This is one of those questions where the quick answer is “it depends.” (I know, boooooo. But hang with me a minute.) To start, we need to define what exactly a workout is. This isn’t based on duration or intensity, necessarily, but can be. A beginner may count a 10-minute walk as a workout, whereas a more experienced …
Core Training 101 + a Workout For Beginners
Between social media (Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, Pinterest, etc), blogs, articles, books, fitness magazines, TV, and more, there is an overwhelming amount of information out there on how to exercise and eat. Literally millions of links to click on. And this can lead to paralysis by analysis. I have heard from so many friends, family, clients, and readers …
Two High-Intensity Low-Impact Workouts to Get Results While Saving Time and Your Joints
When you’re pressed for time, a full-body workout’s the way to go. By working your whole body in one session, you’ll get the biggest bang for your training buck via cardiovascular benefits, calorie burn, and strength building stimulus. Typically, high intensity workouts tend to also be high impact. But not everyone can tolerate a lot …
Boost Your Workouts With These 4 Kickass Finishers
It’s inevitable when you workout regularly for a long period of time. You hit a plateau with your results, you get bored, or you just want to push your limits and get a good sweat/muscle burn on. Never fear, I have just the tweak that your workouts need — finishers. Finishers are short circuits of all-out effort …
How to Make Exercise Feel Like a Guilty Pleasure
Now that we’ve hit September with the official first day of Fall just around the corner, it’s common to take stock of where we are with our life and goals and where we want to be before 2023 arrives. I know I am! It’s so easy to let the busy days pass us by, one right after another, a blur …
How to Vary Your Workouts Week to Week For Results
Not every workout should end with you on the floor in a puddle of sweat, completely decimated. While it’s good to occasionally test our limits, doing so every single workout, week after week will eventually lead to injury, overtraining, and compromised recovery. And the older we get, the more we need to heed this advice. At 43, I can’t train …
How to Adapt Your Training Program to Fit You
Starting a new training program can be exciting. When we get a professionally written program to reach a goal that’s on our radar, it’s common to think that we must complete it verbatim or else. And there’s a hint of truth to that, but no quality program is 100% set in stone. You might feel like you shouldn’t …
Do Sweat the Small Stuff: How to Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind
One of the most common mistakes I see women make with their health and fitness is trying to take on too much at one time, especially when they overindulge and they notice their clothes are getting a little tight. It’s tempting to want to go in the complete opposite direction with our food intake and exercise, to hit the …
Girls Just Wanna Be Strong: 4 Tips For Getting Your First (or More) Pull-up
I’m a big — no, HUUUUUGE — fan of pull-ups. To me, there’s nothing that feels more empowering and badass than being able to hoist my own body weight over a bar. And I know a lot of women would love to experience that for themselves but feel that it’s just a pipe dream. We’ve been told that it’s …
How to Make Fitness a Doable Habit + 3 Quickie Workouts
It’s easy to think that we just don’t have the time or energy to even think about it right now, but that’s kind of a cop-out. We all have a few minutes each day that we can carve out for the things that recharge us. It’s our all-or-nothing thinking that sabotages us. We think if we don’t have an hour …