A fit, healthy lifestyle begins today.
That sums up everything I’ve been blogging about for the past few years at my old blog, Life in Training. One of my favorite parts of being a personal trainer is seeing the switch when a client who doesn’t really LOVE exercise suddenly realizes that hey! this is kind of fun! And it feels GOOD to be healthy and fit! I want to make this my way of life!
I’m all about making your lifestyle healthy and happy without becoming obsessive. I believe in starting slow. I believe in breaking old, bad habits and replacing them with new, fit, healthy habits. I believe that exercise should be fun and make you feel good. I believe that pushing yourself and challenging yourself is the key to feeling great. Most of all, I believe that whatever you’re doing to treat your body right and get healthy should be a lifestyle you can commit to FOR LIFE! Phrases like “bad foods”, “cheat days”, “I’m not allowed to eat that”, “I’m going to have to kill myself in the gym to make up for what I just ate” drive me CRAZY. Food is not bad. Chocolate is not inherently evil. Eating pasta doesn’t make you an awful person. Working out shouldn’t be a penance.
I’ve been blogging for years, but just this past year it’s become much more important to me. I have an amazingly wonderful 15 month old son (I swear, he was a newborn yesterday, what haaaapppened???) who I adore and want to spend as much time as possible with. It became clear pretty early on in his life that I couldn’t go back to being a full-time personal trainer as well as being a mama. Whether you’re working in a gym or independently, personal trainers work early morning hours and evening hours, with sporadic sessions in between. Sometimes you have a 3 hour break, sometimes you work 7 hours straight with no break. And your schedule changes at the drop of a hat. Clients switch times around, one client needs a new time so you have to juggle 15 others. It would have been incredibly difficult to balance that with childcare, or make more money than the cost of childcare, without sacrificing time with my baby. I’m lucky to have the support of my wonderful husband, Fran, who has seen me through a couple of big, scary, leap-in-the-dark career changes, all the while encouraging me and telling me I could do it.
So I started writing more. I used nap-times and evenings to research and write, got more dialed in to social media and reaching out to other bloggers, learning more about the profession of blogging. I realized it was not only a creative outlet for me, but I loved having an impact on people’s lives by blogging, the same way I can impact my clients’ lives by training them. Getting emails or comments from readers telling me something I wrote had affected them is pretty much the best feeling ever.
While I still am a personal trainer and have a handful of clients in my neighborhood (whom I adore! Hi, guys!) “Life in Training” as a title just wasn’t reflective of my lifestyle anymore. Plus, it had started to remind me of a prison sentence…
I sentence you to Life. In. Training! Dum dah dum!!!
Along with the name change, I’m currently working with the super-talented Rita Barry, aka the Blog Genie who is working hard revamping the design and overall look of Fine Fit Day. Pretty soon this little corner of the fitness blog world will be looking new, fresh, stylish and fun!
When the new look is revealed later this month, there will also be a fun giveaway contest, so stay tuned!
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