POSITIVE MINDSET = POSITIVE ENERGY

This week we are talking about our lives before we got into health/fitness and how it affected us for the best.  ADO Fitness Trainer Joey shares her story.13012626_617475518410842_6909984874774231353_n

I will say I have been pretty consistent since I was 19 years old. However, I can’t even explain how much I have learned in that time. I also have had my times where I have “fell off” and had my partying days as well.
Health and Fitness has kept me so grounded and organized with everything in my life. I am far from perfect and wasn’t the girl who just worked out and ate healthy my whole life. I grew up a little rough which is why I chose to start working out. Many people do not know but I am my mothers legal guardian and have been since I was 21. My mother has a lot of mental health problems that I started dealing with when I was around 18 years old. I basically needed to start babysitting her and making sure she was safe. I did this while going to dental hygiene school and working full time. I REALLY needed some kind of stress relief. I will say this lifestyle has made my life become so much more positive and grounded. Working out has become my routine first thing when I wake up in the morning. It is my coffee and stress relief.

Now I didn’t start off with lifting weights. I remember thinking cardio was the only way to see results and honestly going on long runs helped me clear my mind a lot. I then was introduced to weight lifting and realized how much more results I was seeing and it still was a great stress relief. In fact even better than a long run. Then after years of lifting weights, prepping food and literally living and breathing this lifestyle I needed a challenge. That was when I decided to do my first show and I was hooked! I am so in love with this lifestyle, competing is like second nature for me.

For me health and fitness is not just about the outside attributes, but mainly the health aspects of it. It is a plus that it helps you look better, but the mindset and positive energy it gives is what counts the most.

I am a believer that god puts things in front of you to see how well you can handle them in life and I know that everything I have gone through has just made me stronger. I am extremely lucky to be a part of ADO Fitness and fortunate enough to be able to help people with the same things I practice on a daily basis.

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