Episode 30: Tips to Lower Your Stress and Optimize Your Gains
In this episode, I suggest a few strategies to identify key stressors in your life and make changes to reduce triggers. These include practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques, maintaining good boundaries in relationships and work, and prioritizing sleep. There are many options, but it's important to find what works best for your brain to relax and feel regulated.
Episode 29 Mind Over Muscle: Strengthening Mental Health on Your Fitness Journey
In this episode, I talk about how having low self-worth contributes to the most common struggles that I see in clients as a personal trainer. I also give some tips for how you can work on changing your beliefs and improve your self-esteem through cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and shadow work. We'll dive deeper into these and other strategies in future podcast episodes.
Episode 28: How Often to Change Up Your Workout Routine
To avoid hitting a plateau in your gains and fat loss, It’s important to keep your muscles challenged with novel stimulus. But that doesn’t mean you have to change your workouts up every week!
Episode 27: Tips for Healthy Eating While in a Bulk
You don’t have to eat a ton of junk food to meet your daily calorie goal while bulking.
Episode 26: 5 Ways to Save Money on Healthy Eating
Healthy eating doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, it can save you money! Here’s how…
Episode 25: Boost Your Heart Health with Cardio
Improve heart your health for more energy and to recover better from your workouts.
Episode 24: Functional Training to Improve Your Posture
Want to improve your posture and move better? Taking a functional approach to your fitness routine can help!
Episode 19: When to Deload Your Workouts
Deloading your workouts allows your body to catch up on recovery while resensitizing your muscles to training. It can also help relieve the symptoms of overtraining and reduce your risk of injury.
Episode 18: How to Get Your Friends & Family into the Gym
The most important thing you can do to influence your loved ones to start a fitness journey is to focus on your own fitness journey.
Episode 17: Exercises to Reduce Belly Fat
There’s no one exercise that will eliminate belly fat. Let’s look at the things that actually work to help you burn fat.
Episode 16: My Doctor's Recommendations to Avoid Getting Sick
I sat down with my doctor to create a plan for navigating this allergy & germ season to avoid getting sick.
Episode 15: 5 Quick & Easy Meal Prep Ideas
Meal Prep is a great way to save time, money, and brainpower while reaching your daily nutrition goals.
Episode 14: 10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight
Learn how to break past weight loss plateaus with this checklist of 10 things that might be holding you back.
Episode 13: How to Get Back Into the Gym After Being Sick
Personal trainer Jayd Harrison gives tips for getting back into your workout routine after time away to avoid injury and getting sick (again).