HI! As you know, my name is Chelsea and I'm a health and
fitness guru. Basic personal background: I come from an amazing family- great
hard working parents and 3 siblings- 2 older sisters & one younger brother;
I’m the middle child but the baby girl. I’m a blessed wife to a great husband
I’ve known/been in love with for about 7 years. We’re still getting “our” life
going as newlyweds as of June 2015! No kids yet but planning to start one day
in the next couple years. Anything else you wanna know, feel free to ask! I’m
an open book.
I'm new to this blogging thing so bear with me- but here's
some background about why I'm doing this & what this is all about!
For starters, I've always been into fitness. I played
softball my whole life including through college and was always in shape. Many
people don't realize what all goes into being an athlete- or a competitive
softball player specifically. Growing up I played ASA/AAU travel softball (you
travel to compete in tournaments, most of them being showcases to get recruited
by college teams once you hit the 16u/18u level); I started playing at this
competitive level at the age of 8 and played little league previously. Anyway,
I of course did this to get recruited and therefore continued my softball
career into college. Everyone on the team regardless had field time 6 days a
week- whether it be practice or games. This was in addition to assigned gym
weight lifting workouts as well as conditioning twice a week. Oh and
winter/summer/spring break? Forget about it. We got our big "breaks"
like all other students for the summer but still had assigned workouts- most of
the time they were crossfit workouts and same goes for winter break (which was
shortened for spring-season athletes). Games were the easy part! Practices were
anywhere from 3-6 hours long and sometimes twice a day. A 2-hour long practice
was considered a lucky/short day. Welp..I was a pitcher (til Junior year) &
outfielder which meant no breaks really during practice. BP (batting practice)
was my “break” since it was the part of practice where I could actually have a
sec to catch my breath. Pitching consisted of that- pitching which obviously
involves compound and explosive movements. And as an outfielder…HA! Outfielders
were running…CONSTANTLY. Whether it was sprinting across the grass during OF
defense…or acting as baserunners during the infielders’ defense.
ANYWAY- sorry for the ramble but it’s essential to my story
of how I got to where I am now! I quickly realized after graduating (May 2013)
that I only had MYSELF to count on to whip me into shape & stay fit since I
didn't have softball to force me into shape anymore! During the best shape of
my life early-mid college, I was 135lbs which was all toned muscle. I’m 5’6 so
some might think 135 sounds too skinny for my height but they’re wrong- I looked
very well and healthy. I was in the 140-145 lb range during my senior year of
college but was still very fit & looked so too. I ended up getting engaged
soon after graduating- on June 29, 2013. I was still pretty fit/in shape by
this time so didn’t think too much and I guess took advantage of my happiness and
contentment with life.
SO. After gaining some [quite a bit of] weight through the
1st year after graduating (I ended up at about 170-175lbs- my heaviest- within
a year…Jan-March 2014), I took it upon myself to start taking charge of myself-
nutrition & workout wise. I was doing well in the gym & somewhat with
eating and lost some weight but still wasn't exactly where I wanted to be. I
gradually dropped- down to 160 then eventually in the 150 range.
HOWEVER, with my wedding coming up in June 2015, I needed
some extra UMPH. I was introduced to It Works! in March 2015 and fell in love
right away and ended up becoming a distributor. These products definitely
helped to amp up my health/workout results but I'm stubborn and still wanted
more- I was looking in the mirror for the girl I was in school when I was in
the best shape of my life. In fact, I wanted to surpass it to look/feel the
BEST I ever have for my wedding! It Works! Really does work but I had a certain
# in mind to reach so decided it was time to add something new to my routine in
order to shock my body and get more results.
I was introduced to
Beach Body- shortly after I was introduced to It Works- with the 21 Day Fix
Extreme for some extra UMPH to change it up and amp up my "getting ready
for the wedding." I started in May 2015 and the program worked REALLY well
for me and pushed me past my current plateau at that point, and got me down to
a number I hadn't seen since midway through college and I also loved how I
looked/felt right in time for my wedding. It also worked amazingly well with my
It Works regimen I was personally using!
After the wedding, I
sort of fell off the 21dfx train. Not only because I was content with life
after my wedding, but I went back to my old gym routine. I loved what the 21dfx
at-home workouts did for me, but I missed the gym and weightlifting.
BUTTT…that, too, ended up becoming less frequent awhile after marriage; lol.
I also sort of dropped off the IW train a bit and I ended up
getting back up to my pre-21dfx weight- yikes! Therefore, I kicked it back into
high gear with the gym during this past winter (December 2015-March 2016) and
even hit a squat PR for the first time in 2 years and made it in the top 10 for
girls on squats at my gym (of course, not by squatted weight period but they go
by a proportion called Wilkes points). I've been pretty fit and healthy and
have dropped some #s since but I kept hitting plateaus..regardless of trying
new/different things. I admit- I can be a “yo-yo” dieter sometimes with trying
to find things that work- and get impatient when they don’t OR when they stop
working/hit a wall. SO- in order to break those plateaus & start reaching
my goals, I decided to go back to something safe. Something I KNEW worked well
for me/my body in the past as well as made a great team with my usual It Works!
products. I got back into following the 21 day fix extreme- I started my 1st
current round this past April 2016 and combined with It Works, it's doing what
I wanted/thought it would do.
As mentioned earlier, I’d already been running my It Works!
business for about a year. I still love/use the It Works product line and very
much believe in it!
However, since I'm
also very active, I wanted to combine my products with the actual activity
aspect since I'm an avid user of both! So, here I am. Lol. Although I’m still a
newbie to the Beachbody Coach world, I wanted to utilize both sides of the
spectrum to help you reach your goals! I wanted to bring both of these programs
I'm an avid user/believer of together to tackle both sides of the spectrum
& forward my health and wellness passion to help others tackle their goals
as well! It also helps that I already had some prior fitness/health knowledge
in my background- not an expert or anything but as an athlete, we’d worked with
quite a few personal trainers and nutritionists throughout my softball career
=) I'm not one-dimensional in my personal life and therefore refuse to be
one-dimensional with my passions as well 😊 Doing both of these
not only gives me the ability to promote health in a fitness sense, but pretty
much virtually any health/wellness goal!
