Arina Hunter

Arina Hunter I help women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health.

So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body. I help you enjoy life and feel confident, comfortable, and capable in your body by overcoming mindset, fitness, and nutrition struggles. Online, virtual and in person fitness, nutrition, mindset, health and wellness coaching. In person sessions and personal training offered in San Francisco. Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, P

re and Post Natal Coach, Women's Fitness, Corrective Exercise, and Online Personal Trainer. Qualified in Pilates, TRX, mobility, strength, and functional training. In Progress: Master Health Coach and National Board Certified Health Coach

Health can be simple. A part of your day. And integrated into your lifestyle without extreme effort.Your health, fitness...
08/27/2026

Health can be simple. A part of your day. And integrated into your lifestyle without extreme effort.
Your health, fitness, nutrition, wellbeing should feel simple and doable within your everyday.
You’ve got enough stress, chores, complicated things to do.
The way that you actually make the changes you want happen: make it simple and truly doable.
So, let’s make it simple and doable:
-Move your body
-Eat nourishing foods
-Prioritize sleep, recovery, and stress management
-Build your mindset and routine to support yourself, your goals, and your wellbeing
Yep, keep it simple.
Move your body, eat foods that support you, sleep, relieve stress, and find how your mindset and routine will support you through the journey.
Move your body often and well.
Find the foods that you feel good eating in enjoyment nourishment, and quantity.
Manage your stress.
Strengthen your mindset to support you to keep going and showing up.
If you want to make anything happen, you have to tell yourself that you can and will.
Find what you fully believe that you can do and start there.
Now, it might be hard to believe that you can at first. Or to know where to actually start.
And it can help to have someone that believes for you while you grow to trust in yourself.
That’s where a coach comes in!
A coach and your health team can aid in narrowing down all the research, science, options, and possibilities into the plan that works and is built for you. While taking into account your values, priorities, and unique lifestyle.
Doable and small things done consistently over time make big, powerful change.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

08/21/2026

Finding your functional squat that uses the natural mechanics of your joints and where your body is best set up to lift yourself and weight is a powerful catalyst to reducing pain and feeling better in squatting motions.
When you send your b***y back as you squat or deadlift, it provides stability, balance, and distribution of your weight through your joints that allow the ability to lift heavier.
Now, in conjunction, as your b***y goes back, your torso will lean forward providing counterbalance between the two.
This will be really helpful with the get back up, stand yourself up from sitting onto a chair or surface.
A common pain area that comes up in my clients is knee and low back pain from doing funky things in their squatting and hinging motions: you do these all the time in everyday life sitting onto a chair and getting up, getting in and out of the car, picking items up, etc.
Taking a moment to check in on what you are doing during these base motions both in daily life and in your workout is a wonderful way to discover how to reduce and mitigate your pains and aches and to be able to lift heavier stronger.
Part 5 of how to squat with less pain.
Part 1 talks through what actually is a squat
Part 2 a quick checklist to explore
Part 3 tools to find your pain free squat
Part 4 tools part 2
Part 5 right here! :)

08/19/2026

Postpartum mamas and those with wrist pain!
A common struggle new mamas have is wrist pain. A great quick check in is to think of your arms as robot arms.
So that your hand to forearm is connected and move together.
A very common thing is to do funky hands and wrists while holding baby and items, and that often leads to that pain.
So check in for yourself while holding, or pushing stroller, or carrying, etc: can your hand to forearm stay braced in one line and not do those funky bends and breaks?
When you are pushing the stroller, where are your wrists?
When you are picking something up, where are your hands to forearms?
As you are holding and carrying?
As you push the door open?
As you pull the car door?
When you carry the groceries?
As you pick up the mail package?
Are they bending in funky directions? Holding a silly position?
The first step is to notice what you are doing,
And test out using your robot arms for the day.

