While strength training obviously improves your overall body composition and skeletal muscle mass, the health benefits of lifting weights go far beyond appearance alone. In this Saturday blog post I am going to discuss the benefits to strength training regularly - HINT: it's not what you think! Strength training increases your mental toughness. Each time… Continue reading 6 Strength Training Benefits Not Related to Appearance
Category: Mindset
New Year New You? My Top Tips for Winning the Day
The new year is always a good time to set goals and try to be a better YOU. Sometimes it can be overwhelming when it comes to figuring out where to start, so I am going to share my top tips to help you win your day and weeks! Schedule your day top-to-bottom This is… Continue reading New Year New You? My Top Tips for Winning the Day
2022 Recap and 2023 Goals
Happy New Year everyone! I always love a new year and the freshness of January. Putting away all the Christmas decorations, cleaning the house, purging old stuff/things I don't want and preparing for a fresh start mentally and physically. Setting goals. Getting rid of habits or things or people who no longer serve me. Who… Continue reading 2022 Recap and 2023 Goals
Why I chose to stop drinking…basically all alcohol
We have been trained to tolerate and to accept drinking as the norm. Commercials, tv shows and movies all portray getting drunk and having hangovers and having a drink every single day as normal and even "healthy". Red wine gives us "healthy doses" of resveratrol - all things I used to (and wanted to) believe… Continue reading Why I chose to stop drinking…basically all alcohol
Scoliosis: Exercises to do and not to do (through my own trial and error)
I was diagnosed with lumbar scoliosis in 7th grade, around 28 degree curvature. I did ballet all growing up so ballet helped keep me strong to a degree as well as flexible. Now I am approaching 35 years old and have been weight training for over ten years and want to share what I have… Continue reading Scoliosis: Exercises to do and not to do (through my own trial and error)
End of 2022: Updates, Review, and Looking into 2023
It has been a number of weeks since my hip labrum update post so it's time to do another. We are beginning the third week of November (somehow!? time is flying) and basically my hip is doing great! I feel like I have regained most of my mobility and range of motion (we are talking… Continue reading End of 2022: Updates, Review, and Looking into 2023
MACROS 101: How I Calculate Macros for Clients and Myself for a Tight, Fit Body!
So, you are new to this weight-lifting, weight-loss or muscle-gain program and I get how confusing it can be when it comes to HOW MUCH and WHAT to eat. You can't just eat whatever you want and train because you are not going to get the results you so badly want. DIET AND NUTRITION are… Continue reading MACROS 101: How I Calculate Macros for Clients and Myself for a Tight, Fit Body!
Books of 2022: #s 31-40 plus my favorite quotes from David Goggins Can’t Hurt Me
I thought I would do a followup post on the books I have read so far this year, picking up where I left off in this post here. I will also elaborate on a re-read of Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins as I thought it was a good time to work on my mental… Continue reading Books of 2022: #s 31-40 plus my favorite quotes from David Goggins Can’t Hurt Me
Frayed Hip Labrum Pt 2
Good morning everyone! I thought I would do a post on my current frayed labrum situation and update you all since I last posted here. It has been just over five weeks since I last took a ballet class, and just over three weeks since I was on the Peloton bike. I am on week… Continue reading Frayed Hip Labrum Pt 2
My 2022 180: Frayed Hip Labrum
It's unusual that today I am trying to move as little as possible, as I have a serious hip problem. I have been having pain in my hip off and on since early spring, until it got to a point where it was constant - whether walking, standing, sleeping, you name it. I thought maybe… Continue reading My 2022 180: Frayed Hip Labrum
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