Month: April 2012

  • Guest Post: Finding Your Thing

    Written by Jason Kitchens, an inspirational guy I know… Sometimes you are going to have days where you just don’t want to.  Perhaps the nite before you had to work late, stayed up that extra hour to catch a flick, or decided to have that one extra drink.  Now it’s the next day and you couldn’t care…

  • Research Proves A Beneficial Relationship Between Exercise and Brainpower.

    How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and…

  • Becoming a Kitchen Ninja

    I shared this post on the CrossFit Impavidus Whole Life Challenge Blog for the 40+ athletes now entering week 4 of their 8 week transformation… Let’s talk about the Kitchen and cooking! You may be a ninja in preparing foods. Notice I didn’t say creating or mastering the kitchen. I hope that this challenge will help…

  • Easy Paleo Recipe: Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream”

    Um, a friend of mine shared this recipe from Easy Paleo and OMG! it’s looks like heaven. I miss Ice Cream! It is such a comfort food for me, so I will definitely give this a try! Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream” 1 1/2 FROZEN bananas (I cut my bananas in half before freezing them) 1/2…

  • Move Forward…

  • Earth Day 2012

    Go be nice to Mother Earth today! Earth Day 2012 from K12.com blog… April 22 marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, a day when more than one billion people in 192 countries celebrate the Earth and focus on giving back to our planet. Not sure how to celebrate? Check out these ideas for ways to…

  • Stay Focused!

    I am so excited to go to the CrossFit Kids course! I will be out of pocket for most of the weekend —

  • Dare to look Stupid!

    Love This!

  • CrossFit: Grace

    Today, we met up with CrossFit girl Grace again. We have been doing cleans, power cleans, clean and jerks for some time now. Seems like every time I go to workout, we are doing some sort of oly lift with the word clean in it. I’m not complaining because strength work is key to getting…

  • Kids are Getting Fatter!

    Kids are getting fatter, and many will have to do some serious calorie cutting to avoid that fate as they grow up. That’s the grim news from a new study that looks at how children have become heaver since 1971. It’s not news that the number of obese children has doubled since the 1970s, with…