CrossFit at Midlife (aka Embodied Dedication as We Age)

It is good to dine well with friends. What well means amidst our industrial-complex, food-agricultural worlds of today begs some consideration, however! I’ve just finished the 8-week Health&Habits offering through Centerville CrossFit box, with a delight to be amongst new friends and back into the direction of health and fitness, with just a little help from such friends. Learnings and a shout-out to the program here, for anyone who might consider it in the future. Nutrition or fueling ‘re-education’ has become a long-term hobby and interest of mine, ever since I landed in an earlier Crossfit informed program called Dedication Health , offered in 2019 by my previous CF box in Vandalia (now complete, with kids into college and offerings well tended). I kept up the interest with a 2024 summertime dip into CBG (Consistency Breeds Growth), aimed at health/body composition changes without tracking macros . Recovering from a 2024 November back injury, I learned of CCF’s nutrition-re-e...

Into the final week of a chosen 8-week Health and Habits session offered by my local ‘ box ’–which may actually include a Week 9, for kicks–I am smiling into being back into a familiar, desired direction: toward health & easing of mind. Bemused by what I always relearn–bathroom scales are notoriously UNinformative for true processes unfolding–I am pleased to be into a seemingly more-sustainable rhythm of habits, once again . Familiar directions. I am immersing more and more into the Peloton world and a bit of beginner’s yoga, alongside my CrossFit habits. [You can find me @LateOnsetPaleo]. New directions. Time for some musings on both… Familiar Directions…Finally (Again) We were nearing time for the end-of-H&H sessions InBody scan, so I decided to tend to it yesterday, given my frustration with the slow-pace of ‘weight loss’ that was preying on my attitude, my mind. I couldn’t get to the comparative results until after the morning’s WOD, but it seemed ‘not enough’ in my curren...