MOTIVATION: your fitness fear. What are you afraid of?  Failing? The minute you TRY you are succeeding.  Are you afraid that it will be hard? It will. Get over it. You’re stronger than you think. That it will hurt? You’ll be sore. For a while. And then you’ll be stronger. None of your fears are permanent. But your success will be something that no one can take away. Face your fears head on. Sign up for the class/race/goal that scares you. And then go back for more. 

MOTIVATION: your fitness fear.

What are you afraid of? 
Failing? The minute you TRY you are succeeding. 
Are you afraid that it will be hard? It will. Get over it. You’re stronger than you think.
That it will hurt? You’ll be sore. For a while. And then you’ll be stronger.
None of your fears are permanent. But your success will be something that no one can take away.
Face your fears head on. Sign up for the class/race/goal that scares you. And then go back for more. 

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6 days ago
MOTIVATION: inside out fitness. Great fitness and health starts from the inside out. Your mind is possibly the most important muscle you’ve got. Strengthen your mind and your body will follow. Ignore the needs of a tired, stressed and anxious mind and your body feels the consequences big time. Same goes with food and nutrition. Feed your body crap, and that’s exactly how you’ll feel. Like crap. Eat like that and it shouldn’t be a mystery why you’re struggling to have the energy you need to work out. But feed your body nutritious and real fresh foods and you’ll have what you need to meet your fitness goals. It starts on the inside. Get fit inside out. High-res

MOTIVATION: inside out fitness.

Great fitness and health starts from the inside out.
Your mind is possibly the most important muscle you’ve got. Strengthen your mind and your body will follow. Ignore the needs of a tired, stressed and anxious mind and your body feels the consequences big time.
Same goes with food and nutrition. Feed your body crap, and that’s exactly how you’ll feel. Like crap. Eat like that and it shouldn’t be a mystery why you’re struggling to have the energy you need to work out. But feed your body nutritious and real fresh foods and you’ll have what you need to meet your fitness goals.
It starts on the inside. Get fit inside out.

1 week ago
MOTIVATION: stepping up to the challenge together! CONGRATULATIONS MYB aprilACTION challengers!! You’ve made it through April! We had over 60 participants moving some serious booty this month! So proud of all the MYBsocial action going on with MYBers rallying their buddies to join them on a workout. We MYB better when we MYB together! From biking to bikram, yoga to PX90, racing, hiking, bootcamps, Nike Training Club, the elliptical, volleyball and mile after mile after mile, you guys ROCKED!! Think how far you’ve come in your fitness from April. Where were you just a month ago and where are you today? So impressed with ALL of you!! You did this! You achieved it with your hard work and dedication! So let’s KEEP IT GOING! Join in MYB’s mayMADNESS* to knock out another 20 workouts in May AND make 4 of those workouts an MYBsocial workout. Rally yours friends! Get your MYB on together! It’s way more fun that way. MYB aprilACTIONers are already signed up for May (unless you inform me otherwise). GET PUMPED!! GET into the MYB MADNESS! And most importantly…get MOVING! *want in?? email moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com

MOTIVATION: stepping up to the challenge together!

CONGRATULATIONS MYB aprilACTION challengers!! You’ve made it through April! We had over 60 participants moving some serious booty this month! So proud of all the MYBsocial action going on with MYBers rallying their buddies to join them on a workout. We MYB better when we MYB together! From biking to bikram, yoga to PX90, racing, hiking, bootcamps, Nike Training Club, the elliptical, volleyball and mile after mile after mile, you guys ROCKED!!

Think how far you’ve come in your fitness from April. Where were you just a month ago and where are you today? So impressed with ALL of you!! You did this! You achieved it with your hard work and dedication!

So let’s KEEP IT GOING! Join in MYB’s mayMADNESS* to knock out another 20 workouts in May AND make 4 of those workouts an MYBsocial workout. Rally yours friends! Get your MYB on together! It’s way more fun that way. MYB aprilACTIONers are already signed up for May (unless you inform me otherwise). GET PUMPED!! GET into the MYB MADNESS!

And most importantly…get MOVING!


*want in?? email moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com

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4 weeks ago
MOTIVATION: your workout is making your smarter. And you thought your booty was the only muscle gaining the benefits of your workout! Turns out your SWEATsessions are making you smarter! #brainpower (via How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain - NYTimes.com) The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship. Using sophisticated technologies to examine the workings of individual neurons — and the makeup of brain matter itself — scientists in just the past few months have discovered that exercise appears to build a brain that resists physical shrinkage and enhance cognitive flexibility. Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does. Read the full article here!

MOTIVATION: your workout is making your smarter.

And you thought your booty was the only muscle gaining the benefits of your workout! Turns out your SWEATsessions are making you smarter! #brainpower

(via How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain - NYTimes.com)

The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship. Using sophisticated technologies to examine the workings of individual neurons — and the makeup of brain matter itself — scientists in just the past few months have discovered that exercise appears to build a brain that resists physical shrinkage and enhance cognitive flexibility. Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does.

