Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to lead a couple of group workouts for the Illini CHAARG. In case you've never heard of it, CHAARG is a national group that 'aims to ignite a passion in college-aged girls for health & fitness'. One of their missions is to educate…
Need some new ideas for your workout today?No worries, I have got you covered!!! Today's post features a fun little workout that you get to create yourself by way of Workout BINGO! I'm providing you the exercises and direction, but you get to put it all together however you…
If you have been keeping up on social, this week has been all about gratitude. This so-called "theme" for the last few days was totally unplanned (one of these days I'll make my official content calendar!), but each day seemingly built off the next. It made the most sense to…
Stop. Sit. Do Nothing. Breathe. Sounds easy enough, right? In theory, yes, but in practice, not always. Ironically enough, today's #MoveItMonday requires absolutely no movement at all. I'm talking about taking a few moments to meditate to get your mind right after your daily movement. While we can most definitely…
September's featured gym of the month, CU Women's Boxing, had me filled with mixed emotions leading up to my first day in the gym. I was nervous, unsure, intimidated yet excited as I entered the gym for the initial introduction session. Over my years of exercise, I'd taken a kickboxing…
Do you do the same thing time after time at the gym?Do you find yourself getting bored with your current gym routine?Do you loathe going to the gym because spending anymore than ten minutes on the treadmill sounds like torture, but you do it anyway?If you answered…
I'd been going back and forth between different exercises to highlight for today's post with almost all of them being high impact and/or high intensity movements. Since we've done a lot of those through individual exercises, group or 7-minute workouts, I thought to myself, why not keep it simple…
Without getting into all the details, this past week has been a bit more crazy and demanding than usual. And, while this next statement probably doesn't make sense, I've felt a little over the place without really going anywhere. I'm also in the first few days of my September Whole30…
