The Women's Fittest Podcast
By Debra Jean Terpstra
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Episodes: 174
Description
The Women’s Fittest podcast host, Debra Jean Terpstra, is a 47-year-old, lifetime drug-free women's physique bodybuilder, coach, business owner, and single mom, delivering a balance of scientific and anecdotal health and fitness info uniquely purposed for women. Critical thinkers will find practical application on everything fitness related from healthy food relationships to contest prep. Whatever your level of knowledge Debra provides expert advice on nutrition, exercise, hormones, mental health, and more, delivered in easy to understand vernacular from a variety of evidence-based and experienced foundations. Debra's passion for bodybuilding and the human condition is apparent in her personal interviews that showcase NPC and IFBB athletes (her guests) in a raw and genuine way. These women are the heart and soul of professional bodybuilding and fitness, and these are their real-life experiences. The Women’s Fittest is your one stop shop for bodybuilding and fitness info, no matter where you are in your journey. Healthy looks different on everybody.
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5 Behaviors that Prematurely Age
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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10 Tips for a Productive 2026
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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8 Nutrition Habits that Keep Me Lean
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Resolutions That Stick: A Practical Guide to New Years Goals
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Benefits of Backward Walking & What Would Healthy Me Do?
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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5 Off Plan Diet Options to Help You Stay On Course
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Healing Years of Eating Disorders
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Boundaries
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Roman Empire: Body Image
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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IFBB Pro Janessa Roy: Competing w/in a year of giving birth
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Mythbusting Gut Health w/ Sarah Ford Bishop
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Acting On Opportunity In 2024
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Interview w/ Leana Kaplan
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Un-Food Focusing Your Holidays and ED Recovery w/ Sarah Ford Bishop
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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IFBB Figure Pro Autumn Cleveland on Coaching and Being Coached
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Healing Unhealthy Food Relationships
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Fitness Pro Michelle Mensah
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Olympia 2023 Recap: All 6 Women's Divisions
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Olympia 2023 Preview of All 6 Women's Divisions
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Untracked Meals: How, Why, and When?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Mythbusting w/ Sarah Ford Bishop: Are Seed Oils, Red Dyes, & Artificial Sweeteners "Bad For You"?!
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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The Evolution of Life: an Update
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Bikini Pro India Paulino: The Stage Will Always Be There
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Mythbusting w/ Sarah Ford Bishop: Measures of a Good Workout, Physique Progress Markers, & Muscle Confusion
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Adding “Dollars” to Your Health Bank
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Mythbusting w/ Sarah Ford Bishop: Best Split, Rest Days, Waist Trainers, & Cycle Syncing Training
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Pro Ashley Lakomowski: It's Deeper Than Bodybuilding
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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July Meal Plan & The Power of “No”
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Mythbusting Popular Fitness Fads/Trends w/ Sarah Ford Bishop
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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3 Ways to Break Through Fat Loss Plateaus
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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May Meal Plan & Eustress versus Distress
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May 13, 2023 |
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IFBB Figure Pro Kate Grevey: My Choice to use Performance Enhancing Drugs (Why, When, & How)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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IFBB Pro Autumn Cleveland on Bodybuilding, Posing, Coaching, & Life
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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April Meal Plan with Protein Cookie Dough Bites Recipe!
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Setting Yourself Up For Successful Contest Prep Part 2 w/ IFBB Pro Brooke Walker
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Before You Step On Stage Part 1: Setting Yourself Up For Competition Prep Success w/ Brooke Walker IFBB Pro
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Birthday Chick Chat with IFBB Pro Melissa Brodsky: The Details
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Restful healing, Lent sacrifices, & Handling endometriosis
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Seed Cycling Diet and Real Talk About Depression
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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IFBB Fitness Pro Jaclyn Baker: Dance, Diet Culture, and Chasing Your Dreams
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Recipe For Fitness “I just wanna lose weight and get toned.”
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Interview with IFBB Pro Loren Calderoni: Cheezits to Chicken
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Never Miss A Workout!
