Live Fit and Sore

Category: Kindness Matters

  • Happy Birthday Mom!

    I have started to dehydrate some fruit again and a lot of people have been asking me what dehydrator I use. I don’t have a fancy one — you can find ones that dry out the fruit in a matter of hours. Mine is a basic model and I prep the fruit before I go…

  • Time to Rise Up and Move ON

    I woke up today in such a funk — I feel fat, lethargic and just plain down and out. I have been totally ignoring my normal eating and have seen it start to seriously show up. I can hardly fit in my jeans and my skin is breaking out. I seriously ate like 10 cookies…

  • The Fountain of Youth is No Secret

    I have been having some issues with my right trap and shoulder for a while now. Anything overhead seems to aggravate it and being stubborn – I have been ignoring it, working through it and continuing on doing some mobility daily to loosen it up. I think it’s due to misalignment during lifting and just…

  • Kindness During the Holidays

    This weekend, I went to a holiday party at my friend Kyle’s house. We were asked to bring art supplies and personal items (shampoo, soap, pajama pants – all sizes and other cozy items) for the girls of Chloe house. Chloe House is a group home for teenage girls referred by the DC Department of Youth…

  • Mother Nature Loves to Surprise You

    Today’s workout had an interesting twist from the normal – we did a bunch of agility/mobility work. I love that sort of stuff because I am not only balanced challenged but also when I have to think and move at the same time –yeah that’s tough for me too. Because I didn’t grow up athletic,…

  • Perspective and Hope

    I was really out of sorts yesterday. I had a client meeting during the day and then attended my friend Khal’s memorial/visitation. I totally broke down from the moment it started. I just couldn’t stop thinking about him and his boys. He loved his sons more than the world. When I first met Kal –…

  • CrossFit: Knees In or Out?

    I’m not sure if I have already shared this blog post started by a well known Olympic Lifting coach Bob Takano about the practice of pushing your knees out when lifting.  It is an approach that gained popularity by Kelly Starrett of the awesome Mobility WOD site.  I am a huge fan of Kelly’s — no…

  • Oh Snow!

    This was the beginning of the snow storm this morning around 7A – it hadn’t even been snowing for an hour when I took this pic. When I headed to the gym before 6A,  there was no snow but we are gearing up for around 6 inches if you believe the weatherman’s forecast. After the…

  • Don’t Underestimate Your Mental Fitness

    I probably should have taken a rest day today, but I knew I would not be able to get to the gym tomorrow AM. I am stubborn sometimes and don’t listen to my own advice. My shoulders are toast and it is probably one of the reasons why I literally HATED today’s workout. I had…

  • A Kinder Perspective

    If read my blog with any regularity you may have noticed that I am focusing on kindness. My hope is that the more we all talk about it and see real examples, the more common it will become and the better we all will be. And I am working on being a kinder person overall…