Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? The last half of my summer was pretty terrible. Now that it’s over, I’m trying to get back to as normal a routine as I can manage right now. A few days after I wrote my last post, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. A couple weeks later, he underwent emergency surgery…
Author: Amanda Dvorak
Amanda is a former digital marketing professional from New Jersey. She loves all aspects of fitness, but has special interests in CrossFit, powerlifting, running, and general strength training. When she's not writing or working out, Amanda enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with her husband and her dog Charlie.
Fitness as Stress Relief
What’s your favorite form of stress relief? For me, it’s fitness. Not too long ago, I went through a stressful few weeks where I was working on something really important to me and it ended up not turning out the way I’d hoped. I had put in hours of hard work and preparation only to not get the result I…
Monthly Workout Roundup – June 2017
In the past, I wrote weekly workout roundups. This time, I decided to try monthly recaps instead. Now that I’m not Crossfitting as often as I used to, some of my workouts are pretty uneventful. So now, I’m going to talk about some of the highlights each month, rather than writing about every workout I do each week. Friday, June…
Life Outside of Crossfit
I feel sad whenever I admit this, but my passion for Crossfit has dwindled over the past few months. I wrote about this in one of my previous posts, but lately I’ve been feeling this way more and more. I sometimes feel guilty when I think about how other people at my gym never cease to make it to class…
Oh, hey! It’s me again.
For some reason, every time I’m inspired to write again, summer is always the time of year that inspires me the most. It’s strange, because summer is my least favorite season. I hate hot weather and humidity, which can be brutal here in northern NJ. Summer, however, is also the time when I’m the most active. I’m sure that’s is…
Dusting Off the Insanity DVDs
Last night, I did one of the original Insanity DVDs for the first time in about a year and a half. Since then, I’ve focused on Crossfit, with occasional running and a random FitnessBlender video here and there. Lately, though, I’ve been switching up my workouts. I briefly hinted at this in my last post, when I mentioned that I’m…
Strength Training, Crossfit and Eating: 2017 Updates
I can’t believe we’re already basically halfway into January 2017. I thought the holidays went by fast, but now here we are just about halfway through the first month of the year. When I last posted, I had just started the Renaissance Periodization template and was trucking along with my Crossfit workouts. I did pretty well on the template until around…
Workout Recap – Week of 9/12/16
Another week of training done! The beginning of the week went pretty well. By Friday, I was wiped out and it showed in my workout. I made sure I got plenty of rest this weekend, so hopefully that will help for this coming week! Monday, September 12 Strength: 5×3 BTN (behind the neck) lunges off the racks – I…