Have you ever returned to an exercise you once nailed, or maybe you decided to start doing fitness, only to feel wrecked and defeated?
It’s easy to blame age. We’re told our bodies just “slow down” with time. I’m here to tell you that most of the time, that’s not the truth. We’ve been sold that story for so long to avoid the real one, without considering generations before us and how they lived.
The sad and hard truth is that we live in a world where everything moves at a quick pace. From the moment we wake up to when we go to bed (actually, even when we go to bed) our mind is racing, overthinking. Our body is tired as fuck from the heavy agenda during the day. There’s no way fitness can be what it’s supposed to be. It becomes performance, something on the to-do-list, an obligation that doesn’t let us enjoy the moment.
But the way you do fitness doesn’t have to move at the same pace —even if your job or life runs faster.
When a movement you once owned suddenly feels impossible, or if you decide to start any kind of fitness, believe me when I tell you that it’s not your age.
Your body is just telling you that you’ve been running on empty.
If you’re always performing —at work, at home, in your head— your body eventually opts out.
The muscles that once carried you through 12-hour days and back-to-back workouts are done waiting for a reset that never comes. It doesn’t mean that you’re broken or that you can’t do it.
I know this firsthand.
I started CrossFit at 38, after years of trying to stay “in shape” with yoga, Pilates, and spinning.
I’m now 49, and I have moved through so many phases of my fitness. Maybe I worked out confidently at first, but later, that same lift, or push-up, or glute bridge, felt shaky and unsafe.
Not because I got older, but because I was tired. I was living, striving, and surviving with no real pause to restore.
The problem isn’t age.
It’s that no one has taught us to train our bodies in a way that honored recovery and met us where we are.
We’re told fitness is about discipline. Pushing harder. Pushing through.
And yes, discipline is important for building a sustainable habit. But discipline doesn’t have to be inflexible.
If it’s not adaptable, that’s not strength.
Fitness should build strength that lasts.
It should train your body to adapt, reset, and restore.
Because when you’re performing under pressure during a workout, you won’t get the results you want.
So let’s redefine what a “good workout” really means:
If movement feels like another task to conquer…
If workouts leave you more wired than well…
If the body that once kept up now crashes under pressure…
Don’t see it as failure.
See it as feedback.
Movement is meant to move you.
Out of your head.
Out of survival mode.
Back into rhythm.
It’s not about crushing reps. It’s about rebuilding capacity. And that only happens when you start treating your body like the system that carries your whole life.
Here’s what that looks like in practice:
- Challenge the grind, not your body
- Balance stimulus with real recovery
- Return to safety, not shutdown
It’s not just physical fitness. It’s emotional resilience through movement.
Fitness can be one of the best ways to regulate your body and nervous system.
It doesn’t need to be another stressor.
Real strength isn’t about proving yourself.
It’s about having a support that holds, even when life doesn’t.
And this is what I help you build.
What does health mean to you on fitness?
Let’s start there. I’ll support you all the way.
So don’t give up, babe!
A better way to fitness is just one click away…
To your thriving health,
