I found the following article from CrossFit Hollywood (www.crossFithollywood. com) to make some interesting points: EGO VS INTEGRITY Disclaimer: The following post is in response to multiple recent occurrences at CFHW, and is meant mostly to athletes who want the “Rx” next to their scores, are interested in competing, or want their scores posted on [...]Continue Reading

We’ve all heard the phrase, “You were dealt a bad hand of cards”.  We all know what it means…and some of us were.  We were truly dealt a crappy hand.  We can talk about the emotional baggage that comes with the the hand that involves a poor father or abusive mother.  Or a “hand” that [...]Continue Reading

I saw this photograph on Facebook today, and initially, I was inspired… Then I got to thinking…WHY??  Why does there have to “be a day when I can no longer do this”?  Why does all of this fun have to end?  Why does my quest for constantly challenging, functional fitness have to stop eventually? This [...]Continue Reading

Quite often, a client will come up to me and report an accomplishment that he/she has achieved outside of the gym doors.  Naturally, I am also proud when an athlete achieves something within the boundaries of the gym.  Handstand push-up here, muscle-up there, the frequent achievement of a faster mile, or improvement in a benchmark [...]Continue Reading

When your parents told you not to do something as a child, what did you want to do?  Or, how about when your teachers told you that something was off limits?  Perhaps your boss at one point, has doubted your abilities and given some special project to someone who he/she thought to be better suited [...]Continue Reading

People can ask me about my wedding.  What made it so romantic?  I could describe the glorious sunny weather, the intense love betwixt Dave and I, the congregation of all of our loved ones, or perhaps the flowers, the white linen, and of course, the food and booze.  But what I’ve found really tells the [...]Continue Reading

Even as a hormonal teenager, I was pretty consistent.  I swear.  I was always the same daughter.  Always the same student.  Always the same waitress.  Always the same friend.  Straight up consistent. Then came CrossFit… What a wake-up call…the consistency that I once knew, was no longer.  I would venture to say that all pre-CrossFit [...]Continue Reading