Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!
Never underestimate what you can do when you put your mind to something..
This is a true story of transformation and has me motivated to keep moving forward. No matter what your goal is Fitlifer… just know that you can do it. Even the word Impossible, means I-M-POSSIBLE! Now, go get it. 
Remember, we’re in this together
Drew
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Almond Milk!
About 5 years ago I started to eliminate dairy out of my diet.
Thank God!
I didn’t know, like many Americans that I was allergic to conventional pasteurized milk.
Almond Milk
It wasn’t even really that noticeable most of the year but twice a year I would get a nasty sinus infection. I mean Nasty… my docs at the time said I just had bad allergies. I felt like I had a doctor for every allergin in the world and they all wanted to give me something different. When I would leave… I had a bag of 362 different scrips… it was like tricker treatin’ at the when I would leave the office.
I had a friend that was into Raw Food at the time introduce me to the raw amazing power of my favorite nut… the almond.
Who doesn’t love Almonds? Honey glazed almonds, roasted almonds, chilli pepper almonds, candied almonds and my personal favorite an almond covered up in a delicious date… I thought I was the poster boy for healthy eating…I was about 25 pounds over weight and had a gut from college.
These were the wrong ways to prepare the awesome almond.
I was eating almonds for taste and not the multitudes of benefits.
And…I didn’t even know the easiest way to prepare them…Almond Milk!
Almond milk provides excellent sources of protein, fiber, vitamin E, zinc, iron, selenium, magnesium, and calcium. Almonds have vitamin-like oils called essential fatty acids. Essential fatty acids are required for a healthy nervous system, anti-inflammatory effects, hormone balance and cell structure.
Here are 7 benefits of Almond Milk:
Almonds
Almond Milk Benefit #1: Weight Management
Plain almond milk without added sugars or flavoring contains 60 calories per each 8 oz serving size. This option works well for people looking to lose or maintain weight.
The low caloric content of almond milk causes less of an impact on our totally daily consumption of food calories. Some milk varieties contain more sugars than the cereal that they get combined with.
Almond Milk Benefit #2: Heart Health
Almond milk contains no cholesterol and only 5 mg of sodium per serving. Consuming foods low in sodium and cholesterol help us to maintain better heart health and normal blood pressure.
Without cholesterol, almond milk also decreases our chances of gaining bad cholesterol levels, all while increasing the good cholesterol levels. Almond milk also contains 150 mg of potassium in every serving. This mineral works to promote healthy blood pressure.
Almond Milk Benefit #3: Blood Sugar Friendly
Unlike other milk alternatives, the plain almond option contains only 8 grams of carbohydrates per serving. The 7 grams of sugars that make up the carbohydrate content have a limited affect on our blood sugar levels. When we consume simple sugars, our metabolic functions tend to miss the nutrients, storing much of the carbs as fat.
Instead, the low amount of sugars in almond milk have a low glycemic nature, meaning our bodies fully digest them and use them as energy. Diabetics benefit from this characteristic as well.
Almond Milk Benefit #4: Bone Health
Almond milk contains 30% of our recommended daily value of calcium and 25% of Vitamin D. These nutrients work together to build strong bones in men, women, children and infants.
Vitamin D also helps improve immunity and cell function. Some studies have shown that Vitamin D helps decrease osteoporosis and even Alzheimer’s disease. The magnesium in found in almond milk helps absorb more of the calcium provided by the nutritious beverage.
Almond Milk Benefit #5: Skin Care
Every serving of pure almond milk contains 50% of our recommended daily value of Vitamin E. This powerful nutrient has antioxidantabilities in that it helps regulate Vitamin A use and availability.
More importantly, Vitamin E acts the primary regulatory nutrient that improves skin health.
Almond Milk Benefit #6: Eye Health
The moderate levels of Vitamin A found in almond milk helps keep our eyes functioning properly. Vitamin A directly influences the eye’s ability to adjust to differences in light.
Almond Milk Benefit #7: More Muscle Power
Even though almond milk only contains 1 gram of protein per serving, it does contain B Vitamins in the form of riboflavin, plus other muscle regulating nutrients like iron. Each serving of almond milk contains about 4% of our recommended daily intake of iron, which helps muscles absorb and use protein for energy, growth and repair.
Iron also regulates certain cell functions like oxygen absorption.
Just a hand full of these nuts a day provides enough recommended levels of minerals, vitamins, and protein. Besides, almond oil extracted from the nuts has been used in as base or carrier oil in medicine, aromatherapy and in pharmaceuticals.
