Sincerely, Brooke

Committing to a new fitness goal – or getting back into one – is often the biggest hurdle between where we are and where we want to be. Once we get going, of course, momentum kicks in and motivation increases. But it sure is easy to succumb to self-sabotage before…

  As we all continue to process the events of the last year… last month… last week… it’s helpful to remember that change is inevitable. This year will be different in many ways, for sure, but hindsight is 20/20. And 2020 taught us a great deal. The importance of self-care.…

  Dear BB Body Warriors. As our third anniversary together nears, this feels like just the right time to remember how far we’ve come, the challenges we’ve faced, and the triumphs we’ve had along the way. We began with the Holiday Handful. We rolled through the heat with the Summer…

As children are getting their school online, even PE has become an online course. Our kids are staring at screens all day, which is known to have detrimental physical, cognitive, and mental effects. It’s harder than ever to get them away from their screens and into the sun. According to the…

The number one question I get is how to build lean muscle for women. After all, building muscle, in general, can often be a slower process for women since we tend to have less testosterone than men. Whether you want to build big or build lean, what building muscle can…

This year many of us traded in our valued gym time for at-home workouts by necessity. The shift was not easy at first for many of us, but we quickly learned the benefits of exercising at home. Now options are shifting again. Whether or not you decide to return to…

Exercise and sharing its benefits with all of you is my passion. A really challenging workout has the ability to be meditative, empowering, and transformative. But as much as I love those feelings, I can also tell when my body needs a break. It’s important that you listen to your…

Let’s be honest: sometimes working out is way easier said than done. Even though giving ourself that 30 mins a day to just be, to breathe through the stress of the day, take some personal inventory may be what your body wants, but it’s not always as simple as slapping…

Some trends come, others go, but High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts are here to stay. While many of us most likely did some form of it before the trend hit, there are more variations of it than ever before. I try to incorporate HIIT into most of my full-body workouts—short…