It’s like that YouTube video that came out awhile back, where someone said the best way for a white woman to train is pretend a black man is chasing you. Sub black man for white dog and you have my sprints today at the Playground portion of Nature’s Garage Gym. Sprints: 10 x 40M (across…
Category: training
SicFit!! Round 2: The Tale of Ripped Hands
I’ve railed against and railed against and railed against ripping your hands just to do pullups. It’s an injury, it’s not worth it, and it puts you out of commission for days. BUT today I ripped. And not just a little. Anywhere I didn’t tape, I ripped. I stopped every time I felt a blister…
SicFit!!
I am proud to say that a) I did not die in my first CrossFit workout back in the Texas heat in the middle of the day in an un-air-conditioned garage. 101 degrees, “feels like 106,” says weather.com. b) our “dynamic warmup” was laying down the horse mats that become the gym floor. This is…
Sometimes the most random things inspire me: 21-15-9
I read some post today talking about how much the author loves 21-15-9 groupings. So I wanted to go for a run, but still CrossFit, and my legs are still sore from those damn pistols despite the fact that I played games of both basketball and soccer yesterday which should have worked out some of…
It’s HOT! My legs AND the temp
You know you’ve been away from Austin, Texas for far too long already when an 82-degree day feels sweltering. I need to get back to my hometown for a good dose of triple-digit reality. In the meantime, here’s the WOD I’d call the Hot Legs and Abs WOD, because everything in it engages leg and…
Fight (Football/Skiier) Gone Bad
Fight Gone Bad is a legendary CrossFit workout that mimics a fight. It looks like this: In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. There are three rounds. The stations are: Wall-ball: 20 pound ball (14#…
Ooops, I was on vacation…
… and forgot to blog! The Games were happenin’ and I was watching my buddies compete (y’all are badasses!!) and I had access to a gym so I was rocking some barbell workouts and playing some sand volleyball with my fam. Workouts: 7/16: CrossFit Football Snatch Workout (modified): Complete 8 rounds: 2 Power Snatches 4…
And then I ran a half marathon
… and I have no idea why anyone puts themselves through it! I made the 13.1 miles (or 13.5, say some people with GPS) of the Aspen Valley Half Marathon in just over 2 hours, keeping an 8:30 pace for the first three miles, dropping to a 9 to 9:30-minute pace the next nine, and…
TACFIT Commando
I downloaded a TACFIT workout and watched a video of the Israeli Special Forces trainer Coach Scott Sonnon. They say: Learn Previously Non-Disclosed Methods that Navy SEALS, Marines and Real-Life Secret Agents Are Using Right Now to Chisel Rock Hard Bodies and Maintain Mission Readiness — Anytime, Anywhere, With Absolutely No Equipment The entire TACFIT…
All-Around Fitness
Achieving milestones! I preach all the time about how much I love King Yoga, but something truly magical happened there yesterday (besides the fact that I later learned I was yoga-ing in the same room as Gretchen Bleiler had earlier … I wear her Oakley pants to ski!) … in my years of doing Bikram…