Think Fit. Be Fit.

If you want to amp your gains from the gym, then participating in Active Recovery is a must.  Active Recovery is a blend of activities that help your body manage energy to produce changes that will get your stronger, lose fat or improve sport performance. This includes targeted exercises, mental performance concepts, quality sleep and, of course, nutrition.   You will do better at your fitness goa...

One of the most requested subjects on the podcast is teaching people to invest time and money wisely in exercise choices. A positive exercise experience is one of the main ingredients to an effective one, which is part of the reason why we are focusing on Boutique Fitness for Strength Training. Boutique Fitness is served up in small gyms that blend affordable fitness, exciting ways to move and ins...

Jenn and Arash (AJ) are pretty convinced that most people don’t know how good their body is designed to feel.  Embracing the ME-search research strategy can help anyone exercise with more precision. This is a key concept if you desire the enlightenment of being in control of your health and exercise.   This episode is all about exploring curiosity and applying exercise science to being innovative...

Balancing the science and application of Exercise Science starts with ME-search. Join Jenn for a Lab of Me episode as she reviews the concepts and rationale for chasing a 200 lb back squat for her 1RM.   What you’ll learn in this episode: Process based vs outcome fixation is not only specific steps, it is also a mindset. ME-search is a mindset that you are pinpointing the variables that can stimul...

Pulling up sore after your weekly runs? It could be a bigger problem than you think, it could be a small fixable issue.  The answers lie within the bigger global question that Think Fit. Be Fit. wants to help you answer. How do we exercise, compete, and have fun without pain despite our old injuries? The conversation on this always comes back to owning your training process, the ultimate fitness h...

Exercise can provide instant and delayed gratification.  Both of these feel near impossible when you struggle with old injuries.   Jenn’s experience and 100s of her clients share concerns about reoccurring injuries, muscle tightness, and exercise that just doesn't feel right.  The lack of progress and increased muscle tightness is annoying and frustrating.   In this episode Jenn shares her strengt...

Today’s episode is all about the ups and downs of squats (wow, dad joke). When executed well, squats can pay big dividends in health and wellness. The potential benefits are vast, which includes improving athletic performance, overall muscular health and flexibility.   A loaded squat can be a high reward, high risk exercise.  The most admirable characteristics of the squat also make it inappropria...

What is the common fallacy about running?  It’s simple, running is a sport and it is not a reliable way to achieve your best bod and healthy joints. Any trainer charging more than $50 USD an hour should have a solid argument against using running to sustainably lose fat.   Injury rates for runners are up to 79% according to a recent systematic literature review. Jenn has worked with hundreds of ru...

Holiday traveling, celebrations, or time of year can be a results killer for a healthy lifestyle. We’ve collectively worked hard all year, let’s avoid putting a dent in our momentum.  Katie of No Limits Fitness and Health in Indiana and Jenn of Impact Your Fitness in the DC metro area discuss their ideas and experience around travelling ,jollying over the holidays, and helping our clients hold ont...

This episode has it all! Which includes but not limited to: philosophy, learning, cadavers, and choosing your friends. Jenn is hosting an incredible woman, Nathaly Granja. She is a Mindset Coach and Energy Alchemist who uses  coaching in combination with Reiki and Hypnotherapy to help people choose their life upgrades.  She’s also Jenn’s coach and confidant. Enjoy this relaxed and open conversatio...

Over the past decade the fitness industry has become a $27 billion dollar industry.  Within that there are many low to moderate priced options as well as higher end products.  This means there is a lot of opportunity to grow as well as waste money on ill-advised products and services.  Going from fringe to mainstream in 20 years makes for a lot of self-validating used car salesman, one can become...

We all love a good sweat but do we enjoy getting in all the protein that is required to lose fat and grow muscle?  Finding the right nutrition for your body and environment is a steady state experiment that requires good questions, thoughtful but informed variables, and curiosity. Join Miranda and Jenn for a chat on nutrition, plant sourced protein, and some common myths around eating vegan.  Mira...

