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I’ve worked with and trained top athletes at the D I’ve worked with and trained top athletes at the D1 level. And I can tell you that just because someone performs their sport at an elite level does NOT mean they’d make a good coach. 
Two completely different skill sets. 
But you better believe their cool training videos get tons of engagement online… because watching someone move well is genuinely fun. It’s aspirational. It feels like proximity to what we want. I get it. 

But aspirational content isn’t a program 👀 

Coaching is the quiet, unsexy work that happens behind the scenes. It’s writing a program that progresses YOUR body over weeks and months, not just throwing together a workout that looks cool on Instagram. 

It’s understanding how to actually build strength through intelligent periodization… knowing when to push intensity, when to deload, when to shift the stimulus before your body adapts and stalls out.

A good coach watches how YOU move. They know which exercises actually serve your goals and your body and your training age. They know when to back off because your shoulder is cranky, and when to push because you’re ready for more.

The implementation of a well-written program is what actually gets you results. 
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Friday round up 🖤 stay feral my friends ⚔️ 😈 Friday round up 🖤 stay feral my friends ⚔️ 😈
Self help culture can keep you stuck in a loop of Self help culture can keep you stuck in a loop of always preparing… because we’ve been sold the idea that if you just journal enough, meditate enough, manifest hard enough, the life you want will show up at your door.

But I think what we’re actually doing is using the inner work to bypass the actual work.

Somewhere along the way we got told that mindset IS the thing. That if we can just get our thoughts right and our energy aligned and our morning routine dialed, the rest will follow
And listen, I love a morning routine, a journal prompt, and sitting with what the Universe is trying to show me ✨

Buuuut none of that is actually the work. It simply what points you in the direction you’re trying to go.

The work is the messy, unsexy, often boring action you take AFTER you close the journal. The thing you keep thinking about doing that you finally just… do.

Knowing what to do and doing it are two completely different things, and only one of them actually changes you.💙
So grateful to have a space to get to do what I lo So grateful to have a space to get to do what I love and make me feel my best. Had 40 min. Got it done 🐺

I created (run) Wild cause my background is in Division 1 women soccer as a S&C coach that also coached on the field for over 13 years - running/sprintjng/recovering for 90 min takes a certain amount of conditioning (if you know you know). 

But all I could find were RuN pRoGrAmS - and I wanted the smart cardio AND strength without the pressure of mileage or to have to sign up for a race. 

(run) Wild is JUST THAT. All the strength PLUS cardio in a way that doesn’t burn you out. 

Comment WILD if you want to try a free week of workouts. 🐺💙🫶
Self help and healing can sometimes keep you stuck Self help and healing can sometimes keep you stuck in this “always striving” because we’ve been sold the idea that you should feel Zen and calm through all the things… and if you’re not 👉 well, you must need more work.

But I think what we’re actually doing is using the healing to bypass the feelings. And (IMO) that’s not how that works. 

Somewhere along the way we got told that the goal of all this inner work is to become unbothered, calm and centered and untouched by the things that are actually SUPPOSED to move us… 

and I think that’s where so many of us get stuck, chasing a version of ourselves who never has to feel the hard stuff, never has to sit in the grief of what we’re letting go of to become who we’re becoming.

Because becoming a new version of you takes grief and maybe rage. 
It takes letting yourself be wrecked by the thing for a minute instead of immediately reaching for the tool that will make you feel okay about it. 

The healing is in the feeling, not in the management of the feeling, and I think the sooner we let ourselves actually GO THERE the sooner the becoming happens.

So if you’re in it right now… the grief, the rage, the messy middle of becoming someone new… let yourself actually be in it. That’s the work 💙
When I really don’t wanna - these are my go-to dyn When I really don’t wanna - these are my go-to dynamic warm up moves. Usually by the end, I’m ready for whatever is next. 

Probably because we actually prime our system for what’s coming next. 

Motor unit recruitment is the heart of it. A motor unit is a single nerve and all the muscle fibers it controls. When you’re cold, your brain only calls on a fraction of what’s available to you. When you’re primed, it calls on more (which we love) and it calls on them faster, in better sequence, with cleaner timing. 

