Forever Strength Andrew Coates

Our member Joanne Peters, also a coach herself, joins us sharing how she went from active in sports, to a black belt in karate, to restricted by a knee injury, to strength training, to coaching others. Joanne loves to combat misconceptions women have about strength training and shares the importance of a supportive community.

Welcome to the latest in a series where we interview our members about their experience with strength training. Kayla Grammer shares how she start with fitness, lost it, but rediscovered through CrossFit. Kayla shares her passion and enjoyment for feeling strong and how it turned into becoming a coach as a side job on top of her primary career.

Enjoy the newest in our members series. Check out how our member Laura found strength training, how it's enhanced her ability to do her job, and how it's helped her feel more confident in gyms and taking up space.

Lavanya Krishnan joins us to share her personal fitness journey and lessons from her career in personal training and public health. We talk about why it's so important for older adults to stay strong and much more. Lavanya also explains what she means when she says "diet" is a noun not a verb.

Our Forever Strength member Tricia joins us to share her experience shifting from always being focused on weight loss to focusing on strength. She shares how this shift allowed for consistency and better progress on all her goals. She highlights how she lost her mother early to a heart attack and didn't want to follow that road. Tricia talks about how much of this journey was about embracing getting outside her comfort zone.

We welcome our client Jalene who shares her experience with fitness as a firefighter and paramedic, doing fire fit, along side struggles with serial dieting and the desire to "be smaller". She shares how she loves being strong and how strength has helped battle some of the conflicting goals and mindsets.