Live Fit and Sore

Category: High Bar

  • Climbing Higher

    Well that was a super busy weekend, that went way too fast as usual. Saturday, I started the day off with a great workout and then headed to Kings Dominion for their Planet Spooky event and go trick or treating with the Dinosaurs!. The folks at KD were kind enough to ask me to attend…

  • Video: CrossFit – Letting Beauty Speak For Itself

    This is what CrossFit is all about to me — Saturday’s Workouts strength 5×5 Weighted Pull Ups 5# WOD Buy in: 800m run 2 Rounds– 10 Thrusters 20 KB Swings 30m Burpee Broad Jumps Cash out: 400m run time: 17:19

  • The More You Know, The More Forward You Can Go

    A friend of mine sent me an email this morning with a paragraph that I didn’t recognize but thought wow, that was well said. Guess what? I wrote it! I don’t even recognize my own writing. Some days it just flows out of me. Which reminds me of something I read that Tom Clancy once said when…

  • Slippery Slopes

    It’s no secret that I have been less than my usual happy self lately and it’s starting to take its toll. I made a promise to myself that with my blog, I am always honest, because who am I fooling in the end?  No one is perfect. We all have ups and downs. I keep…

  • Strength Training: Rest Helps Reset

    One of the things I am learning to do is to take rest periods between my lifts seriously. I have always been more apt to rush through all my sets – getting it done fast so I can be done with it. I didn’t really understand the science behind strength training and what the benefit…

  • So Many Ways To Grow

    I had a rough weekend mentally and combined with a bug or something, I could not physically get out of bed yesterday and it was even harder to get out of bed this morning. So I skipped my 6A workout — and got up to get the kids off to school. I battled internally with…

  • Jimmy Fallon, CrossFit and Paleo

    How cute is this?  Jimmy Fallon is just getting better and better & seems to really enjoy what he’s doing. Watching his stuff makes me happy. Are you the type of person that cares too much – whether it be in your friendships/relationships, personal life, professional life? Read this post below — It once again…

  • We All Can Make a Difference

    My friend Will and I were talking after our workout this morning about how amazing and powerful the mind is. It can adapt to challenges it faces and find new pathways to get whatever job it needs to get done, done. I brought up how I am finding meditation so hard to grasp. I can…

  • September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

    Today we worked on the 2nd position for Power Cleans. I have struggled with my cleans for a very long time, pulling too early. Today, for some reason it was clicking. Coach Dan said the last sets of cleans, for some reason it looked like you weren’t thinking and it was working! I love how…

  • The Drive to Be Better

    Mondays arrive way too soon in my opinion. The weather is absolutely fantastic in NoVA and it makes the weekends that much harder to leave. We went to a carnival yesterday for a few hours. I am not really into rides, especially of the spinny sort but i am fine watching the kiddos have the…