Tag: crossfit

  • Molanimal

    Some Thoughts on Nutrition (The Basics)

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 6/19/2023) In conversations that I’ve had with folks over the past few weeks, it’s been requested that we spend some time in this weekly email talking about the subject of nutrition; so, today, I’m going to do just that — with a focus on […]

  • Molanimal

    Handling Anxiety

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 6/12/2023) I wanted to talk a little bit today about a subject that I am all too familiar with, but that I also know to be common among many of us: the feeling of anxiety. Of course, some anxiety is necessary, and the feeling […]

  • Molanimal

    Why Being Strong is Helpful

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 5/22/2023) Let me tell you about a conversation I had with our 6-year-old the other day. OK, it wasn’t really a conversation, but something that I was telling him in the hopes that he will carry it with him through life, though who knows […]

  • Molanimal

    Perfectionism

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 5/13/2023) If you’ve been following along with our Full Range Run/Walk Club, you’ve probably come to realize a simple truth: doing something, anything, every single day — with no missed days — is pretty tough.  Put even more simply: perfection is hard (if even […]

  • Molanimal

    Community

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 5/8/2023) Let’s talk about “community.” When we first opened the gym, and I was young and stupid (yet also knew everything), I used to really pooh-pooh the idea of “community” in CrossFit.  Mostly I saw it as a weak reason for someone to join […]

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    Comparisons

    (Originally sent as part of our weekly email @fullrangefitnesspvd; published on 3/6/2023) How often do you find that you compare yourself to others? And how much weight do we give these comparisons? And while Theodore Roosevelt called it “the thief of joy,” I think that we, as human beings, have a natural tendency to compare. […]