One of the best ways to boost your metabolism is by adding muscle. Here we give you simple tips plus workouts that will help you add metabolically active muscle tissue to your body.

One of the best ways to boost your metabolism long term is to add 5lbs of muscle.

We discuss what hypothalamic amenorrhea is and how to get your period back naturally through diet and exercise if you have lost your cycle.

Unique tips for fitting in workouts as a busy mom.

We tell you all you need to know about weight loss and menopause!

Learn how hormones, thyroid, and gut health play a role in weight loss.

Unsure why or how to begin a strength training program? We answer those questions here!

An online weight loss coach is a professional resource that will help you to lose weight through customized fitness and nutrition plans. Online weight loss coaches work with you on a one-on-one basis to understand your current status, your goals, and formulate a plan that works for you.

Oftentimes when we hear the term, “personal health coach,” we write this off as an investment that is a luxury. We think to ourselves that we already know what we need to do to lose the weight, so why spend the money?

The biggest issue is that if you have already tried a method and it hasn’t worked, don’t you owe it to yourself to try something different? Second, if you know what to do and aren’t doing it, couldn’t you use the support of a coach to keep you accountable?

How to build your home gym

There’s no place like home—and nothing like a plan—for the holidays.

Last Saturday I debuted as an NPC bikini competitor at the NPC Midwest Championship in St. Louis. This post will be short and sweet with pictures, a few stats, and a bit about what I'm doing this week. In short, it was a whirlwind weekend! I came, I saw, I kind of conquered (I didn't place, but getting on stage didn't kill me), and now I'm decompressing from it all!

Having a gym at home can be the best thing to ever happen to your fitness routine. You don’t have to drive somewhere in order to work out, you can do it while your kids are right there with you (if you have them and if they are old enough), and you can use it any time of the day without having to rely on gym hours.

I chose this headline because it makes me laugh. We see this sort of all-or-nothing thinking all over social media: carbs are evil, bananas are the devil, cardio will ruin your life, jog yourself thin, eat this magical fruit/seed and you'll never have to step foot in a gym again, etc. It's so confusing it will make your head spin! WTH are we supposed to be doing to care for our bodies?

Time for a check-in! It has been nine weeks since I started my reverse diet from 1500 to 1800 calories and started strength training 3-4 times a week in preparation for doing a fitness competition next spring.

For so many, the holy grail of fitness is having “great abs”. And as a fitness professional, I think this makes complete sense! Having visible ab definition is a sure sign that you are physically fit. No one gets good abs from sitting around watching TV and over-eating.
However, HOW you get good abs is not the way many think. I often get asked “what exercises can I do to have better abs?”.

For the past two weeks my family was on a road trip to Colorado and Utah.   We spent three days in Denver, four days in Beaver Creek, four days in Park City, and about four days driving.   One challenge of travelling during the Pandemic is that I had no access to gyms  or weights on the trip. 

Don’t waste time doing these 10 things when trying to lose fat

When it comes to fat loss, there is so much information available telling us the “best” way to go about this goal. Sadly, most of this information is downright misleading. Much of it is created to try to sell a product.