Welcome to Summer School!! Every week of the Summer, I send out an email that teaches you how to Build Muscle, Get Lean, and Maintain your results without getting overwhelmed. Make sure you do all the homework for each week! Week 1: “Start Strong: It’s a Lifestyle, Not a Get-To-Summer Fad” It’s been a while […]
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The fear of feeling stupid at the gym is REAL. Even for me!I didn’t start a gym routine till I was 28 years old, my fat jeans had become my skinny jeans, and my 10 year high school reunion was 8 weeks away. In other words, my fear of showing up in a body I
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Ever asked yourself, “How do I stick to a habit?” Lots of people start planning new habits and new resolutions around the New Year, but… Mark your calendars! January 17th is New Year’s Resolution QUITTER’S DAY! That’s right… the second Friday of the month is comically known as “Quitter’s Day.” Okay, technically January 17th is
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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
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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
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On my day 1, I was 28 years old and trying to do everything at once! I was a mom to a toddler, working full time as a high school teacher, working part time as a college professor, while also thinking I had the bandwidth to enjoy renovating a house. I had gained 10 lbs
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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
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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
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