Read the full article here!

1 month ago
MOTIVATION: hard work. Big goals help us focus on what we want to achieve. We have a vision of what we want. We can feel it. Taste it. But far too often we only focus on how it will feel to have, be, achieve, do. In between is the hard work we do each and every day to achieve that goal. That will be the taste in your mouth when you cross that finish line. It won’t be accomplished any other way. So continue that hard work. And as you earn the taste of sweet success day in and day out, soon enough, you’ll crave the taste of that hard work instead of the fantasy of the goal itself. Hard work is the only way. Embrace it. (photo via Caro Gets Fit on imgfave)

MOTIVATION: hard work.

Big goals help us focus on what we want to achieve. We have a vision of what we want. We can feel it. Taste it. But far too often we only focus on how it will feel to have, be, achieve, do. In between is the hard work we do each and every day to achieve that goal. That will be the taste in your mouth when you cross that finish line. It won’t be accomplished any other way. So continue that hard work. And as you earn the taste of sweet success day in and day out, soon enough, you’ll crave the taste of that hard work instead of the fantasy of the goal itself. Hard work is the only way. Embrace it.

(photo via Caro Gets Fit on imgfave)

1 month ago
MOTIVATION: FITNESS is a PRACTICE sport. It’s not about whether you ARE or AREN’T. PRACTICE HARD and you will be whatever it is you want. The question isn’t whether you ARE or AREN’T a runner (or yogi or cyclist, etc). The question is ARE YOU RUNNING? You don’t have to run a marathon to be a runner. But just because you aren’t running right now doesn’t mean you can’t do a marathon if you wanted. It’s not pre-determined. It’s the result of hard work, persistence, and dedication. Even if it’s 4 miles you’re after, it takes practice! And you will get there! Hard work pays off. Period. And from there, the impossible becomes possible… High-res

MOTIVATION: FITNESS is a PRACTICE sport.

It’s not about whether you ARE or AREN’T. PRACTICE HARD and you will be whatever it is you want. The question isn’t whether you ARE or AREN’T a runner (or yogi or cyclist, etc). The question is ARE YOU RUNNING? You don’t have to run a marathon to be a runner. But just because you aren’t running right now doesn’t mean you can’t do a marathon if you wanted. It’s not pre-determined. It’s the result of hard work, persistence, and dedication. Even if it’s 4 miles you’re after, it takes practice! And you will get there!

Hard work pays off. Period. And from there, the impossible becomes possible…

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1 month ago
SWEATstyle: the you edition. Your SWEATstyle is what kind of gear and style you rock while getting your sweat on.  What’s yours?  Big style, bright colors, all black, all white, all pink?! Do you rock head gear (like above), arm bands, big socks, bright shoes, cool sunglasses, short shorts, long patterned pants?? Depending on every kind of sport or workout, there’s always a specific kind of look people go for. Maybe you stick with that look. Maybe you rock a look all your own… you tell me! What’s your sweat style? moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com High-res

SWEATstyle: the you edition.

Your SWEATstyle is what kind of gear and style you rock while getting your sweat on. 

What’s yours? 

Big style, bright colors, all black, all white, all pink?! Do you rock head gear (like above), arm bands, big socks, bright shoes, cool sunglasses, short shorts, long patterned pants?? Depending on every kind of sport or workout, there’s always a specific kind of look people go for. Maybe you stick with that look. Maybe you rock a look all your own… you tell me!

What’s your sweat style? moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com

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1 month ago
MOTIVATION: improvement. What is success, exactly? Is it some mysterious winner’s circle we finally arrive after much hard work? In my opinion, no. It’s a place we visit within ourselves all along the way with each improvement. Big wins, little wins, they all count. They should be celebrated and serve to propel us forward. Instead, success is lots of little improvements along the way. Improvement and success are highly intertwined. You can’t succeed without improving along the way. It’s not always whether you did or didn’t do it. Sometimes, yes. But on a daily basis you must ask yourself, “Are you improving?” And improving doesn’t just mean body or number of workouts or weights. Did you mentally win a battle, too? Did you improve your time, form, mental state or strength? Did you go that half step further today that will propel you to that next level tomorrow? Celebrate it all! Embrace it all! You are continually improving and succeeding as long as you are continuing to work your hardest and be your best. The rest falls into place naturally. Photo via swearlike-asailor

MOTIVATION: improvement.

What is success, exactly? Is it some mysterious winner’s circle we finally arrive after much hard work? In my opinion, no. It’s a place we visit within ourselves all along the way with each improvement. Big wins, little wins, they all count. They should be celebrated and serve to propel us forward. Instead, success is lots of little improvements along the way.

