Women Behind The Weights

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we will speak to MP Member Angelia Green on how to Age Gracefully! She shares with us her experience running 1/2 and full marathons at the age of 55 and why she chooses to continue to be active the later years of her life!  Don't miss this one! Angelia is a firecracker! 

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we talk with MP Member Adriana Estrada about her 22 year struggle with Hypothyroidism and how she's been able to use MP to overcome it!  She talks with us about how she juggles being a mom of 3 and a grandma of 2 (one of which has lived with her since the age of 7 months old and is now 3!) & manages to attend 5 classes per week at 5AM at MP to achieve...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we get the chance to sit down with EXCUSE KILLER and MP Member Angélica Castillo ! Angelica is the queen of killing her excuses! She is a busy mom, wife and working lady and she still finds time to meal prep, cook healthy for her whole family and still spend 5-6 days a week in the gym for 60 minutes! It hasn't been an easy journey for Angelica as she will...

Today’s podcast episode on the Coffee with MP Show we met with MP member Rebeca Pena. Rebeca is considered the OG of Midwest Performance becoming the first member to join the fierce female community alongside losing 70lbs in just 18 months! Rebeca was the first guest on the coffee with MP show this past January when she first announced to everyone her most recent diagnosis of cancer. Since then sh...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we speak with MP Member Mary Cook!  Mary is going to share her journey about restarting her fitness journey in a time in most people's lives where the last thing they can think about is their health and fitness. She's worked through many struggles and triumphs along the way but she's never faltered. She's taken major strides in her personal...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we revisit with MP Co-Founder Marciea "BlackWidow" Allen about how to use an injury as a set up for a comeback! She will share her stint with a recent injury as a professional athlete and how she's choosing to use it as fuel for her fire!  She will share strategies on how to not get "stuck in the suck" as she would say and how to stop s...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we have a very special guest! Roshni Davé is a Licensed Clinic Therapist who specializes in Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating. She will share with you what emotional eating is, what could be some signs that you may be an emotional eater and some tactical ways you can overcome it! As women we ALL eat our emotions, some more frequently than others but it&apos...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we speak with MP Member Priyanka Dev! Priyanka shares with us her journey from her home country to the United States and how adapting to a place where she knew no one was difficult but how MP helped her overcome that! She shares her weight loss journey at MP and how the empowerment of the women here have helped her really plant her roots at make this her home!

This week on the Coffee with MP Show we sit down with MP Member Kirsten Leys! Kirsten talks to us about her journey to an over 50lb weight loss since starting her fitness journey as well as how nutrition has significantly impacted her results! She shares how a recent loss and her diabetic status gave her the motivation she needed to really push towards her goals! She also spills the beans on how s...

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we have a very special guest..UFC Featherweight and The Ulimate Fighter Season 28 Contestant Leah Letson! She will talk about growing up in martial arts, using Cardio Kickboxing to prepare for Air Force bootcamp and her journey to the UFC as a young female. She also discusses her hopes to use her platform in the UFC to empower and impact women and young girls a...

Today on The Coffee with MP Show we sit down for a Q & A Session with MP Co-Founder, Professional Mixed Martial Artist and Season 28 Ultimate Fighter Contestant Marciea Allen aka "BlackWidow"! She talks Midwest Performance, MMA and drops some major advice bombs in this special episode! Don't Miss It!

This week we have a SPECIAL episode of The Coffee with MP Show! We have compiled our Top 10 Tips on How To Begin Your Fitness Journey from some of our favorite guests!

On this episode of The Coffee with MP Show we talk with MP Member Chelsea Noelle Garcia about how to use faith and fitness to live your best life! She will talk about her some of the struggles she's faced personally, as a mom and in her own fitness journey and how having faith has helped her transform her life!

Tune in for another episode of The Coffee with MP Show where we sit down with MP Member Michelle Shaw Walitschek! Michelle is going to take us through her journey from box gym to personal trainer to Jazzercize and now to MP! She will talk about how she's always been the person to cheer everyone else on but it wasn't until MP that she learned to cheer herself on too! Michelle will share h...

In this episode of the Coffee with MP Show we sit down and talk with Coach Jami Abshire! Jami will share her own personal journey with her fitness and health. She will talk about her struggles, her triumphs and how she went from having all the fear....to being FIERCE!

In this episode we sit down with one half of the Midwest Performance founders, Brittany Welk and get the dirt on ALL things Midwest Performance! From how MP got it's start to learning more about Brittany and Maricea and their lives outside of the studio. This episode is jam back with fun facts, stories and advice that you won't want to miss!

Today on The Coffee with MP Show we will talk to Sabrina Jones, one of our coaches here at Midwest Performance! Sabrina has been a member of Midwest Performance since December of 2016 and is now one of our top coaches here at the studio! She shares in her episode how she has struggled with many things in her life including drug addiction and how she has been able to overcome her feeling of "I...

Tune in Wednesday for another episode of The Coffee with MP Show! Where we talk with REAL women who've gotten REAL results! This week we talk with MP Member Rowena Abasolo about how she went from a gym NOBODY to a gym SOMEBODY! She will share how being a nurse teaching patients how to care for themselves gave her motivation to start caring for herself and how she went from never working out t...

Tune in for a very special episode of The Coffee with MP Show with Co-Founder Brittany Welk! Brittany is going to share her personal fitness and healthy journey which includes being overweight, having low self-esteem and even a short bout with an eating disorder. She's going to share how she made the decision to show up and show out in her life to make a change and how you can too!

This week on The Coffee with MP Show we talk with MP Member Erin Lowing! Erin shares her journey with us as she talks about how she came to find Midwest Performance, how as a mother she's struggled putting herself first and she overcame that and so much more! Erin will share how she's learned to take any negative thoughts and throw them right out of her head and that has helped her becom...

Tune in for the next episode of The Coffee with MP Show with Former MP Member and MP Coach Lauren Swanson Bentz as she takes you through her year long journey from starting out as a 6 Week Challenger and now being part of the MP Green Squad! Lauren will talk about how she suffered with low self-esteem, struggling to find her groove in fitness and how she is now known as one of the most positive pe...

Stacy will talk about how she is the mother of a son with special needs and how even with the responsibilities that it comes with she never lets it stop her from attending her workouts daily! She talks about how she's been able to make fitness and health living a big part of her daily routine and how it has positively affected her ability to care for her son and her family!

Sara will talk about how her skepticism led her to be the 100 question queen when she first came in to MP and how her hatred for working out quickly became a true passion. She shares her journey of major set backs from not one but two surgeries and how during her time off instead of feeling unmotivated, she felt MORE motivated to return to her workouts!

Maureen will talk about her journey through obesity as a child to her now 60lb weight loss! She will talk about how she has found her own internal motivation through this journey of hers and how you don’t always need someone cheering you on, you just need to learn to cheer yourself on! She will also break down how she remains consistent and determined on her road to a 100+lb weight loss goal! Lear...

Shawna will talk to you about how she has overcome several injuries and set backs in her fitness journey and how she has learned to celebrate the non-scale victories. She will share with you her best practices to give yourself grace, have patience with the process and learn to show yourself some love even when the scale doesn't!