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Back Squat at ya!
Oh it was a backsquat kinda day. I tweaked my shoulder/neck yesterday doing the press so I was very happy to hear that we were not going heavy with the back squats. I actually like this lift — it puts my broad shoulders and strong legs to good use! Warmup Drills 33lb barbell 10 deadlifts…
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Guest Post: Finding Your Thing
Written by Jason Kitchens, an inspirational guy I know… Sometimes you are going to have days where you just don’t want to. Perhaps the nite before you had to work late, stayed up that extra hour to catch a flick, or decided to have that one extra drink. Now it’s the next day and you couldn’t care…
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Research Proves A Beneficial Relationship Between Exercise and Brainpower.
How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and…
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Becoming a Kitchen Ninja
I shared this post on the CrossFit Impavidus Whole Life Challenge Blog for the 40+ athletes now entering week 4 of their 8 week transformation… Let’s talk about the Kitchen and cooking! You may be a ninja in preparing foods. Notice I didn’t say creating or mastering the kitchen. I hope that this challenge will help…
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Easy Paleo Recipe: Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream”
Um, a friend of mine shared this recipe from Easy Paleo and OMG! it’s looks like heaven. I miss Ice Cream! It is such a comfort food for me, so I will definitely give this a try! Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream” 1 1/2 FROZEN bananas (I cut my bananas in half before freezing them) 1/2…
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Earth Day 2012
Go be nice to Mother Earth today! Earth Day 2012 from K12.com blog… April 22 marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, a day when more than one billion people in 192 countries celebrate the Earth and focus on giving back to our planet. Not sure how to celebrate? Check out these ideas for ways to…
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Stay Focused!
I am so excited to go to the CrossFit Kids course! I will be out of pocket for most of the weekend —
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Dare to look Stupid!
Love This!
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CrossFit: Grace
Today, we met up with CrossFit girl Grace again. We have been doing cleans, power cleans, clean and jerks for some time now. Seems like every time I go to workout, we are doing some sort of oly lift with the word clean in it. I’m not complaining because strength work is key to getting…