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Rachael Nitz
- May 27, 2020
- 4 min
Motivation vs. Dedication
I won’t lie to you… there are plenty of days when I really just don’t feel like working out. Some days I would love to just sit on the couch all day, especially during our current “stay-at-home” status but I know that, if I do that, I won’t reach my goals and I won’t show my daughter what life can look like with fitness in it. This is what keeps me coming back to the gym again and again. It’s what forces me to get my workout in on those harder than usual days. When you look a
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Rachael Nitz
- May 14, 2020
- 6 min
Garage Gym: Wishlist vs. Real Life
We are luckier than most in that, because we were living in Japan with an addiction for CrossFit and the closest box being 2 hours away (and about $80 round trip in tolls), we invested in a few key pieces of equipment to build a porch gym. We didn’t buy any cardio equipment because shipping was INSANE and because we had some really good and relatively safe running routes around our house plus a great running group in the area that we met up with regularly. We were also pretty
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Rachael Nitz
- Apr 30, 2020
- 3 min
Learn About Rachael
Growing up I was never really a "gym" person or a running person or a "do any physical activity on purpose" person. I stayed active with marching band and dance team and I worked quite a bit. I would occasionally hit a few cable machines at my school's gym but I wasn't considered an athletic person (still not if you ask my husband who says I'm just uncoordinated). The extent of my workouts consisted of doing leg day over and over again since that's what I was good at and my l
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Rachael Nitz
- Apr 14, 2020
- 5 min
Our New Normal
A lot has happened in the last month. The world is sick, and we are all trying to learn how to deal with our new lives. Many of us are now working from home and trying to balance our work lives with our home lives. This line gets pretty blurry when you have access to your emails 24/7 and your boss has your personal phone number and maybe you also have kids at home that you are trying to teach while getting your work done. We are in crazy times right now, but this also gives u
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Rachael Nitz
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
Making the Most of Your Time at Home
I take the time to plan out my blogs at least a month ahead of time. A month ago, when I chose a topic for my second blog of the month, Coronavirus or COVID-19 was a very distant disease that “didn’t affect America.” Originally, I was very excited to tell you all about why I compete in competitions and races. I was planning to sign up for a competition at CrossFit Waukesha and I was ready to kick some butt at it. I have been really focused on perfecting my technique in lifts
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Rachael Nitz
- Mar 9, 2020
- 7 min
Checking in With My Goals
By this point in the year, most people have completely lost sight of their New Year’s Resolutions but I am bound and determined to stick with mine and I hope you are too! Let’s start with how I’m tracking my goals and maybe you can get a few ideas from it. I got this really awesome planner at the beginning of the year that allows you to utilize the law of attraction. Basically, the law of attraction says that what you focus on in your life is what you will attract and what yo
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Rachael Nitz
- Feb 8, 2020
- 3 min
Fit Gifts
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and you can't seem to figure out the perfect gift to get your significant other. They have made the decision to be a better and healthier version of themselves. Of course, you want to be supportive and get them something that says, "I love you enough to support your journey!" That usually doesn't involve the super large, heart-shaped box of assorted chocolates, or the few bottles of wine, or really anything that most stores advertise
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Rachael Nitz
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min
The Best Fitness Watch Out There! (In My Opinion)
Fitness watches are all the rage! From Fitbits to Garmin to Apple Watches, there are so many out there. In the last 5 years I have had 3 Fitbits, 1 Garmin, and 2 Suuntos. Hands-down both Suuntos have been my absolute favorites! Stay tuned and find out why. First, a little background: Suunto began in 1936 in Finland when Tuomas Vohlonen invented a way to mass produce liquid-filled compasses. This new way of making a compass made for better readings and more accuracy. By 1953,
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