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Monday Front Squats
This month, Mondays are strength days. Just going to be honest here and say, they aren’t my favorite workout day. I just like the feeling of a hard workout that combines cardio and strength to get me started with my week. I am really having to relearn squats related to lifting. I keep leaning my…
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Strong Crossfit Chicks are Welcome
Greg Glassman on how women hold many key roles within CrossFit. In Glassman’s words, CrossFit “is a matriarchy…that may not be abundantly clear to everyone, but this organization is owned, run, supported, managed…women are at least partners with men in every sense.
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Is Bug Eating Paleo?
Bug eating in the Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal gets on the bug-eating bandwagon with an article titled “The Six-Legged Meat of the Future.” Edible insects are becoming trendy, with London’s Archipelago restaurant topping their creme brulee with a bee and Manhattan’s Tolache offering grasshopper-stuffed tacos. The image above is from the blog…
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So Delicious – Coconut Milk: A review
I have started drinking Coconut Milk. I have said before that I don’t like Coconuts at all –but coconut oil, water and milk don’t seem to have the typical coconut flavor that I remember tasting when eating an Almond Joy or Mounds bar. That may have been the problem to begin with looking back. ….…
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Saturday Workout at CrossFit
I love that CFI has a free class for anyone on Saturday mornings that wants to try CrossFit. There is no hard sell — because for most, once they try CrossFit -they are hooked. No Hard sell necessary. My friend Tina tried it today. Her husband already joined and is a die hard CrossFitter. She…
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Coconut Oil – Making a Comeback!
My recent post about Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil is very timely it seems. Here’s an article in the New York Times about Coconut Oil: Once a Villain, Coconut Oil Charms the Health Food World A FEW years ago I noticed something odd at the health food store. There, rubbing elbows with the extra-virgin olive oil…
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The Trouble with Bright Girls
Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage. We are routinely underestimated, underutilized and even underpaid. Studies show that women need to perform at extraordinarily high levels, just to appear moderately competent compared to our male coworkers. But in my experience, smart and talented…
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Deadliftin’
Oh deadlifts! It’s a love/hate relationship with them. They are Tough but you feel so satisfied afterward! Or at least I do — I also kept doing straight leg DLs instead of a straight up DL — so Coach Jerry would stop me and help me reconfigure — it’s amazing how hard it is to…