The Golden Rule in Lifestyle Change: Make It Easy to Make It Stick. I’m the girl who began her journey with baked french fries, baked chicken fingers, and canned green beans. To say the least, my beginning was less than extraordinary and many would say I was even doing it wrong. After more than 15 …
0-45 sec – Why do you want to go heavier? What is mechanical tension? 46 sec – What does mechanical tension look like? Min 1:30 – Fatigue, rep count + fatigue Min 2:26 – Increase your weight if: a. dramatic slow down of cadence b. change/fight w/ range of motion c. fight to keep technique never comes into play …
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Back to school is around the corner. Do you have a back to school meal plan? For you? Your kids’ meals? If memory serves, there’s going to be a lot of drive through McDonald’s and stress eating because, “it was a crazy week.” (insert my eye roll here.) I love ya, but I also want …
On my day 1 I was 26 years old, a new mom, working full time, 138-140 lbs, soft, and super tired. I ran a 1-3 mile loop sporadically whenever a jolt of motivation would hit me. I rarely ate breakfast (because I was usually not hungry from over eating the night before.) I ate a …
My kiddos have outgrown the pool. At almost 17 and 12, they’ve lost interest in spending their entire summer cannon balling off the diving board and swimming aimlessly from end to end with goggles they’d surely lose by the end of the day. However, back in 2017 when I originally wrote this post, spending short …
Happy 2022. If you’re like most people, you might be feeling the immense anxiety of 2-3 months of solid partying and forgetting about some of the pillars that keep you looking and feeling Hot, Healthy and Happy. More often than not, when people feel like this, I see them dive into some wild ass diets …
It’s the Holi-DAYS. Not the Holi-MONTHS. 3-4 Works Out/Week! 20g+ of protein at breakfast AND BEFORE your par-tay. Don’t track your veggies/fruits. Go back to NORMAL, HEALTHY eating the next day. Happy Holidays Friends!!! It’s that time of year again where even the most disciplined of fitness fanatics will find themselves tempted to break their …
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 …
Make it easy
