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Mary Aquino-Cooper
Tag Archives: crossfit
Continuing To Make Gains
I admit. I was disappointed in myself. I had this goal. I set the goal because I could see it on the horizon – the brass ring I could ALMOST reach as my carousel horse made it’s rounds. 100 pounds … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Aging and Strength, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, Health and fitness, Journaling, Life After Mom, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Writing
Tagged aging, crossfit, fit over 60, Fitness, Health, strength training, weightlifting, women weightlifting, workout
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It Changed My Life
I get pretty passionate about CrossFit. I know it may seem like I’ve been indoctrinated into a cult but I wish I could explain fully what the CrossFit community means to me. It’s great that we work out and do … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Writing
Tagged big, crossfit, do hard things, elite, everyone matters, exercise, functional fitness, Health, how i live, let's go, motivation, novice, small, workout
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When to push UP and when to stay
How does exercise train you for life? Can you extract lessons from your workouts? Continue reading
Posted in advice, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Writers, Writing
Tagged clean, crossfit, exercise, failure, improvement, Learning, lesson, life, life lesson, non-success, overhead, personal record, perspective, power, PR, snatch, squat, weightlifting
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For the girls (and women) … maybe this is you, too!
So, this past weekend I had a revelation. It’s actually a big one for me and maybe you too. While watching the Atlas games, I came across the stats of an athlete and what I saw gave me pause. She’s … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Writers, Writing
Tagged conditioning, crossfit, exercise, Fitness, functional fitness, muscle, realistic, self image, weight, weightlifting, WOD, workout
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It’s Just a Number
I’m looking at you. Yeah, you, 59. Just hold your horses cuz I’m not there yet. A great deal of my CrossFit journey has been focused on aging more gracefully. Actually, that’s a lie, it’s focused on not aging at … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Writers, Writing
Tagged almost60, biceps, crossfit, dohardthings, fitafter50, functionalfitness, lifeisajourney, strength, strong, triceps, workout
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Yes You Can
Today’s lesson is about yes. Today I taught myself a lesson about saying YES. I wanted to share this lesson so that you, my beloved readers, know that you TOO can say yes to things you didn’t expect were able … Continue reading
Posted in advice, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Exercise ramblings, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Writers, Writing
Tagged 59, aging, crossfit, dailyworkout, fitafter50, Fitness, functionalfitness, lifting, loveyourself, menopause, nobodyshaming, push press, strength, strong, WOD, workout
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Raptor Air Bike by FringeSport
First of all, full disclosure, I received a price break for providing a review of this apparatus. That said, I’ve already published my review, so this is an additional review for those who don’t frequent the FringeSport website. As a … Continue reading
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Tagged #fringe, airbike, assaultbike, bike, compensated, crossfit, customerservice, durablility, echobike, exercise, fringe, fringeraptor, fringesport, functionalfitness, raptor, value
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It’s Not a Cult, It’s a Feeling
The running joke about CrossFit is that it is a cult. And, to the point that those who are part of the “cult” share common loves (the WOD after you’ve finished) and hates (Assault bike)…and we speak a language many … Continue reading
Where Do You Get Inspiration From?
I spent the weekend observing via Instagram and some YouTube live moments a competition hosted by Masters Fitness Collective. Masters athletes in the CrossFit world are those of us over 35. Not to belittle anyone in the 35-49 age groups … Continue reading
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