Pursuing Health

I remember asking my Chief, I was like, Hey, I think I want to try to go do this CrossFit Games thing, and Im not going to have to miss a lot of training, are you good with it? And … Continued

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There was an orchestrated mass media campaign by our critics to portray us as dangerous- by the opposition. And thats all waning now, because of the changes in the website. So, we were actually able to alter the worlds view … Continued

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“We’re so resilient as people that we can deal with a lot of stuff. And if you pull back on the intensity, and you give your body a chance to heal, we’re also remarkable healers. You know, you give yourself … Continued

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“I call that integrative health. Integrative health is a little different than complementary medicine, is different than integrative medicine. Integrative health is the merger of conventional care like I learned, and you learned in your own medical training. Evidence-based complementary practices, non-drug approaches, … Continued

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“I didn’t start CrossFit to be competitive, and I didn’t get into the competitive side until several years later. And, I would say, I didn’t start getting competitive until 3… 3-4 years ago. And then I was like, ‘Oh, this … Continued

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“I really just… kind of wanted to get more into the CrossFit community. More interested in sort of where things were going, especially as we were moving, CrossFit as an organization, is moving away from the sort of Games mentality … Continued

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“It was awesome [her first CrossFit Games experience in 2008]… There were no expectations and there was only one Games so nobody really knew what they were doing, and it was like, we really just wanted to see if what … Continued

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“I always say, if you cut yourself, within a couple weeks the repair is perfect and you go back to normal. How is it possible that inside the body we don’t have any of this? Right? So, we just developed … Continued

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“Well, the one thing was the change in family medicine, and we started seeing family physicians being pushed out of the hospital systems in place of hospitalists. And you had the decision to make whether you wanted to stay inpatient … Continued

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“But I had been working very closely on- holistically- on keeping my hormones and all those types of things- that’s always been really important to me- on keeping those kinds of things where they should be. And so, then I … Continued

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