Been a while.... :)

Wow!! My apologies that it has been what seems like a LONG time since the last post!! We were on vacation in Florida a couple weeks ago (which was wonderful, but I was ready to come back to my mountains... :) ) and the week after we got back I started a new job, so needless to say it has been quite a hectic last two weeks in our household!!

I'm having to re-adjust my workout schedule and remember how to pack healthy lunches and snacks and remember to drink all my water all while working a normal person desk job now after being a house honey for six months!! :) Getting used to doing our workouts at 6pm is taking some getting used to!  Luckily one of my workout girls has agreed to workout with me and my bf has been really great and works out with me a couple days too :) He just doesn't get dinner until 7:30 or 8pm... :)

On a Crossfit/workout note.... :) I wanted to bring up something that I have heard sooo many times from different women over the last several months since I "drank the Crossfit kool- aid..."... So many women have asked me "why are you doing weight training/Crossfit? You're just going to get all big and bulky and manly and will lose any girlyness...." And I'm pretty sure most of us women that do this type of workout have had this asked of us at least once...

I wanted to address this . :) .... What these women, and some men, either don't know or forgot from any science/nutrition/fitness class they took, is that women naturally are NOT going to bulk up (in the way they see in body building magazines) because our bodies/muscles do not bulk up like that from just doing weight training. We are not genetically made to naturally become bulky from just doing weight training. Now, let me clarify... if you are taking muscle building supplements, creatine, etc then yes, you are going to bulk up. The body builder women are typically the ones that have those types of physiques because they do use those supplements and such to look that way.  The Crossfit/HIIT(high intensity interval training) workouts do not bulk us up, they make us stronger, leaner, healthier, sexier women and men! Just to show what I'm talking about... My favorite female Crossfitter, Camille Leblanc-Bazinet is one of the top women in Crossfit (and my current girl crush... :) She is a strong, beautiful, feminine(not manly at all!) woman!!

I hope that these women will understand that the weight training that we do makes us not only more fit, but healthier, happier, and satisfied with ourselves and we are NOT bulky, manly, or big! And I guarantee you we are still girly!!! We still wear makeup, high heels, dresses, and fix our hair! (just not in the gym....)

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!! 

Elizabeth