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Strength Training After Injury: How to Rebuild Trust in Your Body
Recovering from an injury can feel like an uphill battle. You lost your sense of connection to your body and how it used to feel. You may feel protective, guarded and scared of re-injuring again. You've done all the rehab work, your doctor and physio say "You're all cleared". But you can't help feeling hesitant to return to certain activities you used to do. That hesitation isn't weakness. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do: protect you from some
Jennifer Yansucon
Jul 143 min read
Story from a client : What am I?
A client asked me recently, “What am I? Am I the pretty one? Am I the big scary one? Am I the funny one? Am I the strong one?”. She’s a...
Jennifer Yansucon
Aug 22, 20221 min read
How Strength Training Can Actually Increase Your Mobility
Think lifting weights makes you tight? Strength training may build more usable mobility than stretching alone. Learn why from coach Jennifer Yansucon.
Jennifer Yansucon
Aug 113 min read
Why Every Woman Should Work Toward a Pull-Up
Ask most women if they can do a pull-up, and you'll usually get some version of the same answer: "No — I've never been able to." It's one of the most common fitness goals I hear from clients, and also one of the most misunderstood. The truth is, very few women are ever taught how to build toward one that is different from not being capable of it. Why pull-ups get treated differently for women Biologically, women do tend to carry a higher proportion of body fat and a different
Jennifer Yansucon
Aug 63 min read
The Muscle-Brain Connection: Why Strength Training Protects More Than Muscles
When most people think about why they lift weights, the reasons usually starts and ends somewhere around "look better, feel stronger, maybe protect my joints." Fewer people realise that every time you strength train, you're also sending a direct signal to your brain — one that current research suggests may protect it for decades to come. The myokine connection When your muscles contract under load, they don't just move your body. They also release a class of signalling protei
Jennifer Yansucon
Jul 213 min read
Strength Training After Injury: How to Rebuild Trust in Your Body
Recovering from an injury can feel like an uphill battle. You lost your sense of connection to your body and how it used to feel. You may feel protective, guarded and scared of re-injuring again. You've done all the rehab work, your doctor and physio say "You're all cleared". But you can't help feeling hesitant to return to certain activities you used to do. That hesitation isn't weakness. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do: protect you from some
Jennifer Yansucon
Jul 143 min read
Strength Training Through Peri-Menopause: What Actually Works (and Why It's Not Optional)
If you are a woman in her 40s, you may have noticed your body changing in the last few years. Less energy. Stubborn belly fat. Joints that ache more than they used to. Trouble sleeping or staying asleep. You are not the only one, you are not imagining it and you are not broken. You're likely in peri-menopause, and strength training is one of the most powerful tools you have to work with your body through it, not against it. Why peri-menopause changes the rules As oestrogen d
Jennifer Yansucon
Jul 83 min read
Story from a client : What am I?
A client asked me recently, “What am I? Am I the pretty one? Am I the big scary one? Am I the funny one? Am I the strong one?”. She’s a...
Jennifer Yansucon
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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