Caroline Botting
Was it pee or sweat?
After I had my first kid, I felt all ready to move my body like I used to. I got a chance to play volleyball with some friends and was...
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Caroline Botting
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
It's not all in your head.
Have you ever been told something is all in your head? For a long while I was told that there was nothing physically wrong with me. I...
Caroline Botting
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Asking for help doesn't make you a failure.
Today while doing the first day of two weeks of online learning my 7 year old broke down when he didn’t understand the instructions from...
Caroline Botting
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
"No Excuses" is Bullshit
Feeling spicy today... I get it. You want to get people off the couch and on to healthier lifestyles. Claps for you. 👏 But saying that...
Caroline Botting
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Stretching is a placebo for your injury. Strengthening is the cure you need.
Do you stretch and stretch and stretch and are still achy and sore? Do you wonder why you can’t seem to fix your nagging aches and pains?...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Setting SMART fitness goals
How are you feeling today? If the last few blogs sent you for a loop, I completely understand. The minute I decided that I was worthy of...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
The number on the scale is keeping you from being amazing - mindset part 2
Mindset changes part deux coming at you. Last time I told you a real-life story about someone close to me wanting to lose her belly. At...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
The mindset shift that will change exercise forever - part 1
September is almost gone (?!). With the possibility that you’ve come into a groove with your schedule and have decided to start figuring...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Fitness for life is a marathon, not a sprint
It’s shocking to think that the summer months are flying by and here we are already in August. With everything that has happened in the...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Losing control to gain your life back
When was the last time you felt completely in control of your life? First thought - control looks different for everyone. Everyone has...
Caroline Botting
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Stop should-ing yourself in your postpartum fitness journey.
“My friend is doing x,y,z in her training. Should I do that too? I should, shouldn’t I. I want the same things as her so I should do that...
Caroline Botting
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
WTF is mindset?
What the duck is a mindset? I mean really, if you think about it, mindset involves having a mind and setting it on something. The...
Caroline Botting
- Aug 24, 2021
- 1 min
Tip - Make your workout appointment for the week
We make appointments for lots of things in our lives. Especially in COVID times, you can’t go get anything done without one. We think of...
Caroline Botting
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
"WTF is my body trying to tell me?"
When you start to get back into training, you may find that you have a few more aches and pains than you did before. There’s many times...
Caroline Botting
- Aug 24, 2021
- 1 min
How you talk to yourself matters.
Talk kindly to yourself❤ Recently when I’ve been goal setting with some clients a big part of my discussions have ventured towards the...
Caroline Botting
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Done is better than perfect.
100% all the time no matter what. “Go hard or go home”. Is this you? Are you the person always striving for the A+ in life and in...
Caroline Botting
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
Having my baby wrecked my body...and other things I've said
My body is destroyed. I feel absolutely broken. I’ve heard this before, and also felt it myself. Things that I never knew could happen...
Caroline Botting
- Feb 5, 2021
- 4 min
So you had a baby...now what?
When I came home from the hospital with my first kid, I walked through the door, put down the bucket car seat, turned to my husband and...
Caroline Botting
- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min
The time I peed myself
I still remember the first time I peed myself. It was when I was 6 months pregnant with my first kid. We were walking back to the car...
Caroline Botting
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
Will there every be a time that I'll want to work out?
Recently I had a conversation with a client of mine and this very question came up. More so, I was asked if it’s normal to never feel...