Learning All the Things
Category: Real Life

26
Aug
7(ish) Week Squat Cycle Review & Results
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Derby, Olympic Lifting, Real Life, Workout

Since I came back from my gigantic trip, I’ve felt completely off – my weight is down almost 10 pounds, I hadn’t been weight training with any consistency in about 3 months between work travel and everything else, and I just felt like a complete and total mess. I told all of this to my […]

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11
Aug
August 2014 Check-In
About DokiDara, Real Life, Workout

This month is at least a little more interesting than last month? Haha. Here we go.   July August  Change Tracking Muscle Mass 36.30% 36.60% [+0.3 (This Month)] [+2.2 (From Start)] Body Fat 20.60% 20.10% [-0.5 (This Month)] [-3.3 (From Start)] Body Water 55.80% 56.10% [+0.3 (This Month)] [+1.4 (From Start)] Weight 138.4# 136.6# [-2.2 […]

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11
Jul
July 2014 Check-In
About DokiDara, Real Life, Workout

Clean and simple, just a numbers update this month. Not much exciting to report really! Barely any change (which is good!) but also no PRs (which is expected after the trip, but not particularly “good”).   June July  Change Tracking Muscle Mass 36.30% 36.30% [+0 (This Month)] [+1.9 (From Start)] Body Fat 20.60% 20.60% [-0 […]

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24
Jun
“Started From the Bottom…”
About DokiDara, Derby, Real Life, Workout

Posting this announcement makes me both happy and sad… After four years of Roller Derby as a New Jersey Hellrazor, it’s time for me to move on. No, I’m not retiring… I’m GRADUATING! I’m so incredibly proud to publicly announce that as of July 1, 2014, I will be transferring to the Garden State Rollergirls!!! […]

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14
Jun
May and June 2014 Check-Ins
About DokiDara, Food, Real Life, Travel, Workout

  Since May 11th was the day before I left on my one month Asia-Pacific tour, I was totally slammed for time and wasn’t able to get on here to write about my progress. HOWEVER! I did snag photos of my stats before I hopped on the plane, and I did the same on the […]

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11
Jun
She’s Back!
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged and there’s good reason for it… I’ve been busy traveling in Australia, Japan and South Korea! MAJOR updates on the trip and other things are coming, but until then, I wanted to give you some insight into where I am in life right now, and I think […]

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15
May
Travel Thoughts…
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

It’s really strange to me that I’m traveling now so much for work. Why? Well, throughout my childhood, my father always traveled for business. As a trainer for HP, it’s been his career to visit different groups of new hires for the company (and Compaq before that and DEC before that… lots of acquisition) and […]

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12
May
DokiDara Hits the Road!
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

I know I owe a monthly update – I DID record my stats, and I’ll get to it, I promise. I actually have a good reason I’m behind this time – I’m about to hit the road! In a few short hours I’ll be boarding a plane to Melbourne, Australia (alright, first I stop in […]

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23
Apr
10 Reasons Why Today Was A Great Day
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Derby, Olympic Lifting, Real Life, Workout

Today was pretty flipping awesome for so so many reasons… here’s just a sampling of them… 10. I GOT TO TALK TO MY LITTLE TALI!! 9. Andy, Jason and I got to hash out a bunch of Neko stuffs. 8. Steak, green beans, and baby red potatoes for dindin. YUM. 7. I stopped being antisocial […]

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