Repeat after me: “The gym is not a scary place. The gym is not a scary place. The gym is not a scary place.”
For SURE, there are scary aspects of the gym. There are people who sit naked on the locker room benches for an unnatural amount of time, seemingly doing nothing except sitting there naked. Scary. There are strange looking machines with seemingly endless options of resistance, adjustments, positions, and motions. Totally scary. There are girls wearing teeny tiny bits of spandex (and little else) that look friggin’ AMAZING and make you feel bad about yourself, never appearing to sweat, looking like their work there at the gym is clearly already done. Scary AND intimidating! And on top of all of that, there are rows upon rows of dumbbells, barbells, and pieces of equipment that you are clueless about, scared to use, and completely stupefied by because you have NO CLUE what to do if you use something, and you’re pretty convinced that you’ll either get hurt or use it incorrectly or you just flat out don’t want to look like a dumbass. Scary scary scary.
Where’s a girl to go to get information without either 1) interrupting someone else’s workout and likely pissing them off with the questions, 2) googling it and inevitably landing on a Fitness Pro’s website and feeling utterly overwhelmed with too much information, or information that doesn’t apply to them (not EVERYONE needs to carb cycle or eat gluten free or know the benefits of Jackd 3D versus N.O. Xplode) (but I’ll get to those, and you’ll understand the difference between them I swear!) and/or 3) scrolling through pinterest and pinning multiple workouts with the tag line underneath “pin now read later” knowing that you’ll probably never “read later.”
What’s a girl to do??? Resign ourselves to push ups and sit ups at home only? Let our fear and intimidation get the better of us, and vow to never step foot into the scary brick building that others refer to as “The Gym?” Continue to flip through endless amounts of internet information that either doesn’t apply to us or isn’t enough information to be useful? Dammit, don’t you want to know what to do? How to do it? How to get strong and fast and make your body do things you never thought possible? And how to do it all correctly, safely, without giving up too much of your life, and get a smoking hot athletic body in the end?
That place is here. You found it. You’re here. “Girl In the Gym” is about to change some stuff up in here.
Enough with the bullshit of misinformation towards women when it comes to fitness. Those pictures of girls in magazines with the A-MAZ-ING abs that are holding the cute little 5 pounds dumbbells? Guess what – they didn’t get to looking how they look by lifting 5 pound dumbbells. They got it by spending time lifting weights – not cute, “fits in my hand so nicely and never gives me calluses weights,” – but real weights. Think Jessica Simpson got thin for Dukes of Hazards by doing 20 minutes of “light aerobics” in her living room every other day? Nope. Think Allison Felix sat around looking at internet workouts for cross training on her way to Olympic gold? Not quite. This website is for TRUTHFUL and HONEST and ACCURATE information for athletes of ALL LEVELS. Whether you are beginning and needing information on what to do, where to start, and how to do it, or you are a competitive athlete looking for an additional edge through new and challenging workouts, nutrition and injury prevention/treatment, this is the place for it all.
There is an appreciable lack of information in the middle of the road for fitness related “stuff.” I wholly respect the blogs on those who have made AMAZING life changes and lost 100 pounds/the weight of a small person. I also am insanely jealous of those like Every. Single. Girl. on the “BodyRock” website, but someone in there middle, there HAS to be someplace that you can get accurate, correct, helpful, AWESOME information on getting and staying fit without giving up anything non-paleo, all carbs, alcohol, and/or your entire life.
Throughout the course of this blog and site, I hope to share information, workouts, meal plans, and education on just about everything fit-related, through both my professional training, as well as my real life mistakes and successes. I want to take the scariness and intimidation out of a place like a gym while pushing workouts and fitness and, basically, YOU, to your limit. This is the place for anything fitness related. Beginners, competitive athletes, those inbetween, this is your place.
I do not make a living as a personal training (although I have had my certification since 2004). I spend my days at my full time job helping athletes overcome injuries and get bigger, faster, strong, and better in their sports, and then I work a part time job on top of that. And then I teach spin classes on top of that. I do not spend hours and hours at the gym. I am a real person with a real husband and a real schedule and a real life outside of the gym. I falter on my diet and gain weight, I get frustrated and refocused and lose weight. I don’t do 2-a-days for my workouts, I don’t do steroids, I don’t do posing in front of the mirror, and I don’t do painted on tan. There’s nothing WRONG with that (except for the steroids part, just don’t go there ever please) in the right context, setting, and enviroment, but that’s not what this blog and site are about. This site is about a REAL girl who does REAL workouts on a REAL timeline and schedule, and lives a REAL (read: nonideal) life and eats REAL food. Real information for real people who just want to be fit, REGARDLESS of what THEIR OWN PERSONAL DEFINITION OF FIT IS.
Ladies, its time to “Man up.” Lets go be the “Girl In the Gym.”
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