May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
For those of you who have followed my blog for a while… Remember when competition prep was really a hardcore endeavor I actively participated in? I’d do 400 squats as...
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March 10, 2023
It’s been a bumpy road getting back into competition training. For one thing, I re-injured myself last month (I’m fine now), but it makes me want to be extra cautious....
February 8, 2023February 6, 2023
It’s been almost four years since my last bodybuilding competition, due to the pandemic, injuries, and quite frankly, burnout. The workouts are tough, but the hardest part for me is...
July 4, 2022
In January I was a little shocked when my fourteen-year-old daughter told me she wanted to do a bodybuilding competition – the teen fitness division. After two years of pandemic...
December 29, 2020
Hi Everyone! So, about this global pandemic, I’ve taken the year to isolate from the planet. And I do mean isolate. I haven’t been to a big box gym since...
June 27, 2019September 18, 2019
A lot of people send me emails about wanting to do a bikini or figure competition and are looking for some basic information about how to get started. If you’ve...
March 4, 2019September 18, 2019
Y’all this has been one whirlwind of a week! My husband and I braved the cold to travel to Columbus, Ohio for the Arnold Sports Festival (ASF). The ASF has...
January 30, 2019
Only 30 days (yikes!) until the Arnold Amateur Bikini Competition! The Arnold Sports Festival is the largest multi-sport event in the USA with more than 22,000 athletes competing in more...
November 18, 2018November 18, 2018
Sunday November 18th is Mickey Mouse Day. Yes, this is apparently a real thing. So in honor of this day, here’s a throwback post to the time we took a...
October 15, 2018
I’m a personal trainer and the first question I always ask my new clients is, “What’s your fitness goal?” Sometimes I get answers like, ‘I want to lose maybe a...
September 15, 2018September 15, 2018
Have you ever heard of a Bullet Journal or BuJo for short? Created by Ryder Carroll it’s basically a do-it-yourself planner/diary where you keep track of tasks, calendar items and...
May 8, 2018
This past weekend was the INBA Urban Physique Naturals. Every bodybuilding federation has their own feel and I like this one because it does WADA drug testing (the same tests...
April 23, 2018April 23, 2018
This weekend was the big Girl Scout camping trip. It was nerve-wracking to plan because I’m not really big on camping and I was stressing about starting a campfire. But...
April 4, 2018
I can’t say enough good things about my client Karen Temborius. She first contacted me wanting to do some online training. At age 54 she was a wife, mom of...
December 28, 2017November 5, 2018
I’m a person who believes in living out loud. This ties into my annual “birthday scare”, which is kind of like a bucket list, only instead of doing lots of...
December 14, 2017
The 2018 bodybuilding competition season is fast approaching! Here are links and lists to the biggest Texas federations and an overview of what they are looking for with respect to...