The foundations of good health are quality sleeping, eating, and breathing.  We believe that exercise is a lens to visualize and live your most healthy life, however without spending time on education about your sleep you are potentially not going to enjoy being fit.   The bottom line is clear.  Use our resources to learn more about your sleep! If you are attempting to lose weight- sleep impacts y...

Your future depends on asking questions about your body. It's the only way to advocate for your health and build an intelligent exercise approach.  This is the first Q&A episode with Jenn. "What is exercise supposed to feel like"? Unfortunately we've been taught to rely on sensations to teach us about exercise. This simply isn't helpful and most importantly it could be causing a cycle of constant...

The ultimate fitness hack is building results that promote success. Most people feel resistance when setting goals and creating fitness based habits. What if success is possible without feeling the constrictions of saying no to yourself over and over again?  This episode is Jenn’s perspective on the necessary steps to reframe goal setting struggles and turn it into a healthy body.  What you’ll lea...

While a “no pain, no gain” mentality can be admirable in some ways, your body might not agree with this approach. You may feel sore after a rewarding workout, but this soreness isn’t a requirement for getting stronger or improving your physique. Just like with stretching, exercise science doesn’t confirm that soreness is safe, effective, or useful in attaining your fitness goals. In this episode o...

It’s easier to enjoy exercise when you set yourself up for success in an environment that suits you. Finding that environment (race course, in the mud, on the beach, in the gym) means exploring and experimenting. This episode is a conversation with Jenn Schwartz and Rachel Garmon. While it’s full of laughter about Rachel’s miserable running stories, it also has an important message. When it comes...

The dictionary defines fallacy as "a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument". The biggest fallacy in fitness, an error in reasoning about how we approach exercise, is that exercise and training are the same thing. In one viewpoint, exercise is a 'thing we do' for benefit and on the other side of this argument, 'training is a process'for an extensive period of time. However, the...

Most of us have physical limitations. The Mayo Clinic, surveyed 144,000 patients in 2013 to assess the reason they had visited a doctor. According to their research, 2 of the top 3 reasons patients were going to see their doctor are related to arthritic joint pain and lower back pain.   Limitations create self-doubt and therefore a lack of fitness participation. Exercise and your mental model of f...

Sustainable healthy habits require more than intention, it’s being humble and open to the process of change. The readiness to change means getting out of your own way.  This is a process that you must own by letting go of your bias (what you think you know about fitness) and forgiving yourself of past failures. In this episode of 'Lab of Me" Jenn talks through using self-acceptance and the Strateg...

It all comes down to this: it's not what you do, but how you do it.  Here's a breath of fresh air: Exercise is a response to a demand. And the fact is that the more you understand the mechanisms of the response and controls of the demand, the more results you will have to celebrate and the more progress you can make.  Enter the Think Fit Be Fit. model to applying exercise physiology to everyday fi...

Finding the right balance in your warm-up can be confusing.  Join Jenn and Katie on a discussion of finding the right amount of body awareness, ensuring exercise safety, and building confidence to take some risk despite old injuries.     In this episode of Lab of Us Jenn talks with her Muscle Activation Techniques™ colleague, Katie Wiggs of Indianapolis.  Katie is not only an MAT™ specialist with...

As if exercise isn't good enough- when perceived benefits are matched with specific and perhaps measurable goals there are even more wins.  In this episode Jenn Schwartz of Impact Your Fitness and Producer Ted talk through a little known phenomena called Post Activation Potentiation and how to get it into your warm-up strategy. Most of us know that a good warm-up can contribute to a safe workout....

In this episode of Lab of You- the best ways to warm up- Jenn covers the necessity of a warm-up that can help with injury prevention and priming a meaningful workout.  Jenn Schwartz of Impact Your Fitness , believes that exercise can be enjoyable, healthy, fun, and beneficial without being painful or questionable.     You don't need to reinvent the wheel to formulate a quality warm-up.  It can be...

Jenn is hosting her weightlifting coach Rachel for a talk on building trust and confidence with the body through weightlifting.  This is packed full of vision, reflection, humility and commitment. Weightlifting in this sense is Olympic Lifting.  The conversation is about empowerment of a strong physical body and the fat losses being a secondary benefit. Jenn and Rachel discuss this and much more a...