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Back to School is Now in Session
Back to Life. Back to Reality. Today is the first day of school for my kiddos. It’s an exciting day but also bittersweet. It makes it even harder to believe how fast time goes by. HB is now in Fifth grade -her last year at the elementary school and Nate Dogg is headed to Third.…
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Word of the Day: Team Player
Today was a crazy busy day. I spent the morning coaching about 30 athletes who showed up the Open Workout at CrossFit Impavidus and them headed over to help out at the Spartan Race table our gym had. Im such a team player — What do you think of this recent story: Should Lack…
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It’s All Good
Today was all about the cartwheel — Guess who was the coach? Coach Jerry! There is this one guy who shows up regularly who just will NOT partake in any sort of gymnastics/going upside down exercise. He just wont do it. He literally walks away, no explanation, nothing. I personally think its because he gets…
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Focus Your Energy in Your Swim Lane
Don’t you love this quote. Its so true — your mind has a way of going into all the possible scenarios when you give it time to simmer over a decision or situation. Sometimes you just have to let it go or it will drive you crazy. I coached this morning and I gotta tell…
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Why Do You CrossFit?
So –when you workout and live this healthy life, are you doing it for overall health and wellness or are you doing it to look good? Be honest with yourself. I came across this postthis morning entitled: Forget how you look. What can you DO? Remember how I wrote about the themes we worked on…
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Getting the Kinks Out
So I broke down yesterday and got a deep tissue massage. That kink in my neck was not getting any better and I figured –let’s try something different. I didn’t know I was going to get a deep tissue massage until the guy started working on me trying to get that knot out. He kept…
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Fitness & Nutrition Mistakes Made by Women
Some good tips for the ladies who are just starting out learning to weight train. I hear many of these each and every day at CrossFit by some of the new women athletes and I have to debunk them every time! I also tell the ladies to NOT step on the scale for a while!…
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Gary Taubes: Exercise Won’t Make You Thinner
If you have read my blog and the many others out there that talk about Paleo eating –you know that Exercise is not really the key in getting you thin. It’s really a very small part of getting you thinner — your diet is the key. We all have met people who work out all…
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Sunday, Resting Sunday
I feel like I have slept all weekend — I’m not complaining just sharing with you all. Scott and I had a great date night last nite. We went and saw the Expendables. Not an award winning movie but funny as all get out. Reliving the macho/superhero phase of the 80s was so much fun…