Your fear of losing your fitness gains are valid
It seems trivial to talk about your fitness right now—but it’s still something that can be coming up for you, amongst everything else....
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olivia park
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
Is your ‘why’ helping you or hindering you right now?
It’s easy to lean on external things for a ‘why’ with exercise: I want to run around with my kids I want to feel confident in jeans TBH...
olivia park
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
When to test: considerations for the natural and birth control cycle
You’ve been following a progressive training program. Your lifts have gotten stronger, you FEEL stronger, you FEEL fitter. It’s...
olivia park
- Mar 13, 2020
- 2 min
3 mistakes to avoid burnout at the gym
I remember questioning whether I’d ever be able to let go of the need to sweat or freaking out about holidaying in places without a gym....
olivia park
- Mar 13, 2020
- 4 min
The journey of self discovery through fitness
Eat less, move more. Focus on what your body can do, not what it looks like. Listen to your body. Your values, your body, your rules....
olivia park
- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min
A good training plan will move with you—you don’t have to move with it.
Your Apple Watch says you got 5 hours again. Although you know it’s not accurate, you definitely feel it. You wonder if the effects of...
olivia park
- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min
One reason why your group fitness classes are keeping you stuck
You might be staying in the same energy system day in day out (CAVEAT: not ragging, this is how you can enhance your experience.) There...
olivia park
- Mar 4, 2020
- 2 min
Is your grip letting you down?
A common thing I hear from my clients is they know they can do heavier romanian deadlifts or dumbbell rows but their grip is the limiting...
olivia park
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min
Is your fav healthy fit pro really health-centric?
I recently discussed this with a fellow coach who’s researching disordered body image amongst fitness professionals. She calls it the...
olivia park
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
The one thing you must do to maximise your training.
Low energy availability is rife amongst women that kick it hard in the gym but also kick it hard in life. I’ve no doubt you’ve heard or...
olivia park
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Two things you must do to ensure you’re training for YOU.
You don’t have to do deadlifts. Or squats. Or bench press. You don’t have to do specific exercises because that’s what you’re...
olivia park
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Hands down my fav exercise right meow: The B stance squat.
What is B stance? Taking a B stance or staggered stance is an epic way to do unilateral (single limb) training. Often single leg work...
olivia park
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
No matter what, always make a pro-you choice
I was talking with a musician friend the other day. He’s incredibly intelligent in many ways and one of these ways is that he can create...
olivia park
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
Getting to know yourself can be a very sweet, tender thing—If you let it.
It doesn’t have to be a ball and chain situation. But exercise and nutrition often feels like this. Battling with your mind and...
olivia park
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
Each exercise starts and ends when you touch the weight.
In the video below I’m in there like swimwear just going ham. ☄️There’s no sense of awareness, set up, intention. ☄️There’s no...
olivia park
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
If you’re chasing sweat in the gym, you need to read this.
It’s confusing AF when you have memes insinuating and straight up telling you that your sweat is a badge of honour. 👉It makes you...
olivia park
- Feb 15, 2020
- 1 min
Sweat doesn't equal strength
Fitness can get hairy when our expectations are not aligned with what we are doing. I love group fitness, but for some programs there are...
olivia park
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Tough love with a hug
Taking radical responsibility for what you want, who you are, being honest with yourself and not depending on others for your inner...
olivia park
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
When was the last time you were actually stoked to go to the gym?
Like genuinely pumped? You weren’t solely driven by the consequences of not. Truthfully, you’re not always going to want to go. That’s...
olivia park
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
The one thing you can do to knock down the patriarchal lens in fitness ...
11, 12, 13 ... On the 14th rep he squeezed my tricep and commented, ‘Very good’. Earlier, he squeezed my hips and told me...
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