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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.
I am a fan of developing leg muscles through functional, compound movements. In my experience, this has helped develop a balanced, well shaped quad/hamstring pairing. Working the leg as a functional unit + quads and hamstrings separately also helps prevent injury and imbalances.
I also want to point out that none of the exercises below invlove machines. They can all be done with a barbell, kettle bells, or dumbbells.
There are often risks that can come with using machines that isolate one muscle group at a time. So for now, we focus on functional/compound movements.
Why the front squat and not the famous back squat?
Every single human is made differently. Yes, most of us have the same muscles and bones. No, those muscles and bones are NOT THE SAME from person to person.
You can be tall, short, have long arms, long legs, long femurs (top leg bone), short tibias (lower leg bone), a short torso or long torso, wide hips, narrow hips, deep hip sockets, shallow hip sockets, more forward facing hip sockets, high arches in your feet or flat feet, and the list goes on.
Every body is different. Therefore there CANNOT be one way to squat, one way to bench, one way to deadlift, or one way to do ANYTHING.
Whether you’re here due to the uprising of the Kardashian booty pump but aren’t about those implants, or you just enjoy weight training and want to grow them glutes…You’ve found your solution my friend.
I’ve built and am still building my glutes to this day. I did squats and deadlifts for YEARS without building a booty.
If getting rid of all cellulite is the end goal, prepare yourself for a sad life. You will in fact never be good enough; and even if you do get rid of all cellulite, the probability of you feeling accomplished is not super high my friend.
Cellulite is a bitch. It is unfortunate that our society and world has skewed the definition of beauty. Know that you are not alone in your insecurities. Even your trainer gets sucked into the fitness facade from time to time.
Let’s talk about those times when you literally cant suck it in – when you feel like somehow over night you gained three pounds in your mid-section and you want nothing more than to lay in bed and cry…
Allow me to share my most popular post – both in comments and likes – from my instagram in 2016. I will also share with you my 3 tricks to controlling bloat.
This is a long one. Stick with me! There are just a lot of factors that lead us to or away from seeing and feeling results from our training.
Above is my quad progression over one year based on different training regimes and nutrition. Just goes to show what a PLAN executed can do to the body.
1. YOU AREN’T EATING ENOUGH PROTEIN…OR ENOUGH FOOD…PERIOD.
“I want to weigh 120 pounds.” Where the hell do women get this number from? I recently talked about this with Steph Gaudreau for the Women’s Strength Summit. I had this UH-MAZING female nutrition professor in college. You know, one of those ladies who descended from heaven to teach what she was SO INSANELY passionate […]
YES. Oh my gosh YES. If I am being completely honest, I am not a huge fan of this fact but I cannot deny it. {cry face} Nutrition is THE BOSS when it comes to abs. I love this old graphic (above)…I found it years ago and it hurt my soul a little bit because […]
Let’s just get right to it. Media is all around us; Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, twitter, snapchat, you name it. You can find any type of woman you want on those platforms right? Who do you look at as inspiration? Who do you compare yourself to? Analyze why you follow certain ladies on social media or […]
I tricked you, just a bit. We are indeed talking about rump shaping today. Rather than three different exercises we are going to go over three variations of the same exercise, which can be done in ONE workout. The umbrella name is known as the GLUTE HAM RAISE. Side note: most glute exercises are going […]
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