True Balance Fitness, 6451 El Camino Real Suite B-2, Carlsbad, CA (2026)

05/27/2026

I’m glad to see more and more women taking creatine to help build and preserve muscle mass. Especially as women age, it becomes that much more critical for performance inside and outside the gym.

The problem is many women aren’t taking it correctly.

❌ Only taking it on workout days
❌ Taking less than the effective dose

Here’s what to do instead:

✔️ Consume creatine 30–60 minutes pre workout. On rest days, take it in the morning to help build consistency and keep your muscle stores saturated.

✔️ Take 5g consistently every single day. Creatine works through saturation over time, not from taking it occasionally. Skipping days or underdosing will limit the benefits.

When taken consistently, creatine can help improve strength, power, recovery, muscle preservation, and even cognitive function as we age.

Make these two changes and you’ll start to notice bigger improvements in the weight room and in your overall performance.

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05/14/2026

Perimenopause has been kicking my butt lately. Disrupted sleep, low energy, and just feeling off.

But I’ve still been showing up for my workouts. Checking the box, even if I haven’t been able to fully push it.

Today was no exception. I was supposed to do interval runs. I started my warm-up jog and instantly knew… I didn’t have it in me today.

So I pivoted.

Instead of forcing all-out efforts, I chose a comfortable 3-mile run instead. Because the thought of pushing through hard intervals sounded miserable.

Old Andrea would have forced it. If it was written in the program, it got done no matter what.

But with age and experience, I’ve learned that listening to your body is part of training intelligently. Sometimes that means reducing the intensity, lowering the volume, or skipping the workout altogether.

That’s how you win the long game.

You learn to adjust when stress is high, sleep is off, hormones are fluctuating, and life feels heavy.

This is how you protect your relationship with exercise.
This is how you avoid burnout and resentment.
This is how you stay consistent year after year.

I coach my clients the same way. I may have a plan written out, but I train the person standing in front of me that day, not the version of them I hoped would show up.

Meet yourself where you are at. That flexibility is what keeps you moving forward for life.

If this resonated with you, like and share it with another woman who needs the reminder.

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04/30/2026

Good and bad habits ebb and flow through our lives much like the tide. The better our day to day lives are going the easier it is to implement these better habits like going to bed early, making time for exercise, meditating, avoiding junk food, etc.

But when life gets overwhelming, sad, lonely, scary, we let our natural ways up coping with stress: overeating, drinking, vegging out take a hold over our better intentions.

This happens to all of us.

What’s important is how long you let that swing in the negative direction last. It’s not only being aware of its presence but finding a way to start taking steps towards those healthy habits again by taking one step at a time.

Pick one positive habit to focus on implementing again, once you have mastered it move on to another one and so on. We are all entitled to breaks, it’s how long they last which distinguishes you from the rest.

What’s one positive habit you would like to incorporate into your life again? Share below.

04/20/2026

They don’t have a structural problem when it comes to plyometrics… they have a landing problem.

Flat-footed takeoffs, stiff landings, with nowhere for the force to go, so your joints take the hit.

Before I ever program jumps, I slow things down. Drills like these teach you how to land on the ball of your foot and absorb force back into your heels, so your body actually knows where to put it.

From there, we build: drop landings → sit-to-jumps → squat jumps.

I’ve had plenty of clients who thought plyometrics just “weren’t for them” because they always led to pain. In reality, no one ever taught them how to take off and land properly.

Fix that, and suddenly jumps feel strong and pain-free.

Save this so you can come back to it before your next lower body workout.

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