I don’t know about you but sometimes when I watch high-level roller derby (*cough*CHAMPS *cough*), it makes me feel like I’m not a very good athlete. I haven’t even played at…
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OR A Case for Doing What Prime Tells You Okay, okay. So the subtitle for this one is a little tongue-in-cheek. Yes, you can do exactly what I say and…
OR A Case for Periodization If you haven’t read the opening salvo of the Case for a Roller Derby Off-Season, then you may have missed: That I don’t think it’s funny when…
When I first started playing roller derby, you couldn’t keep me off the track. If I was injured? I skated through it. If I had work to do? I went…
Sit-down conversations and frantic emails from injured skaters are one of my least favorite parts of being Iron Octopus Fitness. Especially when they’re in the throes of a near panic attack…
For a long time after I started lifting, I only thought about strength in terms of the gym: How much weight am I putting on the bar? Is there a…
2018 was my second attempt at a fun and carefree RollerCon. I often think of RollerCon as an event that is outside of regular time and space. Where the roller…
I’ve always been an over-planner, so knowing what I’m doing on any given date months from now has never been a problem. It’s just the way that I view the…
There’s an episode of Family Guy in which Brian (the dog) writes a bestseller called “Wish it. Want it. Do it.” In an interview, he’s called out for having the…
You know how a specific scene from a movie or line from a song can get stuck in your head? And those few seconds represents so much more than just…