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03 Mar 2019

Dealing with Weight Gain

Whether pregnant or not, dealing with weight gain, weight loss or any type of changes surrounding body image can be extremely difficult and emotional. This is nothing new. Last year, I dealt with weight gain at two different points in my life. The first was when I had to quit teaching spin due to a shoulder injury. Cutting down on all of the cardio and switching to lower impact workouts was extremely hard mentally and physically. I put on about 8-10 pounds. I was SO hard on myself. This is something[...]

5 Ways to Make Working Out a Habit

One of the most common questions I get asked is "how do you find the motivation to workout?" And the answer is, I don't. I do not search for and rely on motivation to get myself to the gym. If my workout regiment was based solely off of finding motivation, then it would look much more like my eating habits...some good days, some not-so-good days and some more not-so-good days. This is because healthy eating to me is something I still work on consistently, haven't found my groove in just yet (even after over 7[...]

Pregnancy Safe Ab Workout

You may remember Heather from my video all about working out during pregnancy but today we are getting super specific. In this video we chat about actual ab exercises you can do while pregnant, in all three trimesters. These exercises are great to substitute for traditional ab workouts. And if you ever find yourself in a group class and not sure what to do during the ab section, you can always throw one of these modifications in. Watch the video below to see our five favourite pregnancy safe ab exercise[...]