Fitness Empowered – Page 4 – Chronic Radiance

My morning routine – What I learned today to make it better.

Bychronicradiance December 10, 2022February 26, 2025

I start every day with a meditation from the Insight Time app. There’s are a few favorite instructors I listen to. I did a search when I started a couple of weeks ago during my Gratitude focus, and included the word gratitude. These rituals sort of slow down time for me. Before my day starts…

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Unannounced Breakfast Fun with my Gym Girls!

Bychronicradiance November 25, 2022February 26, 2025

Sometimes I forget how far I’ve come since I joined the gym a few years ago. Before the pandemic shut the gym doors, I was there every day but in a much different physical capacity. I would not have even been able to walk across the gym floor with relative ease let Alone stop and…

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Motivation, Connection & The Power of Showing Up

Bychronicradiance November 12, 2022February 28, 2025

Something really cool happened as my monthly women’s group breakfast at Panera got closer. Something woke up inside me—a spark of creativity and gratitude that made me stop and think. I put together this amazing group of women, and let me tell you, that’s no small feat. Sure, we all go to the same gym,…

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Summer 1998 Ms Fitness Magazine – Blast from the Past!

Bychronicradiance October 11, 2022February 26, 2025

Note: this article was found in a binder, 25 years after it was written. It’s the story of how I got started in the fitness industry after a herniated disc caused me to rethink my approach toe tin and exercise. Looking back now, I see an intensity and focus to overcome whatever is ini my…

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Elevator’s Out? I’ll take the Stairs!

Bychronicradiance September 26, 2022February 26, 2025

I am not one to wait. If there is a red light, I will usually look for a way to cut down the side street, make a right turn, a left turn and then a right turn a block up from the light that I would’ve been stopped at. I just need to keep moving….

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Change for me today was a New Beginning

Bychronicradiance September 25, 2022February 26, 2025

So something pretty major happened today. I wanted to talk about how awesome change can be especially when you hit a mile stone, but I didn’t get to experience it until the gym today. My former blog post on change just came to me and I needed a really solid example. Maybe that is what…

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An exercise in perception – would this get you riled?

Bychronicradiance September 19, 2022February 26, 2025

Now here’s a pretty funny thing that happened at the gym this weekend. There is a room in the back of the gym that is contained by a glass partition and is an area separate from the gym floor. It is called the TRX room to some of us because there is a TRX cable…

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The Early Bird Gets the Worm

Bychronicradiance September 12, 2022February 26, 2025

Wow. I roll up at 4:40 AM, with extra time because of my time management experiment in the previous post, and I don’t want to sit in the car just waiting, so I figured I’d write a blog post. It’s pretty dark still in the parking lot, daylight savings time hasn’t kicked in yet, so…

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Why I Became an NASM Personal Trainer Again

Bychronicradiance September 9, 2022February 26, 2025

Early on in my career, before an MS diagnosis was even a thought, I made the choice to become a personal trainer as I was really interested in the fitness industry and was always in the gym. I was a gym rat. I was addicted to working hard and and was always trying to beat…

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No Days Off and Staying Motivated.

Bychronicradiance September 5, 2022February 26, 2025

One of my biggest philosophies is that there should never be a day off from being the best version of yourself. For me, that means always working on some thing that makes you better than yesterday. Whether it’s at the gym, learning something new, trying a new recipe, there is always work to be done….