A couple of days ago, I downloaded an app to compile the 9 best images on my Instagram page. I did it twice and it came up with exactly the same images both times. Eight out of the nine images are tied to what has been the biggest highlight of a very difficult year - …
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Challenges Part 7: Competition
Crossfit seemed like the natural next step in my fitness journey. Competing was not even a thought, much less a goal. But any time you can combine something I love doing with a good cause, I'm in. I've had my own struggles with mental health, and training is one of the main things that helped …
Teamwork makes the dream work
Word of the day: PARTNERPART A - 25 minute time capYou go, I go30 rounds3 deadlifts3 burpees over the bar20 rounds3 squat cleans 3 burpees over the bar10 rounds 3 clean and jerk3 burpees over the barPART BEach partner has 2min30 to establish:~1RM jerk ~1RM front squat I'm a numbers girl. It doesn't matter what …
Sweat 1000 – the R8d version
How do you cause pandemonium in the gym without actually being in the gym? You send weird, cryptic clues in the group chat, ask people to guess the workout and watch the cray cray unfold. That was how today started, before I even got out of bed. The one thing that was established was that …
Challenges Part 6: Crossfit
It's been a month since I officially joined R8dfit and what a ride it's been already. This past month has been a rollercoaster. Some weeks I felt so great and some weeks (like this week) just got me down in a big way. I'm realizing that the rollercoaster is more because of the way I've …
Challenges Part 5: Crossfit
I've been following this box on Instagram for a couple of months, and a few weeks ago they ran a competition. The winner would get a 2 week membership to train with them, and to enter, you had to comment on the competition post. A few days later, in the middle of the first day …
Inky Impressions 