Business expanding during a pandemic – freaking yikes.

March 1, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

2020 was to be the year that I began focusing on expanding my personal training business back to what it was before having my son, and eventually making it my full time gig. After having a baby, the need for financial stability, health insurance, etc were, next to schedule flexibility, at the top of my […]

…and in to 2021 we go.

January 3, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

2021 intention: DO. My 2021 intention is a simple one. Do. Do what? Well, anything, everything, something. 2020 was a hell of a year. I’ve never written as much in one year as I did in 2020. But… I thought that was your job? Writing? Well, it is actually. Problem is, I was never given […]

Program changing. Need to stay focused because: Shoulders.

November 25, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve always enjoyed dabbling in other programs. Ones either created by a trainer friend of mine who lives in my town, or some of the fit pros I follow on social media. But, pre-baby, even during my pregnancy, I loved most the programs that I created for myself. Because I can write a mean program. […]

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 […]

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). […]

Workout Wednesday: Yoga and Kettlebells.

February 25, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

My fit pregnancy came to an end on Valentine’s Day, and I’m making the transition now to fit momma. Not yet though, I’m enjoying lots of baby snuggles and some time off from my day job right now. But I’ll get there… If you’ve been following my journey, and reading my posts, you know that […]

When You Come Full circle.

January 4, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

I feel like I’ve sort of come full circle in my fitness journey, but yet, I’ve done more than come full circle. I started working out, at home, awkwardly and privately, to some VHS tapes I bought (I feel like I’m dating myself there by saying that). I progressed from there to printouts from magazines […]

Workout Wednesday: Classes, LWF, and Cardio.

November 19, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

I did something I haven’t done in awhile this past Sunday – I worked out with my class. Right there, alongside them, for all five rounds. Typically, since getting pregnant and having that sluggish touch-and-go energy, I will demonstrate the full out exercise, a rep or two and give the modified versions of each, then […]

Workout: Back to Basics.

November 1, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

This blog has only seriously been a million days in the making. Well, not really a million, but ten days. Seriously. Between a storm that knocked out power for three days, insanity at work (gotta love poll papers!), clean up from the snow storm, and life in general… It’s been a bit since I’ve been […]

The “Give It To Me” mentality.

October 30, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

Nobody gives it to you, you have to take it. At my nephew’s football game tonight, I realized, I wanted to scrap my initial idea tonight of a running blog, and change it to something like… The “GIVE IT TO ME” mentality of fitness took over my chaotic mind. It was a junior varsity game, […]