How the Fitness Industry Talks to Women
Flirty Girl Fitness. Bad Kitty Sassy Fitness. Yoga Booty Ballet. It is enough to make your head spin. What do all of these “fitness classes” have in common? “Extertainment“. As a fitness manager once told me when I was teaching cycle classes, “You are here to entertain.” Actually, I’m not. I’m sorry, but if you […]
Emily’s Training Log
I have decided to share my training logs with you so you get an idea of exactly what I do when I am not teaching or training clients. Aside from a few additions to my program, how I train is how I train others. Big compound exercises, pushing and pulling variations, single leg work, corrective […]
Strong is the new Black…or have you not heard?
My goals have certainly changed over the years. To become a professional dancer. (Check.) To become a hairstylist. (Only on myself.) To become a Marine.(Say what???) And one very specific goal that was always there, in the back of my mind….always. To be thinner. To be thinner. To be thinner. As a dancer, one spends […]
Training Germaine
For the past 10 weeks, I have had the pleasure of training one of the most determined and hard working women I have ever met. She isn’t an athlete. She is not a figure competitor. She is not an on-and-off trainee, someone who tries it for a little while, cancels a few times and then […]
Everybody can do a great pushup. Here’s how.
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That’s my plan. Jack Black It took me a long time to understand how to do a push up correctly. Everyone has their opinion of how to teach a push up. To be absolutely honest with you, I actually learned how to correctly perform a push up […]
Sometimes it takes a 4 year old to remind us that PLAY is good.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are […]
Review and Video of Strongman/Strongwoman Clinic
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda Strength. Power. Determination. Effort. Skill. We all have the ability to be strong. We all have the power to change our lives and to change people’s lives. This past Saturday, we had the pleasure to change people’s lives through […]
How A Girl Trains: Part II
Right now my training program consists of the big lifts – squat, deadlift, press (bench is a work in progress – no video to show just yet but coming soon..). My assistance work focuses primarily on Romanian deadlifts, glute bridges and hip thrusts, body rows, push ups, chin ups (for all upper body lifts), lunges […]
Wouldn’t we all feel great if everyone…
Recently, I read a letter to the editor in The Baltimore Guide about some very basic things that people could do to make life just a little better for themselves and their neighbors. Things like “Actually come to a full stop at stop signs” and “Take their shopping carts back to the store entrance.” I […]
Bottom’s Up!
Today, I would like to show you two pictures of myself. Taken exactly twelve months apart. In the first picture, notice the sunken eyes and chicken arms. Focus on the flat, almost non-existent butt. I was trying my best to look sexy. Ugh. I am pretty thin in this picture. About 130 pounds, which is […]