That’s the difference between a run that feels like a slog at mile one and a run that feels like you’re firing on all cylinders.
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Just sayin 🤷‍♀️😂 but honestly, people doing good w Just sayin 🤷‍♀️😂 but honestly, people doing good work probably don’t focus on this in the first place… 

So much of what we see on social media is designed to make you feel like you are behind - nervous system not regulated enough, not producing enough, not tapping enough, not visible enough, not making enough, not working hard enough…. The list goes on and on. 

Hard pass. I’ll tell you what a god damn magical unicorn you are 🦄 until you actually believe it while getting fit as fck without making you feel guilty about it either. Thats my flex. Oh, and 18 years in the industry working with high level D1 athletes and those looking for lifelong results. It’s not rooted in selling your shame back to you. 💙
When a client comes to me having missed a week, or When a client comes to me having missed a week, or two, or a full month, I reset her calendar without flinching. 

Not because I am being nice (I mean, I am), but because I refuse to coach from a place that tells women their bodies betrayed them when really their lives just got very full for a minute.

Because most women were never told what *actually* happens when you stop training. 
(The fear mongering and scare tactics sell better, whatcanisay)

For the first seven days, your cardiovascular fitness does not meaningfully change 🤷‍♀️🫀your VO2 max, your aerobic base, the engine you have spent months building, all of it holds. 
Muscular strength stays put for two to three weeks 💪 sometimes longer depending on how long you have been training. And the neural adaptations, the way your nervous system has learned to recruit muscle fibers, the coordination under load - those linger for weeks beyond that. 

What you might notice in a short break is a little stiffness, a little less spring, maybe some sluggishness in the first session back. 
That is not lost fitness. Promise. 

The fitness industry does not want you to know any of this cause if you understood how durable your body actually is, you would stop treating one missed week like a referendum on whether you are still the kind of woman who shows up. 
👉 AND you would stop paying for programs that run on your shame instead of your strength 👀 

So when you come back to your training after time away, you are not starting over. You are a woman with a body that remembers.

Begin again. As many times as you need to.

Ready to begin? Comment QUIZ and answer 5 questions to find your perfect program 🐺
I don’t need to cleaned up and polished version. J I don’t need to cleaned up and polished version. Just the real you 💛
politically aware, emotionally feral, adequately p politically aware, emotionally feral, adequately proteinated 🖤💅
This is the kind of care and support you get insid This is the kind of care and support you get inside The Den 💙

When Hannah told me swings were bothering her lower back, we didn’t just toss the movement or say “don’t do it.”

We broke it down… her hinge, her setup, and how the ballistic nature of the swing can sometimes pull tension into the low back instead of the hips.

Then I gave her options: a goblet clean, some jump variations, so she could choose what felt best in her body.

That’s the level of coaching you get here 🐺

You don’t need a 1:1 price tag to get 1:1 support.
You don’t have to be another number on a roster.

Inside The Den, you get high-level programming from a former D1 strength coach, a well-laid-out plan that builds strength and confidence, plus real feedback and connection that keeps you progressing.

This is how online training should feel 👉
personal, smart, and built for you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

🩵 Comment DEN or click the link in my Bio to join us
No, really I want to hear about it. Meet me in the No, really I want to hear about it. Meet me in the comments 👇
PSA: if your coach uses shame to control you or fo PSA: if your coach uses shame to control you or force you into things, run. 🚩 If your coach gets upset at you asking questions, run. 🚩 

Good coaches welcome questions and get excited to collaborate and help you understand your body. 

At least that’s what we do over here. Autonomy and education aren’t just buzz words. They are how we operate inside my programs. 🐺 

Comment WOLF and I’ll send you the 2min quiz to find your perfect program fit where there is zero guilt/shame.
The soft girl era is getting sold as rest. As fina The soft girl era is getting sold as rest. As finally having permission to exhale. 
And I understand the appeal. Women ARE exhausted in a way that is real and structural and not an accident.

