NewLizFitness

 Hello Fit Fam, As I move further away from my fitness career and shift to a new path, I am finding all the passion that I spent years cultivating through degrees, certifications, and jobs feels like a waste! But looking back at June 2024 through now, I am reminding myself that it is not! I have grown and discovered a whole new path I did not see before. I have taken transferable skills that helped me grow and become a diverse professional in my new career path. Starting over doesn't mean you failed and doesn't mean you are "behind". I am just in a New Phase! I am in the phase of repurposing what I built back when I first started this blog as a young graduate student who was going to take over the fitness world. I went around the block and loved fitness in so many capacities. I loved it in the educational sense. I loved it in the career sense. I still love it in the personal fitness journey sense. It is, however, not my guiding light like it once used to be. I got let...

 Hello Fit Fam, I must apologize for the delay in my posting and content creation. I know my goal this year was to post frequently, but I have found myself stepping away from fitness in a bigger way than I thought. It has caused me to re-evaluate my goals moving forward with both my personal training role and how I plan to incorporate fitness into my career and personal life.  To be honest, I am back to enjoying fitness for me and me alone. I have moved into a new career that is 9-5 and balances great with my family work life balance. I have time to enjoy the little things. Time at home, playing with my child, sleeping, and working out for myself. My body feels great, and my mind feels great! I do want to get back to posting my own journey and sharing how you can also prioritize your health, wellbeing, and what you love. So moving forward, New Liz Fitness is for fun! I might still look for a client or two, but for the most part, I want to enjoy my journey, enjoy my life, and d...

 Hello Fit Fam, I am trying to stay true to my goals of 2025 but I am finding it hard this year. I wanted to be consistent and see progress. Although I genuinely do think I am making progress, I am finding consistency to be a challenge. I have been lazy, and tired, and let excuses get in my way too many times to count in a month and a half! We are in the middle of February and in honor of Valentine's Day I am deciding to love my journey. No matter how imperfect it might be or inconsistent! I have found some success in small moments. I am working out, I am finding ways to eat better. I am being more intentional about my family life. I am still needing to work on work-life balance but I am getting there. I have lost sight of my fitness career. I moved into this amazing new path with digital marketing and I am starting to see that time is just so limited. It doesn't mean I cannot still continue to grow professionally as a fitness professional, it just might look and feel very diff...

 Hello Fit Fam, As we come to a close of the 2024 year, I am looking back in absolute awe at what has happened to myself, my family, and my world! From big career changes to our house trying to fall apart to losing my way with fitness; I am looking to get back to consistency and keep moving forward! I always pick two words to focus on going into the new year. They are driving factors for how I want my year to be. Motivation to keep me focused and centered around my goals. This year I have decided to pick: 1) Consistent 2) Progress With all the mentioned changes in my life, I am looking to get back to being consistent. Consistent in all aspects of my life: fitness, nutrition, sleep, work-life balance, family time, online personal training, mindfulness, housework, and me! I have an amazing journal called Commit30. It breaks down easy ways to track workouts, nutrition, and other daily, weekly, and monthly habits. I have used it before inconsistently but this year I plan to use it cons...

 Hello Fit Fam, Let's talk about Failure! As I wind down the 2024 year and look back I am filled with many emotions. This year was filled with so many big changes for me. Stability felt like such a foreign concept. I kept getting excited and making big plans and then some unexpected circumstance derailed me from my path. They weren't always bad circumstances but they were unseen. I had to pivot, make a new game plan, and set my sights on something I wasn't working towards. It has been a year of adapting to change and I can say looking back that all of the ups and downs have been worth it! Going all the way back to January I was about to leave a job that brought me back into the workforce after a short stay-at-home stint with my kid. I love to work and always wanted to go back to work, as I find that being out of the house in the workforce is good for my mental health! I worked that job in fitness equipment sales for about a year. It was good and exposed me to a whole new si...

 Hello Fit Fam, Happy Fall! It is now November and I have finished my October Health Challenge. It was for sure an adventure with all the lovely things happening in life. I have learned a lot about myself and how I plan to move forward with my health and well-being.  In October I returned to full-time work halfway through the month. I also got back into what I feel is a regular fitness routine. I focused on family time, keeping my house in order, and trying to hit 5 main health aspects daily. If I were to give myself a score out of 100 I would honestly say I scored an 80%. I feel like I made plans weekly that I could stick to with a goal at the end of the month. I was on track...for the most part but fell short in some areas and succeeded in others. Let's break the 5 main areas I focused on down, 1) Fitness - Now this is my jam. I felt like I was consistent in working out the whole month. What I will say is I am no longer working in the fitness industry so finding time to be p...

 Hello Fit Fam, I am sitting in bed getting ready for my first day of work at my new job, which starts tomorrow. It is a weird feeling different from any other I have experienced. I have had other jobs and other first days of work. I have been nervous and excited. I have had to learn new things in my positions with skills I have not had before.  For some reason, this time feels different. I am about to make a pretty big change from working in the fitness industry for my entire professional and educational career to a new field of marketing and business development.  I know the just of what I am stepping into but I know there will be much to learn. I am nervous but so excited to explore all this new position will teach me. I am ready to learn, grow and expand my professional knowledge.  I will never truly let go of fitness. I am excited to take the time to focus on fitness in a personal capacity instead of a professional capacity. I can prioritize my workouts, healthy...

