Fitness

Street Parking Review

This past April, I joined Street Parking. It’s a virtual fitness community created by Miranda and Julian Alcaraz, two former CrossFit Games athletes, in their mission to make fitness accessible to everyone. They make it easy for people with busy schedules to work out from home with limited time and equipment. Street Parking was created over three years ago, and…

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Fitness

The (Crossfit) Plot Thickens…

There’s still a LOT going on in the Crossfit world these days. I’m a bit behind on some of this stuff. (I would make an excellent journalist, obviously). However, I wanted to provide some of my own thoughts about the most recent events. So, what exactly happened? Things have been a little wild, and what I really want to talk…

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Travel

A Trip Down Memory Lane: Atlantis Edition

We’re still not allowed to travel out of state or internationally due to COVID-19. I am itching to get out of New Jersey for a few days. But since I can’t go anywhere for the foreseeable future, I’m reminiscing about some of the trips I’ve taken over the past couple of years. Now, I won’t claim to be a travel…

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Fitness

The Demise of Crossfit?

I never said anything on here or on social media about #blacklivesmatter and George Floyd. I don’t have a large following on either, so I figured anything I would have said would have just gotten buried amongst everything else, and my voice isn’t large enough to truly make a difference. But that’s a terrible excuse, and I apologize for not…

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Fitness

Hatch Squat Program and My Quarantine PR

We’re in week 10? 11? of quarantine. I don’t really even know anymore. It feels like it’s been years. The other day, I was searching for an old email at work that was dated March 3 (about a week and a half before quarantine began here in NJ), and all I could think about was how that seemed like a…

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Life and Family

Seven Things I’m Grateful For

Coronavirus. A.K.A. COVID-19. Are you tired of hearing about it yet? I know I am. Yet, I can’t keep myself away from all of the coverage of it. In the mornings, I listen to the news while I drink my coffee and warm up for my workout. Throughout the day, I keep refreshing my local news websites to check the…

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