Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

“If you’re going to continue doing CrossFit, you’ll need to have a breast reduction,” my very direct gynecologist told me one year as she performed my breast exam. It wasn’t that I hadn’t thought about it before, but the struggle was…

You’re driving home, and a car brandishing exactly the kind of bumper sticker that makes you seethe cuts right in front of you, almost causing an accident. You can feel your blood pressure rise and heart rate skyrocket as a burst…

I’ll never forget the first time I was trying to teach my dad about tuning in to his body and asked him to “sense his heartbeat.” His eyes popped wide open and he said, “uh, there’s a problem there… whenever I…

There are myriad ways that you can pursue overall physical strength and power, and just as many reasons that you might want to. For high performance athletes, building greater power might be about wanting to win a game, crush a match…

So you want better habits? As you well should. Your habits are the defining factor in the life that you create and perpetuate. They determine what you eat, where you go, how you move and how you feel. They shape your…

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. – Socrates Throughout…

A central tenet of the Tune Up Fitness approach to reaching peak physical condition is finding and illuminating “body blind spots”. These are areas of the body that have been “overused, underused, misused, abused, or totally confused.” When your body is…

Five years ago Jon “Big Red” Christenson (aka The Bearded Bell) awoke from a medically-induced coma to hear two words that would transform his health, and his life, forever: morbidly obese. Although Christenson was a skilled athlete his whole life (baseball,…

For many, the idea of “peaceful practices” does not include burpees, handstands and Olympic-style weightlifting. But for Olympic Weightlifter Elizabeth Wipff and CrossFitter RE Lewis, these are exercises that lead directly to inner peace and wellbeing. I recently hosted a jubilant…