CrossFit

So for the last week of my challenge it was all systems go. Nicole was back in action and driving me to do my best. I purposely booked the photo shoot and my Dexascan for the very end of the week. Every day counts after all and with the fine-tuning to my diet my body […]

Only a few weeks into the full CrossFit swing of things and I find out about something ominously called Testing Week. I soon learned that this is a really important part of what they do at CrossFit Athletic. It’s used to give them vital feedback on how we’re all progressing. Since I had never completed […]

This week my dad emailed me a photo from the archives of me with the weight of the world on my shoulders. I’m guessing this was me about age 6, just coming to terms with my destiny as a future superhero. I took a few decades off from my training but now I’m truly back […]

A program of love feels a lot like hate… Not to sound like a broken record but it just keeps getting harder and harder. I think my partner is getting sick of hearing me describe my workouts as really, really hard. My stock standard response has become tonight’s workout was the hardest yet. At least […]

CONDITION THIS… Forget everything I’ve said about my training being difficult up to this point. I clearly had no idea. Pete was right… now we are really starting to work hard. The easy days of lifting heavy weights with long recovery rest periods are over. Now he’s programmed us up to do several different exercises […]

On my own… So it seems like everybody and their dog shuts down over the Christmas period including both of my gyms, one closed for two weeks the other on reduced hours making it impossible to make it there after work. I was a little bit nervous about where to start but when I spoke […]

Woman’s Day‘s Karen Birkemoe has taken on a 12-week CrossFit workout challenge to shed some unwanted kilos. Find out what happened in her festive fourth week… Holiday Spirit I should have known something was up when Dani busted out the Christmas music on our December 1st workout. It just got bigger from there to the […]

Woman’s Day‘s Karen Birkemoe has taken on a 12-week CrossFit workout challenge to shed some unwanted kilos. Here she reveals the events of week number three. Week three and I’m still going strong. Every workout the weights go up a notch and miraculously I manage to lift them. Meanwhile the list of exercises I hate […]

Woman’s Day‘s Karen Birkemoe has taken on a 12-week CrossFit workout challenge to shed some unwanted kilos. Here she sums up her second week. THE PLAYERS They say it takes a village to raise a child and I’m beginning to think it will be the same to give rise to my dream body. From the […]

Woman’s Day‘s Karen Birkemoe has taken on a 12-week CrossFit workout challenge to shed some unwanted kilos. Here she reveals the events of her first week. WEEK ONE Confronting is a good word to describe my first week. I knew from looking in the mirror that things were getting out of hand with my weight. […]