Creating a New Relationship with Food We all have a relationship with food, whether good or bad, it’s there. The purpose of food is NOT to satisfy our feelings, the purpose is to give our bodies the nutrients it needs …
Room for Improvement
It's something I've always known but it's not something I always practice. I know I can be a perfectionist, I'm a girl, a virgo, a dancer and a gymnast. Perfection was always the goal and once it was achieved it …
Finding Your Competitive Spirit
I never realized the importance of competition was until this month when I set up a weight loss challenge with my bootycampers. Its a friendly competition between the ladies to see who could lose the most body fat and inches. …
Adapting to Changes
Most of us don't like changes. If Facebook decides to change the layout of their website, you'll find that a lot of people will make their own posts about how much they dislike the change. Eventually, they get used to …
Spot Reduction
We all have an area of our body that we can’t stand whether it be your belly, your inner thighs or the back of your arms, we wish the fat would just disappear. We tend to workout those areas in …
Muscle vs Fat
Muscle weighs more than Fat. FALSE!!! If you have a pound of muscle and a pound of fat… Don’t they both way a POUND!!! I read the above statement a lot and I get frustrated because its sooooo untrue!!! A …
Step Up Your Game!
“When you’re not growing, you're dying.” Think about life for a moment. A plant is either growing into a beautiful flower or withering into a weed. A banana is either ripening to perfection or turning brown and soft. At any …
FAKE IT, TIL YOU MAKE IT!
My dream was to become an Olympic gymnast and my coach would tell me, “You got to fake it until you make it!” You see, as a beginning gymnast, we had a lot of role models to look up to …
Letting Go
Being a trainer, you hear a lot of reasons WHY something hasn’t happened. A common statement I hear is “I used to be able to do that.” Its a phrase Ive even told people. Whether its an exercise I did …
Apples vs. Oranges
Society today is in constant search to have the perfect body. We look at celebs and say I want to be like her. Or we compare ourselves to the spokeswomen of the latest diet trends. We also like to compare …