What is Courage?
Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyways. It is acting in spite of your past and trusting yourself and the unknown and making a decision. It is the courageous acts of people that we admire and...
View ArticleFollow Your Dreams – My Lessons From Tennis
Some of you may already know that I am a huge tennis fan. When I was a kid, I’d wake up in the middle of the night to watch Grand Slams halfway across the world. I wanted to look like Steffi Graf,...
View Article7 Sizzling Reasons Why Women Need To Lift Weights! (and let’s debunk some...
How many times have you heard a woman say “I don’t want to get bulky”, “lifting weights is dangerous” or “I don’t understand why you need to lift so much”? Perhaps you’re a personal trainer that...
View ArticleGoing Gaga For Gaga
I’ll admit it. I was never a huge fan of Lady Gaga. As a girl growing up idolizing Madonna, I saw her as trying to be like my idol. Her songs were similar, she liked to push buttons with society and...
View ArticleAre You Faking It? 4 Ways To Get Out Of Your Funk
Let’s face it – we all have our days when we just don’t feel “ON”. The smallest thing irks you, you feel any obstacle is like climbing Mount Everest or you simply can’t seem to get your hand out of the...
View ArticleFreedom, Flight and Fearlessness — 5 Takeaways from Felix’s Freefall
Ever since I was a young girl I was fascinated with flying. The sense of freedom and surrender that I experience while I am sitting in my seat during takeoff, the reminder of how small I really am...
View ArticleI Was Here
A few weeks ago I traveled to Israel on a whim for 5 days. I booked my ticket a few days before the flight, packed my carry-on bag, loaded up my iPad with some music and books and headed on a Turkish...
View ArticleThe 10 Commandments Of Coaching
Fitness Professionals! Are you a coach who’s lost some business recently? Have you wondered why certain clients have decided to stop training with you? Do you look around and speculate why other...
View ArticleFive Ways To Survive The Holiday Weight Gain
It’s post Thanksgiving. You’re reflecting on the tremendous amount of food you ate. You realize Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzah and New Years are just around the corner. You take a mental picture of your...
View ArticleMy World And The Barbell
It’s customary for non lifters to think that women who lift heavy weights must have something oddly wired in them that causes them to believe they should get ‘that strong’. Why do you want to get...
View ArticleLooking forward to what’s next…
It’s been a while since I’ve last written a blog post. In fact, it’s been almost six months. I could go on for hours as to the reasons and excuses as to why I took a long hiatus from writing, but in...
View Article7 Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Stronger!
We’ve all been there: shaking our head, throwing a tantrum, or cursing at the Squat Rack wondering, “Why Am I Not Getting Stronger?” Other times it may be while watching The CrossFit Games or scrolling...
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