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The End of the World as We Know It and I’m Feeling Fine
What If it Really Was The End? No end of the world it seems — but have you thought about the What If of it all? Are you living your best life? Have you made amends with anyone that is not in your life anymore but you miss them? Are you living life with good…
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Don’t Forget Your Hamstrings
Hamstring Mobility – It’s Important Besides showing fellow athletes how to use a lacrosse ball to help with mobility, I also have shown many of them a really good hamstring stretch. Many people don’t realize how back problems are often associated with tight hamstrings. According to the National Academy of Sports Medicine “Tight hamstrings can…
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Toxic People Go Away
This weekend flew by — I went to a 4 hour strength training workshop at CrossFit Impavidus on Saturday and I was smoked afterwards. I don’t think I have ever lifted that much in one session before — back squat, press, and deadlift — and add in the WOD I did earlier. When I got…
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Muscle Up For the Win
Muscle Up Success It’s a still picture but I did do a few muscle ups today. They need some tweaking but they count. Muscle Ups are one of the “things” that CrossFitters’ count as a benchmark for themselves. Someone once told me that a MU is the ‘holy grail’ of CrossFit. Which is funny because…
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It’s All About Perspective
Let’s talk about perspective today. I had to stop myself this morning from some negative thoughts that were seeping into my head during my lifting and remind myself that I need to give myself a break and credit instead of giving myself a hard time. If you change the way you look at something, it…
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Recipe: Spicy Paleo Italian Chili
Spicy Paleo Italian Chili This is my popular spicy Italian chili — I made it on Friday for the CrossFit Staff Holiday party and then made some more yesterday. It’s super easy and really tasty and you can make a large batch and eat it during the week. If my family were big on leftovers,…
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Klout Perk: Sony Action Cam
So I have to share something super cool that happened this week. As most everyone knows — I do social media marketing for a living as well as my passion. I love both sides of it –figuring out ways to use it market to certain demographics and then the flip side, to inspire and support…
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Demand Excellence
When you surround yourself with garbage, you start to stink! Change is hard. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am focusing on changing some of the ways I react to change and situations in my life and let me tell you — it’s way harder than I thought. There have been times…
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More Getting Comfy with Being UnComfy
Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable It’s the same scene each time — the workout on the board is strength focused. The class attendance drops. Why is this? This morning, Push Press was on the agenda and sure enough when I got there there were only two ladies in the 5A class. Why do people shy…
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Don’t let fear define you
I was looking around the gym this AM while we were doing some practicing on the rings and thought to myself –how freakin’ fun is this? We are playing like we were kids on a playground. How many of us adults can remember the last time we did something so carefree and challenging? I can…