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No Kale.
Some Muscle.
All Sarcasm.
The ramblings of a friendly and sarcastic fitness coach with simple, real life advice!


Client Spotlight: Christine
I have shared a lot about how fitness has been an excellent tool in helping me strengthen my mental health and take time for myself - but...
Lisa Kelly
Nov 21, 20182 min read
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Change How You Think About Exercise
The great thing about our thinking patterns is that we have the ability to change them! You don't have to think of exercise as a struggle...
Lisa Kelly
Oct 17, 20182 min read
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Guided Self-Care for Times When You're Lost
Even if you're pretty good at taking time-outs for yourself, we've all had moments where we felt like we were going to fall under heavy...
Lisa Kelly
Oct 4, 20181 min read
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Finding Motivation on Bad Days
Sometimes they come from something happening and sometimes they come out of nowhere. Bad days can seemingly just appear - where you feel...
Lisa Kelly
Oct 2, 20182 min read
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Client Spotlight: Sarah's Fitness Journey Led Her to Mental Health Healing
I have shared a lot about how fitness has been an excellent tool in helping me strengthen my mental health - but I thought it would be...
Lisa Kelly
Sep 11, 20182 min read
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Under the Weights: How Lifting Weights Strengthens My Mental Health
Most days, I feel pretty good. I'm happy and feel confident. But there are days where I feel...broken. On those days, I have to...
Lisa Kelly
Aug 21, 20182 min read
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Your Body is Trying to Tell You Something!
It's a pressure like something is sitting on my chest. It weighs me down so heavily that it's exhausting to simply get up out of of...
Lisa Kelly
Aug 7, 20182 min read
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Be Aware of The Eating Cycle You're In and Regain Your Power
You ate three doughnuts and you didn’t even really want one. But you felt worried and anxious. About what? Who knows - probably about...
Lisa Kelly
Jul 26, 20182 min read
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We're All Mad - Take Care of Your Mental Health
The brain deserves as much as the body does but yet, it's never given it's due. When I hear people talk about mental health, it's rarely...
Lisa Kelly
Jul 17, 20183 min read
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Body Confidence Issues Affect Trainers Too!
As the warm weather rolled in this month, I jumped at the chance to pull out my summer clothes that have been stored away for what felt...
Lisa Kelly
Jun 12, 20182 min read
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Why do you Struggle to Lose Weight?
Why do you find it hard to lose weight? There are a lot of common answers to this question. Some are "I travel a lot for work", "My...
Lisa Kelly
May 10, 20182 min read
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Finding a Balance with Mental Health Tools
I'm a strong believer that physical activity can be an excellent outlet and coping tool for mental health issues -- and lived through...
Lisa Kelly
Mar 8, 20182 min read
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Give in to Change - the Good Kind!
Change has long been a powerful force that can either stop you in your tracks or propel you forward - and it usually depends on your...
Lisa Kelly
Feb 20, 20182 min read
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Adding Mindfulness to Your Day
I tend to be always switching gears throughout my day – I can shift from mom to wife to worker to mom to daughter to wife to mom again...
Lisa Kelly
Jan 11, 20182 min read
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How I Manage My Stress with Fitness
I am a multi-tasker by nature and enjoy working on more than one project at a time. If I hit a roadblock with one thing, I move over to...
Lisa Kelly
Dec 5, 20172 min read
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3 Habits for Instant Change
It can be overwhelming to think of all the things you want to change to become healthier – so much so that most of us just avoid it and...
Lisa Kelly
Nov 23, 20172 min read
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How My Workouts Saved My Mental Health
Since January of this year, I have felt like I got thrown onto a ride I never asked to be on. It’s taken me at top speed through mental...
Lisa Kelly
Oct 17, 20174 min read
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Fitness Can Help Depression
Depression can affect anyone at anytime – it can be felt by those who seem to have it all, by those who are wealthy and even the ones who...
Lisa Kelly
Oct 5, 20172 min read
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Calm Anxiety With Exercise
If I could get only one message across, I would choose for that message to be that physical fitness is an excellent coping, and sometimes...
Lisa Kelly
Sep 21, 20171 min read
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Positive Effects of Exercise
For a long time, I coped well with life and stress – or so I thought. Then I experienced several struggles and stressful scenarios in a...
Lisa Kelly
Aug 10, 20172 min read
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