It is no secret that Crossfit girls have a tendency to lean towards wearing booty shorts. It may not happen right away, but just as with the blooming confidence to take off your shirt mid-WOD, it’s a seemingly inevitable outcome that seems to correlate with body confidence and self-empowerment that comes from the sport. PIN […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Before I started Crossfit I was following the New Rules of Lifting for Women and one of the best outcomes of doing that program was finding an online community of other women who were doing the program or were veterans of it. In skimming the forum recently, one of the admins, Dana, posted something that […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Confession time. Despite me being on board with telling people to throw out the scale and that gaining weight when working out doesn’t matter, I still weigh myself quite regularly. As in, every Wednesday morning at 7:15 regularly. It’s all in a notebook aside my bed on the night stand. Date, body weight, body fat percentage […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
First off, I appreciate the overwhelming number of positive comments regarding my last post about the haters I recently experienced. You all were awesome at defending me and saying just the right things to outweigh the hurtful comments, and is makes me love my community, online and offline, that much more. I have no problem speaking my […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
A while back a good friend of mine stripped down and posed for a boudoir photo shoot. I remember her telling me that even though she was a bit self-conscious, it was a unique experience and a boost in self-confidence. While her pictures may have been intended to be shared with a significant other at the time, releasing […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Forever ago I started a post as part of a monthly blogging challenge (September, 2012 to be exact). I wrote and re-wrote the post and tried to get my thoughts out how I best wanted to say what I wanted to say, but nothing came out right. So there it sat, collecting dust in my […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I have always been thin, so it was a bit of a surprise when I started gaining weight with Crossfit. I was born a preemie almost two months early, wore a size 4 in second grade, and didn’t start my period until just before I started high school. In high school I lived on macaroni, […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I will be the first person to tell you that the number on the scale does not mean a thing. When developing a health and fitness regimen, it is more important to note progress with what you are lifting than what is displayed on the scale. And as someone who has gained 15lbs since starting […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
