Week’s End

 My Gateway Drug😜Nice class tonight! Loose and fun! After power lifting, still my favorite thing to do. Format I feel most comfortable teaching. Maybe it’s the security of the bar in my hands or that this was what my body was made to do. Lift heavy shit!  Still regret fact I wasn’t introduced to lifting when I was younger. But I do believe people enter your our lives to affect some type of change, and things come to us when we are ready to accept and embrace them. So “Now is My Time”😉Ironicly the name of song in GRIT release I’m taping on. 
Was able to walk through most of GRIT Strength today in front of a mirror. Intense practice this weekend. Would be nice to have actual people to floor coach but I’ll make do.

Launch at RWJ New Brunswick tomorrow. Get to shadow pump, Cx, and GRIT. Should be an interesting morning… Lol.  

 This is me and GRIT 😁my love hate relationship with it. Doing the scary thing, actually lots of scary things lately. But it is only when we go outside our comfort zone that we grow and discover within ourselves things we never thought possible.

Persistence Trumps Failure

 Persistence Can  Change  Failure into Extraordinary  Achievement  
I sucked at GRIT tonight. But I learned a lot from the process. To pace myself, focus on layer one cues, observe, then floor coach. Really to pace myself. In everything I do. I’m not going to achieve everything I want all at once. Need to enjoy the process. Also need to find a rest day day; not going to happen in forseeable future. 

As always need to relax. Breathe. Enjoy the process. The living and doing. The small things like the nighttime bonding with my kids. The before bed chat where I get to hear about their day. The student who wants me to kill a “big, furry” spider next to his locker because it is freaking him out. The former student who wants to know when I am teaching Body Pump or Cx so she can come to class and then friends me on Facebook.  The little things that really aren’t so little. 

So I surround myself with people who push and challenge me to be the best mom, teacher, instructor I can be. People who motivate me and lite my fire🏋💥

Persistence, Patience, Perseverance  

Hungry People

Push Beyond Your Comfort Zone💪  No matter how tired I am, the gym alway recharges me. Laid down for a few minutes after work before gym. Of course usual done in between: dinner for Michael, dishes and laundry😁. 

Combatted and GRITTED. Coached tabata. Set up and coaching good. Just need to dig dep and relax. Need to work on form more than anything else. Again, confidence and practice are only way to relax and give class what it needs. The more I do it, the better I will become. 

I am surrounded by hungriest person I know! When I don’t feel like punching the shit out of him, he coaches me to be the best instructor I can be. In the end it is about making others become the strongest version of themselves and bringing them past their comfort zone.

It’s not about me. I’m just a vehicle for others to achieve their goals.  Did that last night at pump. Some of my Thurs/Sunday crew there. One very competitive member makes sure to load on after each set so that we can assess thirteen weBqyest. 

Child of the Moon

 Harvest Moon, Blue Moon, Full Moon

 So much a moon child! Such a perfect description! Paints a beautiful picture😊. Very freeing to be ruled by the moon. The eb and flow of emotions. To just let them be. Roll through you. Not judge or overthink. To just let them flow. Yep tonight did that! Enjoyed my gym time. Hit the squat rack while it was empty, then Combatted and Pumped. Coached back track and core. Helped a friend. Felt really good in back track. Tried to convey power of the track and have fun at same time. Still learning GRIT Strength. Feel comfortable with all but track 2. So I’ll keep listening, watching and practicing. Also going to work on hip flexibility for lateral lunges. Teaching pump tomorrow at the J. Going to deadlift before class. 

Oh yeah, getting observed tomorrow. Lol. Planned and ready! Observation during one of my favorite classes. All very sweet and work hard. Small enough class to have fun and still maintain control. Using Google classroom. New technology, new lesson because the best teachers always try to grow and go outside their comfort zone. To model new learning to their students.

Then subbing at JCC for Body Pump! Woohoo!! Sometimes life is good! So going to savor it😊
 

 

 

Best Thing Anyone Could Say

  I’ve been riding the high for a week. Felt really good physically and relatively together mentally. Waiting for shoe to drop and it will😞. Don’t know whether to be happy or angry to blame it on hormones. Oiyyyy😝😝😝Really can go from laughter to tears or rant all in 5 minutes.  

