"Side by Side" Tracy Reifkind, featuring Jeff Sokol!
How many of you have had the opportunity to swing with Jeff Sokol? I have! And now you can too! I'm thrilled that my latest DVD, Side by Side is now available, and there is also a downloadable...
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The Luckiest Human Beings on the Face of the Earth
Today might possibly be one of the luckiest day of my life so far. Not so much because it actually is, but so much that I recognized it and acknowledged it. I believe that feeling lucky is simply a...
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I "heart" a new tradition!
I'm wanting to start a new Tuesday night tradition of making my family grilled cheese sandwiches! I know! The possibilities are endless! This all started last week....Tuesday nights in our...
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Do your damn numbers!
I'm not going to lie....I've been in a funk for a couple of days. So much so that I watched 4 back to back episodes of "My Shopping Obsession" last night! Usually I do not care to watch other people...
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I Need Some "Vent"-ilation!
It's Sept 13th and as I look back about 8 months ago, to January/Feb, I remember going along my life perfectly fine. Nothing up until the first part of the year was amiss. Crash, boom, bang...it's...
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Weekend Training
I'm still trying to organize my training a little bit better since having to split it up into Sport and general strength/fitness and conditioning. The one great thing is that I only need kettlebells...
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Holy Moley! I got an incredible PR this morning with my 14kg jerk!
84 reps on just my left side! Kind of by accident, but I did it none the less! More to come tomorrow! I think I may just be on the brink of finding the holy jerk grail....fingers crossed!
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Week #4 don't be in a hurry, enjoy the ride, and be your own winner!
Thursday mornings are turning into one crazy ride, and I'm loving every swing rep! This morning was the 4th week in a 6 week strength and strength endurance swing cycle and although a fairly large...
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My GS schedule always includes a jerk set (s) and a snatch set (s) in the same day, but I had to split them up today, completing my jerk only sets late in the morning, after classes and privates,...
View ArticleSunday Dead Snatch
Well, I think I did, in fact, decide to split my jerk and snatch training on the weekends, but during the week I'll keep both together. I don't know how many jerks I did on Sat while teaching and...
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Hash
It's been forever since I made hash browns...or I should say try to make hash browns! I think the last time I tried it was before I knew anything about cooking so needless to say I'm thinking it...
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The Swing Quest 2013...the last event until The Swing Quest 2014!
The Swing Quest 2013...the last event until The Swing Quest 2014! But no worries because I'll still be here next year, and the year after, and the year after that! I started thinking about this grand...
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Creamy Delicata Squash and Vegetable Soup, and Esalen Kale Salad
I am going to take a risk at sounding like a snob, but I am sooooo OVER Butternut Squash Soup in restaurants, especially when it's the "special" soup of the day. Butternut squash soup is the easiest...
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Snatch Practice Workout
Mark and I have to produce a "Learn to Snatch" video! Getting things like this done haven't exactly been easy convenient or profitable so the motivation to do a bunch of work doesn't put things like...
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Good Yoga
I've been having a hell of a time with my Bikrams yoga practice for a very long time now, and in fact I really can't remember when I looked forward to class the way I used to. I do remember almost...
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The Value of Video, and a blast from the past!
I started video taping my workouts quite by accident! Originally I had a Cannon camera that would allow me to video 3 minutes at a time and I started video taping my swing progressions and workout...
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Mystery Cooking
I bought what I thought were yellow Canary lentils at the market the other day. I'm always excited to try new products and ingredients in my pressure cooker, because it opens up an entirely new world...
View Article"Take and Take"! The beginning of the advanced series....
If I had to pick out my favorite workout of all time it would be my Give and Take workouts! They are the workouts that "fit" almost every level of kettlebeller, beginning to advanced with so many...
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The view from Mike's room in Kastav, Croatia
So far so good! Really good as a matter of fact! We've been in Europe only for a couple of days, driving from Venice, Italy, yesterday with MSFG Fabio Zonin to Kastav Croatia. We are staying in a...
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Greeting from Croatia
It's Friday morning....about 2:00am! I don't mind waking up so early but I know better than to make some coffee yet! I had some trouble trying to get on the internet last night so I just got out of...
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