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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
