Are You a Bedtime Procrastinator? from Headspace.  Sleep is good.  If you ever lie in bed and feel the events of the day past or the days ahead spinning around in your head, or played some game-y gang instead of getting some much deserved shut eye, here you go. Andy was nice enough to throw in a sleep meditation.  Give it a try.  Or try the 1 minute sleep meditation I attached.  I will tell you shortly after starting Headspace, which I have been at for over 2 years, I started doing a sleep meditation to help with falling asleep.  Instead of my mind spinning like a mouse on a wheel,  I did the sleep meditation every night for 2 months.  Pretty soon, I was waking up well rested and all tied up in my headphones.  On top of all that, I started a nightly process of getting away from electronics...Read more

So I went to Vegas for the first time.  Let me say, they don’t serve vegetables in Vegas… I mean, other then in the form of blended tomatoes accompanied with vodka. Anywho, I ate about 4 vegetables in Vegas- a couple of them pickled, and the other two that spent the day hot tubbing in a bowl of honey and soy sauce…  This trip, though crazy fun, once again showed me how much my veggie intake has increased and how crazy spastic I’ve become about eating them.  I do understand that not everyone is on a vegetable kick, and I also understand that some of us may need to hide vegetables from themselves like a couple of toddlers in order to fit them in their diet- and that’s OK! So, here’s some ideas and ways to hide yo veggies!        First, there are zoodles.  These crazy concoctions are...Read more

*** No Open Gym tomorrow ***   Don’t forget – we will be traveling up the hill to CrossFit Sonora for 17.4 on Friday night.  It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so if you’re OG, dust off your green I Heart Fran shirt and get ready for whatever warm hell CrossFit HQ has decided to gut check us with. We’ll be meeting at CFO to caravan up starting at 4:15pm.  There will be no evening classes Friday night.   Workout of the Day 80 Wallball Shots 20/14 60 Calorie Row 40 Wallball Shots 20 Calorie RowRead more

Oh man,he’s talking about rate of force development.  I’m swooning.  Man crush, engage. 3 workouts are down in the CrossFit Games Open.  Handstand Pushups, Rowing and Thrusters are still some big movements left on the table, but I’m not leaving off my prediction of dumbbell DT. We’re bringing back a movement from 17.1 for today’s conditioning piece – the 50/35 DB Snatch.  Here’s my advice – don’t snatch like an @$$hole just because you can.  Yes, we know you can snatch that DB like you are starting a lawn mower.  But if you are anything like me, that can leave you with an extremely sore back for days on end.  Better to sink your hips, get a good start position and pull properly.  Do this knowing full well you need to bend over more because the damn thing is lower to the ground thank the barbell. Workout of the Day...Read more

17.3 – Heavy Snatch Ladder and Chest to Bar Pull-ups will continue on Saturday.  We will have an organized warm up beginning ta 9 and run heats until we are done.Read more