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Is there getting “back to good”?
Matchbox Twenty used to be one of my favorite bands. They didn’t do anything to change that…I just haven’t listened to their music in many years. But I turned it on today and it was as good as I remember. I guess I haven’t changed all that much in all these years. These lyrics really hit home… This don’t mean that, you own me, wellThis ain’t no good, in fact it’s phony as hellYeah, but things worked out just like you wanted toIf you see…
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All the hard things
We can do hard things. A lot of the “hard things” we mean are physical challenges. We listen to some David Goggins motivation and forget our pain and push through to the finish line of a race, or get up out of the bottom of a heavy squat, or forego dessert for one more day to reach our goal. With the physical “hard things” there are steps! Just put one foot in front of the other…eat fewer calories than you burn…increase the weight by 5-10%…
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There are cows that can jump over the moon…
…And cows that can’t make it over a fence. For the past few months, I have been the latter cow. Stagnant. Stuck. Spinning my wheels with nothing to show for it. What is my fence? Some of this is my own fault. I’ll admit I wasn’t as focused on the habits that would get me closer to my desired results. I let the stressors of life get in the way of my routines. Life is always stressful in some way, we build our routines to…
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Ultra Fail
On a chilly fall morning in north Texas, I was ready for what I thought would be a challenging day. Bags packed, knees weak, arms are heavy…oh wait. That is Eminem. The start line feeling isn’t much different. Heart pounding, butterflies in your stomach, anxiously waiting for the last “Aroo Aroo Aroo”…and then you’re off. My battle buddy and I did have our bucket packed and we thought we were ready for whatever awaited us. We had completed the Beast last year…and yes, one more…
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Best. Race. Ever.
Usually…I’m the Debbie Downer of the group. Why am I here? What are we doing? SO MUCH NOPE. Not on this race day though! The skies were blue, the air was crisp and we were at the oldest ballpark in the nation on Veteran’s Day weekend. Terrible, horrible, 6,000 ramp (or so it seemed) weighted bear crawl? NO MATCH FOR MY POSITIVITY. Bruises on my hips from the metal stadium seats? WHO CARES. This race was WICKED PISSAH…and yes I just recently learned that phrase…
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You Say it’s Your Birthday
Another year around the sun. ☀️ Another year older, and another year fitter (ish?). A birthday is a lot like a new year, and luckily for me, mine is about halfway through the year so I can reassess where I am with regards to my goals. Everyone can do a mid-year check in regardless of when your birthday falls during the calendar year. So…here goes nothin’. Former Me Three years ago, I started on my fitness journey. I was at home, in my living room,…
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Gratitude Challenge
One challenge I received recently is to start a gratitude journal. I have always wanted to start a gratitude journal, but I get stuck. I have the rote 4 or 5 things I’m grateful for, and my journal always said the same thing daily: Very generic! Very boring! Yes I’m grateful for all of these things but I can also recite them automatically and not actually think about why I’m grateful for these things. I received this challenge a week ago. I have not started…
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Staying Sore to be Better
The other day I was complaining about how sore I felt, and loudly wondering if I would always feel this way. My friend quipped, “remind me the name of your blog again?” Touché my friend. Touché. The comment got me thinking about what the title of this website actually means to me. Does it truly mean that I am okay with feeling sore every single day? (Answer: abso-freaking-lutely not) Does it mean I expect others to push themselves to the point they are sore more often than not? (Also…
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The Little Engine that Could Say Affirmations
Affirmations. According to Dictionary.com: The act of process of affirming something or being affirmed. In case you are wondering what exactly it means to “affirm” something (like…a friend of mine did 😉) it is to “state as a fact; assert strongly and publicly.” Just like the Little Engine that Could got up the hill because he repeated “I think I can” to himself over and over until he could say “I thought I could” in triumph at the top of the hill. (There you go–now…
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Hyrox Recap Ft. Worth 2023
Stay hopeful, stay humble, stay HY. These are the words repeated at the start line of every HYROX race. Honestly, everyone should run at least one Hyrox race just to experience the emotions at the starting line. The combination of butterflies and rocks in your stomach at the beginning — you know the torture you are about to commence, but you also know it isn’t anything you can’t do — is a crazy combination for sure. While in line to register, I overheard someone telling…
