Live Fit and Sore

Category: Tips/Suggestions

  • 7 Ways to Relieve Stress

    7 Ways to Relieve Stress

    National Stress Awareness Month is in April but it’s never the wrong month to adopt new strategies to prevent and manage the day to day stress we all encounter. Here are 7 easy ways (in no particular order) to alleviate and mitigate stress in your life. To get started, pick one of these tips each…

  • Planning for a Family Visit with Toddlers in the DC Area

    We dropped the kids off for their yearly sleep away camp. Camp Kesem is a week long camp that serves children who have lost a parent to cancer, have a parent undergoing cancer treatment , or whose parent is a cancer survivor. The camp is an opportunity for kids to just be kids and to hang…

  • Make Every Day Count

    Another rest day is here! Hurray. I am sore from all the work this week which was made harder by all the crap food I ate. Birthday weeks are hard!!! Here are some interesting things I have come across this week around the web: ‘I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid’ The Bob Harper talks about how…

  • Tony Blauer: The Cycle of Behavior

    Stuck in the Fear Loop A few weeks ago a co-worker called me to get some advice about a work issue she has been dealing with for a while.  She has been putting up with a certain situation for a long time, enabling it to continue by not speaking up and requesting action. For anyone…

  • Tony Blauer’s Tactical Combative Camp: Five Important Themes For Women

    Tony Blauer’s Tactical Combative Camp: Five Important Themes For Women I recently attended the annual two day Tony Blauer “Tactical Combative Camp” at CrossFit Rubicon in Tysons Corner, VA. At first glance, any normal. suburban woman would walk into that gym and see the crowd gathered for the camp, and walk right out. Picture it:…

  • Introducing a 6 or 8 pack AB MAKER! FINALLY

    I am wondering if I am feeling like crap because of allergies. I never really have them bad, but Northern VA is famous for causing them. I can’t put my finger on things, but I just feel yucky and just not right! I am definitely glad it’s a rest day — I am SORE too!…

  • Blogher 11: San Diego – Day 1

    Day 1 Friday — I got up early to hit up the expo area and I am glad I did. Later on in the day, that place was packed. There were the typical big name booths – Chase, Lowes, Playskool, P&G to name a few. An interesting common theme was that they would ask that…

  • Bad Economy means Great Deals

    Thought this story may be interesting to some of my fellow parents: The bad economy’s upside? Great coupons. The good news about the bad economic news? Prolonged economic misery has created a heyday for bargains. Coupons are better. Maybe the best they’ll ever be. Scouring for deals is nothing new. It’s been the American family…

  • Handstand Push Ups are Like being a kid again..

    The end of the school year is stressful. Not only do you have to do remember all the school related stuff, for me – I have the added pressure of finding and scheduling camps and payments for camps. It also is a super busy time at work — we are an education company so the…

  • Free Comic Book Day is here again!

    Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. What Is Free Comic Book Day? Free Comic Book Day is a single day – the first Saturday in May each year – when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with…