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Gateway Garage Games 2013
Oh, hello Thursday. Nice of you to sneak up on me! We spent most of our weekend up at the Family Arena either spectating or competing in the Gateway Garage Games 2013, so I’ve been playing catch up and trying to recover as much as possible. It’s amazing what not having a weekend to clean, plan meals, grocery shop, and food prep will do to your week! I seriously feel like I’ve been drowning in my to do list all week! Anyway, back to the competition. Friday afternoon we headed out to watch the first night of individual competition. Our box was sending 2 teams, but we didn’t compete until…
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The Countdown is On…
So once upon a time I spent my entire summer training harder than ever for this one CrossFit competition…. I got frustrated with my nutrition and hired a nutrition coach, and walked into his office telling him my goal was to be in the best shape possible for this competition…. I struggled and overcame. I’ve had ups and downs. I even did a tiny local competition as a part of my training for this competition… and, uh, this competition thing? It’s on SUNDAY. As in like 5 days away. I’m excited. Slightly Nervous. But mostly excited. We’ve known the workouts for about a month, and I’m fairly confident in my abilities…
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Dirty Girl Mud Run St Louis 2013
Oh hey, world. I’m just a week late on my recap… no big deal. Last week I participated in the Dirty Girl Mud Run with some of my favorite girls, and it was a BLAST! We met up at CrossFit 70 to carpool over since parking was $10 a car. We were registered for the 9:30am wave and we got there a little after 8am. When we arrived there was seriously like NO line at all and we were through registration in less than 10 minutes. One of our girls was meeting us there and got there a little before 9am and the line was crrrraaazy. The lesson? Get there early!!…
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Snap out of it!
Long Weekends = Short Weeks… hallelujah. It also means I never know what day it actually is. Which is how I missed the weigh in wednesday post because it’s actually Thursday now. Good news is tomorrow is Friday already! And you know what is this weekend? Dirty Girl! I have a fun group of ladies from CrossFit teaming up with me to do it. It is going to be a blast and I can’t wait! Since in my head it still feels like Wednesday I’m going to chat a little bit about my progress. I’m in a weird place. Since I’ve been doing Project: Simplify I’ve been going through my…
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The Truth About Weight Loss: Extra Skin
Can life just slow down for a minute? A day? Most days we are going non-stop from 5am-8pm. Running two businesses, taking college classes, along with being a parent/wife/friend leaves little to no time for other things. So I may miss a day or two of posting. I used to feel guilty about that… but then I realized that is just pressure I’m putting on myself. I love blogging, I just need to figure out how to make time for it in this season of life. This may mean my posts are scattered throughout the week instead of every weekday morning. I love blogging and the things it has allowed…
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Owning Your Journey
Sometimes I have things planned out to write about. Today was one of those days where I had something totally different scheduled but when I read this post called “of tiny pink dumbbells and fat chicks” I felt inspired to write something totally different. So here we go… when i first started trying to lose weight i thought i could just drop the weight and be done with it. i’d be a before and after. i’d have one of those wildly successful blogs where i shared all my secrets. i’d get to my “goal weight” and then be able to eat whatever i want and live happily ever after. ha.…
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Training Update and thoughts on “Goal Weight”
It’s been awhile since I talked about my training, so I thought I’d give you an update on that! It is really hard to organize and recap all my workouts each week since I feel like I’m always doing something. Being a CrossFit Affiliate owner means I’m at the gym on average 6 or so hours a day (at least). I spend a lot of that time coaching, but for those of you who have worked in the fitness world you know that coaching doesn’t mean just sitting there! We are always on the move and demonstrating movements. I work up a sweat just from coaching! We workout at 7am.…
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Dirty Girl Mud Run St Louis (Discount Code)
I love mud runs. They are so fun! When I found out that Dirty Girl Mud Run was coming to the St Louis area I knew I wanted to get in on it. They will be in town Saturday September 7th and they have waves going all throughout the day. It is going to be at The Battlegrounds in Wright City, MO. I traveled to a few events last year (Remember how much fun I had in Chicago? Check out the Video!) but this one is like literally right in my back yard! The thing that I love about mud runs is that it is just so much fun. There…
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Addicted To Progress
Don’t forget to enter the Lunitik Athletiks Compression Socks and Strong Confident You Tank giveaways! Yesterday was my check in with my nutrition coach. To be honest, going into the check in I wasn’t feeling all the confident about my progress. I spent a few days in Texas and had a few more cheats than I should have. I also had a pretty stressful week last week with Chris being gone and had a hard time fitting in my 5th meal, which I normally eat in between coaching the 5pm and 6pm classes. Anyway, the good news is I still saw change. I lost 2lbs of fat, but unfortunately I…
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Strong Confident You
I love workout gear. I spend 90% of my time in workout gear. Between working out and coaching classes I’m always in my sweaty clothes. Thing is I still like to feel cute too! I want workout apparel that is fun and functional. When I found the Etsy Shop Strong Confident You I fell in love. They have the awesome burnout tanks that are so comfy, but they also have cute designs! Add a bow, ruffles, or glitter and I’m sold. They were kind enough to send me a shirt to try out. I had my eye on this one: This isn’t Sweat, It’s Sparkle. I couldn’t wait to put it…