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Fit Bottomed Girls 2.0: A Comeback to Empower Women Over 35

Alison Heilig — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:06:05 +0000

After a four-year hiatus, the Fit Bottomed Girls are back! As a well-established OG fitness blog for women, it may have seemed odd that we seemingly fell off the face of the earth for a while there. But what can we say? Sometimes life gets in the way and forces us to take a step back and re-evaluate. Just like many of you who’ve had to put your own health and fitness goals on hold to prioritize other things for a while, we’re in a place where it’s time to bounce back with renewed energy and purpose. We invite all…

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My Experience With the Marukan ACV Challenge

Kristen — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:00:34 +0000

We are an official ambassador for Marukan. Marukan provided us with product samples for the purpose of this post, as well as compensation for our time. As always, all opinions expressed are our own. The health benefits of apple cider vinegar aren’t exactly new — and I don’t mean that in the sense that you’ve probably been hearing about it for a few years. Sure, it’s made headlines, often as a part of “detox diets” and the like, but if that’s the extent of your ACV knowledge, let me challenge you to learn a little more. Way back in ancient…

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Finding the Silver Lining

Kristen — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:00:44 +0000

What a decade 2020 was, right? via GIPHY At best, last year hit us with major changes to our daily lives and wave after wave of catastrophic news. At worst, we suffered devastating personal losses. I can’t imagine anyone came out unscathed, and to those of you who are struggling, please know that we see you and honor you. (Therapy, in my experience, can be a huge help, and there are loads of options for virtual appointments these days. I had a few appointments with a counselor at BetterHelp when I felt myself spiraling last summer, and many of my…

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7 Things I Learned From Taking a Sleep Challenge

Jenn — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:00:25 +0000

The following post is sponsored by Eisai Inc. For our sponsored post policy, click here. Sleep loss. Trouble sleeping. Sleep deprivation. Insomnia. As a mom of one-year-old twins and a five-year-old, I know what it’s like to be tired. So, so, tired. Add to that the stress of a pandemic and that state of all the things in the world, and, welp, there are a lot of things to keep us up at night. Right? So, when DayAfterInsomnia wanted to know if I’d be willing to take a sleep challenge — and one that focused not just on quantity and…

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Anti-Racism Accounts From People of Color to Follow & Support

Jenn — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:00:14 +0000

This post is intended to be a resource for those who have not personally experienced racism but want to learn and become allies. We know that our BIPOC readers and followers have been doing this work all their lives and probably don’t need additional resources (although, hey, these are still great accounts to follow!). We (Jenn and Kristen), as white women, support our BIPOC readers and followers and commit to doing the anti-racism work required to effect change, and encourage those of you who care about dismantling systematic racism to join us. And to anyone who doesn’t believe anti-racism work…

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A Special Note From Jenn and Kristen

Jenn — Mon, 18 May 2020 11:00:21 +0000

This week marks the 12th birthday of Fit Bottomed Girls. Which is crazy — 12 years! On the internets! With you amazing people! And, usually, our birthdays are a big cause for celebration. But with everything going on right now — *waves hand around at EVERYTHING* — it feels, well, a little weird. Just like yours, our lives have changed. Because the world has changed. And it goes way beyond wearing masks to get groceries and not being able to go to the gym like we once did. As we adapt to living in this new normal, we’ve embraced a…

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What to Know When Pitching Your Business

Kristen — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Let’s say you’ve got an idea for an amazing new business. You’ve got a plan! You’ve got a pitch! You’ve got a dream! via GIPHY And … you might also have some questions — maybe a few fears, too. Perhaps you’ve listened to a few of our podcast eps with badass women in business, like Cat Lincoln of CLEVER or photographer and entrepreneur Kyle Hepp, and you’re feeling both inspired and a smidge concerned about how your pitch will be received in the male-dominated venture capital space. via GIPHY Well, you know how we’re big fans of Title Nine? It’s…

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What It’s Like to Create a Garage Gym

Jenn — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:00:19 +0000

You guys know how much I’ve written about the Fit Pit, right? The gym that taught me that I was stronger than I thought? And that I could overcome this and this. The gym that helped me to get my fitness groove back after babies? I’d even go so far as to call it the community that inspired my soul. Yeah, it’s meant a lot to me — and my family. Gwen’s been there almost weekly since she was just a few months old — and so have the twins. Although some days it wasn’t easy to get everybody there…

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Marathon Bahamas Relay: Tips and Highlights

Kristen — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:00:33 +0000

About a year ago, my husband and a few of our friends asked me what I wanted to do for my 40th birthday (in January 2020). “Let’s go somewhere and do something fun!” they said. “Oh, twist my arm,” I replied as I casually pulled up the Marathon Bahamas website, which I’d bookmarked months earlier while writing an article that profiled the race because a few things had caught my eye: The race takes place near my birthday. It offers a full and a half marathon as well as a marathon relay option (there’s also a 5k that takes place…

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3 Lessons I’m Taking Into 2020

Kristen — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:08 +0000

Well, kids, it’s 2020. And while I know that every new year is technically of equal significance, it’s hard to ignore the weight that a new decade carries — and the emotion that’s attached to leaving the last one behind. If the conversations I’ve had with friends and the introspective posts I’ve seen on social media are any indication, the past decade has been momentous for many of us. Maybe that’s an age thing, maybe it’s a societal shift, but whatever the reason, it feels vast. And it’s led me to do a lot of thinking about the last 10…

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