Katie Skiba

Sometimes impact looks like a major accomplishment, a medal, or a big announcement. Sometimes it looks like 63 people sweating together on a Saturday morning. This weekend, Cirque Athletics packed up some equipment, left the comfort of our own gym, and headed to The Avenue Viera for a free community workout led by Coach Stephen. Stephen is a CrossFit Level 4 Coach, co-owner of Cirque Athletics, and a lululemon Ambassador. One of the opportunities that comes with that role is finding ways to...

Welcome back to Katie Cooks, where recipes are less “carefully developed” and more “what do I have in this kitchen and how aggressively can I substitute ingredients?” This month, I had several bananas rapidly approaching the point where they either needed to become banana bread or enter the compost bin. I found a banana bread blondie recipe, started pulling everything out, and then discovered we had no vanilla. We did, however, have chocolate chip cookie protein powder. Same thing? Absolutely...

Some of our favorite things at Cirque have started with a question we probably ask a little too often: “Could we just figure out how to do that ourselves?” Spotlight Studio is the latest result. It started because we wanted better photos of our athletes. Not just the perfectly posed, everyone-look-at-the-camera kind. We wanted the moments that actually feel like them. The split second at the top of a drop. The expression they make when they know they nailed something. The costume, the lights,...