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Fitness Pro Kate Errington
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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2022 Olympia Recap w/ Juliana Malacarne & Brooke Walker
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Sarah Ford Bishop & I Cover the 2022 Olympia Bikini & Bodybuilding Contenders
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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IFBB Pro Whitney Jones Covers the 2022 Olympia Fitness Contenders
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Figure & Wellness Olympia Lineup
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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IFBB Fitness Pro Ariel Khadr: Youngest Pro Ever & 2022 Miss Fitness International Champ
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Nail the Basics: Optimizing Practical Nutrition & Health Strategies w/ Sarah Ford Bishop
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Wellness Pro Marissa Andrews: Road to her first Olympia
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Chick Chat w/ Melissa Brodsky: Take the Risk
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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First Time Competing? IFBB Pro Kira Neuman & client Kelly Thompson share her journey to the NPC stage
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Part 3: My 30 Year History of Eating Disorders
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Part 2: Flipping the Script (Credit to Therapy)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Part 1: My Journey Through Emotional Eating Recovery: Releasing 20 pounds in less than 2 years
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Following through, Being present, Controlling what you can, Cleaning up your environment, & Counting your blessings
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Mele Branch: The NPC, Sponsorships, and Being Yourself
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Chick Chat w/ Brooke Walker IFBB Pro: Olympia Prep, Arnold Classic Controversy, & Who to Follow in Women's Physique
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Emily Miller: Competitive Bodybuilding & IVF for Pregnancy
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Interview w/ Natalie Rae Ariel Wolfe IFBB WP Pro: Take Your Time
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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IFBB Pro Christina Bitner: The Next Dream
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Health is Wealth: Invest in Yourself with this Practical Fitness Advice
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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A Heathy Base is Built on These Two Bricks
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Interview w/ Sabah Syed: Pakistans First Female IFBB Pro
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: With which chick would you commit a murder?
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May 30, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Contest Prep for Beginners w/ IFBB Pro Brooke Walker
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May 09, 2022 |
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Kassandra Gillis IFBB Wellness Pro Interview
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May 02, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: HRT, Forever Pets, & Gym Pet Peeves
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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It’s my 46th BEarthday!!
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Interview w/ Meg Sylvester Cielen: Uncovering the Secrets of UK bodybuilding
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Updates on Life, Hormone testing, and The Podcast
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Lydia Knoll apparently faked cancer.
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Weird DM’s
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Interview w/ Alix Small IFBB Pro: Remember Your Why
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Women’s Fittest Year in Review 2021
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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It’s Easier to Stay Well Than to Get Well
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Interview w/ WBFF Pro and Dietician Holly Baxter: This is recovery from 15 years of disordered eating
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Legendary 4x Miss Olympia Juliana Malacarne
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Arnold Recap & Underwear stories
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: The Arnold top picks, Fitness Sustainability & Your Questions
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Interview with IFBB Pro Lyssa Rey: Navigating Who You Are & Bodybuilding
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: I Blame Social Media.
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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You are here. Honestly evaluating your fitness goals beginning with where you are now.
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Interview w/ IFBB Pro Stephanie Hammermeister: If we choose to.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: What is the meaning of life?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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IFBB pro Tia Douglass: Making history and breaking binge eating
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Margaritas and Things that get swabbed.
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Interview with IFBB Pro Autumn Cleveland
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Everything Contest Prep
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Interview with IFBB Pro Theresa Ivancik
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Chick Chat: Can you spot my wrist curls?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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IFBB Pro Brooke Walker is back and better than ever!!
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Finding balance: Diet culture/Health/Bodybuilding with Sarah Ford Bishop
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Chick Chat with IFBB Pros Melissa Brodsky and Kira Neuman
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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IFBB Pro Katie Beck: Fitness, Faith, Freedom, and the New Mom Life at 40
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Interview with IFBB Figure Pro and 5x Olympian Ivana Ivusic Wilkin
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Miss Fitness Olympia 2021 IFBB Pro Whitney Jones is Unstoppable
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Interview with IFBB Wellness Pro Ashton Penney
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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One takeaway: Suicide is Never an Option.
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The incredible journey of IFBB Pro Karina Nascimento
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Emotional Eating Assistance & a Timeline to Healthy Physique Change
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Diet Myths Debunked with IFBB Pro Hailey Wegner RD
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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How to achieve your ideal body with Coach Chanel Colette
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Amanda Almodover: Hospitalized for cutting and eating disorders, God and bodybuilding saved me.
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Interview with Fitness Guru Jeana Aragon
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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How to Prep Yourself & Hey it’s Olympia Weekend!
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Interview with Miss Olympia 1996-1999 Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The Art of Slowing Down
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Housekeeping: Just some updates on the podcast and my life!
