Sorry about the World’s Longest Title, but before we can talk about cross training for roller derby, we need to talk about regular training for roller derby. The kind that…
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Yes, that question was abrasive — and a little bit click-baity — but it’s an important question to ask. If you’re going to spend some of your precious, limited time…
Last year, right before my back injury derailed me (and introduced me to Intelligent Cross Training) this was about where my motivation for cross training was: In other words: And…
Let’s go back. Back. Way back. To just before I found out my whole life was about to change. 2013 was going to be my year: It was the first…
Here’s the truth: I hate to run. When people that like to run ask me to train them, I feel like I’m aiding and abetting a criminal. That’s how much…
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with other skaters recently — both people that don’t know me, other than through the book of faces/emails/website, and those that I currently…
When I first launched Iron Octopus Fitness (before there was a website or a Facebook page or even a name), I was basically just begging people to let me train…
I have this tendency to throw myself whole-heartedly into things. (Usually too many things at a time…) And this tendency often ends up with me getting burned. Case in point:…
An incident that occurred during practice a few weeks ago in which a skater on my team broke her leg has been weighing heavily on my mind. I often find…
Let me set a scene for you; one that I found myself trapped in over and over and over again: I’m cruising along merrily in my cross training and feeling…