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On a Mission to Empower Women into Fitness

Posted on February 27, 2018 by LetlerFit

Yesterday, I received a DM from a man on instagram who was offended that my bio stated on a mission to because he thinks my mission should be to empower both men and women. This inspired today’s post.

I was a little take back after I read the DM mostly because usually I get X rated unsolicited DM’s from thirsty, desperate men. This is definitely the first time I ever “offended” a male follower.

My mission is and always will be to empower women into fitness. Why? I am a woman, I enjoy working with women, and I am so over being sexualized (when my IG Feed is PG) by men. Why would I want to empower the gender that for the most part leaves my in disgust on IG by what gets sent to me, said to me, etc. In the past I have had several issues with men wanting to get coached by me and in the end, decide to do whatever they want because why take coaching from a woman (this is not a generalization because it does not happen all of the time) and that just pisses me off.

I believe women should be sticking together instead of tearing each other down. I see far too many women criticizing other women online, but why? What do you accomplish from that? I also believe women are under far greater pressure to fit a certain look in order to be considered attractive. By empowering other women into fitness, my goal is to also feel empowered by the body they were given, and to focus on becoming the best version of themselves without wanting to look like someone else.

I am always looking for women who are on the same mission to join my team of LetlerFit ambassadors. If you vibe with female empowerment and fitness I would LOVE to have you join the team!

Email me! LetlerFit@gmail.com subject line: Empowered Ambassador

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6 Habits That Destroy Your Otherwise Healthy Lifestyle

Posted on October 23, 2017 by LetlerFit

Creating a healthy lifestyle is all about habit. Just like good habits, there are also bad habits. Some of them are killing your healthy lifestyle journey, and you may not even realize it.

Lack of Sleep: Sometimes, life requires you to lose sleep, and that’s ok. The problem is not a few nights of lack of sleep, the problem becomes too many nights without adequate sleep. Sleep is so crucial. I know we all know how awful it feels after consistent sleep deprivation. What many people may not know is that lack of sleep triggers an increase of cortisol hormone to be released in our bodies, which may cause us to bloat and have difficulty losing weight. Without Sleep our bodies cannot properly repair the muscles we just worked out.
Restriction: Leading a restrictive diet, leads to binges and constant yo-yoing and that’s not what we want. I’ve said time and time again it’s about establishing a balance of consuming more health foods than junk foods.
No Exercise or No clean foods: Sometimes eating clean is the easiest part of the nutrition and fitness equation. For others exercise is the easy part! But they go hand in hand! Not exercising or not eating clean but doing the other is only half of it and yields not so great results.
Alcohol: Going ham on the drinks during the weekend, EVERY weekend, is KILLER to your healthy lifestyle.
Not reading nutrition labels: Never go by the front of the packaging, read the label and pay attention to the ingredients!
Not Meal Prepping: Buying “healthy” foods from restaurants is no where near as good as prepping and cooking your own foods where YOU control everything. Sometimes the cleaner options are still loaded with hidden salt or sugar.

4 Diet Tips To Help You Stick With It Till The End

Posted on September 20, 2017 by LetlerFit

Tip #1: Get the word Diet out of your vocabulary. Diets do not work, they are temporary and teach you nothing but restriction and misery.

Tip #2: Replace the word diet with LIFESTYLE change. Healthy eating is for life. It is not for 5 days so you can look good to impress your ex-boyfriend, or one month crash diet to fit in your halloween costume. It’s for LIFE so that you not only reach your goals when you’re young, but so you aren’t miserable and prescription medicine filled when you’re older.

Tip #3: No need for starting a healthy lifestyle cold turkey. Love soda and fried foods and eat them on a daily/weekly basis. Make your first goal to go 2 weeks without soda. Then, once you reach that made your goal to go another 2 weeks without soda and 2 weeks without fried foods. Start with baby changes…they go along way and you are more likely to keep those habits.

Tip #4: Healthy food doesn’t have to taste bad or be complicated! Find foods you love and get creative! I have an entire instagram page dedicated to simple and quick recipes! click here to follow

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6 Factors That Affect The Effectiveness Of Any Workout

Posted on September 19, 2017 by LetlerFit

So many people think creating an exercise is just slapping exercises, reps, intervals, rest time, etc. together and it’s gold. Except that mentality is completely false…believe it or not there is a science to creating an effective workout. Here are my 6 simplified (emphasis on simplified) factors that affect the effectiveness of your workout.

