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What Is the Pinnacle of Health?

by Tiffany Reyes on May 17, 2019

Many people may look at someone who LOOKS to be fit and aspires to that as the pinnacle of health. Having been through the gamut of bodybuilding, transitioning to CrossFit and functional fitness, I can personally attest to a new perspective on what we could aspire to as the pinnacle of health. I ...

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What Are the Benefits of Staying off Social Media?

by Tiffany Reyes on May 03, 2019

I recently started a 7-day gratitude challenge on Instagram as a friend tagged me in one. I like the concept of it, thinking of something to be grateful for each day and posting about it. I like the concept of gratitude and actively looking for things in our lives to appreciate and change our pe...

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The Yo Yo Cycle of Competing in Bodybuilding and How I Overcame It Pt. 2

by Tiffany Reyes on April 19, 2019

Step 1 for overcoming the show-rebound cycle: Honesty!Be honest with yourself about the cycle you are in and that this is not healthy. For starters denial doesn't help you, it doesn't benefit you. Being honest, raw, and real with yourself can be hard, but it is the first step. Admitting that you...

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The Yo Yo Cycle of Competing in Bodybuilding and How I Overcame It Pt. 1

by Tiffany Reyes on April 05, 2019

You may or may not have heard of the terms 'yo-yo dieting', or 'rebounding' after competing. A brief explanation: yo-yo dieting is a term used when someone diets, loses weight and gains the weight back, often plus more weight, mostly because the strategies used were restrictive and rigid, so the...

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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skillful Sailor

by Tiffany Reyes on March 22, 2019

If things in our lives were always how we wanted them to be, if we always got what we wanted to get, and everything went our way, it would never lead to our growth. By having a perception that events in our lives are an opportunity for us to grow, we can go about our lives and our days with an o...

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Stop Exercising, Start Training.

by Tiffany Reyes on March 08, 2019

What are you training for? Why are you training?It doesn’t have to be an event or a competition, but identifying WHY will keep things in perspective, guide your habits, your decisions, and your life! Each one of us has a different reason why we train, but your WHY is the root of what driv...

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Living a Balanced Lifestyle

by Tiffany Reyes on February 22, 2019

When you think of a balanced lifestyle, what comes to mind? A balanced lifestyle is multifaceted, there are different areas of our lives we may be trying to balance effectively, and it will be different for each person. If we are thinking in terms of balance scale: too much on one side and the ba...

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Rest and Recovery

by Tiffany Reyes on February 15, 2019

The top principles to master and build consistent habits and routines around for a healthy lifestyle are exercise, nutrition, rest and recovery. Exercise is good for the body, as well as mentally and emotionally. Nutrition influences your exercise, as well as your mental and emotional management,...

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God's Nature

by Tiffany Reyes on February 08, 2019

Isn’t it amazing to reflect that God so beautifully and simply spoke the world into creation? With His word, he spoke the galaxies, the world, and nature into creation with ease. He also effortlessly, beautifully and lovingly breathed life into us. Similar to how He created the beauty in the worl...

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You Are Enough

by Tiffany Reyes on January 25, 2019

Here today. This moment. This hour. This minute. YOU are enough. This is an especially difficult concept for us to grasp especially in today’s society. We are told through social media, peers, family that we are not strong, healthy, successful or beautiful enough. The list goes on. So, we search...

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What Do We Do with Validation?

by Tiffany Reyes on January 16, 2019

“You are so strong!” “You look great!” “You are so fit!” “You’re a beast!”Let’s be real, who doesn’t like to hear those things? It feels nice when someone else acknowledges the hard work and effort you have been putting into training and nutrition. Especially in the fitness industry, it feels nic...

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Just GO

by Randy Gonzalez on January 11, 2019

So we are now into the second month of 2019! Wow does time just seem to fly by? Does it seem like we were just saying we were going to start making changes towards our goals yesterday and not a month or two is gone? Here’s the deal. THAT IS OKAY. Life is this big beautiful adventure that throws u...

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