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Join your Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss training for events! Performance training looks different for each activity but the over sentiment is the same.These Gym Rats discuss the importance of setting up a strong foundation before diving into traditional race performance training, executing slowly after baby, and the importance of your family being involved in seeing you work towards and acheive a fitness goal. The memories are the best part!    Find your Gym Rats on Socials: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com Insta: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com Insta: @balanced.living.co

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they catch up with their babies in toe on life, motherhood, constantly adapting to new seasons, and ofcourse their health and fitness. After an intro portion catching up on how the Yanez family is adapting to life as a family of four and the Heatons now have a 6 month old, the ladies chat about where they are at in their postpartum fitness journeys. These two remind each other that the fitness improvement tragectory post baby is not linear. It looks different from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy. While Arielle is freshly postpartum with a newborn and already back in the gym, Haley is struggling with some severe diastisis and multiple hernias.  Find your Gym Rats on Social Media: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com Instagram: @balanced.living.co

Join your hosts Arielle and Haley as they check in with newly postpartum Arielle and baby Charli about how adjusting to life as a family of four is going. Discussions around husbands being excellent fathers and taking their self care. Starting your own self care journey as a new mom in order to fill your cup and avoid creating resentment in your relatinship. Enjoy some fun banter around how new parents so easily divide and conquor and forget to invest little moments in each other. Grab your beverage of choice and enjoy this real mom talk. Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com @balanced.living.co

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they dive deep into proper breathing technique and how it effects our anatomical health and ability to move without injury. Whether it be in the gym, in daily life, men, women, pregnancy, the diaphragm breath and our core control effects us all and how we prevent injury and flow with stability. Prior to getting into the fitness talk, Arielle and Haley catch up on being super pregnant, expecting baby number 2, the strugles of breast feeding, tongue function issues, slow weight gain and really new momhood. Both hosts are eager to welcome the next Gym Rat into the Yanez household! Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com @balanced.living.co

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they take a break from fitness and health to gab about some current events. Let's get socratic, the ladies discuss the Huberman Scandal and why the phrase "Never meet your heroes" almost always applies. This tailspins into a conversation around radical responsibility and some of the holes in modern feminism that leave a large chunk of our population behind. Discussing how this has affected and will continue to affect boys of the future. The gals try and wrap their heads around what this really means for their own baby boys as boy moms in todays society.  Connect with your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com Instagram: @arielle_bloom   Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com Instagram: @balanced.living.co  

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they welcome Dr. Morgan Plantamura of Truly Chiropractic in Austin. Have you heard of Neuro based Chiropractic Care? How about the Webster Technique? Dive into all things chiropractic care that is geared toward balancing our nervous system and the way we adapt to stress. Dr. Morgan maps out what it looks like to be a patient in this type of office including the types of diagnostics and technologies utilized, the techniques for special populations like pregnancy and pediatrics, and the philosophy of our C1 vertabrae and its relationship to the vagus nerve and stress. Join for educational goodies as well as uplifting and positive stories of families conceiving after long journeys and children on the autism spectrum making eye contact with their moms for the first time, all thanks to the support chiropractic care provided to them.  Resources discussed in todays episode are listed below" https://www.trulychiropractictx.com/ pxdocs.com https://icpa4kids.com/ Connect with your Gym Rats here: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com @balanced.living.co

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley while they catch up on their lives. With Baby #2 coming very soon, Arielle is running into all those pesky inconveniences toward the end of pregnancy that you just don't think about until you get there. Sore pelvis, cant reach your legs to shave, and much more. All the while, Arielle completed the Crossfit open and the ladies discussed how she went about modifying the exercises in the open to accomodate her belly, her mobility, and her energy level. Reach out and connect with your gym rats on Instagram: Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom www.ariellebloom.com @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton www.balancedlivingco.com @balanced.living.co

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion all around creating habits, how to choose them, introduce them, create consistency, and build the healthy lifestyle that serves you best. As Arielle's baby girl is growing inside the womb, Haley's baby is growing outside the womb and making appearances within this episode. These tangential mama's are both sharing their tips and secrets toward building habits reasonably throughout all the stages of life, including when you are so busy it feels like its impossible to do anything for yourself. Find our Gym Rats on Social media: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @Arielle-bloom www.ariellebloom.com Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com

Join gym rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion around preconception prep and the main pillars to address in readying your body for creating, and growing, your mini me. The episode starts off with a catch up on Haley's experience with breast feeding thus far and how its always a great idea to reach out to professionals and get mutliple opinions. If you are looking for clear and simple tips to optimize your fertility, this episode gives an overview of how to address your mental, physical, and spiritual health specifically for fertility and pregnancy. Be sure to read what we consider the gold standard of everything pregnancy nutrition by Lily Nichol's: "Real Food for Pregnancy" and "Real Food for gestational Diabetes". Additionally, her new book "Real Food for Fertility" is out now. Find your gym rats: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @Arielle_Bloom www.ariellebloom.com Haley Heaton Instagram: @Balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com