Episodes
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Join your Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss training for events! Performance training looks different for each activity but the over sentiment is the same.These Gym Rats discuss the importance of setting up a strong foundation before diving into traditional race performance training, executing slowly after baby, and the importance of your family being involved in seeing you work towards and acheive a fitness goal. The memories are the best part!
Find your Gym Rats on Socials:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
Insta: @arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
Insta: @balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they catch up with their babies in toe on life, motherhood, constantly adapting to new seasons, and ofcourse their health and fitness. After an intro portion catching up on how the Yanez family is adapting to life as a family of four and the Heatons now have a 6 month old, the ladies chat about where they are at in their postpartum fitness journeys. These two remind each other that the fitness improvement tragectory post baby is not linear. It looks different from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy. While Arielle is freshly postpartum with a newborn and already back in the gym, Haley is struggling with some severe diastisis and multiple hernias.
Find your Gym Rats on Social Media:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
Instagram: @arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
Instagram: @balanced.living.co
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Join your hosts Arielle and Haley as they check in with newly postpartum Arielle and baby Charli about how adjusting to life as a family of four is going. Discussions around husbands being excellent fathers and taking their self care. Starting your own self care journey as a new mom in order to fill your cup and avoid creating resentment in your relatinship. Enjoy some fun banter around how new parents so easily divide and conquor and forget to invest little moments in each other. Grab your beverage of choice and enjoy this real mom talk.
Find your Gym Rats:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they dive deep into proper breathing technique and how it effects our anatomical health and ability to move without injury. Whether it be in the gym, in daily life, men, women, pregnancy, the diaphragm breath and our core control effects us all and how we prevent injury and flow with stability. Prior to getting into the fitness talk, Arielle and Haley catch up on being super pregnant, expecting baby number 2, the strugles of breast feeding, tongue function issues, slow weight gain and really new momhood. Both hosts are eager to welcome the next Gym Rat into the Yanez household!
Find your Gym Rats:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they take a break from fitness and health to gab about some current events. Let's get socratic, the ladies discuss the Huberman Scandal and why the phrase "Never meet your heroes" almost always applies. This tailspins into a conversation around radical responsibility and some of the holes in modern feminism that leave a large chunk of our population behind. Discussing how this has affected and will continue to affect boys of the future. The gals try and wrap their heads around what this really means for their own baby boys as boy moms in todays society.
Connect with your Gym Rats:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
Instagram: @arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
Instagram: @balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they welcome Dr. Morgan Plantamura of Truly Chiropractic in Austin. Have you heard of Neuro based Chiropractic Care? How about the Webster Technique? Dive into all things chiropractic care that is geared toward balancing our nervous system and the way we adapt to stress. Dr. Morgan maps out what it looks like to be a patient in this type of office including the types of diagnostics and technologies utilized, the techniques for special populations like pregnancy and pediatrics, and the philosophy of our C1 vertabrae and its relationship to the vagus nerve and stress. Join for educational goodies as well as uplifting and positive stories of families conceiving after long journeys and children on the autism spectrum making eye contact with their moms for the first time, all thanks to the support chiropractic care provided to them.
Resources discussed in todays episode are listed below"
https://www.trulychiropractictx.com/
pxdocs.com
https://icpa4kids.com/
Connect with your Gym Rats here:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley while they catch up on their lives. With Baby #2 coming very soon, Arielle is running into all those pesky inconveniences toward the end of pregnancy that you just don't think about until you get there. Sore pelvis, cant reach your legs to shave, and much more. All the while, Arielle completed the Crossfit open and the ladies discussed how she went about modifying the exercises in the open to accomodate her belly, her mobility, and her energy level. Reach out and connect with your gym rats on Instagram:
Find your Gym Rats:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion all around creating habits, how to choose them, introduce them, create consistency, and build the healthy lifestyle that serves you best. As Arielle's baby girl is growing inside the womb, Haley's baby is growing outside the womb and making appearances within this episode. These tangential mama's are both sharing their tips and secrets toward building habits reasonably throughout all the stages of life, including when you are so busy it feels like its impossible to do anything for yourself.
Find our Gym Rats on Social media:
Arielle Bloom
Instagram: @Arielle-bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
Haley Heaton
Instagram: @balanced.living.co
www.balancedlivingco.com
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Join gym rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion around preconception prep and the main pillars to address in readying your body for creating, and growing, your mini me. The episode starts off with a catch up on Haley's experience with breast feeding thus far and how its always a great idea to reach out to professionals and get mutliple opinions. If you are looking for clear and simple tips to optimize your fertility, this episode gives an overview of how to address your mental, physical, and spiritual health specifically for fertility and pregnancy. Be sure to read what we consider the gold standard of everything pregnancy nutrition by Lily Nichol's: "Real Food for Pregnancy" and "Real Food for gestational Diabetes". Additionally, her new book "Real Food for Fertility" is out now.
Find your gym rats:
Arielle Bloom
Instagram: @Arielle_Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
Haley Heaton
Instagram: @Balanced.living.co
www.balancedlivingco.com
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We love a good glute training session in the gym. Why? Not only did we (Haley and Arielle) both lose our glutes after giving birth, but we worked really hard for them before that!
Listen in this week for why glute training is so important, and what you can do to grow your glutes (without spending hours in the gym, or lots of money on plastic surgery).
If you want to learn more about growing your glutes, or want to chat with Haley or Arielle more about any topics we've covered so far on the podcast, don't hesitate to reach out!
