Muscles McGee

Where do I start? I've spent some time away from my blog over the past few months as I have just been struggling to find the time (and motivation) to sit down and write. Sometimes life gets in the way and it can often be easy to forget to do the things we love. As I write for a living, sometimes the last thing I want to do when I get some free time to myself is write. Yet, writing can be a great way of processing events, thoughts, worries and emotions. So I have reminded myself of how much I enjoy writing for pleasure, grabbed a notepad and pen and here I am. So a lot has happened since August. I have been consistently training every week and still get excited every morning when I check to see what the workout of the day is. However, when that 6am alarm goes off and I see through blurry and sleepy eyes that the workout involves 100 burpees, I can’t say that excited is always the feeling! Training has been going well but I've had a few weeks where I just haven...

http://www.boltonmarkets.com/colliers-fruit-vegetables/ Sorry to get your hopes up but I’m not talking about eating packets of Skittles or M&Ms here. I’m talking about creating a more colourful diet that will allow you to increase your daily vitamin and mineral intake.   I have recently been reading ‘The Four Pillar Plan’ by the incredibly popular Dr Ranjan Chatterjee, after listening to him speak a lot of sense on the BBC Radio 5 Live podcast, The Girl Gains. In this book, Dr Chatterjee touches upon the importance of eating a variety of different fruit and vegetables, all of different colours, to enhance your meals. Different coloured foods have been proven to optimise the growth of more beneficial bacteria in your body, as well as maximising gut-bug diversity. Colourful fruit and veg contain phytonutrients which studies have proved have a remarkable impact on your health when you consume them. Phytonutrients help to improve heart health, fight cancer cells, red...

Why do I love Crossfit so much? Crossfit has turned my world upside down. The love and support from everyone at Crossfit Consilium is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. You turn up, do some crazy, lung-burning workouts and high five each other at the end. Unlike any gym I’ve ever been to!  You can be really struggling and there’ll be someone there shouting your name to get you through it. O r...you’ll be absolutely bossing it and there’ll still be someone there telling you how well you’re doing! The feeling after finishing a workout is surreal, with everyone on that post-WOD buzz. I was voted as Member of the Month this month and the comments I received from everyone were so lovely.  Special shoutout to the best coaches that support each and every member at the box. The coaches I have the pleasure of training with every day are the main reason I have progressed so much over the past few months. Their patience, guidance and encouragement during every ...

Different people track their progress in different ways. Some people can get really obsessed with making short-term progress without thinking about the longer and more sustainable methods of development. Some people witness short-term change and become disinterested with progressing further.  Ultimately, you have to find a way of tracking your progression that suits you and your lifestyle. Comparing your development to others never works. Some people will always be in front of you and some people will always be behind you. The best example I can think of to explain this is when I am training, I watch how some girls can clean 45kg so easily. Yet when I go to lift 45kg, it is the heaviest thing I've ever held. Yet those girls are twice the size of me and have been weightlifting for much longer, so of course they are going to lift heavier than me. It is hard sometimes to not get caught up in the amount of progress everyone else is making without realising how far you've com...

You know those days when nothing goes your way and you feel like there must be someone out there trying to mug you off? For some reason that happened to me yesterday. Things were snowballing at work and 5:30pm couldn't come quick enough. I felt knackered and proper down in the dumps. I got to the gym and my mood didn't improve. After a hard and long test week last week (in which I got PBs in most things, may I add haha) my body is still recovering and the WOD yesterday showed that. I have never been in the position before, that half way through, I have nothing more to give. I was exhausted and my body was aching. It made me realise that I need my sleep and I need my rest. Rest days are so important and even though you may be DYING to get to the gym, listen to your body. I did six sessions last week with only Sunday to recover and back on it on Monday. So no wonder my body was screaming at me to have a rest (with a brew and a biscuit). It also made...