Lead a Fit and Healthy Life
Fitness/Exercise
What do you like about You?
07 months ago
I saw this post today — thought it was a cool idea for all of us to do. Take time to keep a running list of things you actually like about yourself. It can be made Public or kept private. It’s up to you —
Reading that also reminded me of this quote:
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.- Walt Disney
Things I Like About ME
My lovely friend Elena came up with this amazing idea: “And so an idea was born. The idea of making a list. A powerful list. A list with no self deprecating sarcasm. A list of love. This list, will be “Things I like About ME.”
I decided to give it a shot. I am my own worst critic. I swear, I am horribley hard on my self. Doug often leaves the room when I am trying to find something to wear, he can’t deal with how many times I say “I look fat.”
Fitness Props to the city of Portland, Oregon
07 months ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
With fitness in mind, city launches ‘Passport to play’ program
Props to the city of Portland!
City officials yesterday unveiled a new “Passport to Play” program, an initiative designed to encourage physical activity and introduce residents to local parks and open spaces.
The program, which is funded with money from a federal tobacco settlement, is based around individual “passports,” which are available at Portland Public Library branches, City Hall and the Cummings Center.
These passports include descriptions of 10 city parks, from well-known spots like the Western Promenade to parks less traveled, like Oat Nuts Park on Outer Washington Avenue.
A passport has two pages deveoted to each park. Those pages contain park photos and fun facts, as well as space for participants to create “stamps” from special plaques located in each park.
Hints are given on where to find the plaques, but getting outside and finding the markings is supposed to be part of the fun.
Living this life ain’t easy
27 months ago
Warmup
10 OHS
10 Whirly Birds
10 Good Mornings
50 Single Unders
Hamstring stretching
Seated stretching
Skill
Back Bends
Good Mornings
WOD
3 Rounds for time:
800m
50 Sit Ups
25 Good Mornings (45#)
time: 22:14
Lately – I have had the feeling that I am taking steps backwards in my fitness journey. My eating the past 2 weeks was crap — although yesterday I was focused and conscious of what I was eating. But this morning — I felt like I was taking a step back in my workouts too. I am struggling with keeping up. I know part of it is the thick, humid weather. I just can’t breathe – inhaler or not. So when I saw the running today on the board, it was not a welcome site. I did make up time on the sit ups and good mornings, so It wasn’t all bad. I am just frustrated to see others pass me like it’s no sweat all the time. Yes, I am about 10 years old than them and have no younger years muscle memory, but still. And the flip side — why am I so hard on myself? What is it about a few of us out there that can’t see how far we have come and appreciate/celebrate that? When does it become good enough? Or is the answer, NEVER? Once again, some unflattering pics of me during our weekend trip have screwed with my mind. It’s so frustrating. I know in my mind that this won’t slow me down or negate what I have done — but it sure causes me more than a pause….
Living this ‘fit and healthy’ life ain’t easy – worth it, but not easy. Frankly its a pain in the ass and it loves to remind you of that fact often….and you have to remind yourself that the payoffs are worth the hassle.
Sometimes you have to let it all go –
07 months ago
Nothing like deciding at 3p on a Fri to drop all your weekend plans, pack up the kids, pack the car, pick the kids up from camp and drive to New Jersey. Sometimes you have to just let all the clutter and stuff that needs to get done in your life go, and get away. We have been wanting to go to the beach and into NYC for a while and figured — why not. Why not be Fun Mommy/Fun Daddy and just take the kids on an unplanned adventure? Although it was a short trip, and we got home very late last night, it was totally worth it!
I love NYC — wish I had lived there for a bit when I was first out of college. How much fun I would have had –or would I? It sure seems like a dream city in so many ways. And then to go to the jersey shore — it was like I was a kid again.
But like dreams, they end — and we are back to our work week, starting with my Monday CrossFit workout. Which by the way, I need because as hard as it is to admit – I fell completely off the wagon and it broke the past week or so. I am like an addict and can’t just have one night of gluttony. I have to go all in — lucky me. But I am determined to re-focus and get back to living fit and healthy when it comes to eating — otherwise the hard work I have done won’t pay off as much and I need my pay off!
