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Arina Hunter I help women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health.

So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body. I help you enjoy life and feel confident, comfortable, and capable in your body by overcoming mindset, fitness, and nutrition struggles. Online, virtual and in person fitness, nutrition, mindset, health and wellness coaching. In person sessions and personal training offered in San Francisco. Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Pre and Post Natal Coach, Women's Fitness, Corrective Exercise, and Online Personal Trainer. Qualified in Pilates, TRX, mobility, strength, and functional training. In Progress: Master Health Coach and National Board Certified Health Coach

A common phrase my clients say is how good it feels to move their body, to workout, to intentionally get up and moving, ...
10/06/2026

A common phrase my clients say is how good it feels to move their body, to workout, to intentionally get up and moving, and to feel strong.
Susan was feeling stiff, tense, overwhelmed, stressed and moving felt so so good.
Shelly had a busy work week that involved lots of sitting and was looking forward to getting moving.
Sarah had been caring for baby and others and her body felt so happy to have a moment to feel strong, capable, and supported for her.
Shannon went on vacation and thoroughly enjoyed and looked forward to working out again.
Stephanie started exercising because she felt she needed to and a while in she enjoyed and looked forward to it! She discovered how good she felt when she did, that it could actually be enjoyable, and that feeling strong in her body felt powerful.
Sally was having a low day and not feeling like it coming into her workout. As she got moving, things started to ease and release and that motion lightened things. She left feeling better, even for that little moment.
Sabrina thought exercising would always feel like a chore she had to force herself into doing. Now, sometimes she does have to push herself to still do it. And many times, she looks forward to her moment of intentional movement within her day and week.
Sophia discovered there are types of exercise that she does actually enjoy doing.
Stella had been in pain, discomfort, and body aches. She built strength, stability, and trust that has shifted it immensely. So she can enjoy her workouts and life more.
Scarlett enjoys having tiny moments of movement built into her schedule. She does some gentle hip motions while her coffee prepares in the morning. She wakes up her knees before rushing down the stairs and out the door. She does a short low back and hip stretch before bed. And her body and brain love those tiny moments of movement!
When we build a routine of health, exercise, fitness, our body looks forward to getting to move, to release, to work hard, to get blood flow pumping.
Bonus points, when we find the ways that make movement fun and enjoyable for each of us!
Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach

New month of opportunities to make sustainable, joyful, intentional choices and progress for your wellbeing.If you start...
10/01/2026

New month of opportunities to make sustainable, joyful, intentional choices and progress for your wellbeing.
If you start now,
In a couple days, you could finally feel like the first steps are in motion.
In a week, you will get past the roadblock of how do I actually start.
In two weeks, you will start to feel your habits and routine shifting.
Through the small things that you do,
Choosing to take a couple minutes to stretch and move,
Taking a pause as you are choosing your snacks or meal,
Making a plan to workout or move your body and actually following through with it,
Taking 30 seconds to breathe with focus.
Those little moments will build up into the things you repeat and continue doing.
In three to four weeks, you will start to notice and feel changes. In the way you feel, the way you show up.
In five weeks, you will continue using willpower to get yourself to keep going. To keep doing the little and big things. To continue showing up for yourself without punishment or shame.
In seven weeks, you will learn new options, ideas, discoveries of yourself, movement that you enjoy, and health that feels attainable.
In nine weeks you will go further than you have before. You will get past the one day or when x happens I will finally do these things I have wanted to.
In ten weeks, you will have a routine and will keep sustaining it.
In eleven weeks, you will believe that you can make the changes you have wanted, that you can feel the way you have wanted, that you can find joy in your health and wellbeing.
With this new month, let’s give you a boost to make your goals a reality!
Today is a wonderful time to start things, try something new, grow and bloom.
What might happen if you started the goal or change you have wanted to today?
If the thing you have long been thinking about, you started right here and now?
You make the changes you want happen by starting, by choosing that now is the time, finding the support and program that takes out all of the stress, worry, and what do I even do.
Hi I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing

09/30/2026

How to actually feel and get the most out of your deadbugs:
This is an incredibly powerful core move, when done correctly.
It is also often an exercise that clients tell me they did not feel until we talked through how to effectively.
1: Go slow. This is often a golden rule in core moves. Slow control is where the magic happens.
2: Focus on what is not moving. It’s easy to think about the arm and leg that are. This one is all about how your core does not move. That’s your pelvis, low back, to ribcage. Your torso stays steady and only your arm and leg move.
3: Keep a neutral spine, meaning you should have a gentle arch to your lower back. And not feel like you are pressing and pushing your lower back into the floor.
4: If you cannot keep your low back and pelvis steady with your legs elevated, put your feet on the floor. Slowly repeat one side going out and returning in. Being able to stabilize your torso is most important so that your core actually shows up.

