Tis the season to be jolly and merry and super busy! During this magical time of year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, we especially want our movement routine to enhance our life, not add more stress to it. In this mini-sode Michelle breaks down her top 5 tips for consistency with workouts during this busy and often stressful time year and provides some examples of how she applies these strategies to her own training schedule.

The world of supplements, especially for women can feel overwhelming and simply filled with snake oil! How can you decide which supplements are necessary for you and worth your money? (always check with your medical professional, I am not your medical professional 😉)

What is creatine?

What does creatine do?

Why might someone want to supplement with creatine?

Is this a good supplement for women?

How do you take creatine?

What are the side effects of creatine supplementation?

Feeling chest presses in your shoulders and/or triceps but not so much in your chest? Try these four tweaks to your form!

They're on our wrists and on our phones and pretty much by our sides at all moments of our day.

They are convenient and can be very useful in supporting us to reach our goals.

But what else might be tracked while we use these apps and wearables?

Who might be looking at our data and what are they doing with it?

Are we as savvy and aware of the risks to our personal data and identities as we think we are being?

As I sit here on a Sunday morning, enjoying my coffee and thinking about the week ahead, one thing that is not on my to do list is starting or restarting another diet.

​For some context, a typical Sunday for me used to be spent:

Shaming myself for having no will power and falling off track with my diet.

Obsessively meal planning following an uber strict (and often complicated) meal plan from the interwebs or from an unqualified Multi Level Marketing “coach” to correct the "damage" I had done that weekend.

Methodically plotting and planning my upcoming week, scheduling in all of the workouts that I thought would burn the most calories, but that I didn’t really enjoy or would have the energy for due to my long work schedule and lack of energy intake due to the above restrictive diet.

Why are so many women actually afraid to build muscle? 

We’re taught to not want to look “bulky.” The same way we’re taught to not want to “look chubby.”

We’re taught to fear having a muscular body type by diet companies pedaling the “ideal” body type that is rooted in diet culture, the patriarchy, and yes, racism.

As my summer vacation is wrapping up and I head back into the school building for the year tomorrow, I am already feeling the change in the air - the slightly chillier under current in the breeze, the sense of urgency of folks to get in the last beach trip for the season, the back to school clothes and supply ads plastered all over social media and TV (thank you staples for your reminder this is the "most wonderful time of the year" for caregivers.... 🤣).