Rafin R. Mena

Rafin R. Mena

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Retired US Attorney who writes historical background novels and short stories. Well researched novels about caribbean history. Lived for 13 years in the USA New England Region and cther Latinamerican countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. Born in Puerto Rico, writes in Englishg and Spanish. Writes in a relaxed common language style with a lot of colloquialism from the subject country in question.. Lives now in San Juan. You can see most of his novels synopsis in www.hispanomagno.com

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

An amazing completely different Love story between a shoeshine boy extremely poor from the 119th century Old San Juan's ghettos, who as a young boy falls in love with high society girl who ignores him. He is forced to migrate and ends up in Venezuela where in time he becomes an extremely rich person. After several years he finds that its impossible for him to establish other relationships because he is still in love with that beautiful girl he left behind in San Juan. He then returns to Puerto Rico to find out that the United States had invaded the Island and now controls government. From that moment on one of the most beautiful love stories ever written starts to develop between the girl, now a widow of the Hispanoamerican War which little by little falls in love with him. The story unfolds during one of the least known periods of Puerto Rico: the last 10 years and first 20 of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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