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Interview with Patricia Gosselin WPD IFBB Pro
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Interview with IFBB WPD Pro Melissa Teich
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Magic Pills: Steroids in Women's Bodybuilding w/ Jamie Pinder
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Interview with IFBB Figure Pro Rahel Anastasia Cucchia
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Bodybuilding for Health, Who Should Compete, and What to Expect from a Coach
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Interview with IFBB Pro Natalie Abrhiem
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Being Present for Peace and Productivity
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Chick Chat with IFBB Pro Melissa Brodsky
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Julia Rene: From Wrestling to Wellness While Breaking Binge Eating
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The delightful IFBB Pro and 2x figure Olympian Rhea Gayle one week out from Portugal Pro
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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IFBB Pro Renee Jewett: This Beauty is an Animal
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Episode 60 Q&A: Your questions. My answers.
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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IFBB pro MayLa Ash: This is Bodybuilding
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Brooke Walker: This beautiful one percenter is ridiculously relatable
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May 31, 2021 |
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2015 Miss Olympia Latorya Watts: Welcome to Latorya’s World!
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May 24, 2021 |
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IFBB Pro Heather Dees: It’s Bodybuilding, You’re Never Really Done, Are You?!…
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May 19, 2021 |
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Mother’s Day: My “mom life” Journey 16 years in!
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May 07, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Jamie Pinder: steroids in the female bodybuilding world (unedited deep dive)
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May 06, 2021 |
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“It’s a lifestyle”… what does that mean? Living.
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May 04, 2021 |
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If anyone was born for bodybuilding it’s IFBB pro Alyssa Muoio
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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45th Birthday, Current dieting mindset, 22 Truths, my “Rona” experience, and Anna Sings!
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Conversation with Hailey Wegner
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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How to bodybuild for life with Emily Miller
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Janet Layug: Your Miss 2020 Bikini Olympia Champ
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Brazilian bombshell, IFBB women's physique pro, and Olympian Ivie Rhein
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Liv Roth: "I'm nothing like I'm portrayed on social media"
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Sara Kovach: Practical fitness advice from an IFBB Fitness Pro
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Daisha Johnson: Overcoming childhood bullying to NPC wellness Pro bodybuilder
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Jhelsin Mabaga: Shares in detail how ya get those glutes!
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Kim Smith IFBB pro: Self proclaimed 5% crazy
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Melissa Brodsky: You gotta "Speak it into existance".
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Finding purpose in bodybuilding and being fearless in faith with IFBB pro Olivia Gravengaard (Old Soul Made New)
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Client Question: Should I compromise my sleep to workout?
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Getting wild with IFBB pro Linda Crossley
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Client question & voice note response: Feeling unsatisfied is food the answer?
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Lauryn Murray: Elephant trainer and aerialist
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Wellness inside out with wellness competitor Caroline Demesquita
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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The science of body image with Shannon Beer
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Train Like a Girl: Introduction to Natural Bodybuilding
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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IFBB pro Kira Neuman, officially retired from competing, tells all!
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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You can have it all: interview w/ IFBB fitness Arnold and Olympia Champ Missy Truscott
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Autumn is Coming! Interview with Autumn Swansen IFBB pro
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Womens Bodybuilding is back!: Interview with Miss Olympia 2020 Andrea Shaw
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Every level requires a different devil: Are you willing to put in the level of effort to reap the fitness reward you are looking to achieve? I’m stepping it up!
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Online coaching guide 101 with Me & Sarah Ford Bishop
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Miss USA 2019 IFBB WP pro Macey Toney: Bodybuilding and the Big Picture
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Tara Ramos IFBB Figure Pro: Beyond the stage, living through cancer.
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Hi, it's just me, I'm Amy from Michigan! Interview with IFBB pro Amy Landry
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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All you need is Weightsncakes
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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A Lot to Digest: Gut health simplified with Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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From Pro to Neubie: Interview with IFBB Figure pro and Neufit Therapist Karlen Crouch
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Taking Up Space with Sarah Ford Bishop—Her journey from anorexia to bodybuilding.
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Solutions to Your Common Dieting Errors
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Excellence Not Perfection
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Labor of Love
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Confidence For Today
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Dieting Strategies
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Control What You Can
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May 25, 2020 |
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Q&A: Chiropractic care, MFR Massage, Appetite suppressants, Pushing kids to exercise, and more.
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Gym Etiquette & Competition Prep for Beginners
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Q&A Train Like a Girl
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Training through injury, sickness & periods. Oh My!
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Meal Prep & Simple Recipes
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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Podcast Goals, My background, & Listener Q&A
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Nov 15, 2019 |