Retraining before you train is your best defence against pelvic floor and core related injuries.  My hope for you is to get you to a point w

It’s the holiday season and I love this time of year. I love the time with my family, the tree, the presents (yep, I love seeing my tear into those things!) but most importantly, I love the food. What I don’t love is however, is being made to feel ashamed because I enjoyed an extra piece of pumpkin pie or some of my husband’s grandmothers homemade tarts. Those tarts are worth every bite! As humans, we use food to celebrate. For thousands of years, humans would gather and

Full discosure: I was saving this post for closer to New Years but I couldn't keep my frustration in any longer. The weight loss and fitness marketing targeted for women, especially new moms is upsetting me to the point of losing my mind. I can't keep this in for another day let alone a couple more weeks. I am so angry with the fitness industry right now and I can't stand how they are marketing to us. Here is my rant! I mean, everywhere on social media, I’m starting to se

I got an email a few weeks ago from a mom who what’s to workout. She had been very active in the past and since having a baby less than a year ago, she began running. Her baby was about 4 months old and she figured she was good to go. As she was running, she felt the need to pee and from week to week, it progressively got worse. She start noticing that there was some leakage and decided it was time to get assessed by a pelvic floor physio. She was devastated to find out th

I was speaking to a potential client the other day who wanted to train a minimum of 3 days a week plus do some extra training sessions on her own. Early in my career, I would have given her exactly what she wanted without question but I’ve grown a little since then. Here’s a little of how the convo went. Me: “Why do you want to workout that much?” Her: “I want to see quick results. I want to tone up and lose this weight that I can’t get rid if. I tried everything on my own

Self-care is one of those tricky things especially, around the holidays. We get so caught up in the celebrations, shopping and house prepping that exhaust ourselves before hitting the big day. Look, I’m going to come out and say that self-care has been commercialized. It’s a buzzword that marketers love. If you want to relax and feel like a brand new woman, it requires you to spend a ton of cash. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all up for a massage and getting my hair done but it’

I was out shopping over the weekend and holy, I dropped a few F-bombs. Where on earth did the holiday spirit go? I mean, I was bumped into, my parking spot was stolen, and I was seeing red. So why do we do this to ourselves every single year? Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas but going out and trying to get any it is horribopping done seems impossible! The nature of what I do is to help moms cope with stress, but this is the time of year where the last thing on everyone’