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Go Shorty, It’s Your Award Day
Ok, so I’ve never been called short or shorty – EVER! Being a total beam pole skyscraper all through school, I was quite the opposite. However, I was recently nominated for a Shorty Award –…
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Pull Up Your Big Girl Panties & Workout
I’m reposting this blog in honor of Biggest Loser, after they featured my motivational mantra about Big Girl Panties (below) on their social sites today. 🙂 “Most of us would rather sit on…
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Today’s Fitness Mantra: Weights VS Plates
What we EAT can be even MORE POWERFUL than what we DO in the gym. Don’t blow your hard workouts on poor diet. Put as much energy into planning your food as you…
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Do You Need Better Border Patrol on Your Fitness Journey
“ID Please.” “Are you American?” “What is your business here? “ “Where are you headed?” We may think of Border Patrol as a bother, but we know it’s necessary to keep our country…
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The Cure-All for Breaking Unhealthy Habits
Taking a toy away from a baby is sure to produce tears, but give a baby another exciting toy and, before you know it, the first toy is forgotten. We are nothing more…
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Quit Treating Fitness Like a One-Night Stand
If you treat fitness like a one-night stand you will fail. However, if you treat it like a life-long commitment, you and fitness will live happily ever after. In many ways, fitness is…
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Action Trumps Motivation
Your body does only what you tell it to do. It doesn’t care if you don’t feel like working out. Your muscles will still work, and fat will still be burned. You don’t…
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Bonnie Behind the Scenes: UFC Training
Today’s blog will be short and sweet because I’m about to hit the road and get some killer footage of Head Coach for Team Jaco (Blackzilians, home of Rashad Evans) Coach Van Arsdale…
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Never Easy, Always Worth It!
I don’t know why we even waste our time looking for the easy way. I mean, when has anything easy really paid off? Honestly, for me? Never. Push!!!!!!!! Think of it like childbirth.…
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Breaking a Plateau May Take New Start
Have you ever just experienced something you almost didn’t go through with and thought “I’m so glad I did that”. This happens to me all the time. It’s not always about fitness either.…