 Today was a NICE day. Often the word nice can be trite. Doesn’t really say a lot. But sometimes it says everything. Launch this morning was good! Lots of people! A very cool group X team that I am blessed to work with and learn from. Smashed pump.  

 Then I GRITted! Shadowed and floor coached! Coached tabata track!  

 Not bad! Really connected in floor coaching. That is part I most want to excel at. To coach and encourage individuals to reach their maximum potential. To go beyond where they thought they could.  

 Had brunch with my girls.  

 Food never had a chance! Came home and haven’t got up yet. No guilt about resting! That is big!! Early to sleep to gym it in the morning. Really want to lif after my class!  Squat rack is calling me. Hopefully legs have recovered by then! 

Quest for Bigget Goals

 Loving the Journey 

Another Ftiday funday! Training day💪💪. Getting ready for Les Mills launches and Body Pump AIM 1. You would never think I was actually loving the training based on sweat pouring out of me or gasping during the walking lunges with bar. But I do: love every minute of it! Nothing like that feeling when you have pushed yourself as far as you can go and then go further!! Getting ready for launch tomorrow. Helping with Pump and GRIT! Game on!!! Embracing the endorphin high and relishing the fact that I can empower others to be fitter, stronger, healthier!!

Tabata

Got my GRIT on  
Woohoo! Got my GRIT on!!💪after teaching all day, body pump, Cx and  Body Flow. The fact that in still awake blows my mind.,😝

Tonight I coached tabata track in GRIT.  Better than last time. Know choreo. Floor coaching better. Baby steps. I’ll get it eventually. Pump still easiest for me to learn but think I’ll be ok with GRIT. I’ll be ok in life.  

 
 Pushing my self everyday. Beyond my limits. Brings life to my days. As much as it is challenging, I love the feeling of a HIIT workout. Chest pounding, sweat pouring, panic attack kept at bay. Just breathe. Inhale through nose exhale through mouth.  

Everyday is a Struggle so Embrace it

  

 If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t won’t change you! I got last minute call to cover Pump. First time to teach whole hour of new release. Of course I said yes. Only way to improve is to do it. Jump in with two feet! I learned lunge and shoulder track in an hour. Almost feel like a pro. But I’m not.  Not great ok. Embracing the struggle. Non stop hectic week from moment my feet hit the floor in the morning until a finally drop at night. Really didn’t have time for nail in my tire yesterday. Thankfully it was fixable and cheap. Unlike Elisabeth’s shattered windshield which will cost a small fortune to fix .. Yep the struggle is real LOL 

Be Brave

 Free Spirit Totaly embracing free spirit of late but today I worked with students one one. My job is to help them grow and to realize these they don’t all learn in the same way, some Have finally opened up to me, slowly building a trust based on fact that I want each one of them to success. I really hate first month of school because I don’t know my students. Just now starting to connect with them. 

Training hard gives me piece of mind, practicing for group  X terrifies me. Keeps me focused and resilient.  Makes me live on the edge and I love every moment if it. Not going to PR on every session .

What moved me most tonight is how resilient my kids are. Their life is not easy. They have a father who only responds when it’s on his terms. All or nothing. And I have forced them into a very difficult living arrangement. A heart breaking one. Words really can’t express what it like to watch someone die. But that is what my kids are exposed to every day. And they have to deal with their grieving alcoholic grandmother. Too much for anyone to witness yet they do. Everyday. As a mom I want to shield them from all this but I can’t. So instead I indulge my son in all his demands and try to let my daughter know everyday how proud of her I am and how much I love her. 

My hope for them is that they have s brave heart, a fierce mind and a free spirit so that they can affect change and find happiness in who they are. 

Best part of Day is the Gym💪

 My Gym Nights 
So old hat, but best part of my day are my gym nights . I am really on top of my game at school. Planning and teaching second nature. Feel really good when my students succeed. Hope I am giving them tools which will help them become successful in life. Faith in themselves and  in themselves when times get tough…