Sit-down conversations and frantic emails from injured skaters are one of my least favorite parts of being Iron Octopus Fitness. Especially when they’re in the throes of a near panic attack…
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For a long time after I started lifting, I only thought about strength in terms of the gym: How much weight am I putting on the bar? Is there a…
I’ve always been an over-planner, so knowing what I’m doing on any given date months from now has never been a problem. It’s just the way that I view the…
I’m going to repeat that title for posterity: THERE IS NO PERFECT TRAINING PLAN. There’s not a perfect training plan for roller derby athletes. There’s not a perfect training plan…
Honestly? It was a question that I’d never been asked outright before, but it’s also one that I think about incessantly. You might say that it’s the question that helped…
Sometimes, people slide into my DMs. And, despite the connotations of that phrase, it’s not as unpleasant as you might imagine it would be. There was the skater that desperately…
At the beginning of last year, with the success of my business at the forefront of my brain, I made a commitment to myself to lose weight and gain muscle. The truth was…
“I’m just busy,” she said to me. “And frustrated that I can’t stick with my training days because they take forever.” I was talking to a client of mine that…
Because Santa didn’t deliver on your left-footed plow stop this year… And you’re not holding out hope that Cupid, St. Paddy, or the Easter Bunny will come through either. From…
Plateaus are the pits, amirite? Let’s forget the fact that in order to GET to a plateau you likely just had a season of massive improvement. Because really that just…