Live Fit and Sore

Category: crossfit

  • CrossFit: A Beacon of Hope

    I love reading stories like this one — and the truth is, there are so many stories like Shelly’s and helping people find their CrossFit is the most inspiring and fulfilling thing I have done besides becoming a Mom! <true story> Shelley Polings Journey “ready to make a life change and I knew that CrossFit…

  • Redefining Yourself is Like The Laundry Pile – Never Ending

    I’m feeling better! Yeah!  I do however have a very tight muscle in the crux of my back and my triceps hurt.  I am going to do some mobility this weekend to see if it loosens it up.  And today we did Dead Lifts! I love Dead Lifts! I need to remind myself to be…

  • Swim Lanes

    I’m feeling about 80% like myself — and of course that means I go workout. Does it mean I should have gone –shrug! Along with being sick, I am going through a lot of self evaluation right now and not sure if that’s what is depressing me. I haven’t felt this down in a long…

  • Finding Your Fitness Inspiration

    Finding Your Fitness Inspiration Today, I am not going to lie has already started out to be tough. I think its mostly due to dehydration over the weekend, but my body is wrecked. Very sore and just no energy at all.  I did not drink enough water during the PDR workshop this weekend and it…

  • Showing Me the Key: Just Do It

    Showing Me The Key I had such a great weekend full of learning and meeting new people — if you haven’t taken time to go to a class or learn something new recently, go do it. Exercising your mind can do wonders for your spirit.   Tony Blauer and his team of PDR coaches were…

  • Mobility WOD

    Mobility WOD go check out Kelly and all of his great advice about mobiity over at Mobility WOD. I often tell people exactly what he says: “All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.” You won’t be sorry if you take his advice and start doing some stretching and getting your body…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…