Go slow and focus on being steady and controlled.
Your core needs time to show up and stabilize in this move.
Go slower than you want to.
Less reps is worth more done correctly than a bunch of quick reps just to say you did it.
In daily life, you need your core to stabilize as you stand, walk, move about, twist, rotate, and grab things.
This requires stability and motion.
Deadbugs are all about stability. Slow, steady, control.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

Health can be simple. A part of your day. And integrated into your lifestyle without extreme effort.Your health, fitness...
08/27/2026

Health can be simple. A part of your day. And integrated into your lifestyle without extreme effort.
Your health, fitness, nutrition, wellbeing should feel simple and doable within your everyday.
You’ve got enough stress, chores, complicated things to do.
The way that you actually make the changes you want happen: make it simple and truly doable.
So, let’s make it simple and doable:
-Move your body
-Eat nourishing foods
-Prioritize sleep, recovery, and stress management
-Build your mindset and routine to support yourself, your goals, and your wellbeing
Yep, keep it simple.
Move your body, eat foods that support you, sleep, relieve stress, and find how your mindset and routine will support you through the journey.
Move your body often and well.
Find the foods that you feel good eating in enjoyment nourishment, and quantity.
Manage your stress.
Strengthen your mindset to support you to keep going and showing up.
If you want to make anything happen, you have to tell yourself that you can and will.
Find what you fully believe that you can do and start there.
Now, it might be hard to believe that you can at first. Or to know where to actually start.
And it can help to have someone that believes for you while you grow to trust in yourself.
That’s where a coach comes in!
A coach and your health team can aid in narrowing down all the research, science, options, and possibilities into the plan that works and is built for you. While taking into account your values, priorities, and unique lifestyle.
Doable and small things done consistently over time make big, powerful change.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

08/21/2026

Finding your functional squat that uses the natural mechanics of your joints and where your body is best set up to lift yourself and weight is a powerful catalyst to reducing pain and feeling better in squatting motions.
When you send your b***y back as you squat or deadlift, it provides stability, balance, and distribution of your weight through your joints that allow the ability to lift heavier.
Now, in conjunction, as your b***y goes back, your torso will lean forward providing counterbalance between the two.
This will be really helpful with the get back up, stand yourself up from sitting onto a chair or surface.
A common pain area that comes up in my clients is knee and low back pain from doing funky things in their squatting and hinging motions: you do these all the time in everyday life sitting onto a chair and getting up, getting in and out of the car, picking items up, etc.
Taking a moment to check in on what you are doing during these base motions both in daily life and in your workout is a wonderful way to discover how to reduce and mitigate your pains and aches and to be able to lift heavier stronger.
Part 5 of how to squat with less pain.
Part 1 talks through what actually is a squat
Part 2 a quick checklist to explore
Part 3 tools to find your pain free squat
Part 4 tools part 2
Part 5 right here! :)

08/19/2026

Postpartum mamas and those with wrist pain!
A common struggle new mamas have is wrist pain. A great quick check in is to think of your arms as robot arms.
So that your hand to forearm is connected and move together.
A very common thing is to do funky hands and wrists while holding baby and items, and that often leads to that pain.
So check in for yourself while holding, or pushing stroller, or carrying, etc: can your hand to forearm stay braced in one line and not do those funky bends and breaks?
When you are pushing the stroller, where are your wrists?
When you are picking something up, where are your hands to forearms?
As you are holding and carrying?
As you push the door open?
As you pull the car door?
When you carry the groceries?
As you pick up the mail package?
Are they bending in funky directions? Holding a silly position?
The first step is to notice what you are doing,
And test out using your robot arms for the day.

08/16/2026

Kegels are one of the most talked about pelvic floor exercises.
You’ve likely heard: “do your kegels!”
Now, kegels could possibly be great for you.
They also might not be.
For many, kegels are the opposite of what they need.
Kegels are an exercise that aids in strengthening your pelvic floor.
They can be wonderful when used correctly.
However you do not always need to kegel and they might not be right for you.
Your pelvic floor needs to tighten and to release!
Yes we also need to release and relax the pelvic floor, not just tighten.
There are many, many other ways to connect to, strengthen, and to release your pelvic floor.
What our pelvic floor needs is balance.
Not just one.
And we are searching for that balance between being too weak or being too over tight.
For all those tighten and engage parts of the exercise, we also need to release and relax.
Your breath is a fantastic way to connect to, to feel, to strengthen and to release, and to connect your pelvic floor to daily life, your workouts, and the things you want and need to be able to do.
Pop back in and I’ll be sharing other breath work and exercises you can do to learn to feel, strengthen, release, and connect to your pelvic floor!

