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 […]

Goal redirection: Bigness has been shoved overboard.

March 11, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

My sails are up, a new course is charted, and Bigness had to walk the plank. Today I made a pretty tough decision. It involved “canceling” one of my biggest current goals. And it sucked. I had to shelf The Bigness Project. It had nothing to do with time. It didn’t have to do with […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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). […]