Eat healthily, be healthy. Eat unhealthily, be unhealthy. It seems simple enough, but what all does it mean to be healthy? What happens when healthy behaviors trigger unhealthy actions? A while back, I briefly talked about struggling with switching from paleo to Eat to Perform and had all sorts of mixed emotions going into it. […]
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The following post is sponsored by FitFluential LLC on behalf of Reebok. Since my minor little melt-down the other day at Crossfit, my coach had suggested that I take a bit of time away from the barbell (what?!), step back from Olympic lifting for a moment (noooo….), and focus on having fun. Well, I use […]
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Friday marked seven weeks since I last ran or jumped, other than some minor activity during a recent partner competition. While this sounds like part of a twelve-step program, the inability to run has been a bit of a blessing in disguise. Without drawing out the catastrophic event that caused the injury (to which there is […]
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For the second year in a row, I had an opportunity to spend my weekend at the Crossfit Games Central East Regionals. We were fortunate to have a team from our sister-box, Plymouth Crossfit, compete, including one of my coaches, Lynn, but I would have attended even if we didn’t have a team to support! Even though […]
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While there are probably hundreds of lessons that I could pull from my Crossfit experiences thus far, I think one main lesson that Crossfit can teach us is that, “Patience is a virtue,” one of the many wise quotes that my dad used to always say, but one that I often to have to remind myself. […]
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I can guarantee that if you surveyed any Crossfitter and ask what his or her most-disliked Crossfit movements are, I can guarantee 99% of them will say burpees or thrusters, and probably nearly just as many will quote them both. While the first four Crossfit Games Open workouts passed, and not one of them contained […]
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Regardless if you do Crossfit or any other sport, chances are you have plenty of gear to tote around back and forth between home and the gym. I have used everything from a reuseable grocery bag to a dufflebag to a standard gym bag and while each has their perks (from one being quite inexpensive […]
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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, […]
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I am an emotional being… ..which has turned me into an even more emotional athlete. I have had countless runs that are full of tears. I have stressed myself out crazy in WODs to the point I think I have self-induced panic attacks, working myself up to the point that I not only cry but […]
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I have seen a lot of response to the article that has been looming for the past couple months on the dangers of Crossfit, but after two more people this week have sent me the controversial article, I needed to vent a little. The reason Crossfit is dangerous is because of the athletes that do […]
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