My first strength training workout after vacation, flying day, and jet lag was the best that I had to give that day.It w...
08/14/2026

My first strength training workout after vacation, flying day, and jet lag was the best that I had to give that day.
It was not my biggest or greatest workout or lifts ever.
It was all about getting back into my body, into routine, into that reset from travel and shift in our usual.
Why was it less? I listened to what my body needed. I still pushed and worked hard. Still showed up for myself and my health. AND I adjust to what my body needed in that moment.
Your workout is the best push you have to give that day. And that amount will change just like the day does.
Some days will be awesome, rocking, and all out. And others giving your 100% that day will be 50% of your usual. And that current moment push will be your big win.
Showing up as your best current self, especially on the harder days, is the biggest win.
That is what keeps you showing up through the funky days or weeks, the harder moments, or the off days. Knowing that you can adjust and continue to show up.
Sometimes adjusting might be still pushing, and other times adjusting will be prioritizing recovery.
Some days you will feel like a rock star busting out the all in push, and other days your win will be showing up and starting: and bonus here, anything you continue to do that day is a win because you already showed up.
Health is about longevity not the occasional big pushes. (Though those big pushes can be wonderful). It’s the things that keep you showing up for yourself and your health through it all, no matter how small, that support you in living as well as you can as long as you can.
For my clients, that can look like:
showing up to their session, to the gym, to a fitness class,
taking five minutes to stretch, to stand up, to move their body with intention,
going out for a walk, even if just a 10 minute around the block,
some days lifting the heavier, exciting weight and other days knowing it is a big win to still lift and maintain the lighter ones,
some days setting a new personal I did that, and others just making it in the door,
And,
Always feeling happy that they got moving, or took a moment to prioritize themselves, and satisfied that they showed up and did the best they could.

08/11/2026

Tools to aid in finding your pain free, functional squat part 2:
1. Slow things down, so you can actually listen and feel what is happening in your body
2. Use something external for feedback: a mirror, video, a coach.

Now, going quick can be wonderful. However when we are trying to learn where our pain, funky patterns are happening, or just are trying to learn something new or different, going slow is key.
Slowing down allows your body and brain to have that tiny moment to register where things are, where any pain might be happening, and to notice the silly things we sometimes have been doing.
Slow is a fantastic way to check in and reset.
And going slow is a magic spot for learning and adjusting.

And lastly, external feedback!
Something or someone that can give you feedback and help to notice the things your body is doing. Such as: oh my hips are twisting, ah my knees are falling forward and in, hmm my low back is arching.
Sometimes we just need something outside of our internal sensations to be able to see, notice, or name what is happening in our body.
And it’s not necessarily that you are doing something wrong, just that there might be a more functional and intentional pathway that will help you to feel stronger, more steady, and better in the exercise and in daily life.

Having a coach even for a quick check in can be the key piece in finding your pain free, functional pathways to exercise and move through life.

Often small shifts and check-ins are what we need to adjust pathways that might be causing issue or to find where we need to build strength and stability to reduce pain and aid recovery.

Try these out and let me know how they go for you!

Missed part one, pop back to catch the first tools :)

08/10/2026

Tools to aid in finding your pain free functional squat:
Using a box/seat/chair/bench
Using bands, Pilates ring/circle, or an exercise ball

These tools are great for tactile feedback which is a wonderful way to help find new patterns in our bodies.
Tactile feedback aids in finding and feeling center and where we want our body to start to move.
It is very common that people have no idea that their body is doing funky things. That they are shifting into the right hip as they squat.
Or that their knees are falling into the middle.
Or that their shoulders are rounding forward.
Or that they are twisting and creating additional tension and imbalance.
The tactile feedback of a seat, bands, a ball allow the body to get feedback on where balance is, where center is, and to feel more easily if we try to shift back into our current habits.
We do squats daily in life: they are how we sit and stand, get on and off the couch, chair or bed, and part of bending down to grab things.
Through these daily patterns, it can be easy for our body to start doing funky things, especially when we are experiencing pain.

These tactile tools are a great reset and check in tool. Take your time. Go a little slower so you can actually feel what is happening.
We check in and reset then use that feedback to go into free standing squats, front/goblet, back squats, deep, weighted, and lifting heavy.

Pop back for two more tools to aid in finding your pain free, functional squat.

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