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Hodophile ✈️🏖️ & Dancing Queen 👑

Just me being happy that it’s 74 degrees outside i

Just me being happy that it’s 74 degrees outside in December and that I’m in my garage gym lifting weights 🏋️‍♀️ in between client sessions.Also, I’m trying not to wear black workout clothes so here’s today’s magenta and forest green ensemble with pigtails (instead of a ponytail) to make bench pressing possible.#southbaypersonaltrainer #lasunshine #benchpress #pigtails #yogastrong

On Monday night, I took a SUPER fun and challengin

On Monday night, I took a SUPER fun and challenging class with @smcjumps @jazzitupstudios3 in Torrance!It felt a bit like the high impact aerobics I loved in the 80s, but while wearing bouncy rollerblades. 🛼And while the boots allow you to bounce, each one weighs a little over 4 pounds so I was really glad that I include loaded foot/ankle training through full range of motion at the hip in my strength training program. 💪🏼Sarah Michelle is an incredibly gifted master trainer, and all of the students in the class were warm and friendly.And while I was the only new person in class, everyone welcomed to me into their bouncing squad with encouragement and open arms.I rented boots and @funfanadix was super helpful.He made sure that I had the right size boots with the proper amount of spring on the bottom.My heart rate was definitely on the high end for me because it’s a 60 minute class with lots of jumping.I currently take some cardio dance classes that also have quite a bit of jumping, but not as much as this class so it was a great challenge and I’m excited to come back and do it again!As you all know, I love being a beginner. Finding new movement modalities that I am not good at, but there’s potential to improve is one of my favorite things to do.If you’re in LA and want go to this class together, lmk 💃🏼.#kangoojumps #reboundboots #gloriagaynor #abba #iwillsurvive #torrance

Dance class today with @nupeir_g at the @bayclubs

Dance class today with @nupeir_g at the @bayclubs was 🔥🎉Farzad nailing this super challenging plyometric drill he learned from @kaileesangalang @equinox #hiphopdanceAnd last, but not least, Farzad posing in his @taraaquilinastyle outfit before heading out to his Shakespeare class.

Life lately…💃🏼dancing @bayclubs with @marraj7 @

Life lately…💃🏼dancing @bayclubs with @marraj7 @nupeir_g , @coniseafood with @goose_face_killah , @groov3dance with @zackyindigo summit in Vegas💪🏼 weightlifting with @julesyoga & @amberkarnesofficial in LV and monkeying around in my garage gym on the squat rack

@chappellroan was pure magic last night 🪄 💕🧜🏽‍♀️🌈

@chappellroan was pure magic last night 🪄 💕🧜🏽‍♀️🌈I’ve been waiting for her to come to LA for sooo long and it finally happened!🎉

Life lately…🐶Taking Rocky out for a walk on a be

Life lately…🐶Taking Rocky out for a walk on a beautiful sunny day in Potomac ☀️🎉 Flying trapeze class in DC with my niece Stella. Check out her layout! 🤩⚾️ Daddy (my brother) and Dad (Jerry) saw a baseball game down the street while Stella and I were in class.🎉 Night # 6 of celebrating Stella’s 12th birthday 🎂. Stella and Uncle Farzad both know how to stretch out their August birthday celebrations 😆📚Farzad’s first day of school so I made a sign for him. He’s taking a Shakespeare and Calculus for fun this semester.🪽Stella’s layout catch and splits catch at camp this summer.

True confessions …as a child I wanted to be in the

True confessions …as a child I wanted to be in the circus so I could fly 🪽I first tried a trapeze class in 2010 when we moved to Los Angeles, but it hurt my shoulders and hands because they weren’t strong enough.I was 38 years old.15 years later at the age of 53, I decided to try it again for two reasons:1. I visited my 12 y/o niece Stella for her birthday and wanted to take a trapeze class with her. She spent lots of time at summer camp learning trapeze skills.2. I knew it would be different this time because of all the strength training that I do.I was confident that my shoulders and hands were completely capable of supporting my entire body weight for a two hour flying trapeze class.You know how they talk about being strong enough to play with your kids and grandkids?I think this is a perfect example of that 😉TLDR1. Progressively overload your Deadlifts, Lat Pulls/Band Assisted Pull-ups and Rows alongside your vertical and horizontal pushing lifts and you’ll be good to go in a flying trapeze class.2. My weekly 4x5 Toes to Bar drills are no doubt the reason why I could do the knee hang / hocks knee hang on the first try3. Sometimes when you THINK you can’t do something, it’s because you simply haven’t trained for it. It’s not because you are too “old”.Strength is specific.When you train for the thing you THINK you can’t do, you WILL prove yourself wrong.What can you do now that you couldn’t do when you were younger?#flyingtrapeze #trapezeartist

Did you know that progressive overload doesn’t alw

Did you know that progressive overload doesn’t always mean increasing the amount of weight?It can be increasing your range of motion, doing a more advanced version of an exercise, progressing to not using grips on a deadlift etc.When you increase the range of motion, you’ll need to decrease the weight.That doesn’t mean that you aren’t implementing progressive overload because by increasing the range of motion and doing a more complicated version of a squat, you increase the time under tension and the mechanical work the muscles perform, forcing them to adapt and grow stronger.What are some of the ways you implement progressive overload into your programming?

