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The Obstacle (COVID-19) Is The Way
I started reading The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. I ordered this from Amazon when shit started to get real with COVID-19. Why? Because I’m determined not to join the pity parties around me. I’m determined to come out the other side of this crazy, life-changing experience with some positively life-changing results. In […]
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Training CrossFit at Home: How to work with what you’ve got and not lose all your gains
MY GYM IS CLOSED! I HAVE NO EQUIPMENT! I WILL SURELY SEE MY MUSCLES TURN TO MASHED POTATOES AND JELLY! We’re all thinking about it. Yes, we’re all a bit startled, rattled, and upset. Our routine has been interrupted, and our up-to-this-point-known-fitness world has closed its doors on us, but we haven’t lost access to […]
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The Top 15 CrossFit Online Accounts You Should Be Following
There are only a handful of ubiquitous names in the CrossFit community. Names ranging from the likes of Katrin, Annie and Briggs to Fraser, Froning and Fikowski. Aside from these individual athletes, we’re repeatedly exposed to only a handful of companies: Reebok, Rogue, Concept2, COMPEX, to name a few. While these athletes and companies provide […]
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Setting CrossFit Goals: Your Best Year Yet
New Year’s Resolutions. Some people live by them, swearing at the start of each new year that…This year will be the one. This year will be different… this is the year I finally turn it around. New Year, new you! That last one always makes me cringe a little bit… How To Set CrossFit Goals Whether you’re crafting […]
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What Gets Measured Gets Done: My Experience With Tracking Calories and Macros For CrossFit
Today, I want to shift gears away from teaching specific CrossFit skills towards a different direction. I instead want to talk about eating, nutrition, calories, and macros for CrossFit. As we all know, fitness is much more than what happens within the walls of your gym. So I’m going to take a few minutes to […]
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Getting CrossFit Results: Goals Without A Plan Are Just Wishes
After a recent girls night out, I told a friend that I would love to be good at doing my own makeup. My friend, listening to my comment, gave me a look and said something that made me smile. “If I thought for a minute that you gave a shit about your makeup I’d tell you to […]
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Finding Time To Workout: How this CrossFit mother of two changed.
Life is busy. The kids are even busier. Work life is creeping into home life – and what’s a “vacation”? Weeks fly by and the idea of finding time to workout is smothered by piles of laundry and hours of overtime.At first, I began writing this to smugly inform you that it’s not that you […]
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