Like many CrossFitters, I intermittent fast fairly frequently. Most mornings, I fast. Call it intermittent fasting, the 8-hour diet, whatever. For me, it’s what feels natural. Stop eating at 9pm the night before, fast until 1pm the following day (these hours aren’t set in stone). I’ve never liked breakfast foods, so I don’t miss that, and…
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Yoga and More Nature’s Garage Gem
Still at the yoga, still loving it. Check out my silly video from EndlessBeauty.com’s My Chemical Breakup Challenge … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/yAEV5Jyu5jY] Today in yoga I had a different instructor, which is always cool. We played around a lot with forearm balances and crow, which anyone who saw me try and fail to do handstand pushups at…
The New Nature’s Garage Gym/Gem
We recently moved from ABC, home of Nature’s Garage Gym CrossFit ABC123 to downtown Aspen. I was afraid there’d be no more rock-hoisting, river-hopping, boulder-jumping workouts, but I need not have worried. This IS Aspen, after all. Yesterday, I ran gassers on the rugby field across the street from our new apartment. Particularly interesting as…
Buck Furpees, and oh, there’s some foliage!
This 100 Day Challenge sometimes annoys the crap out of me. Like, I’ve already gone to yoga, played 2 hours of sand volleyball, and I have to do 37 burpees? Some days, it’s my saving grace. Like, it’s 10pm, I’ve been working since 9am with no break, and it’s the only thing I could possibly…
25 Burpees
Woke up yesterday morning, rolled out of bed, and hit up my benchmark 25 burpees. 25 Burpees for Breakfast #100burpeechallenge from lyssa myska allen on Vimeo.
Hiking Poles! and my workout
I promised somewhere (twitter? my blog? I don’t know) that I’d talk more about how awesome hiking/trekking poles are and how I’m pretty sure they are the only way I made it down Mount Massive a few weekends ago. Here’s an article detailing the science behind why you need hiking poles (I wrote it). And…
SicFit Basketball?
Or something like that … I immediately loved this WOD from SicFit Austin but knew that it would suck like crazy, so when I needed a pick-me-up today, I tried it out. I made a bunch of mods for my dog park and the fact that I finally found a rock that is heavy but…
“Have Fun With Your Rocks”
As I’m setting up Nature’s Garage Gym for my daily WOD, along comes a man walking his dog. Given that I’m 20 feet below the trail on the riverbank, this is sort of surprising, but then, it’s Aspen, and everyone like mini-adventures. I’m toting a flat, 16″x8″ rock, about 30#, overhead, hopping on different rocks,…
My First 14er / Day 7 of Burpee Challenge
I hiked my first 14er!! Mount Massive outside of Leadville, Colorado. At 14,400 feet, Mount Massive is Colorado’s second-tallest 14er. We took the steeper route, where we climbed 4,000 feet in 4 miles, but the first 1.5 miles were pretty flat, so it was more like 3,500 vertical feet in 2.5 miles. Which is tough.…
Nothin’ like a little crossfittin’ to de-stress
This week has been an insane one. Like, beyond normal I’m-really-busy-and-have-lots-of-things-to-do insane, and into I’m-walking-the-dog-and-burst-out-into-tears insane. It’s mostly of my own making, but nonetheless I am generally very good at keeping things as low stress as possible over here, but this week I failed. I wasn’t even sure I’d have time to work out today,…