Every girl has a story to tell and sharing those stories is by far my favorite part of blogging.  So when Cherie wrote me telling me she was making her own figure competition suit, something only crazy people do, I had to know more about her.  I’m glad I asked because I just love Cherie’s […]

This year for Lent my husband and I decided not to eat meat.  Through that experience I learned some things about myself and I came up with a few new recipes including my Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers.  That sort of sounds like I stuffed them with the Mediterranean.  That would be one big pepper. (Okay that joke […]

(Source) I’m going to continue with Climbing Up the Ladder Part 3: Tools to make workouts painful Keep Workouts Interesting.  In part 1 we talked about rep (repetition) ladders and part 2 we talked about weight and time ladders.  This week we are going to talk about reverse ladders and pyramids. A reverse ladder is simply […]

Ten years ago today a brand new chapter of my life was opened. I gave birth to my son via an emergency c-section. I was a senior in college and struggling with a severe mental illness but with his birth I God birthed a new me. While life has not been perfect since (it never […]

I love Mexican food.  LOVE Mexican food.  Out of all the cheesy spicy goodness to choose from, one of my favorite dishes is Chile Relleno.  A friend gave me a recipe for a chile relleno casserole that uses 2 pounds, TWO POUNDS, of cheese as well as numerous whole eggs, and condensed milk. On occasion, […]

The window is clean.  In fact, I’ve stepped out of that small room out into the sunshine again!  (Big cheesy grin.)  I’m excited for this week!  I have a new recipe and another Girl Hero (always my favorite posts) lined up. Today, I want to continue my series on program design tools, a fancy way […]

Source It has been one of “those weeks”.  I’ve felt stuck in tiny room with one only one window that’s covered thick with grime. I know there is a beautiful world out there but my Windex bottle is empty.  Dammit. I could ramble and muse on (and on and on) about my feelings but, honestly, […]

Traditional ladders are something I generaly avoid – seeing as how I fell off backwards when I was painting my son’s border in his nursey when I was 8 months pregnant.  The only thing hurt was my pride. For the most part, I stick to basics (squat variations, swings, presses, pull-ups, dead lifts, ect) for […]

Girl Hero Jen is a bad azz. She is a wife, proud mother of three girls, 2 time Ironman finisher (2.4 mi swim, 112bike, 26.2 mi run),  3 time New York City Marathon finisher and an Inline Skate Marathon finisher.  In 2009, she competed in her first Xterra off road triathlon and her first adventure […]

This year for Lent Brent suggested we give up meat for 6 days out of the week.  (Don’t ask why 6 days b/c I don’t know.)  It wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would it be, annoying at times, but not necessarily difficult.  I chose not  to talk about it publicly on my […]