EP #65 Members Series: Take Up Space

Our member Joanne Peters, also a coach herself, joins us sharing how she went from active in sports, to a black belt in karate, to restricted by a knee injury, to strength training, to coaching others. Joanne loves to combat misconceptions women have about strength training and shares the importance of a supportive community.

Welcome to the latest in a series where we interview our members about their experience with strength training. Kayla Grammer shares how she start with fitness, lost it, but rediscovered through CrossFit. Kayla shares her passion and enjoyment for feeling strong and how it turned into becoming a coach as a side job on top of her primary career.

Enjoy the newest in our members series. Check out how our member Laura found strength training, how it's enhanced her ability to do her job, and how it's helped her feel more confident in gyms and taking up space.

Lavanya Krishnan joins us to share her personal fitness journey and lessons from her career in personal training and public health. We talk about why it's so important for older adults to stay strong and much more. Lavanya also explains what she means when she says "diet" is a noun not a verb.

Our Forever Strength member Tricia joins us to share her experience shifting from always being focused on weight loss to focusing on strength. She shares how this shift allowed for consistency and better progress on all her goals. She highlights how she lost her mother early to a heart attack and didn't want to follow that road. Tricia talks about how much of this journey was about embracing getting outside her comfort zone.

We welcome our client Jalene who shares her experience with fitness as a firefighter and paramedic, doing fire fit, along side struggles with serial dieting and the desire to "be smaller". She shares how she loves being strong and how strength has helped battle some of the conflicting goals and mindsets.

Enjoy this special episode and first of a series where we invite one of our program members to tell their story. Mari-Ann Russell has a great story about starting strength training 30 years ago. She's been dedicated to learning and it shows. Join us as she talks about her experience as a nurse and feeling the need to be stronger for the rigours of her work. She also talks us through sifting through the good and bad information on social media. This one is special so please enjoy and share this with someone in your world who you believe would benefit from starting.

Join us for the short episode on glute training. We cover basic glute anatomy, function, and exercise selection to grow glute and improve performance. Consider joining our next round of Forever Strength, our 13 week women's strength training program, this round's emphasis is on glute training.

Nutrition coach, CEO, and cookie enthusiast Marissa Roy joins us to hammer the value of focusing on the basics in your training and your nutrition. Marissa details early negative influences on her fitness and nutrition before finding credible evidence based resources that shaped her career. Marissa shares her interest in the human behaviour and psychology side of coaching and what she means by "seek to understand not to convince". Enjoy and share with a friend who might see value in our podcast. Thank you so much.

Jacqueline Kasen joins to share wisdom from her career as a group exercise instructor and director along with her passion for mountaineering. Jacqueline differentiates between mountaineering and hiking, and the intense training required. She also shares wisdom about recovery, mental toughness, and dealing with pain and injury,