As a personal trainer I see this all too often—people coming me to workout with their main goal being weight loss, especially in their belly. When I ask them about their diet, they aren’t overly interested and want it to stay the same. What I want you to understand is, I can definitely help you strengthen your core, but in order for your abs to actually show, and your core to lean out, you MUST change your diet. Working out does burn calories, but in order to see the number

Getting a workout plan started after becoming paralyzed was definitely a challenge. Because I could no longer workout my legs, but I also did not want to overwork my upper body and cause injury, I had to really sit down and think about how to workout my new body. Since we are constantly pushing our wheelchairs, we are going to have a much stronger chest, and in turn, a weaker back. We are also constantly putting stress on our shoulders by pushing our wheelchairs and transfer

I remember the first time I went to the gym after my car accident in 2018. I was on vacation with my family, and my sister and I went to the hotel gym. When I rolled in, I immediately felt out of place. It seemed like everyone was looking at me, everything was also so close together that I did not have much space to move around. I was just uncomfortable. After that workout, I went back to my room and cried. Before my accident I was a personal trainer, so this uncomfortabl