I was asked to write a post for the Island Active Brand on Weight Training Basics for Beginners—check out that post HERE! Island Active is a light premium beer company with only 88 calories per can. A beer company that wants to talk about weight training? Yeah, that’s kind of what I thought, but they …
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I’ll admit, I’m not the biggest fan of the smith machine, but it’s a great machine, especially when it comes to progressing in strength. I’ve also found the smith machine is useful when you want to work on form and when all the squat racks are being used. For the smith machine leg workout plan, …
Omg, it’s only food, so why does holiday eating scare us so bad, and why do we feel we need to mentally prepare for the big day? Holiday eating shouldn’t scare us, but every year I see the same posts from ‘fitness influencers’ telling people to: Fast before the holiday meal Drink lots of water …
Bad Dieting Advice from a Bro I got an interesting text the other day from a friend asking me ‘if the diet plan she received from her trainer was normal?’ Weird, but I took a look, and it’s a good thing I did. This meal plan is something similar to what a bikini competitor might …
Meal prepping seems overwhelming at first, and to be fair, the only day that can be a bit much is the day you prepare your planned meals. After that day, you’ll save a lot of time and money when you have everything you need to meal prep. When I first started, I didn’t have anything …
This is my VERY first youtube video, so give her a watch, subscribe, like, comment, and ALL THE THINGS! 🙂 I competed in a bikini fitness competition and got fat! I struggled to find out what was happening with my body, as I was in pain and kept getting bigger and bigger. Here’s what happened …
The alarm rings, and you said you’d go to the gym before work, but you’re not feeling it now. Come to think of it, you haven’t been feeling it for months now. You’d prefer to catch some extra z’s, and after work, you’re too tired to do anything. Besides, you’d rather chill out on the …
I searched the internet religiously trying to find answers to the problems I was facing in my body post-competition. I felt lost in my journey and unsure how to put into words what was going on. The World Wide Web only provided competitors with drug-related issues that were similar, but it didn’t help me. I …
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After competing in fitness, my hormones went into the shitter, and I had no control over how I felt anymore; that’s not true, I had feeling like crap down to a science. As an all-natural competitor, it didn’t make sense that I was suffering from hair loss, joint pain, extreme weight gain, memory loss, and …
