Sometimes our lives aren’t always going to be upward, but we always have the ability to be onward.
Category: Stength
Be the Change
I recently had the privilege of spending an afternoon with personal trainer Melissa Cardone of Peak Fitness.
What was supposed to be a quick photo shoot for her new personal training website, quickly turned into lot of laughs and chatting about everything fitness, motherhood, and finding her way in a fitness industry that is saturated with local and online trainers.
Melissa is the kind of person you can only hope to have in your circle of friends. Someone who has a kind and genuine heart, who listens with intent, who wants to make the world a better place by instilling confidence, strength and health in others. She’s someone who inspires others daily, not only as a personal trainer, but as a friend, a strong woman, a mom. She engages others in a way that makes you want to be a better person, makes you want to reach your goals, makes you believe in yourself.
A lifelong athlete, Melissa mixes her personal experiences of fitness with her professional personal training background to provide you with guaranteed success through a mixture of challenging workouts and the motivation you need to keep moving when you want to give up. Whether she is training clients (and also working out with them), kickboxing, coaching her online clients, or leading group workouts and even mommy and me workouts with the help of her adorable son, she is constantly striving to make those around her find the best versions of themselves.
If you’re looking for a unique workout regimine that incorporates a vision of thinking outside the box to reach your fitness goals, Melissa is your girl. Whether you are years into your fitness journey, or just beginning, she has the plans to meet all your needs.
Check out Melissa at @peakfitnessny on Instagram, online at peakfitnessny.com, or Peak Fitness on Facebook.
Lessons Learned
My lesson learned throughout my cancer journey has been to find your motivation and use it to turn new beginnings into new opportunities, whatever those may be. Give yourself time to feel. Feel scared. Feel vulnerable. Feel angry. And then feel strong.
Connections & Compassion
“Vulnerability attracts honesty, honesty attracts soul connections.” November 3, 2016 I am officially a third of the way done with radiation. So far, all is going well with no major side effects. I’m tired, and my body is still trying to eliminate all the toxins left over from chemo, but I continue to push through, some days probably too much. Second round of x-rays show the radiation rays are still going where they’re supposed to be; I’m slowly developing a nice tan from those rays, and I smell daily of fresh aloe with a trace of Aquaphor. I have to Read More
In Sickness and In Health
“As long as we both shall live.” || October 4, 2016 Tuesday morning travels to Albany are something we have gotten used to; not having an appointment last week left us feeling like we were forgetting to do something. Today marked my first follow up appointment after finishing chemo and even though I wasn’t going to be spending my day in the brown chair, the drive felt the same: Not saying much to each other, still feeling nervous, trying to remember questions you never wrote down because “I’ll remember, I don’t need to write it down”, wondering which nurse will draw Read More
Margot’s Story of Strength
“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on, but you keep going anyway.” In the Winter of 2016, I was a third of the way done with radiation; eleven sessions completed out of the total thirty-three. I was tired, and my body was still trying to eliminate all the toxins left over from the sixteen chemotherapy treatments I had received throughout the six months prior, but I continued to push through, some days probably too much. My second round of x-rays showed the radiation rays were still going where they were supposed to be; I was slowly Read More