08/16/2026

Kegels are one of the most talked about pelvic floor exercises.
You’ve likely heard: “do your kegels!”
Now, kegels could possibly be great for you.
They also might not be.
For many, kegels are the opposite of what they need.
Kegels are an exercise that aids in strengthening your pelvic floor.
They can be wonderful when used correctly.
However you do not always need to kegel and they might not be right for you.
Your pelvic floor needs to tighten and to release!
Yes we also need to release and relax the pelvic floor, not just tighten.
There are many, many other ways to connect to, strengthen, and to release your pelvic floor.
What our pelvic floor needs is balance.
Not just one.
And we are searching for that balance between being too weak or being too over tight.
For all those tighten and engage parts of the exercise, we also need to release and relax.
Your breath is a fantastic way to connect to, to feel, to strengthen and to release, and to connect your pelvic floor to daily life, your workouts, and the things you want and need to be able to do.
Pop back in and I’ll be sharing other breath work and exercises you can do to learn to feel, strengthen, release, and connect to your pelvic floor!

My first strength training workout after vacation, flying day, and jet lag was the best that I had to give that day.It w...
08/14/2026

My first strength training workout after vacation, flying day, and jet lag was the best that I had to give that day.
It was not my biggest or greatest workout or lifts ever.
It was all about getting back into my body, into routine, into that reset from travel and shift in our usual.
Why was it less? I listened to what my body needed. I still pushed and worked hard. Still showed up for myself and my health. AND I adjust to what my body needed in that moment.
Your workout is the best push you have to give that day. And that amount will change just like the day does.
Some days will be awesome, rocking, and all out. And others giving your 100% that day will be 50% of your usual. And that current moment push will be your big win.
Showing up as your best current self, especially on the harder days, is the biggest win.
That is what keeps you showing up through the funky days or weeks, the harder moments, or the off days. Knowing that you can adjust and continue to show up.
Sometimes adjusting might be still pushing, and other times adjusting will be prioritizing recovery.
Some days you will feel like a rock star busting out the all in push, and other days your win will be showing up and starting: and bonus here, anything you continue to do that day is a win because you already showed up.
Health is about longevity not the occasional big pushes. (Though those big pushes can be wonderful). It’s the things that keep you showing up for yourself and your health through it all, no matter how small, that support you in living as well as you can as long as you can.
For my clients, that can look like:
showing up to their session, to the gym, to a fitness class,
taking five minutes to stretch, to stand up, to move their body with intention,
going out for a walk, even if just a 10 minute around the block,
some days lifting the heavier, exciting weight and other days knowing it is a big win to still lift and maintain the lighter ones,
some days setting a new personal I did that, and others just making it in the door,
And,
Always feeling happy that they got moving, or took a moment to prioritize themselves, and satisfied that they showed up and did the best they could.

08/11/2026

Tools to aid in finding your pain free, functional squat part 2:
1. Slow things down, so you can actually listen and feel what is happening in your body
2. Use something external for feedback: a mirror, video, a coach.

Now, going quick can be wonderful. However when we are trying to learn where our pain, funky patterns are happening, or just are trying to learn something new or different, going slow is key.
Slowing down allows your body and brain to have that tiny moment to register where things are, where any pain might be happening, and to notice the silly things we sometimes have been doing.
Slow is a fantastic way to check in and reset.
And going slow is a magic spot for learning and adjusting.

And lastly, external feedback!
Something or someone that can give you feedback and help to notice the things your body is doing. Such as: oh my hips are twisting, ah my knees are falling forward and in, hmm my low back is arching.
Sometimes we just need something outside of our internal sensations to be able to see, notice, or name what is happening in our body.
And it’s not necessarily that you are doing something wrong, just that there might be a more functional and intentional pathway that will help you to feel stronger, more steady, and better in the exercise and in daily life.

Having a coach even for a quick check in can be the key piece in finding your pain free, functional pathways to exercise and move through life.

Often small shifts and check-ins are what we need to adjust pathways that might be causing issue or to find where we need to build strength and stability to reduce pain and aid recovery.

Try these out and let me know how they go for you!

Missed part one, pop back to catch the first tools :)

08/10/2026

Tools to aid in finding your pain free functional squat:
Using a box/seat/chair/bench
Using bands, Pilates ring/circle, or an exercise ball

These tools are great for tactile feedback which is a wonderful way to help find new patterns in our bodies.
Tactile feedback aids in finding and feeling center and where we want our body to start to move.
It is very common that people have no idea that their body is doing funky things. That they are shifting into the right hip as they squat.
Or that their knees are falling into the middle.
Or that their shoulders are rounding forward.
Or that they are twisting and creating additional tension and imbalance.
The tactile feedback of a seat, bands, a ball allow the body to get feedback on where balance is, where center is, and to feel more easily if we try to shift back into our current habits.
We do squats daily in life: they are how we sit and stand, get on and off the couch, chair or bed, and part of bending down to grab things.
Through these daily patterns, it can be easy for our body to start doing funky things, especially when we are experiencing pain.

