Single mom, full time trainer, full time student, part time crazy–that was me a few years ago.
On a typical day you could find me training clients as early as 6 am and as late as 8 pm, then coming home to blog, put my kiddo to bed, and study until 2 am. And by “study” I mean shed hysterical tears over my lack of mathematical understanding. Thankfully, those years-and my math endeavors-are now behind me, but they were some of the most demanding and character building years of my life.
While I was often challenged and pressed for time, I learned how to find success through struggle and how to make the most efficient use of my time. In fact, I often look back on these years with great fondness, as they taught me so much about myself as a mother, trainer, and entrepreneur.
As you can imagine though, life lessons aside, I was physically and mentally exhausted a great deal of the time. I spent so much time writing programs for clients and keeping up with my blog, that if I didn’t plan accordingly, my own workouts would suffer the brunt. This would simply not do. Yes, exercise is important physically, and if I wanted to stay in shape I had to stay on track with my workouts. But more importantly, exercise is what keeps me sane.
