It feels rather impossible. We’re almost 9 years to the day we opened up sweatlocal to a completely EMPTY 5:30am class. Not exactly a “grand opening” for a new gym in Huntsville amiright??? Forgive me for being a wee bit harsh on this birthday blog, but the reality is, I had no business being in …
People ask me, how do I have time… uhm, I don’t… but that’s not going to stop me. Ya’ll, the fast paced life that we seem to endlessly criticize, we’ve purposefully designed and secretly enjoy. Positive psychology research tells us that people have fun REACHING for a goal more than accomplishing the goal. In other words, we …
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THEIR NOT CHANGING THEIR WORKOUTS DAILY: So let me explain… If you’re NOT working out and all of a sudden you begin working out, cherry picking a new workout you found on Instagram daily WILL absolutely change your body. You went from NOT putting stress on your muscles to CONSISTENTLY presenting a new work load. …
Do this instead… HOMEWORK below… I don’t care how S.M.A.R.T. your goal is, “I will lose 7 lbs in 8 weeks” ain’t nothin’ but a DESIRE. It’s an outcome. It’s not actually a GOAL! Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about the Specificity, Measurability,Attainability, Relevancy, or Timeliness of that goal drives results. Results are achieved through consistent ACTIONS. This …
Oftentimes, people will email me about a “stubborn” area they are having a hard time slicing and dicing. Back, shoulders, and triceps are the top three upper body areas I most often hear about so I wanted to offer you guys some tips on how to get these areas to budge and invite anyone to …
Travel is a NORMAL part of our work and family life. More often than not, I see folks peg their vacation plans as a “bump in the road” or a kink in their fitness journey so I wanted to focus on the ADVANTAGES behind not being in your normal gym element. 1. JOJI – The …
I’m going to tell you a story. I’m not proud of it. In fact, I am the grand coward, an elephant afraid of a mouse. And while it would be more comfortable to talk about empowerment at moment where I am a woman standing her ground and facing her fears, that superwoman cape is …
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If only 8% of those who make NY Resolutions actually keep them, why do we still make them? Because a fresh start is SEXY! Because a clean slate is REFRESHING! Because despite the madness of the holidays, we still want to accomplish BIG THINGS for our health & hotness! And even though, technically, any day …
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It’s absolutely insane that sweatlocal has been in existence for over 5 years and it wasn’t until this Fall that I sat down to write our EXACT mission and vision statements. You see, I’m a free thinker when it comes to business (and fitness) and so I outwardly reject or at least QUESTION a lot …
