Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Don’t Settle For Less

    Someone asked me if I was still going to get up super early to workout while I am searching for a job –it’s not like I have to and there are later CrossFit classes. The answer is Yes, I am. I think sticking to some sort of normalcy while I am looking for my next…

  • Happy Halloween: Give Me Candy

    I’m all about health and fitness but I do think that there are certain days where you need to just need a bit of breathing room from all the rules. Halloween is one of those days for my kids. My friend Leah, who owns CrossFit Nation in Maryland, posted about a story about a woman…

  • My Passion Wakes Me Up

    Who ever invented the Renegade Row is not right in the head. A Renegade Row is a push-up performed on dumbbells or kettlebells, one of which is rowed after each push-up rep. Seems pretty solid right? Holy crap – it was in our WOD today and I used 20# dumbbells — thinking that may not even…

  • Cold Weather Brings on Exercise Induced Asthma

    Happy Monday! With colder weather beginning, many athletes find that they begin to suffer from exercise induced asthma. If you find yourself suffering from coughing, wheezing and feel a tightness in your chest and are very short of breath while you are exercising – then you are experiencing the effects EIA. I have issues year round,…

  • It’s About Making Progress

    I want you to stop and realize that more than half of October has passed by. How does this happen? When we are young, time goes by so slow. I remember sitting in class, looking at the clock, thinking that 3:12 would never come. Even in college, on my Tues/Thurs schedule when I had the…

  • Columbus Day – Means Switching Things Up

    The kids are off from school due to the Columbus Day, so that was a great reason to sleep in a bit and hit a later CrossFit class. We are de-loading for the next week or so since we just finished the 12 week strength program. It’s a very odd feeling to be de-loading —…

  • Slippery Slopes

    It’s no secret that I have been less than my usual happy self lately and it’s starting to take its toll. I made a promise to myself that with my blog, I am always honest, because who am I fooling in the end?  No one is perfect. We all have ups and downs. I keep…

  • Napping: It’s a Good Thing

    We are definitely entering Fall here in Northern Virginia. It is getting darker earlier and this morning, when I woke up it was dark and chilly. Brrr. I actually love this time of the year – it’s a time of change. Northern VA is so beautiful in the Fall. We have an abundance of trees,…

  • Naturally Calm: Magnesium

    I have talked about Magnesium in a previous post, but a few friends asked me about it again yesterday. I had been forgetting to take it for a while and noticed how bad my PMS got last month compared to the month before when I was taking it. Natural Calm is a powder you mix into…

  • Eat Right & Stay Fit – It will pay off

    Been a very busy weekend –but today, I had a PR. I did 11 strict pull ups in a WOD round! STRICT PULL UPs! I was so happy.  To me pull-ups are a sign of real strength – when I started over 5+ years ago, I couldn’t do ONE! That made my day and it’s…