Quick news update for my blog! 🙂 I decided to start integrating my site with Facebook and Twitter.. so please take a quick minute to follow me 🙂 •••••••••••••••••••••• If you’ve been keeping up with my posts, you’d know that I decided to try out Fitness Cheerleader’s August Healthy Living/Fitness Blogger Writing Challenge. […]
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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. — Sam Walton •••••••••••••••••••••• If you’ve been keeping up with my posts, you’d […]
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When I returned from my vacation, I considered some sort of detox diet or cleanse to rid myself of all of the junk that I indulged in during my vacation. I looked into the 21-day Sugar Detox (recommended by the super fun Stephanie), but I don’t think my problem is a sugar addiction. I can easily pass on […]
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So after my horrible mini-meltdown after an amazing vacation full of sleeping and eating, and more eating and eating.. I think my boyfriend had some pity on me and decided to give me an advance on my pull-up challenge and buy me a present anyway without me having to torture myself some more 🙂 I […]
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It may not be the prettiest, or the best form, or whatever.. but I did a real chin-up today. Heck, I did FIVE real chin-ups today! 5 sets of 1.. but still! I knocked off another item on my fitness bucket list! My first chin-up! Well.. the video is really my third, as I did […]
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Crossfit.com publishes its Workout of the Day the night before, so you have plenty of time to mentally prepare for what is in store for the following day. We checked the workout last night and holy heck. As prescribed: For time: Run 1600 meters 150 Double-unders 50 Burpees Run 800 meters 100 Double-unders 35 Burpees […]
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Despite Sundays being a typical rest-day for me (and it being about 90 degrees outside at 11:00), I decided that after a day of indulging on the lake yesterday (including a plate or two of angel food cake topped with Cool-Whip..), a good old-fashioned Crossfit workout was acceptable, especially since it was only 20 minutes […]
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I was wasting time on Pinterest and looking up random fitness pages and ran across this t-shirt: While I do not cuss, I really felt that this appropriately expressed how I felt after tonight’s short little workout. The official crossfit WOD for today was an untitled workout, consisting of 21 each of 95# front-squats, burpees, […]
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It has been 14 weeks since I started my New Rules of Lifting for Women program (wow, does not seem like that long!) and so far, I am very pleased with the results. I’ve gained some weight (intentionally), but most of that is muscle. I’ve seen strength gains in ways I never thought possible (like being […]
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