2717 Wellness

2717 Wellness Nutrition Coaching, Private Training, and Private Yoga. www.2717wellness.com I offer nutrition coaching and private training at my gym in Utica, OH.

I hope this page will educate you on how to best eat, move, and restore your body so you can move well and live a healthy, happy life.

The 2pm crash gets blamed on a lot of things. Bad sleep. Not enough coffee. Just being tired.But if it’s happening every...
06/09/2026

The 2pm crash gets blamed on a lot of things. Bad sleep. Not enough coffee. Just being tired.

But if it’s happening every day — same time, doesn’t matter how much you slept — it’s almost always a food thing.

Specifically, it’s a breakfast or lunch thing.

When your meal doesn’t have enough protein or fiber to slow things down, your blood sugar spikes and drops fast. That drop is what you’re feeling. And the fix is simpler than you think.
Start with protein. Every meal. The rest builds around it.

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Or comment IN and I’ll send you my 5 Eat to Move Better emails to help you understand what small changes you could incorporate to make a big difference.

Here’s something that might surprise you: 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏼Yoga is over 5,000 years old — born in the Indus Valley, where ancient ...
06/04/2026

Here’s something that might surprise you: 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏼

Yoga is over 5,000 years old — born in the Indus Valley, where ancient practitioners weren’t chasing flexibility or a toned core. They were seeking union — the Sanskrit root yuj literally means “to yoke,” to connect the mind, body, and breath as one. The earliest yogis understood something neuroscience is only now catching up to: that slow, intentional movement paired with breath is one of the most powerful tools we have to regulate the nervous system. To shift out of fight-or-flight and into rest, recovery, and presence.

Thousands of years later, we’re still using the same tool — just with a little more research behind it.

This Saturday, June 6th, we’re bringing yoga to Always Forward CrossFit — and your nervous system is personally invited.

Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or you’ve never unrolled a mat in your life, this is your hour to slow down, breathe, and reconnect.

📅 Saturday, June 6th
📍 Always Forward CrossFit
🕐 8:00am

Drop a 🙋🏽‍♀️ below if you’re coming, or share this with someone who needs an exhale this week. Sign up with link in bio!
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You're not chasing a body. You're chasing connection. To yourself. To your partner. To your people. To a life where you ...
05/29/2026

You're not chasing a body.

You're chasing connection.

To yourself. To your partner. To your people. To a life where you feel wanted, desired, and fully seen.

And here's what I want you to know — that's not vanity. That's not weakness.

That's biology.

We are literally wired for belonging. Researchers have spent careers proving it. The need to feel at home in your own skin, to show up fully for the people you love, to feel worthy of the life you want — that's not a fitness goal. That's a human one.

So yes, I talk macros. I talk lifting, pain relief, calories, and movement. The science matters and I take it seriously.

But behind all of it is a more urgent mission.

I want to help you prove something to yourself.

That you are capable of hard things. Consistent things. Caring-for-yourself things.

I work with women who are winning fitness competitions their doctors said they'd never be able to enter. Women who are sailing catamarans and leading their grandkids around the world. Women who are building dream homes — pain free — after decades of being told to just manage it. Women who are asking themselves, for the first time:

"What if I could…"

They didn't come to me to reach a number on a scale.

They came because they knew there was a bigger, bolder version of themselves waiting just past where they'd been willing to go.

And they were right.

Your connection to SELF is what we're fighting for. It's the trunk of the tree. Everything else — the belonging, the confidence, the intimacy, the joy — those are branches. They can't grow without it.

If you've been waiting to start — waiting until life slows down, until you feel ready — hear this:

You don't need to be ready. You just need to begin.

That version of you? She's been waiting long enough.

🫶🏻 Coach Schliev

🤓 Want to go deeper with me on the science backing this? Newsletter and substack coming Sunday at 7am. Subscribe with links in bio or today's story! You cute little brainiac. 🧠

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05/20/2026

Most people never realize how much their breathing habits affect their daily life.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a normal byproduct of how your body produces energy. Every time your cells use oxygen to fuel movement, thought, and basic function, CO₂ is created and has to be managed and released through breathing.

Your ability to tolerate CO₂ influences how your body responds to stress, pressure, exercise, anxiety, focus, and recovery.

This test gives insight into how efficiently you breathe and how well your nervous system handles rising stress.

Low tolerance can show up as:

• Feeling easily overwhelmed
• Shallow chest breathing
• Trouble calming down after stress
• Feeling “air hungry” during workouts
• Neck and shoulder tension
• Fatiguing faster than expected

The good news?

CO₂ tolerance is trainable. Better breathing mechanics can improve performance, recovery, focus, and resilience — both in and out of the gym.

