Andrea
Andrea brings over a decade of coaching experience and a deeply personal passion for health and fitness. She’s helped clients do everything from lose weight and clean up their nutrition to run marathons and, yes, even touch their toes. But for her, the most meaningful wins are the ones where someone finally feels confident in their own skin.
With a background in college softball, roller derby, figure competitions, and marathon running…including qualifying for the Boston Marathon… Andrea knows what it means to chase big goals. As a long-time vegetarian and holistic nutritionist, she’s also well-versed in how food choices fuel both performance and long-term health. She loves helping clients find doable, sustainable habits, especially when it comes to simplifying nutrition or fitting training into a busy, family-filled schedule.
Andrea’s coaching style is rooted in support, structure, and contagious positivity. She’s the coach who’ll cheer you on every step of the way…and also help you map out your schedule to make sure it actually happens. Whether you’re chasing a pull-up or learning to eat without guilt, she believes the best changes happen when you take it one win at a time.
Credentials:
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
Holistic Nutritionist
Pilates Mat & Reformer Instructor
Thank you for presenting on menopause. I truly wish I would have known about the ramifications of this time in life before it happened. I never had a problem with middle body weight and now its awful!
My question is about the 6 12 25 workout. I do train 3x per week, full body. What is an upper body 6 12 25 workout you would recommend to add to the lower body you mentioned?
The great part is, at any time we can make a change! The more you’re learning now, the more you can meet yourself where you are at to move forward. And using the principles you could honestly work your upper body in so many different ways. Just make sure a set you design would focus on chest, shoulders and triceps to hone in or back and biceps to become more isolated. But even with the lower body one, you can use sooooo many different heavy lifts, compound moves and isolation exercises based on the tools you have!
And if you do need a full progression, I just added one to clients in Dynamic Strength you should check out! https://redefiningstrength.com/dynamic-strength/
Great discussion and inspiration! Everyone is different, and even men go through a midlife change, and we all go through life stages as you all discussed.
My experience was that I had far less symptoms with a fitness approach to cardio and strength training, including two nonconsective days walking/treadmill/biking, some HIIT on stairs, strength training, and semi-daily yoga/stretching/foam rolling, gratide/breath/meditation practice. And the nutrition piece too.
But no matter what, I have to agree with you and your guest, in the form of a great bumper sticker I saw once: “Don’t believe everything you think!” Go for the good lifestyle–it’s a long game, you may feel bloated, scale may not be where you want it, the pair of pants may not fit, but stay the course.
Also, don’t overlook baseline conditions that might be causing some symptoms that masquerade as menopausal symptoms, like dehydration (fatigue/headache), hypothyroid (fatigue), kidney stones (urinary/fecal frequency/urgency), and more.
Take even one step in the right direction. You will make progress, but it often happens more slowly than we want!
Never lose hope!
Well said Tracy! Love it!
Thank u for this video it was very help full
Glad it helps!