Find Haley on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/balanced.living.co/
Find Arielle on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_bloom/
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Did you know that In other parts of the world, mothers cosleep with their babies from the day they are born?
Cosleeping is really only stigmatized here in the U.S.
In this week's episode, Arielle and Haley discuss cosleeping: the benefits, how to do it safely, and why even if you don't plan to cosleep you should know about the option for your own growing family.
Here are some resources mentioned in this week's episode:
Safe Infant Sleep by Dr James KcKenna
La Leche League International
The Big Letdown by Kimberly Sears Allers
Find Arielle on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_bloom/
Find Haley on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/balanced.living.co/
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Do you set New Year's Resolutions?
Haley and Arielle don't, but they do something else (they argue even better) instead!
Listen in on this episode for:
Baby reflections and updates from Haley Setting intentions vs goals at the start of the new year Questions to reflect on from the past year When to actually set goals for the year Treating your family like a small business Shirtless Andrew Huberman (you're welcome 😉 )If you need support in identifying and setting your goals, reach out and let's chat!
Find Arielle here: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_bloom/
Find Haley here: https://www.instagram.com/balanced.living.co/
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Just a few short weeks ago, Haley and her husband JP, welcomed their baby boy into the world!
Arielle and Haley sit down to chat about Haley's home birth experience, including her very short labor, and Haley shares some of her insights as a first time home birthing mama.
As always, find us on Instagram:
Find Arielle here: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_bloom/
Find Haley here: https://www.instagram.com/balanced.living.co/
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Join the Gym Rats this week as we talk to our guest, Jess McElroy!
Jess is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and Enneagram Coach. In this episode, we dive into what the Enneagram can show us about ourselves, we figure out Arielle's Enneagram, and we talk about how you can get your own Enneagram identified if you're interested!
Find Jess here:
https://www.instagram.com/healthynumbersnutrition/
https://linktr.ee/stepn2healthy
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Join the Gym Rats as we talk about the basic principles of body recomposition!
Use these basic principles in your training and nutrition to achieve the body composition you want.Arielle's 12-week Strength/Hypertrophy Program:
https://www.ariellebloom.com/shop/p/powher-physique-1-strength-program-only
Use the code STRONGYEAR24 to get the program for $55 until 1/6/24!
Other Hypertrophy programs we love:
FLEX:
https://www.th.fit/
Paragon Training Methods:
https://paragontrainingmethods.com/
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Join the Gym Rats in discussing why Millenials are obsessed with Minimalism and how it helps your health. The ladies dive into how this translates into the holidays and ways we can utilize love languages, experiences, and practical needs a part of our gift giving strategies. Explore all things personality tests, like aura quizzes, and how that correlates to your organization/pull towards minimalism and ways you can start to incorporate it into your life.
Mind Body Green Aura Quiz:
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/what-color-is-my-aura-quiz
Mystic Michaela Know your Aura Quiz:
https://knowyouraura.com/aura-quizzes/
Haley's Favorite Holiday Movies:
The Night Before The Fatman The Grinch The Family StoneArielle's Favorite Holiday Movies:
Love Actually The Grinch The HolidayFind your hosts on social media:
@Arielle_Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@balanced.living.co
www.balancedlivingco.com
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Join the Gym Rats in discussing how scents effect our health and how we can find healthier alternatives to purchase or to make at home. Ever wondered what ingredients are used to create the fragrance in your perfume, candles, laundry detergent, wall plugins, etc? Well Arielle and Haley break down some of the common materials found in these products, what we know about their manufacturing and their effects on our health. Between carcinogens, allergens, respiratory irritants, and others, learn how you can shop smarter and create delicious holiday scents out of natural ingredients that don't negatively impact your health and positively impact your nose!
Mentioned Resources:
EWG Skin Deep
https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
ThinkDirty
https://www.thinkdirtyapp.com/
Trash Panda
https://www.trashpandaapp.com/
Home made scents:
https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2013/06/homemade-air-fresheners.html
Make your own candles:
https://nestingwithgrace.com/easiest-way-to-make-candles-non-toxic/
Find your hosts:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join the Gym Rats in a discussion around Osteoporosis and the increased rates we have been seeing over the last decade and a half. Why should we be concerned about Osteoporosis earlier than later, how our food and minerals effect our bones, and the forms of exercise that not only are proven to slow bone loss, but also encourage new bone growth. This post Thanksgiving episode starts off with a little friendly catch up between the Gym Rats on their holidays, their cranberry sauce preferences and childrens toys. Listen in to chat all things bone health with two friends. Please rate and review so we can keep growing our audience and reaching more Gym Rats. Thank you all!
Find your Gym Rats:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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Join the Gym Rats in a fun interview with Rafa Quintero, 2x Olympic Men's 10m platform diver turned mechanical engineer with a passion for his newfound hobby: Crossfit. Explore the background behind this athletes success within his first sport and how he is now utilizing his previously learned skills, mental strategies, and ability to control his fear, to aid him in progressing within the sport of Crossfit. These friends dive into all the fun facts, like what you love and love to hate about Crossfit, biggest challenges as a new crossfit athlete, including some unsoliscitated nutrition advice to this new up and coming competitor. You can follow Rafa's journey on Instagram here: @rafa_quintero
Find your hosts:
Arielle Bloom
www.ariellebloom.com
@arielle_bloom
Haley Heaton
www.balancedlivingco.com
@balanced.living.co
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