Shock & Awe...

The engines behind the machine.

I'm Coming Back...

I've been taking time off of CrossFit - but it's driving me absolutely insane so I'm coming back on Monday - back on track - back on the Zone. Chris = Spartan! Just watching her tackle the Spartan benchmark last weekend - amazing. It made me antsy to get back at it (and Mary's demand that I've had enough rest).

Drink This?

An interesting video- though snopes says it's a hoax. It still got me thinking about sodas - those filled with sugar or with poison (artificial chemical sweeteners). So - when working a full time office job - stuck under florescent lights for 60 hours a week - I would drink 3-4 diet dr peppers a day to keep myself going. It's a familiar story for many of us.. you never eat right, you multi-task, you work all night, you suffer from stress in balancing family and career and you neglect your fitness which is always last on the list. Add the DDP to the list of my nutrition for the day - it's not surprising what I weighted and how I looked when I walked into my first CFC boot camp.

So - back to those pesky sodas... my husband always gave gave me hassle over my DDP habit, saying I'm killing my brain. I worked my way down to 2-3 per day, and after starting with CFC, maybe 1 per day as I focused more on nutrition. After taking Robb Wolf's nutrition seminar, and pondering this video more - I'll never touch them again... My last one was on Wedneday of last week. DONE. Kelly, are you reading? Put down that Diet Coke - now.

Crystal

For 2x per week for about a year now, I've been coached by a wonderful woman - Crystal McReynolds. She's relentless in making us surburban moms do all the reps and not cheat on form. When we whine -- she really does not care, which is a good thing.

I'm so very proud of Crystal for placing 3rd in the regional CrossFit Games qualifer - securing her spot for the International Games in Aromas in early July. Carey Kepler took first and Lance Cantu second - thus taking three places out of 6 who ranked first to third place for the male and female categories!