Many overtrained women experience the same symptoms: No period or irregular periods, low or no sex drive, difficulty getting pregnant… This short video that I originally filmed for Instagram Stories, explains exactly what’s happening if your cortisol is too high from training too much and not resting enough, and why that lowers the sex hormone […]
4R Method: 4 Tips to Actually Benefit From Your Workouts
Today I’d like to offer you a simple tool that helps you to make your workouts work for you and not against you. It’s called the 4R checklist. The 4R Checklist Hw often do we feel like we don’t want to work out, we’re tired, even exhausted, our bodies may be aching and muscles hurting […]
How Overtraining Can Cause Period and Libido Problems
Overtraining Can Cause Period and Libido Problems Burnout that is at least partly caused by overtraining has a LOT to do with the fact that your periods and sex drive have gone to toilet. If you’d like to know WHY exactly this happens, today’s post gives you a little overview of biochemistry and the processes […]
How To Track Your Overtraining Recovery Progress
How to track your overtraining recovery progress? You’ve been tired a lot. Sleepy a lot. You’ve worked out hard, and finally realized that you may have done too much. You want to get better, but aren’t sure what signs to look for. Is there a way to measure your progress? Watch this video to find […]
Who Is High Intensity Exercise For (And Who It Is Not For!)
WHO IS INTENSE EXERCISE GOOD FOR? You may have the impression that I’m anti high intensity exercise… Which is not true. I’m not against it, in fact, I teach quite high intensity bootcamp classes once in a while. I don’t think that they’re bad but we have to know who is the high intensity exercise […]
Change Your Gym Mindset + Workout Video!
I know it may be hard to believe, but there’s no need to do anything extremely intense, fast, long duration, or absolutely depleting, to get good results from workouts. But we may have to change our gym mindset. Hard and Fast Workouts Aren’t The Only Way to Go You don’t have to do Crossfit, bootacamps, […]
Are You Feeling Beat Down?
This week on the blog, we’re talking about side effects of overtraining. Working out too much and too hard is one of the main contributors to BURNOUT 🔥 and feeling BEAT DOWN. The No pain no gain mentality is big in many fitness circles. While it may feel cool and even empowering for a while, […]
How Stress Works and Why I Took a Full Week Off From Exercise
I have a confession to make: Last week was really hard for me, with so much stuff going on, running from one place to another, starting a side hustle, trying to get my shit together when it was nowhere NEAR together. I started getting my symptoms of burnout – which I’ve learned to recognize quickly […]
Most Common Food Fears & Obsessions and How to Overcome Them
Do you have food fears and obsessions? Things like… Every single one of my meals has to be planned. I have to know exactly where we’re going to eat. I’m going to run to the grocery store even in the middle of the night if I’m running out of my “safe” foods. My lunch is […]
How to Avoid Exercise Burnout
Let’s talk about exercise burnout… About 6-7 years ago I was really, terribly over trained — completely burnt out. I didn’t know it back then because it had never occurred to me that regular exercise can be a bad thing. Watch today’s video to see how what kind of training can lead you to exercise […]
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