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Indian Spiced Glazed Carrot Soup
I never think to make carrot soup. Who makes carrot soup? As I mentioned in a previous blog post, carrots used to be a vegetable I was afraid of because I kind of placed them in the same category at...
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Some Seriously Hot Stuff! Pickled Jalapeno Relish
I've been making my own pickled jalapenos for a while now. What got me interested in doing so in the first place was a jar of hot pickled "dilly beans" my Wisconsin bff Diana sent me that her husband...
View ArticleThe Mother of All "51" workouts! A complete 40 minutes of swings
On Saturday we taped this special "51" swing workout designed for me by Meg. This is not the exact original version of it, which we did on my actual birthday on August 5th, but that one will be...
View ArticleThe Swing, The Workouts! #1-#5
HERE THEY ARE! I've posted a ton of follow along beginning swing workouts for years now, in fact many similar to the ones in my book The Swing, but here are the exact workouts in their entirety from...
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Easing back into routine again.
You know sometimes we "fall off the wagon"...not that I have or anything! The important thing is that we get back on! Be easy on ourselves...but not too easy! This is the simplest 10 sets of 10...
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Thursday 10 x 10 and Vancouver Highlights
This week's 10 x 10 still includes some longer rest periods, but ladders up "equal work/rest" sets quickly before backing off slightly to end the workout. Still working up to equal work / rest sets10...
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The Swing Workout #6
Yesterday I started out my morning with workout #6 from The Swing and let me tell you....it was awesome! Just before I left for Croatia I had to make the decision to drop my Tuesday morning class so...
View ArticleWhy an OTM workout replacement for Thursday 10 x 10?
Every Thursday is a heavy swing day. Nothing super heavy these days, but after 20-30 solid minutes w/16kg I'll throw in another 10-20 minutes with heavy double bells and or single 24kg and higher....
View ArticleDive Back In
Sometimes Youtube will not show some of my videos in some countries. I'm not sure if this is because of copy write laws with the music that plays in the background. A couple of people let me know...
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Yukon Gold!
Now that I've gotten over my fear of potatoes I forgot how delicious Yukon Gold's were! I've always made Mark potato salad, you know, the good old fashioned kind with tons of mayonnaise. For years...
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Thursday 10 x 10 combining sets, and "Man Pie"?
As I posted recently, all of my swing workouts these days are based on The Swing workouts, mostly #7, #8 and #9. In yesterday's 10 x 10 video I demo how to take two of the sets of 10 reps "combining"...
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Winer Tour 2015, Come Swing With Me! I can't do it for you, but I'll do it...
Last January I spent a few days in Milwaukee Wisconsin with my friend Diana lured with the promise of snowshoeing! I grew up in California rarely leaving the state for most of my life, and yes, it's...
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Tracy Reifkind's Ten 10 x 10 Challenge
Ah yes....so the story goes. Last year around this time I created my 10 x 10 workouts designed just to get your hands on the bell, work up a little sweat and get back into feeling your body and out of...
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Seriously Hard....I mean fun!
Okay...so the whole idea of the "all day long" part of the 10 x 10 x 10 challenge was because I'm here in Tel Aviv, Israel, while Mark is teaching the SFG Certification Course over a three day period...
View ArticleThe last 10 x 10 of 2014 with Anna Bogdanova
Time is flying by for sure. With the new 10 x 10 weekend challenge being born in December it's turning out to be a 10 x 10 themed month! I've posted ten 10 x 10 video workout options in the first...
View Article"12/25" Christmas Morning Workout, and some details about The Swing Quest...
Quite unusual for me this morning is that our workout was snatch based with the fewest number of swings I've ever done in a workout! I've been neglecting my Hardstyle snatch practice so I'll be...
View ArticleThe Swing Workout #7! And The Swing Quest 2015!
Probably my favorite workout from The Swing! For weeks now I've been practicing this exact workout as well as designing new and fun variations of it for my Thursday swing workouts and in my group...
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Lack of Motivation? Yep, Me Too :)
First of all let me start by saying I had an absolute blast on my Winter Tour that I have much more to write and share about it! But as I've been thawing out a bit since getting home last Friday I...
View ArticleThe Swing Workout #8, and 400 swings in 15 min?
This week I'll be taping last four workouts from The Swing book so practicing and working my way up to more and more workloads is key to being able to increase my strength and endurance. Still working...
View ArticleThe Swing, workout #9, and video demo of "Swing / Transfers"
I posted this last week on Youtube and haven't made the time to post it here until this morning, and then I realized that I never posted the short demo video on "Swing/Transfers"! So here it is in case...
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