Work:Rest Ratio: This ratio basically means the amount of time you are performing an exercises compared to the amount of time needed to recover correctly from the exercise during a workout. Did you know that when we exercise it triggers our body’s energy systems? For the purpose of keeping this blog simple I will be grouping ATP with our Phosphocreatine system, even though they are technically separate depending on training factors. So anyways we have our ATP-PC system which is any activity lasting up to 15 seconds, we have our anaerobic system which is activity lasting up to 90 seconds, and our aerobic system lasting greater than 90 seconds. Now, did you know that the correct rest interval is one of the MOST important factors of a workout? But how do you know how long you should rest? To start, look at the dominant energy system working based on how long your bout of exercise is. Typical recovery for the ATP-PC system is anywhere from 30-50 seconds, for our anaerobic system is 1-3 minutes, and for our aerobic system it is typically a 1:1 ratio. Again, this is a very basic run down, but I hope it helps to open up your eyes to one of the biggest mistakes people make in the gym without knowing it is one of the worst mistakes.
Muscle Groups: Ever had an instatrainer give you HEAVY deadlifts at the very end of you workout? Well, fire them! Again, exercise is not just “let me slap sh** together.” There is a method to the madness, that sadly only a handful of trainers these days understand. Again, for the sake of keeping it simple you work the larger muscle groups in compound exercises first and progress towards the unilateral exercises, isolation exercises, and smaller muscle group exercises. Meaning Squats, Deadlifts, and Bench press go first on your weight training days and THEN you add your lunges, romanian deadlifts, hamstring curls, push ups, bicep curls, etc.
Hydration: Dehydration can cause muscles to cramp, fainting, poor muscle recovery post workout, and more disaster. Before any exercise, especially in hot/humid environments it is crucial that you are well hydrated before, during, and after! Drink roughly 2-3c 1-2 hours before exercise, roughly 1c during, and 2-3c after your workout on top of your regular non exercise related hydration.
Rest: Rest days are vital! They allow your muscles to repair and grow! Overdoing exercise can put your body in a catabolic state (your body takes energy from muscles…thereby breaking muscle down). Even elite athletes get rest days! For the average person I recommend tops 3 days back to back of exercise before taking a 1 day rest.
Pre-Workout Fuel: If you don’t properly fuel up for you workout, how can you expect your body to have the proper energy it needs to perform the workout? Before a workout if you eat 2 hours to 90 minutes before have a solid healthy meal with protein, whole grains, and a healthy fat. If you can’t eat something until 60-30 minutes before your workout have something light! Like a peanut butter sandwich, a banana with peanut butter, etc. But having a carb and protein source is crucial!
Post Workout Fuel: Did you know exercise causes stress on the body? A stress our body is well equipped to recover from as long as it gets the energy it needs post workout to carry out its recovery process. If you are like me and cannot stomach a hardy meal post workout I drink a post workout shake. The important feature to my shake is it is NOT just protein. It also contains fast digesting carbohydrates. Many protein shakes on the market fail miserable because they offer less than 5 grams of carbohydrates post workout…when carbs are more important than the protein (both still important though!) The average person can refuel just fine with a 1:1 ration of protein and carbs, while a more advanced gym goer benefits from 1:2 protein and carb ratio…again this is the simplified rule of thumb….calculating based on body weight and exercise type can be a pain for someone who does not know how.

Hopefully this helps you tweak your current routine, even if it is a basic switch….leave the complicated applications to the knowledgeable trainers, coaches, etc. For the average gym goer do your best with the basic run down!

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5 “Super Weightloss” Products To Avoid

Posted on September 16, 2017 by LetlerFit

These days as long as you know how to market and fool people who are uneducated in health and fitness, you’ve won. It’s a sad reality that we live in, but one of my missions is to educate people so they become more aware of scammy products. Currently on social media here are the 5 “magic” weight loss products that are driving me INSANE

Waist Trainers: I actually made a video on my youtube channel about this product which you can watch my clicking here
Sweet Sweat: Understand that sweating extra means nothing because once you rehydrate everything you sweat out comes right back in. For weight loss purposes you are accomplishing NOTHING. Use the money on something else.
Fit Tea, Boo Tea, Tiny Tea, etc.: No tea is magical. Tea should be something you enjoy, something you want to get health benefits from, and something that can enhance weight loss as long as your foundations (diet and exercise) are steady.
Garcinia Cambogia: It’s mental, you’re drinking a placebo. Science has yet to come to an agreement on this.
Superfood Detoxes: So you drink these liquid shakes all day for 3 days and you lost 10 pounds….but you never learned how to eat healthy so 3 days later you’s gained back the 10 pounds you lost…forming a habit goes a longer way…fast is not always better