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  • Fluff or Fat
    Obesity – a Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open 18.5 Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open 18.4 Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open 18.3 Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open Workout 18.2 – Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open Workout 18.1 – Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open 2018 Kick-Off
  • Tips on Starting a CrossFit Masters Class at Your Box
  • Scaling is Key to Your Longevity in CrossFit
  • Clean and Jerk
    Fitness is About Life
  • Jumpstart Your Mental Game?
  • 9 Reasons I’m Glad I did CrossFit Level 1
  • Sleep – The Final Frontier
  • Final Thoughts on the 2017 CrossFit Open
  • Post Mortem – CrossFit Open 17.5
  • Post Mortem of CrossFit Open 17.4
  • CrossFit Open 17.3
  • CrossFit Open 17.2
  • CrossFit Open 17.1
  • Chocolate Oatmeal Protein Pancakes
  • Why Do You Pay a Coach?
  • Driveway Workout 092216
  • I Love to Hate Running…Deja Vu
  • You’ll Never Change! If You Don’t _____, You Won’t_____!
  • The Elusive Skill of Focus
  • Sweet Potato Waffles
  • If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out Of The Box!
  • Are You Paralyzed by Fear?
  • Photo from Twitter
    Chris Moore – The Barbell Buddha
  • What Did You Learn During the 2016 CrossFit Open?
  • CrossFit Open 16.5 Death Warmed Over
  • I Didn’t Die in CrossFit Open 16.4
  • Another Two-Fer for CrossFit Open 16.3? Nope!
  • My Personal Post Mortem of CrossFit Open 16.2
  • Throwback Thursday – CrossFit Open 13.2
  • CrossFit Open 16.1 – a Confession
  • The High Risk of Writing about Failure
  • CrossFit Open 2016
  • Eating Well – There is No Place to Hide
  • 30 Day Challenges – Can You Really Change in 30 Days?
  • Resolutions? 2015 Goals – a Year of Flexing My Brain
  • 10K 30 Day Kettlebell Challenge
  • Kettlebells for Breakfast
  • CrossFit Masters Defy Social Norms Regarding Age
  • What is Your CrossFit Recovery Plan – following a Masters Competition?
  • Why Your Ego is So Important in CrossFit
  • Great Workout and Fun with Farmer Carry
  • Masters Athlete Profile – Sheila Heller
  • Gamification with Farmer Carry – Part 2
  • Gamify Your Workout Routine with Farmer Carry
  • 7 Reasons to do a CrossFit Masters Competition
  • Who Wants a Pegboard? CrossFit Does!
  • Learning to Breathe Fire, yeah, it’s CrossFit
  • Why Do You Do Box Jumps?
  • The New Defiant Wellness
  • Ditch your CrossFit Dogma for Gains
  • Who Says You’re an Athlete?
  • How NOT to start a Running Program
  • You are what you eat! (…and Read!)
  • Your Preparation for CF Open 16.1 Starts NOW!
  • How Can You Deadlift With Your Mind?
  • CrossFit Open 15.5 – Post Mortem
  • CrossFit Open 15.5 – My Strategy for Survival
  • CrossFit Open 15.4 – Post Mortem
  • My Personal Prediction for CrossFit Open 15.4
  • Open 15.3 Post Mortem
  • Initial Thoughts on CrossFit Open 15.3
  • Open 15.2 – Post Mortem
  • My Post-Mortem of my 15.1 Performance
  • My Personal Prediction for Open 15.1
  • Five R’s to take into the 2015 Open
  • CrossFit Open 2015- Thinking isn’t Doing
  • Do You Remember Your First WOD?
  • Happy Valentine Day
  • Gasping for Air?
  • Ten Things to Do on a Snow Day in New England
  • 44 Years to Build a Great Life
  • How Good Ideas Get Hijacked by Corporate Farming and Factory Foods.
  • Would You Please Identify Yourself
  • What Can You Do Differently in 2015?
