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Number 1 thing to think about it NO COTTON coming into contact with your skin. Cotton will get wet and stay wet. I do a lot of winter time sports activities outside. I love fleece lined base layer leggings and shirt (just got some new brooks running leggings from REI and they are amazing!) I prefer merino(smart) wool…

Curly/Wavy hair translates into dry hair. This is what can cause frizz, breakage etc. I can go over a week without a real "wash" (conditioner only and normally with brown sugar and the tedious 5 min scalp scrub). The longer I go without a wash the healthier and curlier my waves get. If you have not yet, I recommend looking…

@ExistingFish I am envious of your deva cut. I have to drive like 4 hours one way to find a deva stylist......... There have been a couple ladies locally who have tried to work with me, like dry curl by curl cuts etc., but we just haven't found the holy grail. Plus now that I am growing out I will only get a trim every 8…

Is your hair course or fine? I have baby fine 3a curls and I have tried just about every oil and they all weigh down my curls but I haven't tried this one, so I might give it a go. @fstrickl A curly girl selfie thread sounds amazing!!!

I either use LA looks blue gel or Herbel essence totally twisted gel (both are CG friendly). The LA looks is old school and you can find it just about anywhere, it is bottom shelf so really in expensive.

It depends on the day for me. I have a mixture of 2c, 3a and 3b (some 3c on a good hair day :) Short cut with bangs (currently growing out) I do not pineapple or wear a protective covering at night as this just squashes my curls entirely. If I do Max 30 at home, my hair is super sweaty and I have to clip my bangs back or…

With Intermittent fasting , the recommendation is to make and use SOLE using pink himilayan salt. you can google how to make and how to consume.

BOTH! I want both and I will have both :) Initially, though, it began after baby # 1, continued through baby # 2 and has crossed over to so many sports and adventures. Plus I really love going to the Dr. for bloodwork. I even had one Dr. ask if I was an athlete do to super awesome HDL cholesterol levels. In the next three…

I don't do large volume runs these days. I do crossfit 6 days a week, and run 2 of those (am run pm WOD) yes, my legs are like lead weights, mostly my calves seem to take the brunt. It gets easier though. I do 1 tempo 3.3 distance and then sprints at the track the other day. The hardest part of those days is re fueling…

You ladies can all do it! Keep starting over as often as you have to! There is no shame in starting again! I have been logging off and on for 5 years. Every time I skip out on logging, or get sloppy weighing and measuring everything, the weight begins to creep back up. I start over every 6 months or so lol, I am a firm…

The 1st thing I did was quit grabbing fast food and eating out and drinking soda and high calorie alcohol. Weight started to fall off. So then I started running slowly and doing body pump at gym. Lost a little more. Then I started tweaking my diet, focusing on no more frozen and packaged food at home. Lost some more. Thwn…

In 2006 I lost 70 pounds in 7 months, it's very do able. FYI I was 220 lbs at 5'7.

You must, must, must weigh and measure your food to lose weight!! I cannot stress this enough, it's 80% diet 20% exercise. With that being said, crossfit is a special beast. You will be doing METCON and weight training. This is hard to measure your calorie burn with a standard heart rate monitor. I started crossfit (I was…

YOU can be. Start working towards that goal now. You will fail at times and other times you will succeed and during this time you'll be up and down, some recipes will suck, won't freeze well etc. but I promise you, over time, as long as you stick to it and keep working towards this end goal, YOU WILL become more organized.…

Heat is serious. I consider myself quite fit, but when I'm working in heat I always lower the intensity a bit. I ran a race 5 years ago in Kansas city, I wanted to place near the top so we started off at a fast pace. Half way through I was getting lightheaded and dizzy, my vision was blurring at times. I took it as a hint…

Foam roll NOW!!! don't let it get worse or you are looking at a 6 week layoff from all exercise and terrible sleepless nights. Take a few days off and build up mileage in the proper way. I was training for a HM when I encountered my issues.

THIS! work on them a couple days a week in the shower. Otherwise you will eventually rip them off, and ain't nobody got time for that lol!!! Seriously it hurts! I don't use gloves, they never prevented the callous formation and just get in the way . For kipping or bar muscle ups I wear gymnastics leather grippers now.…

Soak in a warm Epsom salt bath. Only run every other day. Did you have high sodium day or or day before? Are you flat footed or high arched or regular? When you bought running shoes, did you buy based on the shape of your foot?

I run to weight room, so I use my HRM during that. Then I'll keep it going if my heart rate stays above 120 bpm. I do crossfit WOD after heavy lifts, so I definitely track on my HRM, it's funny to see what Jack's up your heart rate. Then I input as cardiovascular calestinics vigorous and I'll knick off maybe 50 call burned…

Just be honest about your fitness level with the coaches at the crossfit box you go to. They should scale the workouts to meet your level of fitness. There's a video series on YouTube called "killing the fat man" maybe 12 episodes or so. You might look into the 1st and then the last to see what a difference it made. That…

Once I starting squatting over bodyweight, I was doing SO 5x5 , it did start to effect my running. But heavy lifting requires a full 24 hour recovery and I was running 2nd day. So best advice I can give is to run on weight training days. I no longer do 5x5. I'm still lifting heavy, but not 5x5 (crossfit style) so now I can…

I potty my pants a little sometimes during a really heavy lifting (1 RM back squat 180lbs) but I've had 2 children I'm prepared for such things, but bleeding or spotting, out of sequence can not be a good thing!!! For reference I've been lifting 2 +yes now and I'm a woman :)

Also I need to add, from experience, too much too soon leads to a host of injuries.

My first thought is you're not recovering enough. A foam roller and soaks in hot Epsom salt baths will help but 5 x s a week is a lot of running. Typically I'll run every other day with other activities in between.

Loosing weight initially (70 lbs in 6 months) is what inspired me to start working out again. Obviously that 70 lbs was all diet, but once I started to exercise weight loss slowed down but I got the body I wanted.

In my experience I was an avid Runner often winning 5ks if not overall then definitely age group and female divisions. But then I started lifting heavy doing StrongLifts 5 x 5 and once I started getting over my body weight in a lot of the lift my running definitely started to struggle. There was just no time to recover to…

Can you squat past parallel with good form with just body weight? If not then practice practice practice. Part of my warm up every day is squatting past parallel with just body weight and holding it to warm up stretch hip flexor ankles etc. If you can do this already the slowly add weight. Use a belt to help keep chest up.…

5'8 currently 157 want to be at 150. 145 is impossible I've discovered for me. So 150 is goal

I have blue tooth ear buds! What a great investment only $30 on amazon for a nice set. Then you can set phone down within distance and go at it!

NOW!! I started with light weights in my living room, supreme 90 x, affordable set of dvd's, and I got in great shape and I learned a lot about proper form etc. 6 months later I started stronglifts 5x5 at a weight room near by! Learned traditional compound lifting. 2 years later I found crossfit and by the time I started…