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Wanna know my workout routine? 💪🏼 ⁣ It’s

Wanna know my workout routine? 💪🏼
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It’s one of the most common questions I get asked. Right now, my program (that I started back in May) consists of 2 glute workouts, 1 back and core, 1 legs and 1 upper body each week. I follow a program with specific exercises, and I track my progress to keep me motivated and on track.
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Wanna know why you shouldn’t copy my program?
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Because this program was built for me and my body and my goals.
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I lost the majority of my muscle in my glutes being bedridden for three months, which is why I do more than one booty workout a week to continue rebuilding the muscle I lost. Im also not doing cardio right now as the last few months have been stressful, and cardio makes me feel worse when I’m stressed (due to rising cortisol levels in your body). I’m not doing chest and instead focusing on back because I sat at a desk for 10+ years and need to correct my forward leaning posture.
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I do exercises that I enjoy, and exercises that I feel the most when I’m training. These are things I’ve learned from going to the gym over the years and from my certification course.
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Everyone’s strengths, weaknesses, preferences - even schedules - are all unique.
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Stop following what someone else is posting on Instagram. Your program should be specific to YOU!

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Please donate blood !🩸 ⁣ Did you know that t

Please donate blood !🩸
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Did you know that there is no cure for GBS and CIDP, but there are treatments that can help with recovery? Studies show that those given treatment early on have better outcomes. I started treatment on Day 2 of my symptoms, which could have very well been why I had such a good recovery (even with the treatment seeming to do nothing for two months.)
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The most common treatment of GBS/CIDP is IVIG - a blood product prepared with the serum of up to fifteen thousand donors that’s then infused into a patients body. That’s a LOT of blood for one single treatment. I myself had to have 4 treatments in 2011, and 5 treatments in 2018.
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Now because of Covid and more people staying at home, a lot less people are donating blood right now. It’s expected in about 6 months time we will have a world blood shortage.
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To ensure we can continue to meet the demand of not only GBS and CIDP patients, but all patients around the world, we need more donations!
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If you are healthy, please consider making an appointment and donating blood - wherever you are in the world 🌎

#guillainbarresyndrome #cidp #ivig #pleasedonate #raredisease @canadaslifeline #canadabloodservices #blooddonation #yeg #savealife #guillainbarresyndrometreatment #gbstreatment #autoimmunedisorder #chronicdemyelinatinginflamatorypolyneuropathy #intensivecare #itsinyoutogive #donateblood #

Do you guys believe in intuition? When I first g

Do you guys believe in intuition?

When I first got out of the hospital, I remember feeling pulled to become a physiotherapist. I wanted to change lives the way my therapists changed mine. I pushed that desire to the back of my mind and jumped right back into my career in HR.

About three years ago I started to feel a pull towards fitness training. I wanted to show others how to improve their lives with fitness the way I’d done for myself since having GBS.

But why would I want to leave my high paying corporate job, with incredible benefits and huge bonuses. So again, I pushed my feelings to the back of my mind.

But my intuition, and my body, kept telling me otherwise.

Finally this past March, after months of health issues from working that highly stressful job, I took the leap to follow my intuition and my heart. To get into fitness so I can help others change their lives.

It’s never been more clear to me that this is what I want to do. I just wish I would have listened to that intuition sooner.

Listen to what your heart and intuition is telling you.❤️ They somehow already know what you want to become.

#guillainbarresyndrome #followyourdreams #trustyourintuition #followyourdreams #followyourpassions #gbssurvivor #findyourstrong #chaseyourstrength #gbs #autoimmune #chronicillness #gbsfighter #fitnessjourney #spoonie #fighter #gbsawareness #fitnesstraining #yegfitness #yeg #pushpastlimitations #changeyourstory #nevergiveup #goaldigger #livingmybestlife #makingshithappen #happinessiskey #goalgetter

No first day of school picture for this one as Cas

No first day of school picture for this one as Casey ended up with a cold over the weekend and couldn’t go back until she had a negative Covid test (new norm - photo is from Friday).

Luckily her test came back negative this morning so she was able to go this afternoon.

She’s so excited to be back in school full time. This girl has had a rough year (haven’t we all); losing her grandpa and her hamster last winter, and then Covid hit - and it’s all been affecting her big time. Casey is a social butterfly that thrives on routine and being with her best friends. She’s been counting down the days to go back to school and it’s finally here.

This school year looks a lot different for most of us but let’s not put labels on it and look negatively on it before it’s even begun.

I’m holding on to hope that this year of change is going to be amazing for us all.

Hope everyone has a great first week with their kiddos ♥️

#firstdayofschool #wegotthis #momlife #grade5

Another great visualization as to why the scale do

Another great visualization as to why the scale doesn’t show the whole story.
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22 years old >> now 35.

I’m around 140 lbs in the first photo >> and around 145 lbs now.
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Heavier? Sure. But also happier, leaner, healthier and stronger than ever.

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Believe in yourself and follow your dreams! (I l

Believe in yourself and follow your dreams!

(I love this picture of us from our trip to Kelowna - it looks like it’s from the 80’s (photo film)😆)

For those of you that don’t know, my fiancé is a DJ that owns his own entertainment company @nyquest_entertainment . When I first met him he was doing it as a side gig; now he‘s doing it full time and killing it - even in a pandemic. It’s been so inspiring to watch him follow his passions and dreams, and in turn I’m now doing the same - all because of him.

Life is too short to be doing something you don’t absolutely love to do.

PS: if you’re looking for high energy dance music to get you hyped up (awesome for workouts, cardio and road trips) check out his channel Nyquest on SoundCloud. It’s free to download and listen!

#couplegoals #followyourdreams #entrepreneurlifestyle #goalgetters #chasinggoals #certifiedpersonaltrainer #dj #businnessowners #lifeisshort #fitnesslifestyle #guillainbarresyndrome #gbs #autoimmune #gbsfighter #yeg #changeyourstory #spoonie

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