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Join your Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss training for events! Performance training looks different for each activity but the over sentiment is the same. These Gym Rats discuss the importance of setting up a strong foundation before diving into traditional race performance training, executing slowly after baby, and the importance of your family being involved in seeing you work towards...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they catch up with their babies in toe on life, motherhood, constantly adapting to new seasons, and ofcourse their health and fitness. After an intro portion catching up on how the Yanez family is adapting to life as a family of four and the Heatons now have a 6 month old, the ladies chat about where they are at in their postpartum fitness journeys. These two rem...

Join your hosts Arielle and Haley as they check in with newly postpartum Arielle and baby Charli about how adjusting to life as a family of four is going. Discussions around husbands being excellent fathers and taking their self care. Starting your own self care journey as a new mom in order to fill your cup and avoid creating resentment in your relatinship. Enjoy some fun banter around how new pa...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they dive deep into proper breathing technique and how it effects our anatomical health and ability to move without injury. Whether it be in the gym, in daily life, men, women, pregnancy, the diaphragm breath and our core control effects us all and how we prevent injury and flow with stability. Prior to getting into the fitness talk, Arielle and Haley catch up on...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they take a break from fitness and health to gab about some current events. Let's get socratic, the ladies discuss the Huberman Scandal and why the phrase "Never meet your heroes" almost always applies. This tailspins into a conversation around radical responsibility and some of the holes in modern feminism that leave a large chunk of our population behind. Discu...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they welcome Dr. Morgan Plantamura of Truly Chiropractic in Austin. Have you heard of Neuro based Chiropractic Care? How about the Webster Technique? Dive into all things chiropractic care that is geared toward balancing our nervous system and the way we adapt to stress. Dr. Morgan maps out what it looks like to be a patient in this type of office including the t...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley while they catch up on their lives. With Baby #2 coming very soon, Arielle is running into all those pesky inconveniences toward the end of pregnancy that you just don't think about until you get there. Sore pelvis, cant reach your legs to shave, and much more. All the while, Arielle completed the Crossfit open and the ladies discussed how she went about modifying t...

Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion all around creating habits, how to choose them, introduce them, create consistency, and build the healthy lifestyle that serves you best. As Arielle's baby girl is growing inside the womb, Haley's baby is growing outside the womb and making appearances within this episode. These tangential mama's are both sharing their tips and secrets toward buildin...

Join gym rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion around preconception prep and the main pillars to address in readying your body for creating, and growing, your mini me. The episode starts off with a catch up on Haley's experience with breast feeding thus far and how its always a great idea to reach out to professionals and get mutliple opinions. If you are looking for clear and simple tips to opti...

We love a good glute training session in the gym. Why? Not only did we (Haley and Arielle) both lose our glutes after giving birth, but we worked really hard for them before that!  Listen in this week for why glute training is so important, and what you can do to grow your glutes (without spending hours in the gym, or lots of money on plastic surgery).   If you want to learn more about growing you...

Did you know that In other parts of the world, mothers cosleep with their babies from the day they are born? Cosleeping is really only stigmatized here in the U.S. In this week's episode, Arielle and Haley discuss cosleeping: the benefits, how to do it safely, and why even if you don't plan to cosleep you should know about the option for your own growing family.  Here are some resources mentioned...

Do you set New Year's Resolutions? Haley and Arielle don't, but they do something else (they argue even better) instead!  Listen in on this episode for: Baby reflections and updates from Haley Setting intentions vs goals at the start of the new year Questions to reflect on from the past year When to actually set goals for the year Treating your family like a small business Shirtless Andrew Huberma...

Just a few short weeks ago, Haley and her husband JP, welcomed their baby boy into the world!  Arielle and Haley sit down to chat about Haley's home birth experience, including her very short labor, and Haley shares some of her insights as a first time home birthing mama.  As always, find us on Instagram: Find Arielle here: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_bloom/ Find Haley here: https://www.inst...

Join the Gym Rats this week as we talk to our guest, Jess McElroy!  Jess is a C linical Laboratory Scientist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and Enneagram Coach. In this episode, we dive into what the Enneagram can show us about ourselves, we figure out Arielle's Enneagram, and we talk about how you can get your own Enneagram identified if you're interested!    Find Jess here: https://www.insta...

Join the Gym Rats as we talk about the basic principles of body recomposition!  Use these basic principles in your training and nutrition to achieve the body composition you want.    Arielle's 12-week Strength/Hypertrophy Program: https://www.ariellebloom.com/shop/p/powher-physique-1-strength-program-only Use the code STRONGYEAR24 to get the program for $55 until 1/6/24!    Other Hypertrophy progr...

Join the Gym Rats in discussing why Millenials are obsessed with Minimalism and how it helps your health. The ladies dive into how this translates into the holidays and ways we can utilize love languages, experiences, and practical needs a part of our gift giving strategies. Explore all things personality tests, like aura quizzes, and how that correlates to your organization/pull towards minimalis...

Join the Gym Rats in discussing how scents effect our health and how we can find healthier alternatives to purchase or to make at home. Ever wondered what ingredients are used to create the fragrance in your perfume, candles, laundry detergent, wall plugins, etc? Well Arielle and Haley break down some of the common materials found in these products, what we know about their manufacturing and their...

Join the Gym Rats in a discussion around Osteoporosis and the increased rates we have been seeing over the last decade and a half. Why should we be concerned about Osteoporosis earlier than later, how our food and minerals effect our bones, and the forms of exercise that not only are proven to slow bone loss, but also encourage new bone growth. This post Thanksgiving episode starts off with a litt...

Join the Gym Rats in a fun interview with Rafa Quintero, 2x Olympic Men's 10m platform diver turned mechanical engineer with a passion for his newfound hobby: Crossfit. Explore the background behind this athletes success within his first sport and how he is now utilizing his previously learned skills, mental strategies, and ability to control his fear, to aid him in progressing within the sport of...

The Holidays have arrived! With Thanksgiving right around the corner, join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss how to enjoy your holidays without fretting about the scale and other stressors. These two gym goers cover all aspects of stressors around the holidays from managing family dynamics, travel stress, decrease in movement and increase in all your favorite holiday dishes. The holidays...

Halloween is over and the holiday season is in full force, usually accompanied by colder weather and runny noses and coughs. Does the temperature change really cause viruses to spread more easily? Join gym rats Haley and Arielle as they cover the heavy hitters that truly effect your immune system strength and some of their favorite tools to support these systems. Enjoy an intro where the gals shar...

Its Rogue invitational here in Austin! Join Gym rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss Tia-Clair Toomey's return to competition post baby as well as the dangers of comparing ourselves to professional athletes. The tangents spiral quickly into discussing equality versus equity in sport and opinions on the differences between male and female athletes, their sports, and the fan bases supporting them....

Gym Rats Haley and Arielle share an exciting announcement that, suprise!.... has to do with more babies! Dive into a fun conversation between two expecting moms about their personal journeys so far in their pregnancies. Learn from Arielle about the wisdom she gained in her first pregnancy and delivery and what she is focusing on/changing with her second. Listen to discussions around Birth Plans an...

Gym Rats Arielle and Haley welcome Physical Therapist and Founder of "I Fix Your Sciatica" Ashley Mak to discuss all things back pain and physical therapy. We get Ashley's professional take on what Sciatica is, why back pain is so common in our modern society, things we can do in our day to day life to prevent/improve joint pain, and even fun extras like preferred footwear, and mattress rotation,...