Back from the Brink...How IF Changed One Woman's Life

New blog and first FFF profile has been posted on Fierce. Fit. Fearless.

Introducing Lisa C., one of the founding members and the instigator behind starting an IF group for women. Thank you, Lisa, for opening up about your life-long battle over your body image.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Comments

Anonymous said…

WOW, AMAZING PROGRESS!!

Post your stats :D (weight/heaight/lifts)

You're an inspiration to us all

December 24, 2011 at 11:55 AM

Lisa@The Nourishing Homemaker said…

5'3" 114 lbs (on my best days)
DL--215X4
Chins--25+BWX5
Bench Press--95X5 (I plateaued and can't figure out how to fix it)
Squats--165X6 (I recently switched to ATG squats from just below parallel so I'm hoping to see this number go up quickly.)

Thanks. I can only partly take credit. I did the work, but without Martin's vast knowledge and generosity to freely share that knowledge, I'd still be spinning my wheels.

December 29, 2011 at 7:22 PM

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