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Take the Lead In Your Life
Change is hard! There I said it. So many of us lead hard lives as it is that when presented with choices to make a change, we don’t. Why do something else hard by choice? And sometimes you are so clouded that you don’t even realize you need to change. Logic says that if…
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Coming Clean About Eating Clean
I had seriously the best weekend – I had a super great Thanksgiving day filled with fitness and family and food. I had a date with my silver fox husband. I worked out to raise money for Wounded Warriors Project with a super fun partner, and had a fun, laugh filled lunch with the ladies…
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Day After Thanksgiving: Working It Out
To CrossFit or To Not CrossFit? What a Stupid Question Yesterday was a great day. Wegmans really does make a great Thanksgiving meal easy. i ordered their dinner package and with their instructions on the overall timing, it all came out perfect. My mom came from NJ and my friend Lani came over. It was…
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Day Before The Turkey
Happy Turkey Day Eve!! A day to relax, get ready for the feast and begin to think about all the things you have to be thankful for this year!! warmup racing drills DROM Skill Ring L-Sits WOD Backwards Tabata l-sits on parralettes WOD 12min AMRAP 9 Deadlifts 12 Push Ups 15 Box Jumps rounds:5+
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Christmas Abbott, CrossFit Athlete, Coach and NASCAR Trailblazer
Christmas Abbott goes after her dream I make no secret that Iove Christmas Abbott – CrossFit athlete, coach, amazing person and now the first female Nascar pit crew member! CrossFit helps women achieve great things – helping inspire women to embrace strength and mental grit is one of the best thing about CrossFit for me. Showing…
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Earning Thanksgiving
Lots going on this week –the obvious, Turkey Day! I hope you all have great plans filled with great company and even better food. Life is about living and deciding when it’s a good time to indulge. I firmly believe for me, Thanksgiving is the right day to have good food — Paleo or not.…
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Being Thankful this Thanksgiving
Being Grateful A bunch of my friends have been doing a daily “I am thankful for” post on facebook. I love seeing them all post what is great in their lives — its a great reminder for me and everyone else how lucky we are and there is always someone out there that doesn’t have…
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You are Better Than You Were Yesterday
Appreciating the signs of success This morning before my 6A workout, I stopped one of the 5A athletes who I have been keeping my eye on for a while to tell her she is looking fantastic. Her eyes widened and a big smile came across her face –she said thanks, i have lost 15kilos. I…
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Love those Burpees Said No One Ever
Burpees Suck Something I did on Monday tweaked my back a bit. It started yesterday afternoon and it’s not super painful but I decided to take a rest day today to just let it heal a bit. It was a hard decision too. Coach Conan is the scheduled coach –it didn’t hurt that burpees were…
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Caution: Internal Construction
The Dance of Relationships I have been undergoing some self prescribed internal construction lately. I am looking into new strategies and ways to react to certain situations and people to help me improve some aspects of my personality and the way I behave when faced with them that seem to get me into some pickles…