(note: for those of you that watch “The Bachelor” and remember from Ben’s season the screech from that brunette gal when Shawntel walked back into the room to meet back up with Ben, and let out the verbal diarrhea of “Who IIIISSSSS she?,” then you clearly fully appreciate the title of this post!)
I figure before I start preachin’, I should at least convince you as to WHY you should even bother listening to me in the first place.
My name is Claire, and I am a Sports Physical Therapist living in little Omaha, NE. From a young age, I have always been involved in sports. Gymnastics, Junior Olympics Track and Field, select basketball all through middle school, high school cross country and track and field, as well as high school softball, and then rowing as a NCAA Division I athlete at Creighton University (Go Jays!). After graduating with my Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) and passing my NSCA Sports and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), I was immediate drawn into using my own background as an athlete to help athletes recover from their own injuries and return to their sports. That inevitably lead to me sitting for (and PASSING!) my Board Certification in Sports Rehab Specialty (SCS), and now I spend my professional days treating athletic and orthopedic injuries.
(yup, that’s me with Gabbie Douglas. I take my work for reals).
When I graduated from undergrad, my life went from being scheduled down to the minute (practice on the lake at 5:30-7:30am, post workout breakfast and shower 7:30-8:30am, classes 8:30-3:30, afternoon weights 4:30-6pm, post workout dinner 6-7pm, study/homework 7:30-9:30pm, and bed by 9:30-10pm), to being a bit more…free. Now all of the sudden I was in charge of my own workouts, my own nutrition, my own health. I admit, I freaked out a bit. But after I realized I actually had the education and knowledge to figure this stuff out on my own, I realized I had the amazing opportunity to take 100% control over my own health.
I am in the unique opportunity to know what research is worthwhile on nutritional supplements, and what information is total BS (sorry, I’ve never seen any study that shows benefits of drinking cinnamon and lemon and hot water and cayenne pepper to help you lose 10 pounds in 1 week). I know how to cycle my workouts to gain muscle mass or to tone up. I know how to alter recipes to lower calories and up protein to support muscle, as well as which supplements are worth the money and which are worthless. I know how to NOT injure myself during workouts, how to rehab an injury when one does happen, and how to train DURING an injury without letting all that hard work go to waste (hey, they don’t call me doctor for nothing). I’ve been through the educational process of all of that, I put that information to use, and I live that life every single day.
But perhaps what makes me worthwhile to listen to, is more of what I am NOT. I’m not a personal trainer who has unlimited time and access to workout for hours on end. I’m not a fitness model who has a coach controlling everything they eat, lift and metabolize. I am a normal person, with a (quite demanding) full time job, a (wonderful) husband who is just as active as I am, 2 high maintenance cats, and a household full of laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and general home improvement projects on our home. I don’t look like a Victoria Secret’s model, I don’t wear push up bras to work out in, and I don’t have unlimited time at the gym each day or unlimited access to nutritional supplements. I am a normal person, with a normal person’s schedule, but I take my fitness seriously.
I want to show you that you CAN fit in eating healthy, that you DO have time to go to the gym and get in a realistic workout. I want to show you how you can take control of what you and your body look like, and take control of your weight and your health. I want to show you that you no longer have to be scared or intimidated or confused by the gym, and to make you comfortable among the barbells and dumbbells (and to roll your eyes and some of the “other” dumbbells at the gym as well). I want to share my knowledge, my experience, tricks, recipes, research and workouts to make YOUR fitness a priority and an obtainable goal in YOUR life.
And that is why I started this website. Forget those websites that show workouts completed by sweaty girls with fake boobs wearing tiny little sports bras with spaghetti straps. You want serious workouts for home, at the gym, with weights, with bodyweight only, for cardio, for strength training, for sports performance, for your first workout since middle school? You want recipes for healthy snacks, meal planning, pre workout supplementation, post workout recovery, calorie conscious options, muscle building options? You want injury prevention warm ups, cross training during injuries workouts, injury treating taping and stretching? You want technique on lifting, instruction for program design, education on anything and everything gym related to put you at east when you take that first step?
Well then damn girl, you’re in the right place. Grab your towel, put on your cutest sports bra…we’re about to get our fitness on.
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