I'm a Personal Trainer, and I Don't Care How Many Squats You Did.

I am a personal trainer, and, to be honest, I don’t really care about how many squats you did, but about why you want to do them at all.

I often struggle, in this space and on Instagram (where I’m typically chattiest), to balance what I’m thinking about, what I do, and why you should care about any of it.

Yesterday, I was talking to myself in my bathroom mirror (a way I’ve found effective to finish sentences and thoughts, when I’m getting tongue-tied or chasing my tail), and one of my longest-term clients called in the middle of it. Invited out of my soliloquy, I listened with delight about work, family, body, and life stress, and I realized something:

the best part of fitness—what hooked me in the first place—is its uncanny ability to introduce us to the (deepest) parts of ourselves we cover up with stories, with shame, with endless squats, if only we heed the call to listen.

What frustrates me about fitness is its pull to be reductive, to erase nuance, to make everything a 1-2-3, a tempo, a 12-step program, into which, “anyone,” can plug in and be healed/”fixed”/”better.”

But I don’t think anything in my life has worked in that cookie-cutter way, and I’d guess that’s at least as true if not more so for you, too, if you’ve found yourself in this space (thank you, and welcome, again or for the first time). That thought carries a lot of unwieldy energy, though, and it’s not very fun to think about what we don’t like or what doesn’t work for months (years) on end.

Instead, I’d much rather ask questions, figure out what’s worth our collective energy, learn how to see and hear better, and help you do the same, to and for yourself.

If you feel like there’s not, or no one has told you, or you haven’t had this experience just yet, or like it can’t possibly be true…

there is room for you here.

THAT is what I’m thinking about, and also what I do: help the clients with whom I work one-on-one to figure out how to navigate their lives like there’s room for them there while working for more room for us all.

We most often accomplish this using fitness as an entry point, because that’s where I first found powerful, concrete, real connection with my body and myself, and I’ve watched hundreds of people do the same, once they found their way of doing so.

I want to work with folks who are leaning or jumping into this space, ready to move away from traditional weight-loss-centric fitness methods in favor of what allows them to expand and explore and build stronger, fuller, more comfortable, less stressful lives for themselves, on their own terms.

In?

I’m filling one-on-one coaching spots before the holiday season sneaks all the way up on us. Apply here.

xoxo,
Steph