Workout Wednesday: Group Fitness Classes.

October 8, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

When I first started out as a personal trainer and instructor, I wasn’t sure if I would ever, not only decide to do fitness classes, but want to teach fitness classes. Personally, classes have never been my “thing”. Then again, I was always a solo gym goer right from the start. Sure, my husband and […]

Workout Wednesday: New Shoulders & Back.

September 10, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Mentally last week, in the gym for my leg day, I was at odds with how I wanted to approach the workout of the day. I wanted to do what I call an “eyeball” workout routine that day. Switch it up a little. But, sometimes when we’ve been at it in the gym for a […]

It’s in the shoulders.

August 6, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Call me stubborn, call me hard headed, call me anything you want that describes sticking to my guns on something but, leg day is on Wednesday and will always be on a Wednesday for me. Everyone at my gym does leg day on Friday. Thursdays I have classes and my regular day job, so I […]

Hey all you body rockers…

July 21, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

This one has been on the burner for a few months now, but life has gotten in the way and I haven’t had a moment to breathe. Until now. This is for all of the body rockers. Yeah, you in the gym, swingin’ and a swayin’, rocking’ back and forth as you workout. No, I’m […]

Post-Program Blues. I got a little too attached to Shortcut to Size.

May 19, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

So, as all of you blog readers of mine know, I did the 12-week Shortcut to Size program by the super fantastical Dr. Jim Stoppani. Anyone who is in anyway involved in the fitness world and knows who this man is – knows he’s amazing and well, amazing. My body is constantly changing. I do […]

Real people. Real bodies.

April 30, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

… It’s quite something really, how my mind works. In the middle of holding a rear delt raise for what felt like a million hours at a photo shoot today, my brain started kicking, as usual, into overdrive. I’m on a “vacation” and my brain just won’t shut off. What else is new, right? Never […]

Check the judgement at the door.

March 12, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

There is something that us as human beings need to remember: Don’t worry about everyone else, you are not them, and you do not have any say in what they do (unless you’re their parent and they’re under the age of 18, then that’s a different story). My nerves are grated when I see nasty […]

Just because you go to the gym…

October 10, 2013.Reading time 11 minutes.

It’s that time of year where my gym gets an influx of new members (majority is male) looking to either change their lifestyle or stick with the gym because they’ve just recently been assigned to our Coast Guard station here. These are the few weeks (aside from in January) where it takes me a little […]