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International coaching specializing in rock climbing & functional fitness ⚡️ USA Climbing Team 2006-2017, MPH, ACSM CPT, CF-L2

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Movement is an important part of our mental and physical health. It increases endorphins and other neurochemicals that improve mood and reduce stress. But a lot of people have trouble consistently moving their bodies in part because they think it must feel like a grind. But what if we just did what made us feel like we’re playing? There are so many ways to move:

1. 🕺 Dance
2. 🥾 Hiking
3. 🏊 Swimming
4. 🚲 Biking
5. 🛼 Roller skating
6. 🧗 Rock climbing
7. 🏄 Paddleboarding
8. 🥊 Boxing
9. 🏸 Badminton
10. 🎾 Tennis
11. 🏐 Volleyball
12. 🏀 Basketball
13. ⚽ Soccer
14. 🏹 Archery
15. 🏋️‍♀️ CrossFit
16. 🧘 Yoga
17. 🤸 Trampolining
18. 🛶 Kayaking
19. ⛸️ Ice skating
20. 🪢 Jump rope
21. 🏋️ Weightlifting
22. 🤸‍♂️ Calisthenics
23. 🧹 Gardening
24. 🚶 Exploring a new neighborhood on foot
25. 🐕 Walking a dog
26. 🎮 Active video games
27. 🥏 Playing frisbee
28. 🏓 Ping-pong
29. 🎪 Aerial silks or aerial yoga
30. 🥏 Disc golf

Find what you love, and enjoy!
#recovery #move #exercise #play #eatingdisorderrecovery❤️💜

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Midway through this run I noticed it felt much harder than normal. Partially due to the heat, but mainly due to my mindset. I was focused on getting across the 3-mile bridge - not on enjoying each step. Studies show that our perceived exertion reduces when we have an internal locus of control - noticing what our bodies feel like - instead of an external locus of control - “just get across the bridge!” Similarly, when we can be more present in our bodies instead of obsessed with future goals or desires, we can be much more calm and peaceful. #science #bepresent #eatingdisorderrecovery❤️💜

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This may look like another working out video.

It is.

And it isn’t.

This is also what sacred work looks like.

I have struggled with muscle-ups for years. And yes, I know these are not gymnast-level yet. Internet, buttress yourselves in the comment section.

This movement has held a lot for me.

Fear. Dissociation. Anger. Frustration.

And now, grief.

Because I wanted Patrick to see me move like this for so long.

And he never will.

I know what people say. He sees everything you do from heaven.

Maybe.

But that is not the same thing.

I wanted his actual eyes on me. I wanted him standing there. I wanted to turn around after finally doing the thing and see his face.

There is grief in doing new things without the person you wanted to share them with.

Sometimes even the question: why keep moving forward? Why learn new things? Why become someone he will never get to know?

And then I find myself flying through the air beside another warrior woman.

And something moves.

@peakfitcoaching is how I learned to move like this. And being able to do it beside her now is its own kind of medicine.

Not because she makes the grief disappear.

Because there is sacred work in having someone beside you while you build the capacity to carry it.

We move our bodies through fear.
Through anger.
Through grief.
Through whatever life has asked them to hold.

And in moving the body, something inside us gets to move too.

I’m not training to be impressive.

I’m not training to win anything.

I’m training to hold life.

To tend to the vessel that has to carry me through whatever comes next.

This is the medicine.

It doesn’t have to look like bar muscle-ups for everyone.

Most days, it doesn’t for me either.

But this is why I still train.

Not because life is a competition.

Because life is coming.

And I want to be able to meet it.

#grief #healing #widow #movement

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Plot twist: i'm actually your biggest fan.

@peakfitcoaching

#thiccboi

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@peakfitcoaching making workouts fun! Also Gabe’s hotdog tank is sick 🔥

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What a way to end the weekend! Winning this event with @peakfitcoaching

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What a weekend! So grateful for a loving community and an amazing teammate, @peakfitcoaching 🔥 3 years ago before I moved to Colorado Springs, I dropped into @crossfit.soco Sunday endurance WOD and Coach Chauncey greeted me with a big smile and genuine positivity. I knew this would be my home. So it’s very special to have a blast competing with her @purplemountain_throwdown ! 🥳 More to come!

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@peakfitcoaching always getting the best effort of these kids!

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Super fun workout with my middle kids (I forget their names) by @peakfitcoaching at @crossfit.soco

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I have spent most of my life becoming a master of movement.

Strength. Capacity. An understanding of how the body adapts, fails, and learns again.

And lately I have found myself drawn to places where I am a beginner.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a gymnast.

I watched the Olympics the way children watch magic. The beam. The bars. The quiet authority of a body moving through space. For a while, I was in it. Training on the beam and the double bars.

Then I had a big fall.

My parents pulled me out of gymnastics after that.

And just like that, gymnastics quietly disappeared.

Yet the body has a way of remembering what it once loved.

There is a quote that says “the master has forgotten more than the beginner has learned.”

What the quote leaves out is that sometimes the master needs the beginner.

Because beginners live at the edge of possibility.

They wobble.
They fall.
They try things that might not work.

And when we return to that space on purpose, something shifts in the nervous system.

The body learns that it’s safe not to know.

Safe to learn in public.
Safe to fall.
Safe to try again.

For people who have lived through trauma, that matters more than we often realize.

Grief reorganizes the body. Loss contracts the nervous system. The world becomes smaller. More careful.

Curiosity does the opposite.

Curiosity widens the edges of the world again.

And play may be one of the most powerful ways the body remembers safety.

So here I am again, chalk on my hands, learning gymnastics skills in my forties the way I once did as a kid.

Not to prove anything.

Simply because the body remembers what it once loved.

And sometimes healing is nothing more than returning to the things your body loved before the world interrupted them.

Thanks @peakfitcoaching for getting me back to the beginning.

#Trauma
#grief
#loss
#Healing
#Health

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I AM > I WAS

I have tried Barrel Rider for years... It's not far from where I have lived in Marshall, but life, injuries, weakness, and weather have thwarted me until today.

I got up around 06:00 to be the first truck in the parking lot. Then I had a lovely conversation with the park ranger before I made the trek up hill.

Somehow I did the crux on my first warm up try today 🤯 It took a couple ground rips to settle down and
🔓lock in🔒

Luckily UZI takes me there 😤

After I sent, I decided to get another angle with the 🐟 👁️ only to surprise myself with lap no ✌️

Huge shout out to @peakfitcoaching for helping me recover from my biggest injury. I would not be here without her. We set this boulder as a goal last winter, and it took longer than expected... sometimes that is how things go. And that's ok.

Also, shouts to my wife @paigewit. Unfortunately, we have to be away from each other for the month of March, but I feel her support always 🫶

@madrockclimbing @madrockteam @physivantage
@ucraft_climbing

#aclrecovery #inmybag #youdontknownuthinboutanyofdis

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