Improvement and success are highly intertwined. You can’t succeed without improving along the way. It’s not always whether you did or didn’t do it. Sometimes, yes. But on a daily basis you must ask yourself, “Are you improving?”

And improving doesn’t just mean body or number of workouts or weights. Did you mentally win a battle, too? Did you improve your time, form, mental state or strength? Did you go that half step further today that will propel you to that next level tomorrow? Celebrate it all! Embrace it all! You are continually improving and succeeding as long as you are continuing to work your hardest and be your best. The rest falls into place naturally.


Photo via swearlike-asailor

1 month ago
MOTIVATION: sweat out your feelings. Feeling crappy? Hating it? Frustrated? Stressed? Anxious? Sweat it out. Hyper? Bored? Blah? Sweat it out. You may not always feel 100% perfect for a workout. Rarely does anyone. You feel tight from the day, frustrated from obstacles in your way, nagging feelings from all the things we juggle everyday. Even just tired and blah and nothingness. CHANNEL IT ALL. Those feelings, thoughts and gut feelings are all part of the fuel we feed out body when we push it through a serious SWEATsession.  Use your SWEATsessions to work out your ish. We’ve all got it—ish—sh*t that’s going on in our lives, both good and bad. We’re swept through our days so quickly, we rarely take some down time to reflect on what the hell just happened?! And even if you take your workout time to ruminate on that everything going on — or take that opportunity to NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING AT ALL — it makes you better prepared to take on the world.  When in doubt, sweat it out. Photo via runinspiredd

MOTIVATION: sweat out your feelings.

Feeling crappy? Hating it? Frustrated? Stressed? Anxious? Sweat it out.

Hyper? Bored? Blah? Sweat it out.

You may not always feel 100% perfect for a workout. Rarely does anyone. You feel tight from the day, frustrated from obstacles in your way, nagging feelings from all the things we juggle everyday. Even just tired and blah and nothingness. CHANNEL IT ALL. Those feelings, thoughts and gut feelings are all part of the fuel we feed out body when we push it through a serious SWEATsession. 

Use your SWEATsessions to work out your ish. We’ve all got it—ish—sh*t that’s going on in our lives, both good and bad. We’re swept through our days so quickly, we rarely take some down time to reflect on what the hell just happened?! And even if you take your workout time to ruminate on that everything going on — or take that opportunity to NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING AT ALL — it makes you better prepared to take on the world. 

When in doubt, sweat it out.


Photo via runinspiredd

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1 month ago
MOTIVATION: having fun. Are you having fun while you work out? Or is it just another chore or thing to check off on the to do list? Is it something you stress about? Or obsess over? Or are you embracing it and letting yourself be super hardcore some days and light on days you need a break? Are you making sure not to beat yourself up on days off? Everybody is different and every BODY is different. Listen to your mind and body. And remember that much of working out is PLAY. Don’t forget to have FUN with it. Working hard is required but that doesn’t mean you can’t laugh along the way. Laughing is as important as sweating sometimes.  (Picture featuring my buddy Jake (red shorts!) via a Friday night Yoga Mashup Class at Laughing Lotus, NY: (4) Laughing Lotus Yoga NY) High-res

MOTIVATION: having fun.

Are you having fun while you work out? Or is it just another chore or thing to check off on the to do list? Is it something you stress about? Or obsess over? Or are you embracing it and letting yourself be super hardcore some days and light on days you need a break? Are you making sure not to beat yourself up on days off? Everybody is different and every BODY is different. Listen to your mind and body. And remember that much of working out is PLAY. Don’t forget to have FUN with it. Working hard is required but that doesn’t mean you can’t laugh along the way. Laughing is as important as sweating sometimes. 

(Picture featuring my buddy Jake (red shorts!) via a Friday night Yoga Mashup Class at Laughing Lotus, NY: (4) Laughing Lotus Yoga NY)

2 months ago
MOTIVATION: needs. “I run because it keeps me sane.” Putting everyone else’s needs before your own is a common practice in our culture. But becoming a martyr isn’t the answer when you cut out what YOU need first. Do everyone a favor. Don’t feel guilty when you need to say no to plans or take a break from something so that you can have some time to heal yourself. If you need that run, cycling class, walk in the park, yoga class…take the time to do it and make it a priority. You’re giving everyone else the gift of a better YOU by doing that for yourself. Do what YOU NEED to keep sane. via runnnninghigh

MOTIVATION: needs.

“I run because it keeps me sane.”

Putting everyone else’s needs before your own is a common practice in our culture. But becoming a martyr isn’t the answer when you cut out what YOU need first. Do everyone a favor. Don’t feel guilty when you need to say no to plans or take a break from something so that you can have some time to heal yourself. If you need that run, cycling class, walk in the park, yoga class…take the time to do it and make it a priority. You’re giving everyone else the gift of a better YOU by doing that for yourself. Do what YOU NEED to keep sane.


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2 months ago