If you read nothing else on my blog please read this! This isn’t just a catchy headline but yes you are drinking this liquid poison every day and this is setting you up for failure. This is the one thing my daughter and I found out what the issue was that was keeping us from […]
I almost lost hope. All this exercising for nothing?!
So my daughter and I have been doing CrossFit for about a year now. Yes, I’m playing catchup with the blog. LOL I’m still learning how to do this. But we went to the doctor the other day. My daughter actually gained weight (she was over 270 pounds), and I only lost a couple of […]
What is an AMRAP?!
An AMRAP is what I like to call X minutes of death . . . in this case thirty minutes of death. Well in reality is means As Many Rounds As Possible. LOL so you can imagine the phrase X minutes of death. Now granted I started this blog about a year or so into […]
Four tips to lose weight right now!
Tip 1: You can never out exercise a poor diet. While yes every now and again it’s ok to treat yourself with junk food and even fast food. Although you will start naturally gravitating away from those. I can only speak from experience about how I feel after I eat some kind of value meal. […]
We found our coach! Now can she motivate a teenager?
We started with our brand new Crossfit coach. The team at the gym matched my daughter and I up with her mainly for my daughter’s sake. It is challenging to find the fit with my oldest who like all other teenagers just wants to veg out. Well like father like daughter because I would also […]
Finding the right program
So our search for the right program was a journey in an of itself. Like I said in the previous post the challenge in going to one of those bigger chains was likely not going to meet our needs. I knew that we needed someone who could guide us in creating a program that was […]
Starting my fitness journey with my teen daughter
Let me ask you this? How do you motivate a teenager to exercise? Eat less junk food? Well first I needed to get her out of the room. Yes the dreaded room, that let’s face it when I was growing up I lived in it myself. I never realized though how much I actually got […]
Certainly Not Perfect, but trying to make changes
Following the pandemic and even before the pandemic my oldest and I struggled with our weight, self esteem, and body image. We started exercising together and are both striving to get healthier. I’m sure there are a number of other father’s and mother’s out there who are in the similar situation. I decided to put my […]
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