I’ve been following Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 program for about 6 months now (with a little break over the holidays). So far, I love it! I started following the program in August. I was a little hesitant at first. Although I’ve been working out for years, I haven’t always regularly followed a strength program. Much of what I read suggested that…
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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…
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…
Workout Recap – Week of 9/5
Last week was just okay. I didn’t achieve anything remarkable and I had a couple of pretty awful workouts, but I had a couple of decent workouts as well. Monday, September 5 I didn’t workout per se, but my husband and I found a little arboretum near our house with a hiking trail so we took our dog for…