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50 Burpees

Vimeo is stupid for not letting me embed on WordPress. Or WordPress is stupid. Not sure which, but stupid. Here are my 50 burpees for day 50. They sucked, I’m not going to lie. 50 Burpees … I’m Getting Stronger from lyssa myska allen on Vimeo.

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.

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.…

Dog-Dodging Sprints & 100 Burpee Challenge

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…

Recharge Compression Tee Makes You Better?

Under Armour just released a $99.99 t-shirt that promises to act like an ice bath, but in a shirt: UA Compression that gets your muscles back to full strength faster. Strategic compression promotes muscle tissue repair. Decreases the amount of time muscles are sore. Reduces swelling caused by exertion or impact. Now, everyone knows that…

What do you do when the gym is closed?

So I’ve been looking forward to working out all day and have planned to hit the gym at 8:30pm when I find out it closes at 9pm. Now, CrossFit is quick and all, but it’s just not worth bundling up and trekking to the gym for less than 30 minutes. I briefly contemplate taking another…

100 Pushup Challenge

Y’all know that I’m into CrossFit (BTW: Free CrossFit Central UTB & Indoor workouts (capped at 30 ppl) this Saturday! Here to RSVP for gym or get info on UTB or email Alicia at aliciagolinghorst@crossfitcentral.com), but I’m pretty quiet about what I’m gaining from it, how hard it is on some days, and so on.…