{"id":2794,"date":"2011-07-05T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:42:03","slug":"ten-things-i-like-about-my-body-and-those-of-my-laydeez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/ten-things-i-like-about-my-body-and-those-of-my-laydeez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things I Like About My Body and Those of My Laydeez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, you may remember, Coach Ashley gave us the difficult assignment of coming up with ten things we liked about our bodies. I came up with five<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Nice eyes.<\/p>\n

2. Rhythm.<\/p>\n

3. Coordination.<\/p>\n

4. Freckled shoulders.<\/p>\n

5. Strong back.<\/p>\n

That’s where I ran out of ideas. But I’ve thought more about it, and I’m taking a mulligan.<\/p>\n

6. I’m shaped like an hourglass. (Must…resist…urge…to add…disclaimer.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

7. I can make funny expressions with my face.<\/p>\n

8. I can do 1,500 push-ups in 30 days.<\/a><\/p>\n

9. I can mimic most accents. (It’s something my body can do! My brain and mouth are parts of my body.)<\/p>\n

10. All right, all right. MY ASS. In a spirit of if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em, I’m hereby giving up not liking <\/em>my butt and choosing to like it<\/em>. I did that with bananas and the guitar riff of “The Pi\u00f1a Colada Song”—I can do it with this.<\/p>\n

Now! The funner part of the assignment! What do I like about my CrossFit laydeez’ bodies? Well!<\/p>\n

Colleen<\/a>: Legs.<\/p>\n

All the way down to the floor.<\/p>\n

And a voice that…actually, you hear that? That’s Colleen’s voice. You can hear it from anywhere.<\/p>\n

Bea<\/a>: I’m attacking pull-ups in July the way I did push-ups in June because I want to be able to do pull-ups like Bea. She’s a great, hulking beast in a teeny-tiny package.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, she’s a photographer with a GREAT EYE. I’m not a visual person myself, so I’m lucky if I actually get the subject of my photos in the frame. Her photos look like a magical magic person<\/em> took them.<\/p>\n

Melinda<\/a>: This woman, before she started kung-fuing breast cancer, did the Metro Dash. That’s an event where you run, flip tires, climb up and over walls…!<\/p>\n

And I love her giggle. So I say, “Goddammit!” a lot because it makes her giggle.<\/p>\n

Also, she’s currently kung-fuing breast cancer, and looks awesome in a head-wrap. And she let me feel her falsies last night.<\/p>\n

Lindsay<\/a>: Lindsay is<\/p>\n

so<\/p>\n

very<\/p>\n

hot.<\/p>\n

I mean, damn. Gorgeous face. Nice curves. Hot-for-teacher glasses.<\/p>\n

Nelly<\/a>: Woman is strong<\/em>. She can pick up very, very heavy things.<\/p>\n

She has perfectly imperfect teeth. (Seriously, I love them. She smiles and, I don’t know, it’s beautiful and unexpected.)<\/p>\n

And she does an amazing donkey kick burpee.<\/p>\n

Ashley<\/a>: Every part of her is perfectly rounded and firm. Everything on her body looks on purpose<\/em>. I want that.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot from doing this assignment. (1) My body is a tool, a pretty awesome one. It gets me where I need to go and can do some cool stuff. (2) Sometimes I need an extension on my homework assignments. And (3) my CrossFit Laydeez are smokin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, you may remember, Coach Ashley gave us the difficult assignment of coming up with ten things we liked about our bodies. I came up with five: 1. Nice eyes. 2. Rhythm. 3. Coordination. 4. Freckled shoulders. 5. Strong back. That’s where I ran out of ideas. But I’ve thought more about it, and … Continue reading Ten Things I Like About My Body and Those of My Laydeez<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-first-world-problems","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}