You can use almonds in your smoothies recipes. Almonds are a big part of my diet and pack the most energy of any other food. They make a healthy snack that is low in calories. Almonds are healthy nuts and they are definitely a great addition to your nutrition.
How to make almond milk?
Almond milk gives you almost 25% percent of your daily needs for magnesium, and more bone-strengthening calcium as an equal amount of cow milk. They are also high in many antioxidants, such as vitamin E and selenium. Studies show that almonds may play and important role in preventing colon cancer due to their high fiber content. Almonds also help us to actually lower negative forms of cholesterol in the blood stream.
Almond Milk
Almond Shake Mmmmm Good
More Facts About Almonds
Historians generally agree that almonds and dates, both mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible, were among the earliest cultivated foods.
Star-Appeal Of Almonds:
Cinnamon-glazed almonds were President Clinton’s snack of choice at both the 1993 and the 1997 inaugurations.
Legendary Myths About Almonds:
According to superstition: If you eat almonds before taking a drink, you will reduce your chances of getting drunk and avoid having a hangover.
Now that you are an informed FitLifer and know the many benefits of almonds and almond milk, it’s time to make your own.
When you do this post a picture on the Almond Milk / Juicing Vegetable Facebook Fanpage.
Like this post if you learned something.
Drew Canole
Almond Lover
Almond Lover
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Green Juice 101
GREEN JUICE I LOVE YOU SO, GREEN JUICE YOU ARE MY AMIGO…
My personal favorite. It’s just so good for you…loaded with chlorophyl, magnesium and zinc and a whole host of other phytonutrients.
You’ve probably seen a lot of people turning towards green juice drinks recently. I started my green juice/drink career about 5 years ago. I had an older gentlemen present a little gift to me. (It looked like a glass of swamp water.) I’ve always had a fear of swamps, so this was a little bit awkward for me. That day, I decided to drink my fear and slam this giant glass of gobblie goop. (Green Juice)
Let’s just say I’m glad I did. I felt like the AMAZING after chuggin’ this thing. My body was so nutrient deprived, it soaked up every last drop of the green juice madness and I became the HULK. I know, it’s a cartoon pic… the real pic is too graphic for your young virgin eyes.
Drew Transforming
“Green Juice” has an alluring level of mystery to it.
Green Potion. Green Mystery. Green Machine. Green Lantern. Green
something else…
The term green juice, is meant to describe any juice – that is in fact some shade of the color green. Green juice may be a combination of fruit and veggies or it may be 100% veggies. Green Juice ingredients may be 100% crisp green, or a rainbow of colors. I’m a personal fan of using all greens.
ALL YOU VEGGIE HATERS DRINK UP!
Most people assume that if they hate veggies, they will dislike green juice. (Sorry to through you under the bus dad.) Not so. Green juice, when properly prepared delivers delightful intermingling flavors: salty and sweet. Spicy and sour. Pungent and mild. Tart and warm. Each ingredient produces a unique flavor property – and with a little creative license, you can easily craft your perfect variation of “Green Juice”. Here are my favorite recipes – and a few steps to creating your own…
Also, don’t be affraid to add weeds to your green drinks. Personally I love juicing recipes with dandelion greens, comfrey and nettle leaf. For more info on them go here. <—
Ginger.... mmmmm
Parsley - So Good
Silly Cilantro
Green Juice Ingredients. Here are a few of my faves and my flavor analysis of them:
Green Juice
Green Juice Ingredients:
Arugula juice- spicy, grassy
Basil juice – sweet, spicy
Bell Pepper juice- hydrating, sweet, zesty
Cabbage juice – mildly grassy
Celery juice - zesty, hydrating
Green Chard juice- grassy, sweet
Cilantro juice – sweet, fragrant
Collard greens juiced – grassy
Cucumber juice – hydrating, sweet/sour
Endive juice – bitter
Fennel juice - anise, zesty
Green apples juiced – very sweet, tart
Green grapes juiced – very sweet, tart
Green onion juiced – zesty, spicy
Green pears juiced – very sweet
Honeydew juice- sweet, hydrating
Jalapeno juice- spicy, zesty
Kale juice- grassy, dark
Kiwifruit juice – tart, sweet, zesty
romaine juice – hydrating, mild, grassy
Lime juice – sour, zesty
Mache juice- grassy, dark
Parsley juice – grassy, zesty
Spinach juice – grassy, dark, pungent
Watercress juice – spicy, grassy, hydrating
Wheatgrass juice – very grassy
Zucchini juice- hydrating, mildly bitter
Mint juice- vibrant, minty, cooling
assorted green herbs
Non Green Ingredients
Pears – very sweet
Apples – sweet/tart
Ginger – very spicy
Orange – zesty, sweet
Lemon – tart, zesty (remove seeds)
Pineapple – zesty, very sweet
Carrots – sweet, thick
Grapefruit – sweet/tart, mildly bitter
Blueberries – sweet, thick
Jicama – thin, mild, cooling
Radish – zesty
Beet – sweet, dark
Garlic – zesty, spicy
Tomato – sweet, zesty
Other Green Juice Add-in’s:
Black Pepper – spicy
Spirulina – seaweed/nutrients
Cayenne – spicy
Wild Oregano Oil – Spicy
Habanero Powder – Man Up
Pine Polen – Salty
(I have more add in’s – at the membership website)
In conclusion, get yo’ greens dude. Stop messing around with your health. You can either pay for your health now or sickness later. Share this with all your friends and people you care about. Let’s get this message out! 
