Fashlete of the Month: Share Your Story!

Fashletics is all about celebrating your commitment to health and fitness... but it is a celebration of more than just increased physical strength.  When I stared training I was simply interested in getting faster and stronger. I wanted to race and I wanted to win.  Most people who start a training program have some sort of tangible goal in mind - lose weight, increase endurance, build muscle, etc.

However, regardless of the initial training goal I am sure that at some point, like me, you realized that your training program was giving you way more than a faster 5k time, a new deadlift max, or a smaller number on the scale.

Quite often people realize the benefits of their rigorous training plan outside of the gym altogether.  Quite often the grueling workouts, the early mornings, the callused hands... it all adds up to something way more than nice legs and a tight stomach.

"Fashlete of the Month" is about recognizing the influence that your fitness commitment has had on your life outside the gym.  If you have a story you would like to share about yourself or someone else please fee free to submit it for "Fashlete of the Month".  Your story will be shared on this blog and the chosen "Fashlete" will receive a customized gift from Fashletics.

Don't be shy! Be proud of your success and growth and be willing to inspire others!

Email your story to: sarah@fashletics.com
Last Month's Fashlete: Haley Sztykiel

Fit Sister

My family is in town and so far my sister Natalie is the only one who has been brave enough to come do a WOD with me at SFCF.  She is a self-made bad ass and it was awesome to workout with her today. 

Nat has been doing CrossFit out of her garage for about a year and recently started working out with her fellow teachers on their lunch break in the gymnasium of Berkley High School where they teach. She posts WOD's for them on a daily basis and decided to share her especially excruciating/fantasic experience with them.  Her coworkers will love her and hate her for it... which is precisely how most people feel about their coaches.

If you need some motivation to stay in your workout groove over the holidays read Nat's post below:

Thursday, November 24 

I know, I know, it's Thanksgiving and I should just let you have another rest day. But as the holiday season approaches, it's important that we don't take it easy every time we find the need to celebrate. We don't want to get to January 1 and say, "okay, now I'll get back to working out." Let's not waste an entire month of health and fitness just in the name of stuffing, gravy, pumpkin pie, and 30 days of sugar cookie platters. Obviously, Thanksgiving is all about indulgence and spending time with the people we love, which is as equally important as exercise. But don't let this month get away from you.

Having said that, this WOD is in honor of that mindset. Thanksgiving is the symbolic entrance into the holiday season, so let this WOD set the tone for the last week of November and the month of December. Maybe you don't get to this on Thanksgiving day, so feel free to wake up early Friday morning and prove to yourself that you can indulge in a holiday, but not let it get the best of you. I am celebrating Thanksgiving in Miami, Florida with my sister and her family. Wednesday night we went to her CrossFit gym in Fort Lauderdale and did the following workout. I almost cried. No joke.

4000 meter row (If you don't have a rowing machine, do some sort of challenging cardio work for 16 to 18 minutes...biking with heavy resistance, running on an incline, etc.)

then...
21-15-9
Thrusters (men's Rx weight: 95 pounds, women's Rx weight: 65 pounds)
Burpees

Let's be thankful for family, food, and time to lay on the couch, AND let's be thankful for our healthy bodies!

Go Team Berkley!

More from Nat: www.teamberkley.blogspot.com