Fitness By Steph

Strenght Training -Weight Loss- Toning- Sculpting Maintenance Made Easy

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Disclaimer: Im not claiming to be Perfect or Religious. I am very Spiritual tho and do believe in hollistic ways of healings. Challenges and getting past them makes a Women The Divine Women. Doesnt matter what paths were taken. Therefore Women love the End product because everyone needs some help in the middle or through any adverse process especially if its of that same commune, roots, blood, friend or foe. The Divine Woman is «Spiritually woke» through her experience from trials and tribulations. The past doesn’t define a women but her story and her experiences and what she chooses to make out of them does set the tone of who she is nowDreamer of the impossibility. Sharing from current events to interesting Health and fitness post. Follow me on my journey as i get Fit again- to what drives me in life which is Health and Fitness- without it, who knows where i would be. In other words Fitness saved my life and is giving me back what i need for my mental health which is conquered now its Stability and Learning from community and this is were i need your biggest help since the cultures are so diverse and me being a clown doesnt help at times so i would hate to step on anybodys toes, carefully learning to navigate. Help Lol!

Stephanie Marquez R

B.S. in Kinesiology from CSULA

Emphasis on Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Exercises.

Brief Background as to where I’m coming from as I approach individual customized programs…

As a senior in highschool participated in the students run L.A. program and trained to run  26.4 mile across the city of Los Angeles within a course of 3 months, with a time of 4 hours and 16 min.Participated in Cross Country, Soccer, water polo Swim team and Synchronized swim team as well as enjoyed Zumba, Roller blading, Hiking, Bicycling, volleyball, and Srenght training at the local YMCA gym.  Swim  Athlete and Swim Coach for over 12 years.  After high school graduation I became Lifeguard certified and worked for the City of Los Angeles. Then from 2009-2012 was a Summer Aquatics Director for a Boys and Girls Club we’re we taught over 100 kids, every summer, fundamental water safety and basic  swim strokes including freestyle, backstroke, breastroke and butterfly. 2013  Worked as a swim instructor for the Rose bowl Aquatics after I finished my 200 hours internship observing and assisting a aquatic physical therapist who worked with children and adults with minor to major  physical disabilities.

5lbs Fat vs 5lbs Muscle

Anatomy Overview
What do you Prefer to Maintain Fat or Gain Muscle ?

This is a picture of 5lbs of fat (L) and 5lbs of Muscle (R).

Over 6+ years of Experience in:Strength Training, CrossTraining, Bootcamp Instructor, Fitness Coaching, Nutritional Coaching..

Speaking from my personal experience..Let me start by asking you a few questions. Does running help you change body composition? Does running turn fat into muscle?Will running help you loose weight/lbs ? …. If you said yes to all the questions above your wrong . Running does not turn fat into muscle, unless your a beginner runner then yes you will gain muscle on your legs. Jogging and or running is a very efficient way to burn those extra calories and loose a whole lot of weight if you wanted to. However how many people want to run everyday or every other day ? If you can maintain an active running lifestyle on a daily than believe me your on your way to keeping all the weight off for good. However we live in a more complicated world now in days and sometimes it not always safe to take a jog in your neighborhood or let alone after a long day/s work head to the gym to run on a treadmill or a track. It’s not as convenient as it was in highschool..so we have to get a little bit smarter and a bit more ingenuine in our approaches when we have to face cardio. Anywho let’s seg way back to the topic of muscle and fat. So if running only builds muscle on our legs, how do we reach other parts of the bodies? How do we approach building muscle around my back, arms and especially our joints? The only way to put it. Frankly is by touching some weights, either at home or at the gym..And that’s another story in itself..We have 600 +muscles in our body how do we reach the major ones at least ? Good question ❓ ⁉️….So From my experience it’s best to combine a bit of both. You don’t want to get caught up doing too much cardio because what happens your skin becomes a bit more looser..Not only that but it does not guaranteed permanent results. Why? because if your not changing your eating habits ? the way you eat/ lifestyle habits make a huge difference in contributing to gaining all the weight back. The weight easily comes right back.! Trust me I’ve been there and done that for many years as I experimented with extreme cardio, example training for and running the marathon. The key is figuring out how your body works and what it takes to keep it going. Turn your fat into muscle and make your body into fat burning machine by maintaining and building muscle all over there fore ridding the fat and replacing it with muscle. If your hitting all the major muscle groups like legs; quads, hamstrings, glutes and calf’s, upper body;chest and triceps, back and biceps, shoulders and the abs just to name a few. What you will start seeing is a smaller more toned version of yourself. Ultimately If you want changes and want to learn how to maintain permanent weight loss and be able to tone and firm skin around problem areas, then build muscle!

I don’t claim to know everything but I definitely can say I have some knowledge and years of fitness experience through my own journey that started as a high school Swimmer to avid long distance runner as well as other sport enthusiast/lover.