Some of my favorite ways to train this are apnea sprints, WimHof Breathing, and Box Breathing. Want more guidance and info on these? Sign up for my newsletter! Link in bio. 📰

Here’s the wild part about breathing mechanics:Most people think breathing is only about oxygen.But your diaphragm also ...
05/19/2026

Here’s the wild part about breathing mechanics:

Most people think breathing is only about oxygen.

But your diaphragm also plays a huge role in:
• Core stability
• Spinal support
• Force transfer
• Safe strength production

Which means your breathing impacts way more than workouts.

It affects how you carry stress, move through daily life, recover, brace, lift, and stabilize yourself under load — whether that’s a barbell, groceries, or your toddler.

And this recovery tool is:
✔️ Free
✔️ Fast
✔️ Accessible anywhere

Sometimes improving movement isn’t about adding more exercises. Sometimes it starts with improving the foundation underneath.

Get even deeper in the science of breathwork by subscribing to my newsletter, or checking out my Substack article! Links in bio. 🤓

05/18/2026

Breath: it’s free, it’s easy, and comes with a monumental ROI.

The breath is one of the few systems in the body that is both automatic AND under conscious control. That means it acts as a bridge between your brain and body — between stress and recovery — between survival and performance.

Breathing gives us information.

It gives us control.

And it gives us access to better movement, recovery, strength, and resilience.

I dare you to breathe with this simple 1 minute video. Just to check your breathing mechanics. If you feel clearer and calmer after? Great!

Share with someone you want to feel this way, too. 🫶🏼

If you want more info on how breathwork can improve your life, subscribe to the newsletter or check out today’s Substack. Links in bio and today’s story. 🫁

What if we matched the time we spent consuming social media with meditation? What if we matched the time we spent in ha...
05/12/2026

What if we matched the time we spent consuming social media with meditation?
What if we matched the time we spent in hard, grinding workouts with valuable recovery habits?

Imagine what would happen.

Our nervous systems would finally get a chance to come out of fight or flight.
Our muscles would actually absorb the work we’ve been demanding of them.
Our sleep would deepen.
Our moods would stabilize.
Our focus would sharpen.
Our bodies would stop feeling like something we constantly have to push against.

Recovery isn’t passive.
It’s productive.
It’s where adaptation happens.
It’s where strength becomes resilience.

And in a world that constantly asks us to consume more, hustle harder, and stay overstimulated…choosing recovery is a radical act of self-respect.

You’ve got an opportunity to add to your recovery bank this Saturday at 8:00am with yoga at Always Forward CrossFit! Come breathe, move, reset, and give your body something back.

Sign up with link in bio or today’s story!

Somewhere along the way, we learned that fat loss should feel aggressive and miserable to be effective. (Where are my Mi...
05/09/2026

Somewhere along the way, we learned that fat loss should feel aggressive and miserable to be effective. (Where are my Millennials and Gen-Z-ers?)

Eat less.
Ignore hunger.
Add more workouts.
Cut calories again.
Pretend you’re never going to eat sugar again. 😳

But the body is smarter than that.

When calories stay low for too long, the body adapts.

Energy drops.
Recovery slows.
Movement decreases without you even realizing it.
And progress often slows right along with it.

Which is why more restriction is NOT the ongoing answer.

Sometimes the answer is:

✔️ more food
✔️ more recovery
✔️ intentional time at maintenance calories

Because the goal is not:

“How little food can I survive on?”

The goal is:

“How do I create results I can actually sustain?”

This week, I want you to notice something:

🤔 Do you associate eating MORE with failure?

No judgment.
Just awareness.

Want to learn more? Sign up for the newsletter with the link in bio!🤓

Need coaching, mentorship, and education? Schedule a free call and let’s see if we’d be a good fit! (Calendly in bio).📆

Hey you. 🤗I want to remind you…Losing fat comes from a calorie deficit, yes. But, hear me out.Calorie deficits come in ...
05/07/2026

Hey you. 🤗

I want to remind you…

Losing fat comes from a calorie deficit, yes. But, hear me out.

Calorie deficits come in three flavors.

🍩 Eat fewer calories (most attempted tactic, least understood)

🚶🏼‍♀️ Get off your butt and walk more (simple, free, underutilized)

💪🏼 Lift the things and gain the muscle (my favorite, smokin’ hot physique is a side effect)

Drastically cutting food and calories? Prepare for less desire to move, under-performing in workouts, being less tolerable to your mate, massive burnout, and binging.

Subtle cutting of calories? … maybe dropping 200 or so daily average, adding a walk after meals, lifting weights 3 days a week … your brain gets sharper, your mood gets brighter, your butt gets firmer, and your life gets better.

Full article live on Substack or in this week’s newsletter if you want a deeper dive, you little smarty pants, you.🤓

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