Out of nowhere, I tore my plantar fascia playing football–pushing off the line of scrimmage–last Wednesday. I felt a pop in the arch of my foot, and knew something was torn but didn’t even know you COULD tear a plantar fascia, particularly not one that gave you no warning and previously did not have pain.…
A report on the legendary 10,000 kettlebell swing challenge, a month-long, super-simple, brutal set of 20 workouts of 500 kettlebell swings each with one accessory movement and prescribed rest. Week 1: 2,000 swings down First two workouts were with 14kg bell at around 22 mins; third upgrade to 16kg bell at 25 mins and fourth…
A special section for special times. This is what kept me covidtained? this week. Can you believe it’s week 6? Last week’s list here. Week 4 here. Week 3’s here. Week 2’s here. There is no Week 1 because we didn’t know back then. Workouts… BASKETBALL. I have gotten to shoot every day and it makes me so…
This feels like an embarrassment of riches. There is literally not enough time in the day to do all the yoga with all the teachers I have loved and lost when I moved away. The quarantine’s silver lining is that they’re back and zoom classes are the only option so I get to experience the…
Yoga is important to me from a physical and mental standpoint, but I admit I haven’t much gotten into the chakra part of yoga. I know the 7 chakras and I love when teachers bring them into class, but my own study has been minimal. So when Plant Therapy reached out and asked if I…
Tru Wild is my new favorite supp company. Supps are hard—so many questions, so much bro science. Preworkout is not my jam but I LOVE sipping BCAAs throughout a workout … until I found out that most are made of some really really gross things. I could have lived my life without knowing that, but…
Some of y’all may remember when I tore my hamstring and all the emotional analysis that went with it. Well, for whatever reason, it’s resurfaced (physically, because lots of yoga, emotionally, because I have no idea). But the good news is that I have some great resources for torn hamstring, crazy-scar-tissue-in-the-high-hamstring rehab, even if it’s…
… if my faux celeb cred wasn’t legit before, now it is!! I also wrote this article on Brett Young. File this under “thank god I more or less stay in the same shape year round” because otherwise this four-days-notice photo shoot would have caused some serious anxiety. I’ve obviously had a lot of written…
To me, it was no big deal. My mama has been filling in for me in desperate sports situations for years—she still talks about the time I made her play in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in high school. So to ask her to play in two beach flag football games seemed totally reasonable to me……
I workout alone most of the time, and I love it—it’s uninterrupted me time. But sometimes, like when I do something good, I really wish someone was there to celebrate with me. I back squat 20 reps @ 225# today. One of the trainers came over as I was racking the weight and crumbling to…