Mess In Progress

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📍Based in Palm Beach Gardens
⚡️Strength Training
⚡️Pre & Postnatal Fitness
⚡️Nutrition Coaching
⚡Strength for every season of life

10/15/2026

Strength Lab is growing!! 🩵

We’re adding a NEW class with Coach Emily! 
Conditioning & Core | Wednesdays at 9:30 AM

Our new 60-minute Conditioning & Core class is designed to complement our full-body Push/Pull Strength Lab workouts!

While our Push/Pull sessions focus on building strength through progressive overload, Conditioning & Core brings in a different challenge by combining strength-based conditioning, functional movements, and intentional core work to improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular stamina, core stability, and overall strength.

Together, these classes provide a more well-rounded approach to training, helping you build strength, improve your conditioning, and move better both inside and outside the gym!

And just like our original Strength Lab sessions, you’ll still get individualized coaching, form corrections, and modifications in a small-group setting. A different training focus, but the same personalized Strength Lab experience!

📍 Emily’s Gym (Address provided upon sign-up!) 🗓 Wednesdays at 9:30 AM 💪 Led by Coach Emily

Spots are limited! Message me for details or to get signed up! 🩵

10/06/2026

Four people max means I have time to coach each person.

To help you find your positioning, adjust an exercise, or tell you when you’re ready to go heavier.

That’s how I coach Strength Lab. Full-body push and pull workouts, programmed in 4-week phases so you can build on your training each week.

Everyone starts with an individual assessment so I can get to know how you move and what you need before you join the group.

📍 Palm Beach Gardens
Message me to learn more or book your assessment.

📸: Aaron Hoyord

09/15/2026

Yes, you can absolutely continue strength training during pregnancy. The difference is that pregnancy adds context to your programming.

Your body isn’t just getting bigger. Your rib cage, abdominal wall, pelvic floor, center of mass, balance, available range of motion and recovery are all changing, sometimes week to week. So no, you don’t need to switch to five “pregnancy-safe” exercises on repeat, but you also don’t want to follow the exact same plan without paying attention to how your body is responding.

A lot of the time, the exercise can stay exactly the same. We may just adjust the load, volume, range, tempo, stance, support or impact. We’re also looking at breath and pressure management, how the core and pelvic floor are coordinating under load, and whether symptoms like leaking, heaviness, pain or repeated firm coning are showing us that something needs to change.

That’s really what intentional prenatal programming is. It isn’t about treating pregnant women like they’re fragile or taking away real strength training. It’s about continuing to train with purpose while making adjustments for the body you have today, the strength you want to maintain and the postpartum season ahead🫶🏻

09/05/2026

10 months postpartum, and I’m learning that feeling strong and feeling like myself again are not always the same thing.

This month, I officially weaned, and honestly, my hormones still feel like a disaster. My thyroid is all out of whack, I’m waking up drenched in sweat at night, and I’m still waiting for my body to find its new normal.

The stalled weight loss has been frustrating, but I’m trying to focus on what my body is doing instead of only how it looks.

I finished Phase G of Level Up and feel genuinely strong 💪 I’m also still doing Lagree once a week for something different, an hour outside of my own gym, and another reminder of how much stronger I’ve become.

All three kids started school, including Demi, which has been so bittersweet. But it’s also given me more space to pour into Mess In Progress and officially launch Strength Lab, helping more women get into the gym, lift heavier, and feel confident strength training.

Postpartum progress is not always linear, and it definitely isn’t only measured by the scale.

Ten months postpartum and still very much a mess in progress 🤍

If you’re postpartum too, what has surprised you most about this season?

08/28/2026

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!!!!

08/13/2026

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. 🤍

08/09/2026

🚨 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!

05/13/2026

Growing baby Mia while getting stronger every week 🥹🤍

Fabienne started training with us during week 12 of her pregnancy and getting to be part of her journey has been so special. Pregnancy is never linear. Some weeks feel amazing, some weeks feel exhausting, and some weeks require constant modifications and adjustments. That’s exactly why having support and programming that evolves with your body matters so much.

“I started working with Jessica and Emily during week 12 of my pregnancy and it’s been an amazing journey! The program is so effective and really well tailored to each stage of pregnancy. Emily and Jessica are amazing and so fun to workout with! I feel so blessed to know them and have them on my side during this journey!

I love the weekly check-ins and that they always adjust my workouts if needed to accommodate all the crazy pregnancy symptoms/pain I dealt with. Can’t wait for the postpartum journey with Mess In Progress!” 🤍

Watching her continue to show up for herself and baby Mia through every phase of pregnancy has been incredible, and now we get to continue into postpartum together 🫶

Mama In Progress was created to help women feel strong, supported, educated, and confident through every stage of pregnancy and postpartum🫶🏻

05/02/2026

Hot take🔥
It’s actually kind of fun going lighter postpartum

Not because you’re weaker
But because your body is relearning how to work together again

Your rib cage expanded
Your core and pelvic floor coordination changed
Your pressure system needs to be rebuilt

So we drop the weight

Not as a downgrade
But as a reset with intention

You get to slow things down
Feel muscles you haven’t felt in months
Clean up the rib flare
Reconnect your breath and core
And stop letting random things take the hit just to move heavier weight

Then, once everything is working together again
That’s when we load it back up

And honestly?
That strength hits different.

04/02/2026

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 🤍

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1107 Vintner Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
33410

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