Certified personal trainer Lacey Taylor has a set routine. She wakes up usually at 5 am, has her coffee, and then goes on to check her emails and social media. She makes breakfast for her kids and sends them off to school. Once her kids leave, she starts her training session with her clients. She trains privately at her place and works at a gym. She answers her messages and does her social media filming during the breaks.
She makes dinner for her kids after work, has dinner with them, helps them with their homework, and then cleans up the kitchen. She does her laundry, answers her emails, and writes programs for the next day before calling it a day. Lacey enjoys her work as a personal trainer.
Fitness as Therapy – On Using Tough Workouts to Build Resilience
Lacey speaks about the challenges of being a single mother of three kids with no backup. That is when she started to take exercise and physical fitness seriously. Lacey sees it as therapy and feels she would not have gone this far without it. Her experiences have made it easy for her to understand the struggles of other women and become empathetic, patient, and understanding.
Women are always comfortable with someone who has been there before and someone who understands their struggles. Strength to Lacey is not just lifting weights or pushing the body, it also means showing up even when times are tough. She believes strength is choosing not to give up when things are hard or when she is tired.
Lacey likes women clients who are committed and want real and lasting change, and are ready to put in the work. She also likes to work with women who want to transform their bodies and see their physical and mental transformation.
Some women lead busy lives, and Lacey has effective programs for them. Her programs are hard because she strongly believes hard things make you stronger. She finds weaknesses in their bodies, and she makes them stronger physically and mentally. When they want to give up or feel discouraged, Lacey is their biggest supporter.
Many women have misconceptions about strength training. They think they will become bulky if they lift heavy weights. Lacey puts to rest those misconceptions. According to her, it is difficult for women to get bulky because they do not have the testosterone to get bulky like a man. She is still slender despite lifting weights for almost twelve years. It has only made her capable, strong, and resilient.
Physical and mental health are interdependent, and Lacey feels that when physical health fails, so does mental health. To her, exercise is the best antidepressant. It boosts your mood, builds confidence, improves sleep, and reduces stress.
Lacey encourages women to stay tough, have grit, and be fearless and resilient. Strong legs, strong arms, and a strong core give good agility and balance. Lacey remembers how her personal trainer helped her during her difficult phases. It was those tough workouts that pushed her through the difficult times of her life.
We become resilient and strong through our struggles, and Lacey aims to help others use their struggles and pain as their power to get stronger. She wants to help others use it as their drive to improve themselves so that they become stronger, physically and mentally. Lacey finds it amazing to see women getting stronger physically and mentally. For her, it is all about encouraging women to become strong. It is also about empowering them.
