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Checking Off My Fitness To Do List
One Day at a Time I gotta say things are certainly getting better as we get closer to the end of the week. Sometimes I just need to let it out into the universe –all the stress, emotion and anger — and maybe it releases some positive energy and allows me to break through stuff…
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Progress is Winning
Progress is Key Progress — it’s what helps re-motivate and reignite me! With the Nasty girl week of CrossFit WODs – I have been able to witness some real progress in my training. And today, I had one of the best moments! We were doing the Queen of all CrossFit workouts – FRAN. And I…
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CrossFit: EVA Showed Up
Today was one of the ladies that i have never met before — EVA! Who is Eva you ask? Well the famous CrossFit Eva is Eva T, a 2x Olympian 6x national champ WC Bronze, world tech champ 96, masters national weightlifting champ 2007 – national records – c&j and total. Recently inducted to the US…
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CrossFit: Because there are better reasons than looking good in a bikini at stake…
So about a year ago, I did Nancy and went really light. Today, we did Nancy and just felt off again –so went 55# instead of 65#. Running is not one of the best joys of my life and Nancy has 5 rounds of 400m. I have been working on my new breathing technique and I…
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CrossFit Chicks: Gretchen Kittelberger
I love this pic. Gretchen is a strong, amazing athlete and I have talked about her before. I am so inspired by her regularly. How amazing does she look in this picture — strong, determined, focused, bad ass. Here is a link to her CrossFit bio as well. I just wanted to give a shout out to…
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Combatives Camp with Tony Blauer
This coming weekend I will be attending the Combatives Camp with Tony Blauer Aug 4-5 at CrossFit Rubicon. I’m really excited to learn and meet all the amazing, inspiring people that are coming and not just the ‘special’ guests. The CrossFit community is comprised of amazing, experienced athletes from all walks of life. Going to a…
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WOD Recaps
Have no fear — i have been working out the past few days! Just haven’t posted them — until now. Friday Shoulder Presses, Ring Dips, Rests, Push Presses, Push Jerks One bar. Increase load for each lift. Do dip directly after lift then rest for 2 minutes. 65/65/75 –this was a very hard WOD!…
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Pay It Forward…
I won a $25 gift card at work the other day and have decided to donate it to a local family I heard about today. Times are hard and this family is having a rough go — the husband lost his job and wife is on disability and they are not making ends meet. The…
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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…
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Sugar: It’s Not Good For You
Warmup Double Under Practice Skill Mobility WOD “Annie” 50-40-30-20 and 10 rep rounds of: Double-unders, Sit-ups. I struggled big time with Double Unders today — 13:46 was my time, which is over 1m more than last time. Some days you have it, some days you don’t. It happens – time to move on! Make sure…