Warmup
400m run
2x
10 whirly birds
10 hand stands
10 good mornings
10 pass throughs
Skill
Front Squat
Double Unders
WOD
3-3-3-3-3
95lb, 115, 125, 135, 145lb
1m AMRAP
Double Unders
total= 51
Make the change…
07 months ago
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. – Barbara de Angelis
Getting to the core of what kids love
07 months ago
N.J. fathers create toys that combine old-fashioned play, online excitement
Love this idea. Combining real outside exercise with what many kids love – unlocking game benefits.
Now a trio of New Jersey fathers has developed an online interactive game with a real-world component in which leaving the tangible toy behind is not an option.
It’s only by going outside and kicking a ball around that kids can advance through this new online destination.
Called FunGoPlay, the sports-themed website provides kids with actual toys — soccer balls and Frisbee-like flying discs — after they subscribe online. Both the site and the toys are designed to make sure the sports equipment is taken outside and put to use.
As children horse around with the equipment, sensors in the toys track how many minutes are spent playing and how many times the soccer balls are kicked. After about seven minutes of play, the equipment generates a code. That code unlocks a cache of points and rewards online, which kids can use to enhance their virtual athletic abilities.
Exercise works
07 months ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
Why Exercise Makes Us Feel Good
Why does exercise make us happy and calm? Almost everyone agrees that it generally does, a conclusion supported by research. A survey by Norwegian researchers published this month, for instance, found that those who engaged in any exercise, even a small amount, reported improved mental health compared with Norwegians who, despite the tempting nearness of mountains and fjords, never got out and exercised. A separate study, presented last month at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, showed that six weeks of bicycle riding or weight training eased symptoms in women who’d received a diagnosis of anxiety disorder. The weight training was especially effective at reducing feelings of irritability, perhaps (and this is my own interpretation) because the women felt capable now of pounding whomever or whatever was irritating them.
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Turkish get ups
07 months ago
Today’s workout SUCKED. Seriously, there is no other word for it. Focus on the core and full body workout –
Warmup
sampson stretch
10 Pull Ups
10 OHS
10 33lb good mornings
10 ring dips
20 Double Unders/60 single unders
10 Whirly Birds
10 Bendy Whirly Birds
Skill
Inverted burpees
tgus
WOD
21-15-9 reps of:
Turkish Get-Ups 53 lbs
Burpees
time: 15:10
turkish get up
Accept it, make it better, move on —
07 months ago
Today’s WOD really was a good one for me – I have strong shoulders/upper body so I love workouts that take advantage of it. I figure I may as well own the strength that I was born with –there isn’t anything I can do about it anyways. Accept it, make it better, move on —
Warmupx2
20 DUs/60 SUs
10 Push Ups
10 Ring Rows
10 Pass thrus
2 Sampson Stretch
Skill
TGUs
WOD
For time
30 Kettlebell 35lbs
30 Sit-ups
25 KB/DB
25 Sit-ups
20 KB/DB
20 Sit-ups
15 KB/DB
15 Sit-ups
10 KB/DB
10 Sit-ups
5 KB/DB
5 Sit-:ups
time: 8:37
Appreciate the beauty around you —
07 months ago
Look at the beautiful things you miss seeing when you sleep in? This was the view as I stepped outside this morning on my way to CrossFit.
I actually slept through my alarm yesterday morning if you can believe it. I think that has only happened to me once or twice in the three years since I started working out! So because of that, I went to an evening workout. Man, it was hot and humid which is another reason I like to workout in the AM — it’s cooler!
Tues eve WOD
Warmupx2
400m run
20 hollow rocks/superman
20 sit ups
20 pass thrus
20 OHS
Skill
Squats
WOD
AMRAP 20m
15 Double Unders
15 Box Jump
15 Squats
rounds – 9+15/5
