Owner of Kaizen Health & Fitness - In-Person & Remote Personal Training, Online Personalized Programming
Our mission is:
To empower people who feel uncomfortable in their skin to create healthy sustainable lifestyles so that they feel fit, confident and unrestricted when pursuing all that life has to offer. To help people who have battled injuries by designing individualized exercise programs so they feel more like themselves again and can get back to doing what they love. To provide busy parents wi
04/21/2026
A few of the many reasons we celebrate mothers are because countless of us are compassionate, generous, loving, and dedicated. But we can also be strong as hell, in all the ways.
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04/08/2026
Meaningful change takes time, especially if you’re a working mom, running a household, volunteering, building community, and having adventures with family, friends, and pets. Creating new habits & routines takes continual effort. Building strength can take longer when many of your joints are hypermobile and progressions are smaller.
We all want overnight results. One workout and you’re getting up off the ground with ease. One salad and you can see your abs. I wish!
Working on your fitness is one of the few things you can’t outsource. No one else can lift the weights for you. No one else can walk for you, or do your mobility & cardio.
This client has worked on basic health habits for years to get her to this point 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 One small change at a time. Doing the best she can. Working through the broken sleep of motherhood. The challenge of weighing her needs against the needs of many. Learning to recognize that workouts don’t have to be solely in a gym for an hour. They can be spread out throughout the day. They can involve the kids. They can be shorter, using what she has available to her, and focused on consistency over perfection. They can be one small way she honors herself as a whole person with wants and needs, just like she naturally considers for those around her.
Please drop an emoji below to give it up for this amazing person and all of her hard work! 👇🏽
After stiff legged elastic prep, I like to move to bilateral (on both legs) jumps that involve a little more knee bend and force production.
If clients haven’t done anything like this in years, or have cranky knees, we start with more gentle options on the ground, then work on getting lower, jumping higher, farther, in different directions, over and onto things, and with less ground contact time as tolerated. If knees start to ache, we back off and adjust range of motion, form, level of assistance, or exercise variation.
There are just some, but not all, of the many options & progressions. Have you tried anything like these lately?
🔥Tips: See my previous post on leaking w/ jumping if just looking at this has you squeezing your legs together. If you feel any pain, stop, and see a physical therapist.
🎵 credit: Performed & written by Greg Silveira
01/24/2026
2016: A year of multitudes.
Full of hope, excitement, healing…and also disappointment, anger, and hurt. Possibility and uncertainty. Sometimes all at once.
It was also a year of learning—
how to film myself exercising (still working on that one 😂), learning how to let go, be present, move on, and take a leap. How to go all in. How to trust myself to figure things out. And how to spiralize literally everything.
A year of action—
switching back to a dinosaur phone. Setting an example for my son. Going to conferences and saying yes to growth.
A year of fun—
playing with my little guy. Leading a kick ass team through a Spartan race. Doing the statue challenge with some of my favorites at the Y.
It’s a good reminder of how far I’ve come, and a few things I wouldn’t mind bringing back. 💛
Interested in barefoot training socks? These socks are hands down my favorite. Those little socks with the dots on the bottom are probably super cute, and great for around the house or pilates, but they don’t cut it when it comes to strength training. You’ll be slipping in those dot socks on exercises like planks, push-ups, TRX rows, and side plank variations. Not with Pedestals that provide a thick solid grip across the bottoms, sides, heels, and toes.
Why barefoot socks? The often thick, squishy, or inflexible sole of a sneaker limits the natural movement of the foot and reduces sensory input from the ground. You get less big toe extension leading to stiffness down the road, more toes squished and heading down Bunion Alley, and less stability meaning it’s harder to balance. While sneakers have their place for various movements like sprinting, running, cutting, and rough terrain, if you want stronger feet, more mobile toes, better sensory input, improved balance, more hip/glute/lower leg involvement, and often happier knees, ease into barefoot training with a great pair of socks like these.