Fitness for the Everyday Woman

Let's be honest. Most women stray from exercise, gyms, eating healthy and living active lifestyles for one excuse or another.

Top Excuses:
1) I don't have the time to hit the gym
2) Cooking healthy foods takes too much time and cost way too much
3) I need someone to motivate me
4) I don't know what to do
5) I'm intimidated by the gym
6) It's just too hard

and so on and so forth....but it doesn't have to be this way!

A little background on me...I have been involved in fitness in some way, shape or form since elementary school. It started out with playing softball and cheering. Then my dad started taking me with him to the gym and teaching me a few things here and there. Then I had to take the weight lifting class in middle school P.E. and to be honest...I liked it. I thought it was fun. Most people, I know, don't feel this way! Then it became a lifestyle...my family would eat supper and then go every night to the YMCA near our house. It was our version of family time! Now, don't get me wrong, we also liked pizza and movie night!

I was a competitive and sidelines cheerleader in high school and always took the weight lifting/exercise classes in high school! I just liked it! I graduated college with a degree in Exercise and Health Science and continued from there. I did some in home personal training and taught a boot camp for a season. Now, I am a stay at home mom with an 8 month old son!

I decided to start this blog because I often get asked about exercise, my diet lifestyle and what can other's do to get in shape. This is an age old question, something every woman strives for no matter how in shape they are to start....every girl wants to know how they can be skinny, fit, in shape, have a tone body, whatever you want to call it!!

So, I am going to be blogging about tips and simple lifestyle changes you can make to stay in shape, get in shape without blowing your budget or having to buy a gym membership.