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I’ve spent the last 20 years competing and participating in sports. Twenty YEARS. Yes, I am dating myself. I’m not over the hill yet, but 40 is right around the corner. And, things change. Fitness has changed. Back in the “day”, we did what was called LSD or “Long Slow Distance” meaning we’d head out [...]

The more I workout, the pickier I get about my clothes. My running shorts tend to be too baggy when we are doing heavy lifting and actually get in my way. The longer style yoga short are too hot, yoga pants are out of the question just on temperature alone…I was never this picky in [...]

The medicine ball shuffle could otherwise be known as one monster movement! You can see me here in a full squat (that’s me in my 9pm sunburned glory) holding a six pound medicine ball well below my knees.  Objective: move in a sideways direction for a distance of 10 meters keeping that ball below your [...]

As a former collegiate athlete, I never lifted weights.  We ran, we raced and we stretched.  Never did we spend any time in the gym lifting weights.  Not only did I run cross country and track, but, I also competed in collegiate road cycling.  Although, we did not have a cycling coach, we had “team [...]

What happens when you volunteer to do something that scares you?  For the last six months, I have been training heavily at my local CrossFit gym.  Each day is different and a lot of times ridiculously hard…so hard that I will argue with my trainer that I can’t do it.  Just last week, I was [...]

Can I do 7 pull-ups in a row without a rest? How many perfect push-ups can I do before complete muscle failure? Can I lift 95 pounds in an overhead squat? How can I keep my mind in an ultra positive state when the workouts get really hard? These are just a few questions that [...]

Have you heard of CrossFit?  Picture this: Beautiful park, two beautiful level 1 Cross Fit trainers (husband and wife) offering free workouts in the park for “all levels and all ages”.  The flyer said “a high intensity boot camp style workout” and guess who showed up?! Yes, that’s right me. First order of business was [...]

Well, its officially Fall, which means pretty soon most of us are going to have to trade in our sunny runs and hikes for gyms and treadmills. Those of you hardcore enough to keep running and doing boot camps outside in the colder months, well, you are insane- and I envy you. Statistically, people actually [...]