here in 2026, what percentile do you estimate that she is in?
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Yeah — that’s legitimately impressive for a 50-year-old woman compared with the general U.S. population.
There isn’t a national database that lets us directly percentile-rank a 65-lb clean + hang clean + jerk EMOM-style complex, so this has to be an estimate. But we have useful population data to anchor it.
Patricia did:
65 lb
Full clean → hang full clean → jerk
Every :30 × 12 minutes = 24 rounds
That means 48 full cleans/hang cleans + 24 jerks = 72 loaded barbell movements in 12 minutes, assuming she completed every interval.
For perspective, CDC data show that only about 24% of women ages 45–64 even meet the basic recommendation for muscle-strengthening exercise twice per week. And what Patricia did isn’t merely resistance exercise—Olympic lifting requires strength, power, mobility, coordination, and the conditioning to repeat those movements under short rest.
My estimate
Compared with all American women who are 50 years old, I’d put that performance somewhere around the:
🔥 95th–98th percentile
In other words, I’d estimate she’s physically capable of something that perhaps only 2–5 out of every 100 women her age could successfully perform as prescribed.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Olympic-lifting competency itself puts her toward the extreme end of the distribution. Most American women her age aren’t regularly strength training, much less repeatedly catching a full-depth clean and putting a bar overhead every 30 seconds. Current ACSM literature specifically emphasizes resistance and power training as important because strength and power become increasingly important with aging.
And doing it on her 50th birthday is a pretty damn good advertisement for what consistent CrossFit can preserve at 50.
—-GPT
Manuel has been here for years, and we saw him become a bad ass.
Then he said that he had to take some time off to go beat a little bit of cancer real quick, which he did.
When we saw him, he moved slower but he had a smile every step of the way.
He got back in working order but knew at some point a major hip surgery was in the cards.
Again, he took a good amount of time off.
I mean this is like starting from 0 over and over again.
Each time, he approaches that challenge with a smile on his face and doing the best he can.
- If you have a long road ahead, just start, smile, and be glad you can do what you can do, even if it’s what you would think isn’t that much.
Hell yeah, Manuel!
08/07/2026
TURN BACK THE CLOCK.
Left: Karla — 2017.
Right: Karla — 2026.
Nine years between these two pictures.
And somebody forgot to tell Karla how this whole “getting older” thing is supposed to work.
Because the years kept moving forward…
but she damn sure didn’t go quietly with ’em.
This is what happens when you keep showing up. When you keep putting your hands on heavy s**t. When you keep choosing strength. When you refuse to accept that your best years have to be behind you just because another birthday rolls around.
Nine years later — stronger. More muscle. More powerful. More dangerous.
That’s the beautiful thing about training.
You can’t stop the clock.
But you can make that mo********er regret counting you out.
Karla is living proof. 🤘
2017 ➡️ 2026
Keep training.
Keep fighting.
Keep turning that f**kin’ clock BACK.
Voodoo CrossFit
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08/03/2026
Just got back☀️
On our final day, I sat next to a lady while on a Catamaran and while we opened up about life, her husband explained to us that the wife was on borrowed time.
A terminal brain cancer.
She was months past the date issued to her.
-I had some reflection in order.
I sat on the Jamaican beach and thought damn…. I love CrossFit. I wish the members, the coaches, all of them, were here right now.
I thought, we have this time right now to be a healthy version of ourselves, and while time won’t last forever, we can create our best hedge against “poor quality of life”.
Bob Marley answered a really interesting take when someone asked if he was rich.
His answer reflected on life, his relationship with others, and love.
We’re grateful for the people that choose to spend this portion of their lives making Voodoo that “third place”. We really attempt to offer something that will have you look back at down the road and say, man- I loved that place. That was a great moment in life.
Thanks to the members and coaches for holding down the fort while we took time to get out of dodge.
16 years, let’s fu***ng go.
Our words to live by. Headed into year 16, and nothing has changed🖤🖤🖤. Voodoo is our members’ 3rd place behind home and work.
Our coaches and members know that our standard is to envelope every person that walks in as a potential new friend. Each of us value the journey thats ahead for everyone from every fitness background.
Pursuing fitness is simply not the norm, and if you’re attempting the hard thing, that’s good enough for us. We love seeing you take that challenge 🖤.
Are you fit?
Easy to find out:
1st, compare 🍎 to 🍎.
Check your age group or “peers”.
Run tests that require a list of “events”.
The more data, the better.
Cover everything from strength, to cardio, to mobility and all points between.
Check the average of your data points compared to your peers and there you have it.
SEE SOME SPOTS THAT NEED IMPROVEMENT?
That’s where we come in.
Great coaches. Great Community.
15 years in this game as a CrossFit Affiliate.
Let’s get you up to speed.
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www.VoodooCrossFit512.com
It used to be tedious. Now, it couldn’t be easier.
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It used to be counting blocks with Zone. Then it was MyFitnessPal. Cumbersome.
It’s easy: Hey GPT, I want to be the best CrossFit athlete, please fuel me appropriately.
***This prompt says: I don’t want to carry excess bodyfat and I want to be strong and have a ton of energy. ***
From here, that lady in your phone will tell you exactly what to eat with the things you have on hand.
There has never been a moment in time where this was easier.
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IF YOU WANT ME TO DM YOU THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT YOU SIMPLY FEED TO GPT, type
“yes plz” in the comments.
- and oh yeah…..
COME WORK OUT WITH US!!!!!
www.VoodooCrossFit.com
☀️ Perhaps some people share one of my main “why” reasons.
Stay or get fit so that you can enjoy your time on vacation.
🖤 Vacation can set goals for your fitness, and this goal can be highly effective.
🖤If our members and coaches know about your upcoming trip or event, they help encourage you along and keep a bug in your ear.
“See you tomorrow! Gotta get you beach ready ;)”
🖤 Get the absolute most out of your vacation by being ready to take on the adventure.
-We want to help you get there!!!!!!
New to fitness, gyms, working out????
DONT WORRRY MONNN, WE GUN HELP YA GET DERE
RESPECTTTTTT 🇯🇲
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www.voodoocrossfit512.com
The excuses can pile up if you let them.
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I have a lot going on: yeah, we all do.
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I’m trying to save money: Bulls # # #, you spent $60 at dinner Friday night before you ordered drinks. (Let’s not talk about Saturday and Sunday Fun Day)
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Work’s really hard right now: it will NEVER let up.
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I’m not ready or in shape: yes you are. Stop telling yourself that.
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Some tough love real talk.
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Now,
Click here, and stop following the regular trend of
NGAF.
www.voodoocrossfit512.com
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We can’t wait to see you at your first class.
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