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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!! It was quite a shock to have snow this weekend and now it’s dark and cold. Nothing like running in the cold weather that seizes up the lungs but it certainly wakes you up. How’s that for seeing it from a different perspective. Warmup Sampson Stretch Pass Thrus Whirly Birds Bendy Whirly Birds…
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Give It Up! Going Grain Free…
An older post from Nourished Kitchen about going grain-free but still very very relevant – and I agree with it based on my own experience being grain free — Against the Grain: 10 Reasons to Give Up Grains I’ve been toying, off and on, with the idea of eliminating grains for a while. I…
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Sunday at the Box
Hannah and I went to the CrossFit gym today to get in some work on skills. I need to practice my Double Unders and my Kipping Pull Ups. So I headed in and she wanted to join me. I worked on that for 20 mins or so and then we did a mini-WOD together. It…
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The Elusive Double Under
Fun day at CrossFit today. We did Tabata Fight Gone Bad with a bit of a variation — Warmup dynamic stretching 2x 3 reps each bear crawls shoot thrus box jumps ring digs WOD Double Unders Wall Balls SDHP KB 35lbs Box Jumps push press 3-4 rounds of 20s/10s rest I didn’t really do a…
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It’s Snowing! It’s Crazy!
It is super crazy that it’s snowing in Northern Virginia on 10/29! I believe they are saying 3-8in today. CARAZZZZY! You know what else is crazy? We have finished one week into the CrossFit Whole Life Nutrition challenge. I do like the fact that I woke up this morning without that groggy, hungover feeling. I…
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Make The Commitment!
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AWESOME!
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Fish Oil and other things…
Part of the challenge has us taking Fish Oil every day. Or as my southern CrossFit friends say — Fish ULL. There are a ton of benefits to taking fish oil — you can read all about them here – If you want to improve you mental ability, then check out the benefits of using…
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Get on the Happy Train
I am feeling really good today. This morning’s workout was tough but good and the group of athletes at 6a are a bunch of really fun people. Here we are, people from all backgrounds and reasons why we are there — from a 17 year old adding CrossFit to improve his wrestling performance, to middle…