Live Fit and Sore

Category: Fitness/Exercise

  • Burpee Exercise Variations

    Here is a video of some Burpee variations I saw on Mel’s website: The Clothes Make the Girl. You know how I love them burpees right?

  • Working out with Broad Jump Burpees

    Its a perfect fall morning — mid to upper 50’s and I rocked this workout – shaving 2 mins off my time. It’s amazing how much better I perform when its not super hot outside.  I also think some workouts are made for some people and this one has my name on it — The…

  • Plyometrics – Box Jumps

    Although I was a little stiff from yesterdays run, I was raring to go workout this morning. I am not saying I wasn’t tired — I was super tired but I wanted to go — which makes it that much easier to get up and out. Mikey switched up the workout today because the burpees…

  • Another Tool to measure progress: Map Your Run

    It’s so much easier and goes much faster when you run with a partner — Kimmy and I met on the trail and before we knew it we finished what I just mapped as 7.9 miles. I have been using mapmyrun.com — A great website that helps you keep track of your runs, and helps…

  • Brain Development is tied to Physical Fitness

    Children’s Brain Development Is Linked to Physical Fitness, Research Finds Another reason why parents should get out there and encourage their kids to be active — it has a lifelong impact in more ways than we even know! Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9- and 10-year-old children: Those…

  • A righteous person falls, and then gets up

    A righteous person falls, and then gets up: This is a great message and very relatable to anyone that is working on being fit and healthy —

  • KB Swing Steps — Not as easy as they look!

    warmup high knees heel to butt sprints forward lunges general stretching corex2 knee roll ups knee crunches (keep your hands on thighs and touch your knees each time you crunch) full body hip missions 50 missions workoutx2 shoulder press 65lbs broad jump burpees ring rows x2 25lb KB swing steps 200 m run When Michael…

  • The World’s Best Tennis Player – CBS Evening News – CBS News

    The World’s Best Tennis Player – CBS Evening News – CBS News. How amazing is this athlete Esther Vergeer? That is all there is to say — She is Esther Vergeer and her game is wheelchair tennis. By now, it should be called Vergeer tennis; that’s how completely she owns this sport. She has won…

  • I Conquered …

    I have mentioned this before..that I have been working and working at figuring out how to do a double under jump rope move. I have worked on it, whipped the rope against the front of my ankle area, stopped and started over and over again… and nothing….so frustrating…until TODAY! I was able to do a…

  • Childhood Obesity in AZ

    Here & Now: Childhood Obesity in AZ Here and Now talked to Janet Foote and Beth Jacobs, both from the College of Public health at the University of Arizona, about the increase of childhood obesity and what can be to to improve the health of kids in Arizona. KJZZ listeners offer their personal solutions to…