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Why Not Me?
I have decided to enter a local CF comp at the end of September. It gives me over two months to train for it. It’s a ‘shot-gun’ style comp with a 4-person team (M/M/F/F). After some recruiting and begging, I managed to assemble a fairly strong team but looking at the others I couldn’t help Continue reading
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Breaking Away from the Narrative
Every book has its function and requires a certain mindset to read them … at least for me. As part of my newly developed body recomposition nightly routine, I wind down by reading but I can’t just read any book. No. It must be the perfect before-I-go-sleep sort of book, entertaining but not requiring too Continue reading
A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting, Casey Johnston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Crossfit, Daily Calories, Deadlift, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Eddie Ndopu, Hélène Cixous, Heather Cox Richardson, Lifting, Lifting Heavy, Macro, Making It So: A Memoir, Nutrition, Olympic Lifting, Patrick Stewart, Personal Record, Power Lifting, PR, Protein, Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution, Roxane Gay, Sam Briggs, Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, Start Your Engines: My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey, Strength Training, Tania Branigan, The Laugh of the Medusa, The Portable Feminist Reader, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Twelve Hundred Calories a Day, U.S. diet industry, Woman -
Mogwai Lifts
I am a creature of habit, and I like routines. Monday through Thursday, every week, I leave the house no later than 5:10 pm for the 6 pm WOD class. About 10 minutes away, my air pressure light came on and I watched in horror as the air pressure started to drop rapidly, 46-42-39-35-30 … Continue reading
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Body Recomp: Day 98
NUTRITION: The week started out with a flat tire which not only resulted in me missing Monday night class, but I sat at a gas station parking lot for hours. The rest of the week I just felt off, and I opted for some comfort food choices over nutrition-rich ones. The best part is I Continue reading
The Angry Typist 