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My dad and I did the CrossFit Open this weekend, 24.1. My time was 12:16, Rx, my dad was 13:47 with a 35# DB. Friends ranged from mid 11s to mid 13s for the most part. One friend got sub 10, which was

Swearing Where do you stand on swearing? Is there a time and place for it or do you think it should never be done? Discuss in 300+ words and use photos you took yourself where you can. I consciously choose

Earlier this week, my family and I became unexpected foster parents to a baby quail. I was working out in my garage on my lunchbreak, and saw something moving out of the corner of my eye. It was a baby

I should have been a rockstar. Or at least in a local band. Or even just a closet player. Instead, I am over 40 and just pushed the un-pause button on a passion from my childhood- playing the guitar! I

This is one of my homemade mashup workouts for garage gym guys like me. It’s a combo of two of the CrossFit “Girls” - Ingrid and Grettel. The movements are alternating single dumbbell snatches, lateral

Pikmin is one of those games I have never been able to finish. I imagine it will always bring mixed feelings of incompleteness that are associated with phase of life changes for me. I was in college when

As a child, I was a nerd until about the 3rd grade, when I discovered basketball. It also helped that I grew really tall compared to my peers around that same time period. I played many sports (baseball,

I switched to working out at home exclusively in 2020. My daughter has a medical condition, I am a remote worker anyway, and it saved money. I already had most of the equipment I needed for the type of

First post back on Ecency in a while! Since it was cold and windy, I decided it was a good day to get outside and run. This wod on my garage whiteboard fit the bill. One of my gym members recommended it

Any “death by” winds up being a good workout, especially with limited time. My day was very hectic, trying to fit in all my work in time to get off early so my wife could take my daughter out with another

Tomorrow is my daughter’s birthday. It’s also the second anniversary of her receiving the ultimate gift of life- a heart transplant. She was born with half of a heart, condition called HLHS, which required

A year ago my younger cousin passed away. He was my best friend. My daily. My go-to for everything. Stocks, crypto, fantasy football, Xbox Live (Red Dead mostly), fitness, religion, politics, family, and

~ Alien Incubation ~ Greetings fellow Alien Artisans and welcome to the community incubation curation Mothership Transmission. Here, each week, it will be our pleasure to abduct and feature some of your

I saw that even as a dad, I could post in the “Motherhood” community and this post seemed to make the most sense to post here. A holiday tradition in my house is Grinchmas, aka "Grinch Night,"

Hello! I’m not sure if my acrylic paintings will totally fit in with Alien Art Hive but figured it was worth posting and, if not a fit for this community, perhaps someone could advise on where future paintings

Draining ourselves from the pain

I meant to post my workouts daily to sort of keep a running journal going as I get used to Ecency and hopefully start to meet new friends. But we wound up going to the local Christmas Light Parade on Saturday

Organ Donation - you can save a life

Good morning, just wanted to share my most recent workout from yesterday. With work picking up lately, kids/family life, and my current obsession with NFT's, I have been finding less time to get in workouts

Picture credit is my son, trying to DB Deadlift with me. I have not done it yet, but this is what I hope to do on my next work break, if anyone is looking for a fun CrossFit workout to do: “NGMI” AMRAP6