212 Degrees – Mindset Monday
212 Degrees – The Extra Degree
Enjoy the videos peeps, hopefully it motivates you to keep pushing forward. That last 1 degree scientifically is always the hardest to get. It actually takes almost 7 times more effort.
Are you willing to put in 7 times more, to get what you really want?
It’s what separates you from everyone else. 99% of people settle for an okay or “mediocre” life.
I need you to be the 1%. Seriously. Let’s do this!!
Leave a comment below, let’s start a discussion on how to get your water to boil….
Remember, we’re in this together,
Drew
Mindset Monday – Burn The Ships…
Where are you in your life and what ships do you need and what to burn? Here are five things I want to
share with you. I also want you know what my ships were and how I was able to “burn” them.
I want to get a little personal with you, on this mindset Monday if that’s okay.
So a little over a year and half ago… I was living in Tampa fl, and everything seemed to be going right, I was making a great living, I had freedom of time and my relationships where awesome.
There was only one thing missing…
I didn’t feel like I was growing as a person. This is one of the most important things we can do in this life experience. We are constantly growing and if we are not, we are dying.
So there I was…
I felt stuck, stagnate, and I felt like I was just simply settling.
Being 29 at the time, I knew I had to do something quick, and an old story came to my mind.
It was the story of Hernando Cortes…
Captain Cortes and a small army left Cuba and set out to conquer Central America. Cortes was going to accomplish his goals, no matter the consequences. The myth states that once Cortes’ troops landed in what is now Mexico, he ordered the ships destroyed by fire.
In burning his ships, Cortes took away all options to retreat and, I am sure, got the full buy-in from his troops to make it a successful campaign. They had no choice. Either drown in the sea or conquer this new world.
Psychologically what do you think this did to the army? They knew that they could not retreat… do you think they raised their performance up a little…
Probably, right? Well they ended up losing anyway…
it’s still a good story…
‘You are gullible” they won stupid.
So how did I burn my boats in FL and manage to expand as a person in Florida? I had to leave it all behind.
Five Keys to Burning the Boats
1) Create a “have to” goal. One that will glow white hot within you. Then, burn all the other boats. A terrific relationship with your spouse, a great business, a new venture that changes lives, etc. Having a dynamic visual goal is vital and getting it down on paper is critical.
2) Action is key so act as if success is certain. By burning your boats, you will tap into your faith and create a laser-like clarity that brings everything into distinct focus. Your next steps will just flow since they will be so obvious.
3) Enlist the help of others. Nothing truly significant in life happens without others help. God created us to do things together. An individual with a burnt boat is nothing more than a castaway so tap into others wisdom and energy and be open to the great unseen forces of God as well.
4) Trust your “higher mind” to formulate connections that you never saw before. By burning your boats, you are simply freeing yourself to do something that you have been most likely been preventing yourself from doing all along.
5) Unconventional success calls for unconventional approaches. We all have hard-wired habits and ways of doing things in our life that, in time, can actually become roadblocks to success. Try completely new, unfamiliar approaches and see what happens. Charts and maps are terrific but, quite often, incredible journeys start by someone acting on one seemingly crazy and paradoxical hunch.
Remember, we’re in this together,
Drew
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Spirulina Green Smoothie Recipe
Yo Yo Fitlifer….
I was thinking about you this weekend….
