Spark creativity: Why I do other trainers programs.

July 13, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Six weeks ago, I started Jessie Hilgenberg’s Home Edition workout program. It was interesting to see how many people, stood off to the sidelines of my social-media-led workout life, scratching their heads. “Aren’t you a personal trainer?” and “Why are you doing someone else’s trainer? Can’t you come up with your own?” Even… “Isn’t that […]

Being with social media.

June 27, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve always been the nine-to-fiver when it has come to social media. My presence, my voice, would drop off of the face of the earth, so to speak, the moment I walked out of work, and not be seen or heard again, until I walked back in the following day. It was never purposely planned […]

Bikini Rebellion.

June 8, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to say about the first day of Neghar Fonooni’s Bikini Rebellion challenge in a post on Instagram (where the photo referenced can be found). So it’s become a blog post. I have never posted my bare stomach to the world before. It’s not because I was self-conscious of it. […]

Cooking Workout #1: Chicken & Shoulders.

May 29, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Let’s start a new trend here. This is for all of my busy mommas out there who want to get in shape, but just don’t have the time. The mommas who work all day, tend to the household duties, and the kids. The stay at home mommas who don’t have a spare minute between keeping […]

Postpartum workouts: Moving on to splits.

May 22, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

I gave myself six full weeks after the baby came to rest and recover. The sole amount of activity I did was walks after two weeks, very light tempo runs after 3 weeks, and yoga around the same time. It was decision I had made long before he came. I was going to enjoy my […]

Making peace.

May 8, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

This morning was a blur in my house. I have averaged possibly 4 hours of sleep in the past 72 hours. And not because of baby. I have a fog horn that refuses to see a doctor that shares the bed with me. We got up late to meet a friend for a walk. I […]

This is motherhood.

May 5, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

Motherhood has been an easy transition for me. I feel that’s mostly because of how I tend to my crazy dog, Dunkin. And, how I have been with my relationships with friends. The hardest part of motherhood has been… letting things go. For almost twelve weeks now, my household cleaning schedule has been mostly non-existent. […]

Workout Wednesday: Baby Yoga.

April 29, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

The week that I was cleared to finally start hitting the weights again, I started getting my feet, or, well, body, back into yoga. I was super tight from six weeks of doing nada, and I was also getting sore from it too. I had heard of Mommy and Me yoga before, but it wasn’t […]

A Food Thing: Cinnamon Swirl Protein Bread.

April 28, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

If I thought there was never a dull moment in this household before, having a baby has certainly changed that. Everything has changed, yet it’s all still the same (if that makes any sense to someone who doesn’t have newborn baby fried brain like me). I like to cook. Baking? I have very little patience […]

Workout Wednesday: Getting back in the game.

April 1, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

It’s not “This is what your brain is like on drugs”… It’s more like: This is what MY brain is like in anticipation of the first workout after WEEKS of not being able. First, the brain does a line of sheer ecstaticicity (yes, I’m going to go ahead and make up a few words today). […]