I was planning on finishing up Part 4 of my Climbing the Ladder Series:  (Tools to Keep Your Weekend Interesting) but while I love lists (that was one of my first and all time favorite posts btw) I’m just not “feeling” my scheduled post today.  Instead, I want to talk about the 10KChallenge I just completed [...]

This month I set out to complete the 10,000 swing challenge. This meant I “have to get  my swings in” be it the In-N-Out parking lot or rest stops. Never mind if people stared at me as if I was insane or I was embarrassing driving my family nuts. No siree. I won’t quit. The great [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Don’t tell anyone but I can be a little obsessive and what some might call a tad bit obnoxious. For instance, packing for our road trip across the desert to Arizona on Friday I insisted that we take all our veggies (including wilted dandelion greens) from the CSA despite knowing full well we wouldn’t eat [...]

I bought myself an early birthday present.  One that I’ve been debating on for months.   August 27-29 (my birthday weekend), I will be going to San Diego to have my azz handed to me for the RKC certification.  The RKC is known for being an extremely grueling certification. From everything I’ve read and heard it’s supposed [...]

You may have heard of a new study that was circulating various news sources last week.  (Thanks Charlotte for the tip off on Twitter.)   The gist of the study was that women need an hour of moderate intensity activity  7 days a week to maintain a “normal” weight. So what does this mean for women [...]

Yes, I received my bands and ball for free.  That doesn’t keep me from being honest. Using my Oxygenfit toner in my fancy garage gym to aid my pull-ups. While I don’t use exercise bands regularly (except for the above exercise which is my favorite way to work up to pull ups) they are perfect [...]

My blog is not new but I’m new to “blogging”.  Let me explain.   I’ve been writing and silently reading a few other blogs for a while now.   Recently, with Janetha’s encouragement, I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and interact with other bloggers.  Don’t roll your eyes.  It’s not easy when [...]