What happens when I think about you?
Get your mind out of the gutter perv. 
I like to create little tokens of gratitude and appreciation for you. Since you are on my list, you’ve probably seen many of the videos in the past and like what we are serving you at Fit Life. Well, in this one I’m going to give you life in a glass.
This is our Spirulina Smoothie recipe that will…. (you will just have to wait and see) Just don’t get it under your nose.
Doesn’t that “look amazing.” Wait until you try it. Here are the ingredients in case you missed it.
11 Heaven Smoothie
Almond Milk
Chard
Wheat Grass
Spinach
Kale
Apple
2 Kiwi
Pear
Mango
Spurlina
Chlorella oops, remember a little parsley too
If you noticed in the video, I mixed up the almond milk, ice and the spirulina and chlorella first. This gives you a great base to drop the veggies and fruit in… making it easier on your blender. Try it out and let me know how it goes.
Here are the benefits of the Green Smoothie.
Health Benefits of Green Smoothies
1 — Natural Weight Loss Drinking a green smoothie is the best thing you can do to loose weight. Green smoothies provide the nutrition, vitamins, minerals, healthy carbohydrates, fiber and low fat whole food that you need to loose weight quickly, safely and effectively without starving yourself. After drinking green smoothies for a few weeks, my wife and I noticed that our cravings for junk foods were greatly reduced and we actually began craving healthy food options!
2 — Increased Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables (Particularly Greens) The American Cancer Society recommends that we eat 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day to prevent cancer and other diseases. Green smoothies are a quick and convenient way to get your vegetables and dark, leafy greens without tasting them. The fruit masks the flavor so even though all you taste is pineapple, mango, banana or strawberry, you are consuming a healthy dose of spinach, carrots, tomatoes and any other vegetable that you put in.
3 — Easier Digestibility and Nutrient Assimilation Blending fruits and vegetables together breaks down the cells of plants and improves digestibility. Your blender unlocks the nutrients and maximizes their delivery to your body more than chewing any salad could. Smoothies are quicker and more convenient than preparing and thoroughly chewing a salad, especially when you are on the go.
4 — Antioxidants Green Smoothies are high in antioxidants and phytonutrients. Not only are you giving your body the best defenses for disease, but you are ingesting a variety of natural substances that are essential for optimum health and fitness.
5 — Increased Energy Smoothies provide a powerful boost of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients without bogging down your digestive system. Since you are eating natural, whole foods in the most optimum form for your digestibility and nutrient absorption, you will have more energy to get things done and enjoy your day.
6 — Mental Clarity and Focus With a healthier diet comes greater mental clarity and focus. Green smoothies have replaced my morning coffee ritual. Since becoming caffeine-free, I have experience greater alertness, energy and dramatically reduced anxiety and nervousness that I used to deal with on a daily basis.
7 — Increased Fiber Intake Unlike fruit juice or using a juicing machine, green smoothies use the whole fruit and vegetable so that you get all the fiber and nutrition. Fiber is essential for good colon health and it keeps your bowels in working order.
8 — Clearer Skin Clearer, radiant skin is an often-reported benefit to eating healthier. Smoothies are high in fiber and allow your body to eliminate toxins the right way instead of through your skin. I never noticed my healthy glow until I was looking at a group photo that was taken in the middle of winter. I looked like I just been tanning even though I never really went outside.
9 — Reduce Cravings Green smoothies reduce cravings for junk foods, unhealthy sweets, salt and fats. You will find that after a few weeks of drinking smoothies, you will crave healthier foods such as fruits, vegetables and greens.
10 — Rich With Chlorophyll Green smoothies are rich with chlorophyll which some natural health experts say enhances the immune system, purifies the blood and rejuvenates the body.
11 — Alkalizing Fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods and many natural health experts claim that consuming these foods helps maintain a proper alkaline balance in the body. Acid-producing foods (as well as the over-consumption of protein) can raise the PH level of the blood, which can cause your body to leach calcium from your bones to neutralize it, thus increasing your risk for osteoporosis. Mainstream doctors and nutrition experts, while also promoting an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, point out a lack of clinical, scientific evidence to support claims by alkaline-diet promoters. Either way, consuming foods that help maintain a proper PH level in our bodies is a good thing and green smoothies can help with that.
The benefits of smoothies can be found here. <------
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A Post-Fast Plan That Promises You’ll Pack On Muscle
If you’re fasting – or are thinking about starting a fast – you’re probably focusing on what you’re going to lose. As in weight.