But the story being told alongside it is that feminism is what broke us. That wanting more, doing more, building more… that’s what burned you out. And I can’t let that go unchallenged.

You’re not tired because you wanted too much. You’re tired because you’ve been expected to work like you don’t have a family and raise children like you don’t work. Because the wage gap is real. Because unpaid labor is invisible. Because the system kept demanding everything while giving back less than half. and then handed you a self-care Sunday and told you to regulate your nervous system and called it healing.

And it’s not a coincidence that smallness is trending again at the same time. It never has been. 

A woman at war with her body is distracted. 👎
A woman in a permanent calorie deficit is tired. 🫩
A woman who measures her worth in how little space she takes up is not thinking about what else she could be doing with that energy. ⚡️

The fitness industry has been selling women “health” while handing them the same control mechanism in different packaging for decades.

What I coach is the opposite of that. I have watched what happens when a woman stops asking whether her body is acceptable and starts asking what it can actually DO. 

A woman who knows what her body can do is a lot harder to convince she needs saving.
Build the strength. In the gym AND everywhere else.

🐺 Comment QUIZ to find your right program and join us
In these bodies we will live In these bodies we wi In these bodies we will live
In these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love
You invest your life 
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I gave my inner critic a name: Ali. And she can b I gave my inner critic a name: Ali.

And she can be a real b*tch. Everything changed when I finally stopped fighting her and started asking her what she needed.

I’ve always had a complicated relationship with “productivity”… it’s so entangled with self-worth that if I’m not firing on all cylinders, it must mean I’m lazy, not capable, falling behind.

But when I started noticing Ali, naming her when she showed up, it helped quiet her down.

I don’t shove her into dark corners anymore. I offer her some compassion instead. Because Ali is a bad ass. She’s gotten me here. AND I get to decide how I want to move forward from here. Maybe with more softness AND still getting shit done.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It CAN be both.
An important reminder that you can be a bad btch, An important reminder that you can be a bad btch, sad btch and everything in between. You contain multitudes ✌️🖤
We’ve been sold the idea that we are, at our core, We’ve been sold the idea that we are, at our core, thinking machines 🧠That somehow the right information, assembled in the right order, will produce the right result. But that’s not how human beings actually work. And it is definitely not how the body works.

👉 You are not a collection of fitness metrics waiting to be optimized.

You are a body with a history... shaped by the sports you played, the injuries you’ve carried, the seasons of your life that asked everything of you and the ones that gave you room to grow. Your training should honor the whole thing.

Which is exactly why finding the RIGHT program, one that actually fits your life, your goals, your training history, starts with honest self-knowledge, not a search engine.

Comment QUIZ and I’ll send you the 2min quiz to help you find your perfect program 🐺
Constantly opening new doors to versions of myself Constantly opening new doors to versions of myself I don’t even know existed.

That’s the magic of training. Of course strong muscles, and healthy bones, and longevity… I love all the health benefits.

But the quieter thing… the thing I didn’t see coming… is who I become under the bar. 
The woman who keeps showing up to meet the weight. Who finds out, again and again, that she can hold more than she thought.

Training builds muscle. It also builds the part of you that knows how to stay when it gets heavy.
If you’ve ever wanted to run faster, breathe easie If you’ve ever wanted to run faster, breathe easier at hard efforts, and actually feel strong in the back half of a workout, THIS is the training that gets you there.

🔥 That burn you feel mid-run isn’t lactic acid destroying you… it’s your body doing what it’s supposed to do. And when you train your lactate threshold, you teach your body to manage that chemistry better... so you can push harder, longer, before it derails you 😮‍💨

This (run) Wild session is exactly that. 👇

4:00 hard / 3:00 easy — 4 rounds
🔥 4:00 — threshold pace. Hard but controlled. 8 RPE. Uncomfortable and repeatable.
🚶‍♀️ 3:00 — active rest. Easy walk or jog. Not standing around. Teach your body to clear waste and recover while moving.

Repeat x4. 

This is how you raise your threshold. Not by going all-out every session, but by training smart, right at your edge.

Comment WILD and I’ll send you a free week of (run) Wild workouts. 🐺

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