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Your work is making you fat
Workplace Cited as a New Source of Rise in Obesity Looking beyond poor eating habits and a couch-potato lifestyle, a group of researchers has found a new culprit in the obesity epidemic: the American workplace. A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960 suggests that a sizable portion of the national weight gain…
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Hitting my stride
Today was one of those days when you just get the rhythm of a particular exercise and you kick ass doing it. Normally I’m not a super efficient runner nor a fast one — but I felt my stride when we did our 800m warm up this morning and it carried through the WOD as…
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Does having children make you happy?
Does having children make you happy? Such an interesting discussion. I know lots of people with no kids who are happy, and those will kids who are happy. I guess it all depends on how you define Happy. Nearly one in five American women now ends her childbearing years without having a child, compared with…
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Digital Bullying
Free to Be… Not Anymore I am sharing this because it really is a whole new world of bullying than when I was a kid. Recently I watched a Dr Drew show on CNN or some other station about bullying and he said something that really struck me. I may have even mentioned it here…
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CrossFit WOD: Cindy
I went a little blonde crazy yesterday. I have been too busy (aka lazy) to get my hair done lately but finally bit the bullet and took care of it yesterday evening. While I was there, my stylist was telling me her brother in law is a war veteran and loves CrossFit. One thing she…
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Double Unders & Sit Ups – Yeah, that’s the WOD
By 1p yesterday, I was wiped out. The Fran workout yesterday may be a quick one – but it takes you down. There have been a few WODs recently that totally wiped me out and by mid day, all i wanted to do was crawl into bed. For today’s skill we worked on gymnastics and…
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Healthy Fudge Babies
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2009/10/13/make-these-now/ My friend Lori made these the other day and let me tell you — YUM! Original Fudge Babies (Serves… depends on how good bad non-existent your self-control is) 1 c walnuts (120 grams) 1 and 1/3 cups pitted dates (230 grams) (If you want a sweeter result, up the proportion of dates.) (If you’re unsure as to…
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What would happen?
5 Things Keeping You From Wellness I love this post – it’s so true. This is the message that I try to convey to anyone that asks me about my fitness journey and I often wish they would stop and ask what would happen if you stopped waiting for someday, and started today? They would…
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Fran WOD
It was a super busy weekend — Half the family went to the Joint Services Air Show and Hannah and I went to the Reston Arts Fair — and then we had laser tag parties, CrossFit, CrossFit Kids — laundry, cleaning, errands — no down time at all this weekend. I’m going to share some…
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Venus with Biceps
I saw a new book review that got my attention: Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women It definitely has not traditionally been the look of the ideal woman – strong, muscular woman. I do think the tides are turning or at least in the circles I hang out in …. CrossFit woman…