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I'm an adventurous introvert from Vancouver, Washington who lives on sleep + "me time." I'm a lover of lifting weights, dinosaurs, real talk and traveling with my husband. I am here to help you move better, lift more, bust the myths of the fitness industry, and inspire you to love the process.
More muscle and more strength don’t have to go hand in hand. But they most certainly can. As muscle mass is the potential for strength. Keep this in mind throughout today’s post. First off we must remember and program from an understanding that… 1. Strength is a skill, and movement patterns are skills. This means […]
In the pursuit of building muscle and strength, people can tend to forget about the value of mobility – being able to get into proper end ranges. In this case, being able to move your shoulder blades around (aka scapular mobility). I’d argue most people (including myself) could improve their scapular mobility – How well […]
There are several different approaches to doing cardio within the conditioning world. Two of the most popularized by the fitness industry are high intensity interval training (HIIT), and low intensity study state training. I think most people understand what LISS is. But high intensity interval training has been very incorrectly marketed to you by main […]
I share less and less of my personal life on here, even though my brand is a personal brand. This is a business move and a personal move. The waters of building a personal brand in the online space are murky and strange. It becomes very easy to forget where the boundaries are, or to […]
The gym can be intimidating even for experienced lifters. Today’s post sharing gym hacks should help mitigate some of that, or just save you some time and energy during your workouts. These are largely based around my personal preference and experience but I do hope you find them to be helpful. Let me know which […]
Everyone’s prenatal, natal, and postnatal experiences are individual. We all have expectations whether we realize it or not. With that, I figured I’d round up in one spot what I found helpful from first to second to third trimester for any new mamas out there. Or even second or third time mamas looking to make […]
If you missed it, be sure to listen to episode 171 for how I went from skipping college to a four year ESS degree, to denying jobs and starting my own business, to low key failing and changing my life with a Instagram course under $300 during my not your father’s rootbeer kitchen counter breakdown. […]
Posts like these remind me how young the science of strength training truly is. Just in the past five years or so, we’ve learned so much about what is actually required for building strength. Hypertrophy is an even more interesting topic. But that’s for another time. There are a few things we need to cover […]
Your brand one liner permeates everything you do as a business. It clearly communicates in one sentence, who you help, what result you offer, and ideally, what emotional or literal barrier you remove for people in that process. Big deal. And also, big clarity. It’s very normal to have an overarching one liner as well […]
Let’s discuss pronated versus supinated grip. Grip is an under utilized training variable by many trainees in the gym. It’s an easy piece of your exercise selection to change up in order to get a slightly different stimulus from likely the same muscle group. The most common exercises to use different grips for different stimuli […]
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