For The Love Of Fitness

St. Thomas friends: We’re expanding our mobile personal training services to your area for a limited late-afternoon/evening weekday availability.

One of our current clients is moving to St. Thomas, we’re excited to continue supporting them and we’d love to work with a few additional clients in the area as well.
If you’ve been looking for convenient, professional in-home or mobile personal training, please reach out to learn more.

Sleep and I have a very complicated relationship during perimenopause. I love it but some weeks it hates me.

Instead of stressing about it, and adding to the cortisol increase, I’ve adapted.

Now I have a set of rules I try during this week: eat more and eat before bed! Yes, imagine?? Haha that has helped me avoid the 3am wake ups.

But now I’m waking up at 5am. Literally an hour before I need to be up. I used to lay there and stress then eventually get up and do my morning routine. Now I just get up, and work out. Does that help my sleep? Well no BUT it does decrease my stress.

Let me explain:
Our usual day looks like this: work until lunch time (some days that’s not until 2pm 😅) then come home, workout, have lunch, try to prep for the afternoon and try to get some tedious admin stuff done. So removing the workout midday increases my productivity and therefore I can sometimes even relax outside by the pool before the afternoon clients! Win-win.

Point is, sometimes after you’ve tried everything (and I have) then you gotta learn to adapt and move on.

You don’t wake up every day and ask yourself,
“Do I feel like brushing my teeth today?”
You just do it!
Because you like having teeth, You like not paying thousands in dental work, You like not knocking people out with your breath.

Working out belongs in that same non-negotiable category.

Some days it’s heavy lifts and sweat dripping off your nose.
Some days it’s a 20‑minute walk and a few sets of something light.

You don’t skip making dinner and say, “well, guess I don’t need food anymore.” Cuz i swear some days I wish I never had to cook again! But it’s not reality.

Stop treating working out like it’s optional.

Move every day. Even when you don’t want to.
ESPECIALLY when you don’t want to!!

This is the exact look I give Hailey every time we see your “I worked out today!” text.

Because we want you to win. We want to keep you inspired to move, to invest in yourself, and to feel supported every step of the way.

And good news: we may be bringing on a third trainer. That could open up more spots and more opportunities for you to try mobile personal training!

Stay tuned ;)

Happy Canada Day!! It’s going to be a hot one.

On heavy, humid days:
- Drop the intensity, shorten the session, and add breaks.
- Train early or late, hydrate before/during/after, and get in the shade or AC when you can.
- fans don’t actually cool you down, add some water mist to help your skin actually chill.
- if you’re feeling dizzy, nauseated, or strangely wiped out: Stop, cool down, and live to lift another day.

Here I am 10’years ago holding a baby alligator in New Orleans….some days I ask myself where has the time gone???

But if you know me you’ve heard me say “Aging is a privilege.”

But yeah… it can still mess with your head.

One day you feel like yourself, and the next your body’s doing things you don’t recognize. Stuff feels tighter, more sore, takes longer to bounce back. And suddenly you’re trying to find the thing that keeps you looking the same, feeling the same.

I can understand why people are obsessed with the new “thing” the peptides, the collagen, the supplements - the GLP’s….

Like if you just figure it out, you can slow it all down.
You want your skin to chill out. You want your body to stop nagging you all the time. You just want it to feel easy again.
But it’s probably not going back to “easy.”

That doesn’t mean it’s going downhill either.
It just means you have to adjust. Train smarter. Take recovery seriously. Stop treating your body like it’s 20 and start working with it instead of against it.
Because looking young isn’t the goal anymore.

Still being strong, capable, and feeling good in your body as it changes is what it becomes.

A lot of the time when new clients come in, they’re under-eating but they’re convinced 1200 calories is enough.

It’s not enough for anyone especially not adults who workout and want to build muscle.

When you under eat for long enough, your body adapts. It starts conserving energy. So then when you do eat more, especially things that are high fat, high carb foods then your body is way more likely to store it.

We see this cycle all the time: skip meals, barely eat all day, then end up overeating later on or spend the weekends not paying attention.

People who seem to have “fast metabolisms” usually just eat more regularly. Their body is used to getting fuel and using it, and trusting that it will receive more fuel so they don’t have to hold on to every calorie.

If you stay stuck under-eating, eventually you either have to keep cutting more and more… or actually learn how to fuel properly and stop being scared of food.

Happy May!

It’s officially the month of gardening: prepping the beds, planning what to plant, and somehow spending “just 20 minutes outside” that turns into three hours.

But here’s the dark side of gardening : back pain.

And yes, you absolutely can hurt yourself gardening! lol

A lot of people spend hours bent over, twisting, reaching, kneeling, lifting bags of soil, hauling pots, and pulling weeds with bad body mechanics. Your back, hips, knees, and shoulders are all doing more work than you think.

So if gardening is your thing, treat your body like it’s part of the plan too: stretch throughout and Take breaks. Switch positions. Hinge at your hips instead of rounding your back for hours. And don’t wait until you’re sore to start paying attention.

Gardening is work. Make sure your body is ready for it by doing other strength training especially core and glute strengthening.

We get it. Exercise isn’t always fun and there are 20 other things you’d rather be doing. But results come from consistency, not motivation.

If your goal is to be healthy? Easy. Learn to lift with proper form, clean up your diet so it’s wholesome and nutritious, and move 3x a week ish and You’re good.

But if you want your body to actually change? That’s a different conversation. That takes commitment.
The clients who lose the most and shift their body composition metabolically are the ones who prioritize weight lifting and go 90% in on the lifestyle change. Not 50. Not “I’ll start Monday. Or I was busy”

Healthy and changed are two different goals and we can help you with both but you need to be honest (throw back to last post). Pick yours, then match the effort to it.

Honesty is the cheatcode to results.

If you’re not honest about what you’re eating or how often you’re actually training, your goals are made up. I can’t coach fake data.

Your photos, strength, energy, and measurements don’t lie. They always tell the truth about your effort.

I’m not here to judge you, I’m here to help you.

Skip a workout? Overeat? Tell me. We adjust and move forward.

You don’t need perfection. You need honesty - also probably in life ;)