Can Tai Chi Improve Your CrossFit? Part 3: Tai Chi Breathing Principles
This is the last installment in a series of posts where I suggest trying to incorporate some basic Tai Chi principles into CrossFit WODs....
Time
Time matters, except when it doesn’t. Time speeds up, then almost stands still. In precious moments, time is transcended entirely. ...
Make It Beautiful
Good form has beauty. If what I am doing does not look beautiful, the chances are very high that I am not doing right. This principle...
Learning to Run
Recently, one of my Crossfit coaches saw me running and asked “Have you been working on your running?” “Yes”, I answered beaming with...


Adventures in Space - or - Space the Final Frontier
As rational beings (which we are on occasion), my Husband and I know that we should be able to practice Kung Fu and engage in our other...
Can Tai Chi Improve Your CrossFit? Part 2: Muscular Effort
This is the second installment in a planned series of blog posts addressing ways in which I think Tai Chi principles can be beneficially...
Are You Training For Something?
Sometimes a question comes at you and gobsmacks you right between the eyes, causing a kind of intellectual brain-freeze. A very good...
Can Tai Chi Improve Your CrossFit? Part 1: Tai Chi Posture
I came to CrossFit looking to improve my conditioning for Kung Fu (and it has), but I have found that the benefits between the activities...
I Did Kung Fu for 13 Years and Here’s What Happened
Yes, I am mocking women’s fitness magazines again (this seems like a recurring theme for me). I can’t tell you how many articles I have...
Strong Isn’t the New Anything and Shouldn’t Be
I was glancing through the latest issue of SHAPE magazine (they send it to me for free and for some stupid reason I keep looking at it),...