July 7, 2013
I’m a little stressed, can you tell? Or perhaps I’m just a tad OCD right now. Have you read Julie & Julia? Or maybe you saw the movie? It was...
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July 6, 2013
Pop Quiz: What music is making you smile? Wanna know what’s making me smile? Thrift Shop – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. I first heard this song at Metroflex gym when...
July 5, 2013
Do you exercise for vanity or sanity? I used to exercise for vanity – I thought it would make me look better. I thought running marathons would give me a...
July 4, 2013November 5, 2018
July 4th is the day in America, back in 1776, when Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence was unanimously adopted by the 13 colonies stating that we wished to separate ourselves...
July 3, 2013
Yesterday’s post Tell Me Something Good, gave a chance to win a Rise Bar to anyone willing to share their good news. From starting a new fitness adventure, to quitting...
July 2, 2013
Happy Tuesday! I’ll tell you something good going on in my world and you tell me something good going on in yours. The first good news I have is that...
July 1, 2013
Happy July 1st! It’s time to set some monthly goals, the first being that I have a confession…Well, it’s more of a secret actually. July Goals Share my Secret with...
At the start of each month I write up goals and then check back at the end of the month to see how I did. Here were my stated goals...
June 29, 2013
***If you are my trainer, don’t read this*** So, you know how I said after the competition I was going to have a Dirty Eating Vacation Week and then two...
June 28, 2013
Henry was screwed. Henry Cavill that is – the latest actor to play Superman. At 6’1″ and 170 lbs, he had to put on 20 lbs of muscle mass before...
June 27, 2013
Last year when I flew out to NJ for my 20th high school reunion my trainer asked me, “So do you have a game plan for eating clean and exercising...
June 26, 2013
You’re sitting at your computer for hours and when you finally stand up your right shoulder feels like it’s about to spasm and your back is killing you. Sound familiar?...
June 25, 2013
Happy Tuesday! On the Morning Mash Up they have a segment called “Tell Me Something Good” where calls share their good news. One caller said she was trying to get...
June 24, 2013
I’ve got the post Adela Garcia Classic bodybuilding competition blues today. I think everyone has experienced some form of it in their lives. You spend weeks, nay months, focused on...
June 23, 2013
If the 12 weeks of show prep for a bodybuilding competition are like Rocky, the competition itself is something between the Miss America pageant (minus talking about world peace) and...
June 22, 2013
I started training with Melissa Merritt Coker in January 2013 on her all women’s bodybuilding team called Mel’s Machines. To be honest, I was nervous about being on an all...