When I have friends visit LA from out of town my f

When I have friends visit LA from out of town my favorite thing to do is to take them to 2 @bayclubs back to back dance classes followed by the recovery room and end with lunch @cafevidala@lizzymulkey and I danced our hearts out in the cardio dance class at 10am with @ambersusa then got our hip hop groove on at 11am with @nupeir_gIt was Lizzy’s first time in the Recovery Room so we did the trifecta of Normatec boots, the Hydromassage Lounge Chair and the Cryo/Heat Lounge Chair…so relaxing 😎Then we caught up on everything over lunch before Lizzy biked back home to Venice.It was what I would call a perfect Thursday 💃🏼👯

Paris part 2 plus a couple of delicious food memor

Paris part 2 plus a couple of delicious food memories from Prague 🇫🇷🇨🇿🍦🍰

Our first time in Prague!

Our first time in Prague!

Last photo dump from the second part of our @seabo

Last photo dump from the second part of our @seabourncruise 🛳️We went to Çeşme and Kusadasi in Turkey and spent the last day at sea before heading back to Athens.The whole experience was magical 💫

Some Greek islands on the @seabourncruise : Mykono

Some Greek islands on the @seabourncruise :
Mykonos, Crete and Symi

July photo dump: Paris and Athens

July photo dump: Paris and Athens

A perfect start to my weekend always includes @gro

A perfect start to my weekend always includes @groov3dance classes with @azmanawi followed by the recovery room trifecta: NormaTec Compression Boots, CryoLounge+, and HydroMassage.I joined the Bay Club El Segundo in the fall of 2023 because I wanted to challenge my brain and my body to move QUICKLY and this specific location has 3 dance classes per day to choose from.While I love yoga, Pilates, strength training and plyometrics, my motor control/coordination skills needed a new challenge.My dancing skills were at about a zero-2 on a scale from one to 10 when I started so while each class I took was fun, it was also frustrating.However, just like learning a new language, I started to build a library in my mindbody of the commonly used hip hop moves and as I progressed the frustration levels lessened.I learned how to track the rhythm/tempo while saying the eight counts in my mind while dancing, which has been a game changer!Azman teaches on Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 AM. One of the reasons I love it so much is because we do the same choreography on both days which means that Saturday is the “rehearsal“ and Sunday is the “performance.”This video is actually the third time we did this choreography because he took a vote to see if we wanted to do it again (it is a challenging phrase IMO).We voted yes, which made it easier to remember the choreography and more precisely execute the level changes.I still forgot a transition or two, but overall, when I compare where I started in 2023 to where I am now I feel very accomplished!Thank you, Azman for filling our weekend with your expert dance instruction and community 🫶🏼🙏🏼.You are loved and appreciated!#Groove3 #weekend #hiphopdance #bayclub

Happy Obama Appreciation Day!#NoKingsDay

Happy Obama Appreciation Day!#NoKingsDay

Life lately photo dump:- Celebrating @luxerecess

Life lately photo dump:- Celebrating @luxerecess birthday AND 44 years of friendship in Playa del Carmen- Gym time 💪🏼- Nature time 🌴- New dress 👗- Delicious food 🥘

Repost from @honestclareIt’s never too late to

Repost from @honestclareIt’s never too late to start strength training !

Celebrating all the things this month!🎂 my 53rd

Celebrating all the things this month!🎂 my 53rd birthday in Tulsa
👯‍♀️ seeing my friend Brandy from HS IRL
🎓 Ava & Darya’s HS graduation in Denver
💐 Mother’s Day for Vidajoonam in Long Beach
💍 Aranzasu & Andrew’s engagement in Venice#celebration #graduation #birthday #engagement #friendship

My birthday isn’t until May 20 but Farzad and I wi

My birthday isn’t until May 20 but Farzad and I will be in Tulsa visiting my parents so yesterday my dear friend Sarita aka @goose_face_killah and I did an early celebration 🎉We saw the @jeffrune exhibit called “the space in which to place me” at @thebroadmuseum and got to meet him and have our books signed.I highly recommend going to see it!Jeffrey does a phenomenal job representing the U.S. and critiquing it in a rainbow 🌈 of colors.Afterwards, we had dinner at @girlandthegoatla and enjoyed the best of focaccia we’ve ever had in our life!The older I get the more I realize how important it is to slow down and make time to celebrate birthdays with friends and loved ones.Here’s to my 53rd trip around the sun ☀️
#jeffreygibson #thebroad #girlandthegoat #downtownlosangeles #birthdaycelebrations

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