It seems silly for me to differentiate between my performance, dance, and athletic itineraries, so I'm consolidating them.

Here's what's coming up:

Regularly Scheduled- teaching dance classes at the Downtown Community Centre, Breithaupt Community Centre, and Aradia Fitness Studio. As of January, I hope to be teaching four times per week ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done one of these ( Read more... )

I'm a full-time student, though I'm not enrolled at any institution, and am not working towards a degree or certificate. I take university courses online, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), through Coursera and edX. Sometimes I drop the course. Sometimes I follow it through completion. Sometimes I do all the assignments and readings. ( Read more... )

Despite my asthma making my training session this morning slooooow as McDonald's counter staff nursing a hangover, I feel rather bad ass.

Here's what I did today.

• biked 5 km
  
• climbed 20' rope three times
  
• ran a mile
  
• did 100 m of walking lunges with a 10-lb medicine ball overhead
  
• did about 50 m of human wheelbarrowing
  
• did 50 wall balls
  
• did about 500 ( Read more... )

My hip is improving. As long as I play by its rules, it's been forgiving, and today, for the first time since the issue started up over a month ago, I was able to do pistol squats on that side without any issue. Yay! I'm hoping it will let me start running and jumping soon, too. So far, not going to do it, though. I tried doing mountain ( Read more... )

So yeah. Finally recovered from the surgery on my leg. Slowly recovering from asthma issues brought on by a seasonal cold. My hip has been a bit wonky for a while, so I went in to get some massage work done on it, thinking something was just a bit twisted around inside and needed a bit of work ( Read more... )

I was afraid today would be shit. I barely got any sleep last night because my mind kept racing. But after a slow start, my day turned out pretty awesome ( Read more... )

I did my first-ever Strongman training yesterday. I had a blast. ( Here are some annotated pictures of what went on. )

Well, gotta say, this Whole30 thing made a difference. I've lost 7.6 lbs and gained lean muscle mass all while eating like a ravenous beast and training like a crazy person.

( Here are the photos to demonstrate.... )

I survived the CrossFit competition on Saturday, ( and even came in fourth place in the womens' masters division! )