Inches.
Pants sizes.
But what about what you could gain?
Check this out.
You might not even be aware of it, but when you put your body through a strategic caloric deficit – like you do with a program like the Alpha Reset – you also prime it for a muscle-building program that can leave you ripped. Quick.
Here’s why.
After it’s been in a strategic caloric deficit, your body becomes extremely insulin sensitive, ready to release a surge of anabolic hormones when the time comes for an aggressive caloric surplus. The result?
You get ripped, fast!
The funny thing is, you see this happen all the time with bodybuilders who don’t even plan for it to happen. Leading up to a show, they dial back their diet – or, go into a caloric deficit. Then after the show, they make up for it by scarfing food in huge portions, launching them into a caloric surplus that leaves them even more cut than they were for their competition.
Unbelievable!
We’ve been seeing similar results with the Alpha Reset. People get a week or two into the all-juice program and see weight drop like crazy.
Then, as they strategically introduce solid foods back into their diet – and because they’ve committed to a healthier new lifestyle that typically involves some kind of workout routine – they start packing on muscle. Immediately.
A lot of muscle!
What’s happening is, following the caloric deficit of the Alpha Reset and along with the subsequent caloric surplus, their bodies are primed to release a natural surge of anabolic hormones in the form of insulin, IGF1 and testosterone that the body releases in huge quantities.
The key is to understand this potential, to make sure that you pack on muscle instead of unwanted fat. How?
No. 1, the caloric surplus period should not last longer than 14 days. After that, the body of the typical male starts storing the extra calories as fat instead of muscle.
And No. 2, the caloric surplus must be aggressive, but it must follow a caloric deficit of at least seven days, preferably longer. What this does is create maximum insulin sensitivity and anabolic hormone priming.
Just be sure to keep your protein intake higher during your fast. For the Alpha Reset, this means you should factor in juices that include high-protein veggies like kale. One of my favorites – featured in Juice Up Your Life – is called Green Juice Energizer.
It tastes great and is loaded with the goods that will not only help drive your weight loss, but also with the stuff to help you get ripped afterwards. Also, in the Juice Up Your Life System, we have an after the fast diet for all of you Juice Heads!
We’re in this together,
DREW
Green Juice Energizer
• 2 apples
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/2 lemon (peeled)
• 1/2 cup of kale
• 1/2 cup of spinach
• 1/4 bunch of celery
• 1/4 bulb of fennel
• 1-inch of ginger
• 1/4 head of romaine lettuce
Radical Authenticity…
Hey Fitlifer,
I’m on my way to Florida right now to meet with a new transformation client. (he’s gonna kill it.)
Felt like reaching out to you while on the plane. I was actually watching the movie Warrior but my Mac died. Great movie btw.
How’s your New Year coming so far?
FitLife is really taking off. Here’s why… And you can apply this same time tested and proven principle to your own life and business.
#1 – Radical Authenticity
This has a very powerful energy to it. People cannot help but be attracted to you when you are …..wait for it…..yourself.
You are so unique.
So unique.
There is no one like you on the planet. First off the obvious… No one looks like you. Unless you have an identical twin. For me, that’s just to much sexy-ness to even think about. I think the world would implode.
Second, and this is the most important. No one has had an identical life experience.
Everything you have been through has prepared you, molded you for what you are going to achieve in this life. (this very moment)
Think about all of the hard times and good times you’ve amassed and how every step along the way has prepared you for where you are right now.
ANYONE can be like someone else.
But YOU are a true original.
Don’t place yourself in a hole with squares, circles, and triangles…create your own shape!
Some of the most successful people of our time, recognized their radical authenticity.
Look at Miles Davis! 
A LEGEND IS AN OLD MAN WITH A CANE KNOWN FOR WHAT HE USED TO DO. I’M STILL DOING IT… MILES DAVIS
He refused to play what the producers wanted him to play and stick with what he wanted to play.
Eventually people caught up to him and not the other way around.
Let people come to you.
People will seek you out, when you raise yourself to this level.
Stop breing needy and create yourself today.
Be the original you!
Be the you that people want to be around, because you’re different.
Be the you that has an irresistible energy, that your sexual partners can’t get enough of.
Be the you that goes to bed with a smile and wakes up with one, knowing that you are so radically authentic and living your dream.
Not Sure about how to be you?
It’s ok, I didn’t at first either. Here are three things you can do immediately to help put you in the “You Zone.”