 Day 1 of my October Challenge! I have completed day 1 of 31 days on building a better me! I had some great success and then some iffy success. I worked out, I got my hydration in, I did my mindfulness practice, I connected with my accountability buddy, but my nutrition wasn't quite on point.  I skipped breakfast—oops. I ate a decent lunch, yay! I ate a kids' dinner—sorry, I have a 3-year-old, so making food for us sometimes means eating chicken nuggets and fries, haha! I know nutrition is my weakest area regarding well-rounded health and well-being. I love to exercise. I LOVE water and always hydrate. I am a social butterfly. And honestly, mindfulness work has become something I love! Nutrition is just my sworn enemy! But that is the point of this lovely challenge to...challenge myself! I want to be transparent through this process as I think people often feel like others have it all the way together when it comes to their health. No one is perfect and even the best athletes ...

 Hello Fit Fam, Welcome to Fall!!! As we approach the end of September we are quickly approaching the last 3 months of 2024! How are you doing? How are you progressing towards the goals you set for 2024? Have you reached them? Will you reach them? If you are off track, how will you get back on track? Trust me when I say I have asked all these questions to myself as my 2024 did not go as I thought either! I left a job and started a new job only to leave that job 7 months later and I will be starting another new job in October! My fitness has gone up and down throughout the year with all the life events that have been happening. I have sat down to make a plan for what feels like every month and seemed to be derailed almost every month.  I am currently setting a new goal for October as it is officially the last 3 months of 2024. I want to create consistency and routine for myself and my fitness goals. So if you are looking for a good way to end the year join me for a quick month ...

 Are you unsure of what to do, what comes next, or why you are even doing what you are doing? I find myself asking these questions all the time. You start down a path driving towards something. Then out of nowhere, you hit a speed bump, an accident, something is in the road, or worst case your car gets totaled and you have to start over on a new road, with a new car and you have no idea where you are going. Sorry for the long-winded analogy, but I am trying to give an example of how easy it is for us to get derailed from life and the goals we set for ourselves. It happens to us all and there is no avoiding it. Life just happens.  I have gone through a pretty big life change recently looking for a new career and finding my "Why" all over again. I am moving into a different field than what I studied or even planned to do with my career but I am finding excitement and joy in this new phase. So today I want to talk about why. Why do we choose a path, why do we make decisions, why...

 Hello Fit Fam, It has been a minute. More like months. I started this blog over and over again because I wanted to educate, talk, and spread advice. I have quickly learned that I know nothing. My knowledge is kind of all over the place and consistency is not my thing when it comes to this blog.  I want to create consistency in my life, especially with where my family is right now. I am in a season of change, and I want to get back to the basics. So, for today's long overdue blog post, I am going to talk about starting with the basics. If you are struggling with where to begin, what to do, and how to get there, let's focus on these three things.  1) Routine - Create a routine for success. This never comes easy and takes work, constantly! You have to give yourself a schedule; the hardest part is sticking to it. This can apply to your professional life, personal life, fitness life, nutritional life, family life, you name it! I like to sit down Sunday before I start the week...

 Confidence and Persistence Do you ever find yourself doubting your abilities and thinking you are not good enough, well I most certainly do. I know that we all struggle with some internal self-confidence issues. Whether you can admit it or not, self-doubt is just human nature. I personally know that I am capable of many things but often doubt myself to the point of not believing I can do them.  I have talked myself out of things that I know I am capable of but instead let that little voice in the back of my head so "No, you can't." I don't want to doubt myself but sometimes that voice is strong and loud and it is hard not to listen.  So this year I am focusing on two words to guide me: Confidence and Persistence. I did this last year and gave myself two words to focus on (Embrace and Patience) which related to where I was in my life and how I wanted to live my life. I felt like picking two words allowed me to have a meaning behind everything I was doing. Which is why...

 Hello Fit Fam,       When you think about hydration what comes to mind? Do you even know what good hydration looks and feels like? Do you understand the importance of hydration in your day-to-day activities?     These are some basic questions I like to ask my personal training clients when they are setting their fitness goals. Doesn't matter if you are looking to become more active or training for a high-intensity competitive event. Average Joes to Elite Athletes have to think about hydration every single day. Even on your rest days, you need to be thinking about HYDRATION!     So let's start with the basics, what is hydration? Hydration is the replacement of body fluids lost through sweating, exhaling, and eliminating waste. But there is more to hydration than just the water you consume through fluids and foods.  There are these lovely things called electrolytes. Electrolytes are minerals that dissolve in fluid and are required for things l...