These tactile tools are a great reset and check in tool. Take your time. Go a little slower so you can actually feel what is happening.
We check in and reset then use that feedback to go into free standing squats, front/goblet, back squats, deep, weighted, and lifting heavy.

Pop back for two more tools to aid in finding your pain free, functional squat.

08/07/2026

Let’s create a quick check list to check in and adjust your squats:
Where is/are your:
Pelvis,
femurs/knees,
feet,
shoulders/chest/torso?
Are you breathing?

Your pelvis:
When you squat down, does your pelvis go backwards or straight down?
At the top, does your pelvis stop in neutral in line with your shoulders and feet?
Does your pelvis thrust forward, swaying your lower back?
Does your pelvis stop short, before your glutes actually engage?
Do you shift more weight into your right or left leg?
Do your pelvis twist or rotate?

Femurs/Knees:
Do your knees fall in or out?
Your knees are coming from your femurs! What are your femurs? That lovely big leg bone in your upper leg that goes into your pelvis as a ball and socket joint, and all the way to your patella/knee.
Do your knees go forward past your toes?
Do your knees stay relatively over your feet?

Feet:
Do your toes point in the same direction?
Are your feet in line with each other? Is one foot slightly in front of the other? Is your right toes pointing out to the diagonal and your left toes pointing straight forward?

Shoulders/Chest/Torso:
Do you learn your torso/back as one controlled piece, like a plank?
Or does your chest round or back arch?

Breathing:
Are you breathing?
It’s actually really common that people stop breathing!
A general base rule is exhale through the up, inhale on the down or in between.

Use this as your starter check in list.
Do a quick run through and take note what you notice for yourself?

In the next video I’ll talk through ways to start to implement and put into practice your functional squat 😊

08/07/2026

A little reminder that that number on the scale is just a number until we assign value to it.
My client’s almost three year old saw the scale and decided to step on it.
He looked down at the number and gave his best approximation of what he knows it is right now.
Then he asked mama to go on the scale.
She obliged.
He read out the number he thought and she softly muttered the number that it was.
Then he stepped back on the scale and he said the number that he just heard her say.
Because that number is just a number until we choose to assign value to it.
He heard that number and thought, awesome that’s my number too.
And, that almost three year old, your little one is not going to remember the number on the scale.
He is going to remember watching his mama work out,
How strong she is,
Getting to workout with her,
Mimicking her workout motions and telling her which ones he wanted them to do,
That it is fun to get to move your body,
Getting to play within the space as she got her workout in.
And that mama is strong and so is he.
It is an easy thing to feel that we need to be a certain number on a scale. Or that it being a certain number means x, y, or z about us.
Yet, there are many other things that that scale number does not show or give credit to.
Such as:
The way you feel in your body and self.
The way that your clothes are fitting.
The things that you are capable of doing.
The pain that has reduced or changed.
The muscle that you are building or any body decomposition that might be happening.
The way that our bodies change over time and throughout the day/week: water retention, menstrual cycle, gut health, etc.
The scale is just a number if we let it just be a number.

08/04/2026

How to squat with less pain:
First, what is a squat?
When you think squat, what motion is your body doing?
Are your knees bending? Your hips? Does your chest go forward? Your shoulders? Your whole torso? Where are your feet?
Now this connects to, why are squats important?
Squatting is sitting and standing.
It’s sitting at the restaurant and being able to get back up.
Using the toilet.
Getting on and off the bed.
The couch.
Into the car.
The airplane seat.
It’s part of bending down to grab things and pick them up. Part of moving about and through space.
And, thinking about this sit to stand motion is a fantastic way to find your pain free, functional squat.
To squat pain free, we first have to understand how a squat moves,
which allows you to then feel better, lift heavier, and get stronger.
Pop back, in the next video I’ll give you a quick guide for how to check and adjust your squat to relieve pain.

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