lifting

Lady Lifter Spotlight – Dana!

by ~jenniferlynn on March 7, 2013

in Lady Lifter Spotlight

Some of the ladies I choose for my lifting spotlight have approached me, asking to be next. Other ladies, I have reached out to and they have graciously accepted the invitation to be featured on my blog. This week’s spotlight is a little different. I found Dana on the New Rules of Lifting Facebook forum […]

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Can you believe that it is just about 2013 already? While everyone else is recapping their 2012 progress and setting up 2013 goals, I wanted to do something a little different and give a little guidance for those who are trying to set goals for the new year. From a lot of the bloggers that I follow, many […]

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Lady Lifter Spotlight: Mel!

by ~jenniferlynn on December 20, 2012

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So many women seem scared of weights but so far, I have found no shortage of ladies who want to show off their lifting progress in my spotlights! Mel found me on Twitter and I thought she was a dedicated runner, but this chick knows her way around the weight room, too! 🙂 ~~ Name: Melissa […]

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On the First Day of Crossfit..

by ~jenniferlynn on November 27, 2012

in CrossFit

On the first day of Crossfit, my new coach gave to me.. 500 meters of rowing, 40 air squats, 30 butterfly sit-ups, 20 incline push-ups 10 banded pull-ups and some DOMs that will last for three days.. Let me tell you that my first real experience at a Crossfit box was a quite humbling one. […]

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Lady Lifter Spotlight: Suzanne!

by ~jenniferlynn on November 15, 2012

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Though all of my lady lifters are amazing, I approached Suzanne on Twitter to ask if she would share some tidbits of information on herself because not only is she a lady-lifter, she is a personal trainer and a huge proponent of weight lifting for women. She blogs all about it, so of course is […]

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Lady Lifter Spotlight: Sarah!

by ~jenniferlynn on November 8, 2012

in Lady Lifter Spotlight

I know I have mentioned before how fortunate I feel to be a Sweat Pink Ambassador and share my love of health and fitness with others, as well as have the opportunity to be inspired by others. I sound Sarah’s blog through Sweat Pink a couple months ago in the middle of her half-marathon training, but the […]

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And so begins week 2..

by ~jenniferlynn on November 6, 2012

in Running, Weight Lifting

This week marks my second week attempting to balance training for a 10k with my strenuous lifting regimen, but so far, I’m chugging along with only minor difficulties. The plan for the week was as follows, but there are already some tweaks that needed to be made along the way, such as shortening my Sunday 4.5 mile run […]

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October Goals Recap and November Goals

by ~jenniferlynn on November 2, 2012

in Goals, Running, Weight Lifting

When I set up my goals for October, I focused on five main categories: blog, food, lifting, cardio, and other. Let’s see how I did! Blog/Branding: New blog brand image. I did it! 🙂 With the help of Caroline over at Sweet Caroline Blog and the critique from Rita at Blog Genie, I was able to get […]

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Figuring it out

by ~jenniferlynn on October 31, 2012

in Running, Weight Lifting

When I trained for my first 5k, I gave myself a full six months to complete the 8 week program, and it took me about the whole six months to do it since i was a super beginner and I struggled a lot. I never kept up with running and even though I did recently run […]

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I’m still trying to figure out how I should be eating, or what I should be eating, and how much of it I should be eating. For the next week or so though I ‘m not going to completely stress about it as I wads during my Whole30 and just go back to stress-free eating like I […]

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