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The First "Strong First Girya" Croatia! Part 1
It's Tuesday, late morning, one week since we left home, five days since arriving in Croatia. The first four days we had pretty nice weather, but we were kind of busy, well, Mark was, as he was the...
View Article100 swing warm up...or once, twice, three times a workout?
Keeping it real in Croatia! Before dinner on Monday night, just up from a nap I had to do some kind of workout! Here is 4 sets of swings I've been using, pretty much, as a typical warm up to a longer...
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What Day Is It? Opatija
I'm going to try and write some very short blog posts about my trip before I forget. Short for a blog, but too long for facebook!On Sunday, the last day of SFG Croatia I met up with Marla, a friend of...
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The small details of our lives
One of the things I had to do was collect a rock from the shore in Opatija. I had to do it because my mother started, kind of, a tradition of collecting sand (or rock) from all of the different...
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Eating Makes You Hungry! The Beginning of My Food and Eating Story
This is the beginning of my food story about my 2 week trip to Italy and Croatia that ended in a 6lb weight gain, or should I say a around a 2.5 kilos? In terms of eating I am calling this trip the...
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Travel and Strength: TRif's Croation Combo, the workouts
Sooooo......more confessions. Yes, I did train while I was on my trip. No I didn't get a chance to train as much as I wanted to, nor exactly as I want to. I was all full of piss and vinegar about...
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Feelin' My Groove Again
I still have more food and travel posts to write, I'm barely back home, less than a week, and my number one priority is getting my training routine back on track. Does that seem shallow? That my #1...
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Removing the wishbone from your turkey before roasting: how and why
I've been removing the wishbone from my turkey, before roasting, since I learned of this simple trick by working with a caterer years ago. The biggest reason why is that it facilitates the easy...
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This is my life, I'm the boss.
"Making weight" for my August competition took me back to food journaling. You know, when you write down everything you eat, which also means you have to measure your portions by using...
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Pumpkin Soup
Two weeks ago while staying in Big Sur with my friend, and BSKBG, Nadine, she made delicious pumpkin soup! It was so delicious that I knew I was going to have to make some. I make and eat more soup...
View ArticleIt's Never Too Late to Come to My Party!
I always call my group training classes "my party" because I have so much fun it would be a shame to not invite anybody else to my workouts, and that's how I started teaching. I like leading...
View ArticleSunday morning interview....really?
omg. I can't believe I scheduled this skype interview with our close friend "Ram", aka Rambo Doc SFG 1 last Sunday morning at 6:00am PST! I really don't know how we pulled it off considering that...
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It all started with 10 x 10. And I'm not kidding.
Here is my next 10 x 10 workout (#6). I took 5 minutes to video tape it this evening even though I'm not even close to being packed for our trip to Israel on Tuesday morning. If I have 5 minutes to...
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Israel
It's Sunday morning here in Israel, and probably around 10:00pm, Sat. night, back in California. Mark and I arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday afternoon, and time seems to be flying by much too quickly....
View Article"Tracy Reifkind's 10 x 10 Project" with bonus workout
I started posting these 10 x 10 workouts kind of by accident. For some crazy reason within a week's time I had received a couple of facebook messages and a couple of private emails from friends, of...
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It's Just the Beginning. 10 x 10 the next series.
I have been overwhelmed with the response to my latest 10 x 10 workouts! The amount of support and excitement I've received via emails, messages and comments privately and publicly has been such a...
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"10" days 'til Christmas, Ten Days Towards Transformation, Now's the Time
It's December 15 and that leaves 10 days until Christmas. Inspired by my own 10 x 10 workout I decided it might be a good idea to expand on the theme of "10" and the title of my first 10 x 10 workout...
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Day Two Towards Transformation. Food Scale
Most people already have a food scale, but if you don't, you need one. It's time to know what you don't know! Food scales range in price from under $20, to over $80. I highly suggest buying one that...
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On The Third Day....Interval Timer
Interval timer or interval app. I'm old school...did you figure that one out yet? A Gymboss is as new school as I get, BUT, I am becoming more and more motivated to join the 21st century! Phone...
View ArticleTuesday Training
Before I get to my KB Sport practice I have to say that I love being back on my regular swing schedule! Tuesday mornings I lead a one hour class that starts with 30 solid minutes of interval swing...
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