If you missed Muscle Sculpting Workout Tips Part 1, be sure to read that for the first five muscle sculpting tips. Today we'll cover five more muscle sculpting tips you can apply to your workouts to start adding sexy muscle in all the right places. High(er) Frequency When the goal is building muscle, most trainees turn to a 4-6 day per week bodybuilding split where each body part has it's own day …
Motivation
The Best Fitness Challenge You Could Ever Take – Focus on What You Can DO
Today, I present you will a challenge. It's a challenge I think everyone should accept, and I'm taking it, too. Generally I encourage my clients, and you, to focus and strive to achieve the LOOK they want, and not be obsessed with how much they WEIGH or any other number. This is an unfortunate trap many people, especially women, get stuck in for extended periods of time. Heck, I battled that …
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Physique Psychology: Diet & Training Plans Are Useless If They Can’t Be Followed
Today I have a guest post courtesy of my friend, Jill Coleman. She's an incredibly intelligent lady and I'm stoked to have her debut her first guest post; it's about a topic that's not very sexy, BUT, it's very important and she does an incredible job explaining it. Enjoy! Hey there! A big thanks to Nia for allowing me to take over her blog for the day and spout some crazy stuff about the body …
There’s More Than One Way to Lift Like a Girl
"My lungs feel . . . my lungs . . . my lungs feel like . . . they're on fire." I uttered that phrase to my training partner as I walked around, panting, desperately trying to catch my breath after completing my sixth hill sprint. The sun was hot and unforgiving that afternoon, and the humidity was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Even though it wasn't the most comfortable of temperatures …
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30 Rules to Lift Like a Girl & Be Absolutely Awesome
A couple weeks ago, I came across an awesome article – 30 Rules to Lift Like a Man. It was a terrific list of training and nutrition "rules", and I commented that women should follow the majority of them, too. Because I strongly believe women should proudly Lift Like a Girl, I decided to create a list of my own, and by applying these "rules", you'll end up looking absolutely awesome. Without …
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8 Reasons Women Should Strength Train (and Number 8 May be the Best)
Every woman should strength train. Young women; women 40 and older; women who just want to look better; women who want to improve their performance in a sport or hobby; busy women; women who want a higher quality of life. Strength training is for every single woman. Strength training with the goal of getting stronger – with mostly compound exercises that allow for increased loading over time …
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Why You Should STOP Focusing on Fat Loss
There have been numerous articles posted on this website that expose some personal situations I’ve endured. One of the most popular was My Experience with Disordered Eating. I didn’t expect that article to receive such a huge response in addition to the emails and messages from other women and men sharing their stories and thanking me for revealing mine. I was once hesitant to share personal …
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Nutrition Triggers & Tips
A while back I asked what information people wanted and needed most to help them achieve their goals, and the answer was overwhelmingly “nutrition”. That is what I’m going to discuss today through a mish-mash of random nutrition thoughts, including information on eating “triggers” and additional helpful tips. My truest hope is that it helps you in some way. The majority of the people I work with …