- Meditation: I do a 10-20 minute meditation everyday asking for guidance in this department. I ask the divine source to place people, places in things in my life that will allow me to fulfill my purpose. My Authentic Purpose.
- Stop hanging around people that are not you. Many times we get suckered into chillin’ out with some peeps that are not on the same level as us. In other words we settle. Maybe you are bored, tired, or there is no one else. These are all lies designed to help you sleep better at night. It’s time to wake up! You are the average of your 5 best friends. If 3 of your friends are not radically authentic and have no clue who they even are… it’s time to go friend shopping. You do not need this in your experience. No one ever said life was easy but you need to be around people that are in alignment with you and can help you keep your eye on the prize.
- Say NO: Many people I come in contact with are people pleasers. They will do whatever anyone asks them to do and if they can’t for some reason they feel bad. This reeks of in-authenticity. It’s a sign of weakness. People will respect you more if you say “no” once in a while. I encourage you, if you are a people pleaser to give that up. For one month, anytime someone asks you for something I want you to say N-O.
Deal?
So these 3 tools will help you become the best version of you.
If you have questions leave them in the facebook comment box below.
We’re in this together,
Drew
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Why is everyone talking about CROSSFIT? Join me
Why is everyone talking about CROSSFIT?
First off let’s talk about what it is exactly.
It’s strength and conditioning brand that combines weightlifting, sprinting, gymnastics, power lifting, kettle bell training, plyometrics, rowing, and medicine ball training.
Crossfit contends that a healthy, fit person requires proficiency in each of ten general physical skills: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy.
It defines fitness as increased work capacity across all these domains and says its program achieves this by provoking neurologic and hormonal adaptations across all metabolic pathways.
Pretty intense huh? If you think the explanation was a mouthful. You should try one of these workouts. I challenged Drew, so now I challenge you. It does not matter what shape you are in, your age, or gender. (There is a 65 year old client at the crossfit I go to…I’m sure she’s in way better shape than 75% of women under 30 J)
I have been a Crossfitter for nearly a year. It changed my life. I have always been athletically inclined, so I thought I could rock it on day one. My first day, my good friend and trainer Casey Langdon slammed my ego right into the ground. I thought I had this workout in the bag, little did I know I was in for a treat as well as a life changer.
So why do I advocate crossfit so much?
Crossfit is a popular training style built around a “Workout of the Day” (WOD), published daily on the Crossfit site, and tends to be different everyday. Let’s look at an example below.
Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:
225 pound Deadlift, 6 reps
7 Burpee pull-ups
10 Kettlebell swings
Run 200 meters
All in that little time you just worked $h!t out of your body. No need for all those Ab workouts, your core just thanked you after a workout like that
Check out the video! Drew and I crushing Crossfit!
( Drew rocked out a muscle up for the first time! That usually takes a crossfitter a year to do)
So what’s the new skinny? WEIGHTLIFTING! Yes I said it
Weightlifting is a very new experience for so many women in our gym that I totally understand your hesitation and fear of doing it. No one in any important position is encouraging young female athletes to lift weights, because of the myths around weightlifting. Weightlifting, CrossFit and strength training are essential parts of any person’s life.
Yes, my ladies weightlifting is important to you too!!
Women are built to be athletes, just the same as any human, and that’s the fundamental starting point for empowering yourself and realizing your vision of why you came to Crossfit in the first place.
I’ll see you out there!
Crystal
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
I hope you are having an amazing week filled with love and blessings. I know I am. Just knowing that I have much to be grateful from the simple things of waking up and moving my toes, to smelling a wonderful cup of coffee in the morning….or better yet simply BEING!
A Kiss Of Gratitude
I know it’s really hard to think about positive and blessed things in our lives when we have a million things to do in a day.
Hey It happens to me too! You’re not alone! Let’s turn things around by doing some simple things together.
Many days, I try to humble myself and hold a 2-minute gratitude session. I simply sit or kneel, with no distractions, close my eyes, and think about what I’m grateful for and who I’m grateful for.
When I do have those moments , when I feel so flustered and impatient. I close my eyes and start my humbling process. Why should that be? Why should the simple
act of thinking about who and what I’m grateful for make such a big difference in my life? Here’s a couple good turning points it does for me.
- It reminds me of the positive things in my life
- It reminds me of what’s important:
- It turns bad things into goo things:
- It reminds you to thank others
If you enjoyed this video and are grateful, post what you are grateful for in the comments below.
Crystal
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