  • Merry Christmas
  • Another Transformation Story
  • Impacting People – A Sequel
  • Why I put CrossFit on the Shelf
  • Where does a Paleo Newbie Begin?
  • My CrossFit Induced Identity Crisis?
  • Bulletproof Almond Butter
  • 12 Ways to Cope with Setbacks
  • Create Your Own Macadamia Nut Butter in less than 5 Minutes!
  • One Reason I Love CrossFit?
  • How to make a Pumpkin Pie Omelet
  • Pumpkin Oatmeal Tastes Great
  • Make Mine a Simple Dark Roast Please
  • What must you do to impact the people around you?
  • How to Increase Coffee Consumption, while Reducing Coffee Costs
  • Why Oatmeal is NOT Paleo – an Oatmeal Recipe
  • Who cares about Elite Performance?
  • Who wants to break out of a Plateau? Part 2 – Motivation
  • Who else wants to break out of a Plateau?
  • Your Heart is Strong
  • How to Roll Your Own Almond Butter
  • The Great Bod Pod Wod
  • Follow Your Heart? – No Rep!
  • Four Tips to Manage Your Doctor
  • How to make life less complicated
  • CrossFit Master of Disaster
  • How to Die Well
  • How to reinforce bad behavior
  • How to Scramble Your Banana
  • How to measure your success in the Gym
  • Single. Married. CrossFit (yeah, it’s complicated).
  • How to Write Your Obituary, without trying
  • Older than Dirt
  • CrossFit Juniors and Masters
  • Coach Google’s Strength Program
  • How to make .45 Caliber Coffee
  • Double-Minded Men are Unstable
  • To WOD or Not to WOD?
  • Daily Motivation!
  • Best Wishes Chad
  • Reflections on CrossFit Open 2014
  • How do you like your coffee?
  • CrossFit Open 14.5
  • Things Aren’t Always As They Seem
  • CrossFit Open 14.4 Post Mortem
  • Savor the Delicious Pain
  • Another Pessimist meets His Demise
  • CrossFit Open 14.3 – My Forecast
  • CrossFit Open 14.2 Post Mortem
  • On the Road to Cortisol Crazytown!
  • CrossFit Open 14.1 Pre and Post Game
  • Fifty Years, Seems Like Yesterday
  • How to Squat Your Way to Great Thighs
  • My Love Hate Romance
  • A Great Way to Drink Fat
  • Just Say Yes to CrossFit Open 2014
  • The Paleo Manifesto
  • How I Created a Paleo Trainwreck
  • A Reader has a Question
  • A Moroccan Treat for Breakfast?
  • Time to hit your Reset Button?
  • Country Style Ribs
  • The Smartest thing I ever did…
  • Simply Re-Resistable
  • Accidental Down Time
  • My 800 Calorie Cup of Coffee
  • Simon Says – Get off your Butt!
  • 5 Things that Suck the Life out of me!
  • Baked Sweet Potato Fries
  • New Year’s Revolution
  • What’s New in 2014?
  • 2013 Highlights – a Top 10 List
  • A Time for Reflection
  • Merry Christmas
  • Pork Ribs
  • What dreams are made of
  • What Color is a Word?
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/emagineart/4741451457/
    Drugs – the Fine Print gets Finer
  • Some People Still Read…
  • The Joy of Low Expectations
  • My Barbell Club
  • Spring Training, in dead of Winter
  • New Challenges, Old Fears
  • My next Milestone…
  • Happy Thanksgiving
  • Slow Growth is still Growth
  • Four Elements of Bold Action
  • Everybody Needs a Role Model
  • No isn’t always Negative!
