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Mary Aquino-Cooper
Tag Archives: exercise
Strong Body Healthy Mind 1
I’ve decided to do it. Focus my blog on getting and being strong, keeping my mind healthy, and talking to other WOMEN who have similar goals – strength, health, overcoming the horrifying stereotypes women have to deal with in the … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Aging and Strength, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Exercise ramblings, Health and fitness, Journaling, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging, Service to Others, Writers, Writing
Tagged avoiding disease, avoiding injury, exercise, fit over 50, Fitness, healthy, lifting, motivation, 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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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
Posted in advice, Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Daily Stuff, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Lifestyle Blog, Reviews, Writers, Writing
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
CrossFit and My Life Chapter 1
I can’t go into gobs of detail right now but I wanted to start a conversation about how Crossfit has helped me, and also wanted to post in February since I haven’t posted since mid January. I’ll try to do … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Random Thoughts, crossfit, Daily Fat Fight, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Life With Mom, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Photoblogging
Tagged 1CharlestonSC, balega, Blog, born primitive, crossfit, exercise, Fitness, FitnessReality, gaiam, Health, instablog, lifeisajourney, lifestyleblog, On, photoblog, social media, strength, TRX, workout
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Trying Something New
I’ve always wanted to be my own boss, but I really have a limit to the amount of bandwidth that this caregiving life allows me. [Pause momentarily: remember to do a *thing* about the word caregiving not being recognized by … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Random Thoughts, Daily Fat Fight, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Life With Mom, Lifestyle Blog, love
Tagged aging, amped, blogging, crossfit, exercise, Health, healthy lifestyle, isagenix, isalean, lifestyle, Pamela Clare, workout
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Introducing….Me
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of you already know me. I’m not a new person or changing myself. I’m just starting the thing I have been pondering for a while now. A blog about life. A blog about what we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Random Thoughts, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, Life With Mom, Lifestyle Blog, My Thoughts and Musings, Writing
Tagged bodyshaming, caregiving, community, exercise, Family, friendly, friends, help, introduction, keep it kind, kindness, lifestyle, love, politics-free zone, positivity, recipes, self, self-help blog, share, Weight loss, working for a living
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Pounds after pound cake
So, after a wonderful post about pound cake, I’m going to post about my “fitbit” and all. Yeah, talk about a turn around. I’ve been using my Jawbone activity tracker for about a month when either the app died on … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Random Thoughts, Daily Fat Fight, Exercise ramblings, Journaling, My Thoughts and Musings
Tagged activity, activity tracker, exercise, Fitbit, Flex, moving, pedometer, red, step counter, walking
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