Recovering from rhabdo: Training Day Eight
Mood/Reflections: My mood goes back and forth. Some moments I'm over this whole thing and just want to feel 100% again. Other moments I'm feeling grateful for the reset. I'm learning a great deal of patience. Training: I didn't do much today and don't really intend...
Recovering from rhabdo: Training Day Seven
Mood/Reflections: Very relaxed today. Recovery is a good word. I've been coaching a kids class at Olive Branch CrossFit three days a week for the last 5 weeks. Today was the last class. I had 5 boys including my Son. It was a lot of fun to watch them learn to move and...
Rhabdo recovery – Training Day Six
Mood/Reflections: I want to make a note that I really let some negativity slip into my attitude yesterday. Just for a minute though. It's all good. I've been listening to a podcast called Lionheart Radio a lot lately. On a recent episode he made the statement "feed...
Recovering from rhabdo: Training Day Five
Mood/Reflections: This one is a little hard to explain. Last night when we finished recording the podcast, Amanda told me that I was very "clear" or had a lot of "clarity." That's how I feel these days more and more. "Present" might even be a better word for it. I...
Recovering from rhabdo: Training Day Four
Mood/Reflections: I'm excited! Feeling really good about how things are progressing. I'm being very cautious about proceeding, but got to do some really fun stuff today. Very positive progress. Training: I coached the early AM classes at Olive Branch CrossFit again...
Recovering from rhabdo: Training Day Three
Mood & Reflections: Positive and hopeful are great words to describe how I'm feeling today. About 5 weeks ago I got broken. Broken in a way that I have never experienced before. While I was running this morning it became clear to me that because of this experience...
Recovering from Rhabdo: Training Day Two
Day Two I was up early this morning to coach the 5 and 6 AM classes at my gym, Olive Branch CrossFit. I got there a little before 4:30 AM so I could get everything turned on and still have time to sneak in a ROMWOD session. I had time to do the whole 20 minutes today....
Recovering from rhabdo: Day Zero & Day One
If you want to know more of the backstory on how I got rhabdo and my adventures in the Hospital, you can go listen to the last few episodes of our LHRL podcast. Mainly this one: https://www.liftheavyrunlong.com/lhrl-147/ It's a pretty crazy story and as I've slowly...
Tips to crush your weight loss challenge
It’s that time of year again when the “summer shred” challenges are in full swing at gyms everywhere. I thought I would share a few tips with you that I think can help give you a better chance to be more successful and maybe win that sweet pot of cash at your gym....
New Year Goals
Happy New Year (yes, I'm a little late — there is a lot of stuff going on). Do you do the New Year's resolution thing? I sometimes do but it's usually something I won't stick to or something that, if I'm honest with myself I really don't care that much about. This...
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