Live Fit and Sore

Category: crossfit

  • CrossFit: Quick and Dirty WOD

    It was a quick and dirty workout this AM.  And I will be coaching the 6A class tomorrow so it will be considered my rest day — WarmUp 5m Double Under practice Mobility/Stretching Skill KB Swings WOD 5 Rounds: 20 KB Swings (1 pood) 10 Jumping Lunges (total, i.e. 5 each leg) 5:27m Post WOD…

  • The Amanda Miller Memorial WOD

    As a person who has seen first hand what cancer can do to someone you love and to the people around them, I am uber sensitive to fundraisers and other events that help to raise more awareness of cancer causes but even more so about bringing to light the amazing people cancer has taken from…

  • Be Active In Your Food Choices

    Yesterday at work – we celebrated fellow employee birthdays for the month of May. Normally they have cake or cupcakes and I show up, give my happy birthday wishes and that’s it. But yesterday, they had Carvel Ice Cream cake. For those that know me well – they know that is my all time favorite…

  • Burpee Workout

    Today’s workout was a bit different — we worked on some skills before doing a 10m met con — Warmup 10m Double Under Practice Skill Roman Deadlifts Hamstring Stretching WOD Tabata KTE the score was your lowest reps — 3 10m AMRAP 5 Deadlifts 123# 7 Burpees Total: 9+2

  • CrossFit: Press Series

    Workout today was all about strength. Warmup 800m run Pass Thrus Reverse Pass Thrus Skill Press Series WOD Shoulder press 1-1-1-1-1 reps Push press 3-3-3-3-3 reps Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5 reps Max 95# because I couldn’t clean anything more! Very frustrating!!

  • 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…

  • Back Squat at ya!

    Oh it was a backsquat kinda day. I tweaked my shoulder/neck yesterday doing the press so I was very happy to hear that we were not going heavy with the back squats. I actually like this lift — it puts my broad shoulders and strong legs to good use! Warmup Drills 33lb barbell 10 deadlifts…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…