Live Fit and Sore

Category: Fitness/Exercise

  • CrossFit: A Community of Supportive & Welcoming Athletes

    I love to meet and learn from other CrossFit athletes. It’s one of the great things about CrossFit in general — the elite athletes love to support the beginners and at times, get their own inspiration and support from those just starting out. The guy in the picture is Chris Spealler – who is, in…

  • People Who Will Ruin Your Attempts to Lose Weight

    Too funny —The 8 People Who Will Ruin Your Attempt to Lose Weight It’s damn hard to lose weight and just generally get in shape. Americans are getting fatter every year, and 80 percent of people who lose weight gain it all back. Why does it seem so impossible? Part of the reason is willpower…

  • Overtraining –what to know.

    I’m on another rest day — and reading about Overtraining. It’s an interesting topic and one of those that has you saying is that or is that not me –hmmm.  I took off an extra day this week but reading all this, maybe I need to take off a few days in a row –to…

  • Change the Voices in Your Head

    I am taking a few rest days but I plan to still stretch and maybe walk and do some extra mobility. I have been super busy at work too — and the holidays are coming. Nothing like the perfect storm of stress to get you moving right? HA! I have been thinking about the voices…

  • Training Barefoot Form

    The 100 Up Exercise: Method for Training Barefoot Running Form The recent New York Times article [1] by Christopher McDougall, author of the best selling book on runningBorn to Run, is currently making its way around the Internet. Entitled “The Once and Future Way to Run“, McDougall takes a roundabout path of catching everybody up…

  • Healthy Eating

    Five myths about healthy eating We don’t need advertisers to tell us that candy is delicious. Humans were big fans of fat and sugar long before the idiot box was invented. We’re programmed to go for the good (bad) stuff. Sure, Kellogg’s and General Mills have big advertising budgets, but they’re nowhere near as powerful…

  • You really are OK

    Can You Stay Off ‘Fat Talk’ — For A Week? I’m not one for these weeks devoted to self awareness and all, but this one is certainly carrying the right message. I work on this sort of stuff every single day. Self talk – the little voice we have inside of us that second guesses,…

  • Gamers at the Gym

    Why gamers are a great fit at the gym (CNN) — They’ve been trained to focus for weeks at a time on a single goal. They know how to clearly identify obstacles and form step-by-step plans to overcome them. They’re obsessed with improving specific skills but judge success only by overall progress made in the world…

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  • Creativity and Exercise

    The Creative Brain On Exercise For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel. For more than thirty years,…