  • Pay Yourself First
  • Today’s Breakfast – SueBimBap
  • It’s all about the Landing…
  • Vo2 Max Training
  • Yeah, I know Squat
  • My Negative Feedback Loop
  • Milk – The Original Paleo Meal
  • Seeking My Inner Runner
  • 30-Days to Better Health
  • If I Can Do It…
  • Wall Ball Hell
  • Six-Weeks is Over – Part 2
  • Revisiting an Old Friend 13.5
  • Some Days are just Pointless…
  • Completing a non-goal Goal
  • A Day in the Life of a Glucose
  • Running on my own terms
  • Sick and Defiant
  • A Calorie is not a Calorie…
  • Like White on Rice…
  • My Conspiracy Theory
  • Six-Weeks is Over – Part 1
  • A New Frontier
  • The Century Mark
  • Will you just Shut Up!
  • Ken Norton
  • The Arrogant Me
  • The Latest Challenge
  • My Father’s Face
  • CrossFit Fun & Games: Part 4
  • Don’t try to win on Technicalities
  • CrossFit and Fashion
  • Revisiting CF Open WOD 13.1
  • The End is near…
  • CrossFit Fun and Games: Part 3 – Pain
  • Protein Up – Carbs Down
  • Am I just talking?
  • CrossFit Fun and Games – Follow-up
  • Fun and Games – CrossFit Style
  • Throwing down the Gauntlet
  • Best Wishes Tia
  • Tracking my Diet – a Revelation
  • Macronutrients and Calories
  • Hey Nineteen
  • It’s not the end of the World…
  • Phone App Review – Fast Camera
  • A Great end to a Good Week
  • Results
  • Scaling and Priorities
  • Admitting Failure is not Admitting Defeat
  • CF2a – a Good Day for 0530 PRs
  • F-Bombs in the Gym
  • Breakfast Sliders
  • Punctuality is a Virtue – Welcome to the World Josephine!
  • Jumping Jack Flash…
  • A major breakthrough for Katie
  • My Paleo Pal
  • The Heartbeat of CrossFit
  • Two Steps Back
  • Happy Anniversary Nicole & CF2a
  • The Model Defiant Patient
  • By Demand – a Recipe for Dark Chocolate Coconut Treats
  • Lazy versus Fatigued
  • CrossFit in Real Life
  • Preparing for CrossFit Competition
  • Constantly Varied, Functional Movement…
  • You know what burns my butt?
  • Mentors and Mentees
  • For you it’s nothing…
  • Murph isn’t just a WOD, he’s a man
  • Four P’s and an Old Goat
  • The Importance of Setting Goals
  • Breakfast Pucks
  • Homemade Ketchup – it’s so good you can eat it with a spoon
  • Quality Time
  • Stress Kills…
  • Killing me Softly…with Paleo
  • It’s not the End of the World…
  • Stagnate or Progress?
  • Getting Back on the Paleo Wagon
  • The Beauty of being Last
  • Thoughts and Prayers…
  • “Not Quite Paleo” Chocolate Lava Cake
  • Last thoughts on CrossFit Open 2013
  • Book Review – The Paleo Coach
  • Living in Sync
  • No Daily Posts? What’s going on?
  • CrossFit Open 13.5
  • The Value of Rituals
  • Spaghetti Squash
  • CrossFit Open 13.4.2 -What happened?
  • Can it get more humiliating than this?
  • The Agony of Defeat – Open 13.4
  • CrossFit Open 13.4 Day of Reckoning
  • CrossFit Open 13.4 – Reminder
  • Recipe of the Week – Bacon-wrapped Chicken Livers
  • My Top Five Paleo Blogs
  • CF2a Open 13.3 Leaders
  • Look who got another PR
  • Open 13.3 – Biceps, Triceps, Whyceps?
  • CrossFit Open 13.3 Announcement
  • CrossFit Open 13.2 – Revisited
  • CrossFit Open 13.2 – Detention
  • Open 13.2 Epic Fail…, but wait…
  • CrossFit Open 13.2 Announcement
  • Fitness Snob? I hope not
  • Experiencing Chest Pains
  • Inside the Box – a Book Review
  • Shock and Awe
  • CrossFit Open 3.1 – Part Deux
  • The Day after 13.1
  • CrossFit Games 13.1 – Part I
  • School Yard Milestone
  • Sixty-Two
  • Pain, my new best friend

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