CrossFit Workout: 100 Thrusters for Time. Maximum pain in the minimum amount of time. Me: 12:10 at 75#, the soreness kicked in before the reps were even done. The personal trainer next to me watched me complete my reps and said, “I wanna be like you when I grow up.” He’s older than me. Today,…
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Literally Nike
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“I eat better than you.”
Awesome conversation overheard today after yoga: Woman 1: “You have the most amazing back, what do you do?” Amazing Back Woman: “This [yoga] and my diet.” Woman 1: “What? I guarantee I eat better than you.” Amazing Back Woman: “Nope, it’s all in the diet.” Woman 1: “I eat better than you. You eat meat.”…
Compliment or Insult?
Let’s play a little game I like to call Compliment or Insult?… I’m at the gym yesterday doing butterfly pullups and some dude is like, “whoa! what are you doing over there?” I explain that it’s a modification on a pullup for high volume and he looks confused. I ask if he’s ever heard of…
Austin: Yoga Festival!
September may have been National Yoga Month, but October hosts the first annual Austin Yoga Festival October 8th & 9th at Fiesta Gardens. The Festival will be a celebration of all styles of yoga, bringing together Austin’s finest yoga studios, teachers, ayurvedic practitioners, and holistic wellness providers. Over 30 of Austin’s finest yoga instructors will be leading classes…
Walk it Out
Confession: part of the reason I wanted to get a dog was so that I’d always have to exercise. Even if it wasn’t running, I’d need to take the poor thing out for a walk from time to time (then I got a house with a backyard … theory shot … then I moved to…
Wendler 531
I’m doing it! Just finished week 1. Pretty excited about it. Still yoga-ing a lot too. I think they work well together. Hit it hard, stretch it hard? Also funny: how this article: i-heart-powerlifting-and-im-not-bulky-or-masculine went totally viral in a day. CrossFitting women all love powerlifting. I love powerlifting too. What was it about this particular article or…
Around the Fitness Horn: Dang it’s been awhile
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a roundup, but some dang good stuff came out in the past few days. Check it: The always-awesome Sage Burgener takes on CrossFit psychology. Love love love. I’m lucky enough to live in Nature’s Garage Gym, so I get to be outside, playing, and mastering bodyweight exercises, all the…
Lots of Travelin’
I fully intended to write a full post on the Chicago airport gym, but now it swirls around in my head with the other travelin’ gyms and workouts I did, so it will just be one of a list: Chicago: Hilton hotel gym at the airport (you DO have to leave security). Has an Olympic…
My Favorite Places
For an advisory position I’m fulfilling this coming week (more about that later!), I had to list my favorite places. As I sat down with both Austin and Aspen categories, I realized that the majority of my fave places are fitness-and-outdoors-related. No surprise, right? In Aspen: Bleeker Street, King Yoga, Rio Grande Trail, Jimmy’s, and…