Mess In Progress

Like your new favorite group chat… but surrounded by people focused on getting stronger, not smaller 💪🏽💪🏽

Strength Lab starts MONDAY!!!

4 people max. Actual strength programming. Progressive overload. Individualized coaching.

You show up, I tell you what to do, we track it, and we get stronger.

I’ve been working on this for months and I’m SO excited to finally see it come to life 🥹

A few spots are still open if you want in!! Let’s get it!!!!

You don’t know what you don’t know, and that’s something I’ve really come to respect in this field. 🤍

This was me doing dead bugs years ago. At the time, I genuinely thought I was “working my core.” I was doing the exercises, trying to brace, and checking all the boxes I thought mattered. What I didn’t fully understand yet was how much your breath, rib cage, pelvic floor, and deep core all have to work together to manage pressure during movement.

I understood some of it, but I was still learning what a true 360 inhale actually felt like. I was still figuring out how to use my exhale to bring my ribs down and get better connection through my deep core. And I definitely didn’t understand yet that pulling my stomach in harder or trying to “engage more” wasn’t always the answer.

So when I did exercises like dead bugs, you could literally see my abdominal wall pushing out instead of managing the pressure well. And at the time, I didn’t really see it.

Because you don’t know what you don’t know until you do.

That’s a huge reason I keep investing in education, mentorship, and continuing to learn in this field. Especially when you’re working with pregnant and postpartum women, there is so much nuance. The more I learn, the more I realize there is always more to understand and refine.

What I know now has completely changed the way I train myself and the way I coach women.

Dead bugs weren’t the problem.

My body just wasn’t coordinating the way I was asking it to yet.

And I see this all the time with the women I work with. It’s not always that they’re “doing it wrong.” Sometimes their body just hasn’t learned how to connect all the pieces yet.

Sometimes you don’t need a better core exercise. You need to learn how to make the exercise you’re already doing actually connect. 🤍

🚨 NEW AT MESS IN PROGRESS: THE STRENGTH LAB 💪🏽

I’m SO excited to finally announce something I’ve been working on behind the scenes…
The Strength Lab is coming this September!

Small-group strength training with only 4 people max so you still get the coaching, form feedback, modifications and intentional programming you’d expect from Mess In Progress… just alongside a few other people doing the work with you. 🤍

Think:
💪🏽 Structured, progressive strength training
👀 Real-time coaching + form corrections
📈 A program designed to actually help you get stronger over time
👯‍♀️ The energy + accountability of training with a small group

This is for anyone who wants more guidance than a big group fitness class, but doesn’t necessarily need 1:1 personal training.

Launching early September with very limited spots.

I cannot WAIT to get this started 🥹💪🏽
Comment LAB or send me a DM if you want the details!

GLP-1s are not “bad.”

But how we’re using them right now, especially in the postpartum space, is what concerns me.

I’m seeing more pressure than ever on moms to “bounce back”…
at a time when their body actually needs to slow down and rebuild.

And postpartum isn’t just about weight.
It’s about reconnecting your core, your pelvic floor, your strength, and your confidence.

I have clients on these medications who are doing it the right way… strength training, eating enough, and using it as a tool.

But I’ve also seen the other side, where the foundations get skipped, and that’s what worries me long term.

And if I’m being honest… the amount of businesses capitalizing on this right now with “GLP-1 friendly” menus, workouts, supplements, etc is a little disturbing.

Because at the end of the day, it’s the same basics that have always mattered:
moving your body, eating enough protein, strength training, and taking care of your health.

It’s not a new formula.
It’s the same fundamentals repackaged.

People love to say “it’s just genetics.”
But the truth is, I’ve been doing the same consistent, sometimes boring habits for 20+ years.
And with Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism… if anything, my body is working against me, not for me.

Even at 5 months postpartum, I have to actively remind myself I’m on track and I’ll get there without rushing it.

We don’t just want smaller bodies.

We want strong, capable, resilient ones.

Especially as moms 🤍