Let me preface this by saying, I am a gym snob. I am a self-proclaimed meathead. As a personal trainer, I am comfortable in gyms surrounded by dumbbells and men on steroids. When I first became a trainer, I was offered a job at both Gold’s Gym and Fitness 19. I chose GG because of the legacy I knew it carried. This was the beginning of bodybuilding. This was Arnold Schwarzenegger. This was what I wanted to be associated with. Fast forward, I ended up leaving the corporate gym

Ø  Starting with the negative, we seem to be moving backwards in time towards the “Skinny at all Costs.” With actresses and models gracing the red carpet with their collar bones as accessory and Ozempic featured on every other advertisement break, there lies a pressure to gravitate towards the cardio machines and appear small and dainty. However, we can look to history to see how we handled this. After this trend, the pendulum swung over to the other side to show us body-posi

I didn’t know I needed to see a muscular feminine body on a publication until I stood in a Vons checkout line staring at Ilona Maher. My internal teenage girl needed to see a woman not preaching smallness nor diets. I cry for the teenage girls who never got to see this and I cry for the ones who do. For years, we’ve seen influencers joke about eating pizza and fries while simultaneously being a size 00. They’re funny, witty, and attractive. But most importantly, they’re skinn

o   People come in all sorts of moods. All of them knowing they need to move through it. I am no longer surprised if a member comes in...

From my spot on my parents’ California King bed, I am illusioned better than those on the screen. These people on the beginning of a...