GOOD LUCK!

All the cool kids are at the South Central Regional at GSX in Fort Worth competing this weekend! There will be streaming live coverage all day Saturday and Sunday at http://live.crossfit.com. I am SO bummed I can’t be there to watch, but between the streaming coverage and CrossFit Central’s twitter stream and SicFit.com, I’m pretty [...]

Turmeric Turmeric everywhere!

Dr. Mercola produced a huge segment on the yellow powder today: turmeric. He discusses its myriad of health benefits, and then addresses what we all REALLY want to know: how does it make me more beautiful? Curcuminoids support important blood and liver functions, healthy joints, and your overall well-being,* which in turn helps promote radiant, [...]

Overtraining?

As usual, trainer extraordinaire Dutch Lowy has hit the nail on the head … overtraining? He lists 8 potential examples in his overtraining post. I am posting the ones that pertain to me: Your _____ has started bothering you when you do ____.  (insert body part and specific movement) Shoulder & rotator cuff / anything [...]

More on Turmeric’s Benefits

It’s all the rage these days! After my post on spices last week, I posed a question about how in the world to use turmeric. So obviously I was thrilled to see that Mark Sisson at Mark’s Daily Apple devoted a whole post today to the health benefits of turmeric! Lisa assured me that turmeric [...]

Biking + volleyball

Holy cow I never knew biking was so hard. I mean, I used to ride my bike for hours on end as a kid, we’d ride from my house to my best friend’s house to the convenience store for snacks to the library to somewhere to create trouble … but I didn’t wear padded bike [...]

Nature’s Garage Gym Playground

I’ve been Yoga-ing the past two days (at King Yoga and then with Dana from 02, which is currently closed), and really enjoyed it. It’s killer on your shoulders, and my right shoulder is in just enough pain that it MIGHT mean that the rotator cuff isn’t fully healed I’ve discovered another fun workout place [...]

File it under: tonightsgonnabeagoodnight

No really, someone out there arrived at xlyssa by googling “tonightsgonnabeagoodnight.” All one word. You have to love the internet, where a phrase I can’t even find on my own site–with or sans spaces–somehow directed someone out there to me. And really dude, no spaces? Blackeyedpeas would be sad. Anyway, spices are really what’s up [...]

Great Lists of Training Secrets

Trainer Tells All He Has Learned About Health and Fitness Trainer Tells MORE About All He Has Learned About Health and Fitness These two are GREAT lists of random things that I more or less agree with from Mike O’Donnell at Fitness Spotlight. A couple faves: Pushups are the best upper body workout designed….no machine [...]

Commitment

I committed to run/walk/skip/GO down and up these steps at least once a day for as many days in a row as I live here. That’s 64 steps. Friday night at 11:14pm, I realized I hadn’t run the stairs yet. It was hailing lightly and pitch black, but Nali and I ventured out into the [...]

How to Do a Pullup if You Aren’t Strong Enough

Apparently there are a lot of people out there googling, “how do I do a pullup if I am not strong enough?” They get sent to my blog because of my many posts about how I’m “not strong enough.” True story, somewhat. I mean, I’m strong enough to carry a giant tub of dishes from [...]

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