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Melissa Moves Well

What Does It Mean To Be Consistent?

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, April 21, 2026  •   Leave a Comment
Happy Tuesday Friends! Something I stress a lot is consistency. Being consistent without exercise and movement is far more important than exactly what your program looks like. It’s more critical than motivation. Yet, we focus on the other stuff, and I think I may have...
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Exercise With Arthritis

In Wellness Toolbox  •  by Melissa, April 14, 2026  •   Leave a Comment
Hello friends, I’m bopping in this week with another exercise guide. I’ve said before in this series that the traditional methods and exercises trainers employ for weight loss are usually modified for different circumstances. But those tweaks don’t often take into account all the unique...
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Tips and Tricks for Bent Over Rows

In Strength Training  •  by Melissa, April 7, 2026  •   Leave a Comment
Howdy crew! I hope your April is off to a strong start. I won’t lie, late winter/early spring in our house this year was challenging. And full disclosure, I did not stay as consistent as I’d like. But I’m clawing my way back (unintended pun,...
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Moving Well Part 2: When We Are Young

In Dimensions of Wellness, General Fitness  •  by Melissa, March 24, 2026  •  
Happy Tuesday Friends. I’m spending some time over the course of this year breaking down what I think it means to move well during different seasons of life. Last month, I talked about moving well through the aging process. Let’s talk about the opposite phase...
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Special Populations

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, March 17, 2026  •  
Howdy Crew. I’m going to be honest, I’m a bit fired up about today’s post. I’ve mentioned quite often my frustration that there are no formal oversight procedures on personal trainers in the United States. For those of us practicing who take safety seriously, though, our...
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Exercise With High Blood Pressure or Cholesterol

In Safety, Wellness Toolbox  •  by Melissa, March 10, 2026  •  
Hello Friends! I am pleased to be back with more science info. I am a huge nerd and long time readers know I have never professed to be anything else. High blood pressure and high cholesterol are two conditions that are common for trainers to...
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Variations in Crescent Lunge

In Yoga  •  by Melissa, March 3, 2026  •  
Hello Friends, welcome back! Something that I like to do around here is demystify yoga asanas. Mostly because I think that just about everyone can benefit from regular practice of the postures. It is absolutely true, though, that we are all built differently and sometimes...
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Moving Well Part 1: As We Age

In Dimensions of Wellness, Exercise  •  by Melissa, February 24, 2026  •  
Wow, friends, I can’t believe we are at the end of February. Where does the time go? A rhetorical, but an important question to ask. Last month I started this series by posing the question, “What does it mean to move well?” While I do...
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Four Times Per Week

In Strength Training  •  by Melissa, February 17, 2026  •  
Hello friends! Last month, I had a post about using three strength sessions per week to tackle most goals. I thought I’d follow it up this month with a four sessions per week framework. If you didn’t read that post, I’d recommend you do so...
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Exercise With Diabetes

In Planning and Programming, Safety, Wellness Toolbox  •  by Melissa, February 10, 2026  •  
Hello friends! Something that has weighed on my mind is the lack of accurate resources about exercise with conditions. With my rebrand last year, I have wanted to try and fill this void a bit. Science backed information is the lynchpin for making exercise work...
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