Over the past few months, I have actively discouraged multiple people from signing up for my DIY strength training program. On many occasions, I have actually considered pulling it away from my offerings altogether. You might wonder why, considering that this time last year I was talking about it nonstop. But here’s what I want…
So life is a shitshow right now. Can we all just agree on that? Lately, I look around at the world around me like UGHHHHH. Today I’m thinking mostly about Afghanistan and Texas, but this changes daily. I feel like I need to do all of the things to make it better and also like…
The other day I got a message from a follower. She wanted me to explain why she worked out all the time but wasn’t getting any stronger. I started typing her a novel and then realized this: If I was gonna spend a bunch of time on a response to someone who isn’t a paying…
Navigating fitness without diet culture has been one of the greatest challenges of my both my professional and personal life. It’s also been one of the most rewarding and meaningful things I’ve ever done. Navigating fitness when you’ve just started to realize why diet culture is harmful is 10x harder. How do I even DO…
Do you find yourself setting fitness goals year after year and then never quite getting there? The really vague ones like: “Get stronger.” The kind of pointless ones like: “Do 500 crunches a day.” (Sorry not sorry but it’s true.) The ones that aren’t actually fitness goals, but aesthetic goals like: “Get toned arms.” And…
What is diet culture and how is it harmful? I got this question from one of my dance students awhile back and it got me thinking. I often talk about “diet culture” and how much I hate it. At the same time I don’t think a lot of people truly understand what I mean when…
I’ve written multiple blog posts about motivation this year, and here I am I’m doing it again. Probably because 2020 has been such a shitshow dumpster fire and everyone seems to be in a funk about it. “I’ve been feeling so stressed lately about the state of the world and I know that working out…
So many personal trainers (and people who think they are) act like this fitness thing is SO easy. That anyone who doesn’t meet their definition of “in good shape” is lazy or undisciplined. “If I can do it, you can do it!” “It’s just calories in and calories out.” “You just don’t want it bad…
There are lots of different ways to track your fitness progress. Ones that go beyond the number on the scale or your clothing size. A few that come to mind are: learning new skills or improving your form. Getting stronger or faster. Improving your balance or endurance. Increasing mobility or flexibility. Figuring out how to…
Confession: some of my favorite humans in the world are people I met through social media. The community I’ve built online has introduced me to people I never would have found otherwise. Back in the day, I might have been embarrassed to admit that, for fear that I’d been seen as a loser or something….