Follow Strong Athlete Kate Mitchell on her personal journey to the CrossFIT Games.
CROSSFIT OPEN – 17.2: DONE – AGAIN, AND THEN AGAIN Week 2 of the CrossFit Open is in the books! If you haven’t been following, this last challenge was a 12-minute AMRAP of: 50-foot weighted walking lunges 16 toes-to-bars 8 dumbbell power cleans 50-foot weighted walking lunges 16 toes-to-bars 8 [...]
One down and four to go! For the first time ever the dumbbell made an appearance in the CrossFit Open. The community was made aware of this a couple weeks ago and we were all left guessing at what HQ had planned for us. What would it be -overhead lunges, [...]
Road to the CrossFit Games Pt. 4 Lately I feel like my life is a never-ending version of the movie Groundhog Day. Wake-up, eat, work, eat, train, eat, work, train, eat, recover, eat, sleep, and then repeat. Where some people become overwhelmed by repetition, it’s in my daily routine. My [...]
“If you learn from a loss you have not lost.” — Austin O’Malley Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn. Most of us spend a tremendous amount of effort trying to avoid the remote possibility of failure. Indeed failing is hard; it can hurt us, it can humiliate us [...]
What Doesn't Kill You ... By Kathleen Mitchell, Team Strong Athlete I truly appreciate those things that don’t come easy. If it isn’t going to change me or challenge me, I probably don’t want it. You know the phrase “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?” It’s about competition. I [...]
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." Michael Jordan Solid, jacked, beast, swole, ripped, “Chick Norris” are some of the adjectives people at the gym use to describe me – but I don’t think of myself in that way. My name is Kathleen Mitchell. I’m [...]
