inspiration

“But I should be better..”

by ~jenniferlynn on September 2, 2014

in CrossFit, inspiration

..than what? ..than who? If you are anything like me, you put a lot of time, effort, and emotion into your training program, whether it be Crossfit, running, a Beachbody program, or just training for aesthetics. You log you workouts. You put in the work. You make changes outside of the gym to complement the work that […]

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A while back I wrote a post about Crossfit and dating. It was not meant to make me come off as shallow or pretentious or anything; rather it was me finally finding a happy place in being by myself. It was months after having my heart broken, and it was through Crossfit that I was able to […]

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Don’t get your toes wet – dive in.

by ~jenniferlynn on June 2, 2014

in inspiration

There is no doubt that I love Crossfit. I love the feeling of my hands gripped around a barbell or wrapped around a pull-up rig or rings. I love flipping upside down into a handstand, springing onto a 30″ plyo-box, and have a love/hate relationship when my hands are grasped around that leather-bound wall-ball. I love the […]

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Once upon a time, February, 2012 to be exact, I began life in the globo gym. Months later, I later moved on to my own garage gym. I had followed New Rules of Lifting for Women and advanced to Stronglifts 5×5, falling deeper in love with the barbell. My support system was great, but was made up of just one […]

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I once lived in a fantasy world in which what I was doing was the only right way of doing things. My workouts consisted of Crossfit  and my diet was strict paleo. Crossfit + Paleo = Optimal Living, right? For someone who had never had any sort of disordered eating nor body issues, following this […]

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Better today than yesterday

by ~jenniferlynn on October 30, 2013

in CrossFit, inspiration

I had this post drafted in my head before I even went to workout today. I was going to title it, “What a Difference Seven Months Makes,” or “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” or something along those lines. The post would start with me bragging about how much progress I have made in the past year […]

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