Recently, this topic has hit me hard as I witness many women in the CrossFit community suffering from variations of Female Athlete Syndrome. For those that don’t know, the Female Athlete Triad consist of the following: Low Energy Availability: This is often cause from changes in diet. In the CrossFit community, we prescribe “real food” [...]
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Tags: Amenorrhea, CrossFit, Female Athlete Triad, Osteoporosis, Paleo, PCOS 
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Overtraining. Guilty. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s hard to take recovery days. But why? Why is it so hard for me…you… athletes in general… to take a recovery day? The answer lies in the unfortunately lie we’ve been told in the mass media. “Calories in equals calories out.” - so what you’re saying is [...]
Who would have thought a sunny, Sunday morning in March of 2011 would have set my life on a course I never would have expected. March was full of new things: a new job, new friends, and a new workout. I have been an athlete since I can remember. My life evolved from doing flips [...]
