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Ingri Pauline
- Jun 3, 2019
- 4 min
Why Your HIIT Class isn't Changing Your Body
Most women start exercising for a change in body composition. This goal is to lose fat and build muscle. They sometimes don’t know this is what they are looking for. Their goals sound like “I want to tone up,” “I want to look like this fitness model,” I want to lose weight,” or “I want to lose 10 pounds.” All of these goals are pretty elusive, besides that last one. That’s a good, measurable goal but also has its flaws. The one thing all of these goals boils down to is these
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Ingri Pauline
- May 7, 2019
- 5 min
How to Get Through Long, Depressing Winters
Considering that I am writing this in May, It may seem a bit out of season. But my best advice is to bookmark this is write it down to prep for nest winter. I come from sunny Los Angeles and lived for many years in cold and rainy Berlin. I know that Seasonal Affective Disorder is a real thing. It often gets worse with every winter. First, let me say that there is NOTHING wrong with you. Winter is a hard time for everyone. It is the energy and nature of the season. It is repre
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Ingri Pauline
- Apr 1, 2019
- 5 min
Have Some Damn FUN Already!
“What’s the point unless you are having a good time!?” This has been my unofficial motto for years. Why kill yourself in the gym, why work long hours, why wait in line unless you are going to enjoy this life. I truly believe it too. What is the point of doing what you are doing unless you are having a good time. You may or may not remember the very telling headline of our time Man Goes to Mexico to Kill Himself, Ends up Spending a Week Banging Hookers and Doing Cocaine, Decid
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Ingri Pauline
- Mar 13, 2019
- 4 min
The Gym 101: P13: Recovery
Most of us long for a good looking physique and desperately scramble trying to get one. Too much scattered effort and not enough results are the fruits of lack of knowledge. There are many things that go into being well trained and it not just weightlifting and running. When you InstaHeros say its a lifestyle, they are right. You cant take the average american office worker and just tack on 45 minutes of gym time to 5 days of their week. While it will make some benefits, what
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Ingri Pauline
- Mar 4, 2019
- 5 min
The Gym 101: P12: Postpartum Exercise 6 to 16 Weeks
Now we get to the 6 week check up. This seems to be the holy grail of postpartum fitness milestones. I hate to break it to you but IT IS NOT. The 6 week check up is basically that; a check up. The doctor will see if you and your baby are healthy and you have stopped bleeding. If you have a good doctor, he or she will also check on your stitches and see how you are healing; that the stitches are not infected and the tearing hasn't gotten worse for any reason. When the doctor s
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Ingri Pauline
- Feb 27, 2019
- 5 min
The Gym 101: P11: Postpartum Exercise to 4 Weeks
If you have recently had a baby, congratulations to you and your growing family! This is quite an experience and you are a stronger woman for it. No really! The Mayans and Aztecs likened child birth to going to war. Women who were mothers were just as much warriors as the young men who fought to preserve the tribe. This is a delicate time for your body. Unfortunately western medicine is waaaaay behind the ball when it comes to rehabilitating a postpartum body. Doctors are sim
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Ingri Pauline
- Feb 11, 2019
- 4 min
The Gym 101: P6: Mensuration and Muscle
Your period. Yay! Not the thing most women think of but coming from a woman who has lost her period for two years, I am grateful every time I have it. We should really honor out cycles as it tell us SO MUCH about what we are capable of, our current hormonal health and it gives us a tell about our bodies performance. It is a signal of our super power as women. So start working with your period and make it work for you. For women, making your training work for your cycle is jus
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Ingri Pauline
- Feb 6, 2019
- 3 min
Beauty is Self-Respect
I believe it was Marilyn Monroe who once said “True beauty is learned.” I have always believed that and taken in to heart when caring for myself. We live in a culture where, up until recently, women are have been told that only skinny, blonde and blue eyed was beautiful. And if you weren’t, then beauty came from within. What a crock. Beauty lies somewhere in between. Beauty is weird, it is unique, it is graceful and it is lingering. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder -
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Ingri Pauline
- Aug 22, 2018
- 5 min
Clear Pores, Calm Joints, Reduce Scars and Quell Infections without Breaking the Bank: Beauty on a B
As a Los Angeles native, one of the things that gives me great joy is watching the modern health movement turn more towards natural remedies and preventative maintenance; formerly known as “Hippy Sh*t.” This is a great shift for us: for our health, for our planet and for our wallet. At their worst, most ayurvedic treatments do nothing and cost very little. At best, they actually help that is ailing you, produce less waste than single-use, overly packaged goods and give you ow
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Ingri Pauline
- Aug 14, 2018
- 6 min
The Sweet Honey of Sleep and Not Dying Early
The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day. Michael Xavier Sleep research has been painfully scant through the last century. Outside of the “What Happens When We Sleep” physiology basics we learn in middle school, deeper knowledge about sleep is pretty sparse. I talk alot about sleep and recovery. Maybe because I have always been someone who requires more sleep than most. I try for eight to nine hours a night, happening
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Ingri Pauline
- Aug 9, 2018
- 5 min
Smell Nice, Look Good and Perform Better
In an overstressed world, we need to talk a lot about recovery. In my last article, I talked about how important self-care and recovery is in a fitness program - if you want to effectively losing fat or gaining muscle and athleticism. I’d like to share with you one of my favorite methods of self care: a bath. Yes, some old-skool shit but a bath does wonders for mood, skin, muscles and nervous system. If you are trying to get the illusion of great skin through Kardashian conto
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Ingri Pauline
- Aug 6, 2018
- 4 min
Help or Harm? Your Workout
The more I learn about coaching and training, the more I end up telling people to take it easy. It seems butt-backwards in the pursuit of fitness to down-shift. I am shocked how frequently I tell people to do less, to set boundaries and to schedule an hour for themselves - yet it must be done. Our westen, christian society values Hard/Long Work. In America, Hard/Long Work - not deep work - has become our new god. Even in making ourselves happier and healthier, modern busynes
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