 Hello Fit Fam,      Let's talk about reflecting. I was just reminded that one year ago I completed one of the greatest feats of my physical fitness career. I raced in my very first half ironman or 70.3-mile triathlon. This event is comprised of a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride, and a 13.1-mile run. I had signed up for this race multiple times (3 to be exact) and for a bunch of life reasons had to cancel it twice. But lucky number 3 stuck and I did the dang thing! I was committed, and motivated, and needed to do this for myself.      What shocks me the most about the training process for this race, was every person I ever talked to who does these endurance-type races (running, cycling triathlons, etc) they all do it socially and with a training team. I on the other hand have always been a solo type of training gal. I enjoy being by myself, on my own. I don't like to rely on others for pacing or meets up. Don't get me wrong I love working out with o...

 Hello Fit Fam, This week I have been reflecting on my 2023 goal words, which in case you didn't know we are at the end of September and the year is quickly coming to an end with only 3 months left! AHHHH! I realized that my two words for 2023 hold even more significance now than when I started this year. In January I picked two words: Embrace and Patience, to define my year and they feel so meaningful now that I feel like I failed a little bit. I believe I have made progress but I know I can be doing so much more.  I am still a great mom and wife. I love my new job and feel like I am really getting into my groove. I am starting to get some consistency in my workouts and fitness progress. I even feel like my personal training business has started to pick up a little more. I know I am on the right path I just have to be MORE patient with myself and the process. I also have to embrace where I currently am in life. I know not everything will happen overnight but I will stay the c...

 Hello Fit Fam,       Well, it has been a minute! And I mean a hot minute. I started trying to build up online content last year while I was a stay-at-home mom and thought that I was going to be able to build up my blog, my online training clientele, and my overall online presence. Boy was I wrong! I found a full-time job, stopped pursuing my personal training dream, and let "excuses" of my new job and day-to-day life distract me! Well, I am turning a new leaf and getting back to why I started this blog. Honestly, I started it mostly for me. For me to be able to write out my thoughts as a fitness professional who is living this thing we call life. Trying to set healthy goals and behaviors for myself, my friends, my family, my clients, and especially my daughter. The world is often filled with junk or people who are out there trying to sell you crap. Although I now work in a sales role I don't want to just sell something to a client or customer, I want to give you som...

 Hello Fit Fam,      Welcome to 2023! Maybe this year is a fresh start for you or you are continuing on your path to greatness. You might need to find out where you currently are or you need a complete reset! Regardless of where you are on the scale from "I've got my shit together" to "I need help getting my shit together", I have some tips for getting yourself going or staying on track.       Number one and most importantly, make a plan! That is always step one. Yes sometimes winging it is okay but you always need a plan to start. I have found that without a plan I tend to get stuck or afraid to start. I look at my end goal thinking how will I ever achieve this impossible goal! If you are starting at 0 and looking at 100, it may seem impossible but a plan that gives you every single number laid out from 0 to 100 so it does not feel as daunting.     Number two, be adaptable. You can create the greatest plan you have ever seen but sometim...

 Hello Fit Fam,     It's me! Liz! I am here to showcase my business...NewLizFitness! I am diving into this venture head first with the hopes to bring fitness to anyone that needs it! I want to help you Find Your Fit!       I have revamped my website ( www.newlizfitness.com ). I am staying current in my research and obtaining new certifications so that my knowledge and expertise are top-notch. And I am creating resources to ensure if you put in the work then the results will come!     I have always had a passion for exercise but I never thought this could ultimately become a career path! I have worked in many settings all focused on fitness, health, and wellness; but it wasn't until I was granted the chance to stay at home with my daughter that I realized I wanted to start my own personal training business for me. I love helping people get fit (keep in mind fit can mean a lot of different things to different people). I wanted the chance to do ...

 Hello Fit Fam,     Today's post has been a topic I have steered away from due to sensitivity or how it can often be received in the fitness industry. I want to dive into the world of body positivity. I have been thinking a lot about this topic since deciding to start my online personal training business. I have always been into fitness, physical performance, sports, and exercise. When I was young I started playing sports which grew into a passion for the weight room and then became an interest in how the human body works in college which finally led to my career path of personal training. The images I saw from the beginning of my sports days, college academics, and working in many fitness facilities led me to believe that physically fit people looked a certain way; skinny/slim, muscular, a certain clothing size, and absolutely not flabby skin anywhere! I believed this bias for many years and often found myself judging others who did not fit the mold. Needless to say, I h...

 Hello Fit Fam,      We all find ourselves wanting to start again after the holidays. We get caught up in family time, travel, and letting loose a little. It doesn't mean we aren't still focused on our goals, it just means we have gotten distracted. Holidays are a time to celebrate and we shouldn't avoid that or feel miserable during a joyful time, we just have to find a way to make our goals and the "guilty pleasures" of the holidays work together! We need to make them fit!     So as you recover from Thanksgiving and move into the slew of Christmas, Hanukkah,  Kwanza, New Year, and any others I might be forgetting: Make a plan! How are you going to stick with your goals (workouts, nutrition, sleep, etc.) while still enjoying yourself? It isn't always easy and sometimes we have to make compromises with ourselves. For example; if you know you are going to a holiday party make sure to plan your day's nutrition. I have three main tips for surviving the ho...