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Tramaine Green

Tramaine Green

About

Tramaine Green is a twenty-eight year old native of Dallas, Texas. She currently resides in Irving with her three-year old daughter and husband of four years. She has always been writing since her teenage years. The love of writing began by creating a newsletter and then developed more as she began to write poems, short stories, and then novels. Putting pen to paper, has always been a passion of hers and she continues to delve deep to create her best work. She is also an avid reader of mystery, romance, drama, and erotica novels. So, it's not surprising that her writing genre is Romance Drama.

Educational Background

Mrs. Green graduated from high school in 2002 at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center in Dallas, Texas. From there she went to Brown College in Mendota Heights, Minnesota where she obtained an Associate's Degree in Radio Broadcasting in 2003 and a Bachelor's Degree in Communications in 2005. After three years upstate, she returned to Dallas and began attending University of Phoenix, where she later obtained her Master's Degree in Business Administration in 2007. Her favorite subject is English and she enjoys editing.



Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

Story Behind The Book

When I first began writing this novel, I remember wanting to write it from a man's point of view instead of a woman's point of view. Mainly because, so many books that I have read are mainly woman centered. I wanted my readers to see the different things my lead character Jaleel goes through just to find the right woman, only to get her & still mess up. Forgiveness is definitely a main point in this book. Also the phrase "Be careful what you ask for because you might just get it" definitely applies to this book.

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<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">One I couldn't put down.</span></strong><div><strong><br /></strong><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong>Yours Truly had me jumping out of my seat from the beginning. I was yelling and screaming as if that would change anything. It was well worth the read. I started and couldnt put it down. I finished it in one day.</strong></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Page Turner!!</span><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;">This book was sooo good that I could not put it down. I read this book in one day and this was a nice long read. There were times in the book that I wanted to reach out to smack some sense into the characters and other times when I wanted to console them. This is the first novel from this author and she surely did not disappoint.</span><br /></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Overall a good read</span><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong>This was a really good book and definitely a page a turner. However, I did feel it was an unnecessarily long read. I thought the book was well written.<br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;"><br /></span></div>