You can take up space! My new article on @barbend centralizes women and variously gendered folks who are taught to not take up space, and the power of powerlifting (see what I did there?). @uncovering_i_dentity @annavinyasa @albanborova @gdom77 @dumbo_pt_team @helenafayy @dan_krakaur @mi_chael I feel like you'll appreciate this one. #personaltraining #powerlifting #bodypositivity #liftheavy #girlswholiftheavy #bodypositivetraining #womenworkout #womenpowerlifting #girlswholift #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypowerlifting #barbend #fitnessarticles #personaltrainer #fitnessculture #gymlife https://www.instagram.com/p/Btlyo3zgsm4okA-awFRFG4HICI0zCf0W16dsv80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17bk1427tv3oc

300 club!! Pulled 305 nice and easy, with hella support from the amazing @annavinyasa and @shiner_rock1!!! (Rodney my man, I tried to make us look like comic book characters in the photo because MILES MORALES IS COMING OUT SO SOON!!!!) #cantstopwontstop #writerswholift #deadlift #squad #powerlifting #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypowerlifting #personaltrainer #genderqueertraining #transpersonaltrainer #nonbinarypersonaltrainer #powerlifter https://www.instagram.com/p/BrEbQFhAL79E5470M2BUypbQYZiy3IEiClFxqk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gnucsc7hqbx9

From last weekend's meet. The second video is the only lift I missed, and one of my fellow lifters reminded me: If you don't miss one in your first meet, you're not trying hard enough. So damn sweet, and a beautifully timed reminder that imperfection can be a wonderful thing. A fabulous time with fabulous people. What a growth curve I've had this year. Wow. #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypositivity #nonbinarypowerlifting #transpositivity #powerlifting #powerlifter #personaltrainer #equinoxmademedoit #squatsfordays #deadlifting #alsobench #thattoo (at CrossFit Downtown Atlanta and ATL Barbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/BozXJi5AMbXIvbSX5A_PRDv1ursCMyKkVEKunA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=whhgxup0ehcd

Bloopers from my meet a couple weeks ago. The first pic is during weigh-in, reacting when they told me that the scale will say how much I weigh: mind was BLOWN. The second photo, I have no frakking clue what I was doing. Dancing on the floor, later, and then just being... well, me. Good to remind myself not to take myself so seriously, not to be so hard on myself (and, frankly, mean to myself), especially when everything feels impossible and my sense of worth is nowhere to be found. Good to remind myself of the person I usually love being; the first to make people laugh when they're nervous, that kinda thing. #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypowerlifting #transpositivity #nonbinarypositivity #powerlifting #powerlifter #bloopers #whyamilikethis #writerswholift #gymlife #gymhumor #equinoxmademedoit #personaltrainer #yesimalsothisweirdinsessions (at CrossFit Downtown Atlanta and ATL Barbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpMgx4_AhufL-SHVCaRm0utCLir9BaCN9rNkJU0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j2n03t29n37j

These last eight weeks training for my first powerlifting meet, I've learned so damn much. About lifting, sure; but mostly, about myself. I always knew that lifting was my "me" time, my best alone time aside from writing and watching Agents of SHIELD. But I learned these few weeks that I like being alone *around* people that I care about, that care about me. People like @mrliverich and @theoduscrane and @anthony_vita and @mi_chael. TEAM. I learned what my body handles well (baby food during long lifting sessions, yo) and what it doesn't handle well (coffee makes me SHAKE). I learned that I am capable of so much more than I've always been told I am; that lifting is what I've always been driving toward; that it's a form of loving my body, my mind, a kind of creativity and growth and cleansing I will never stop thirsting for. That chasing constructed aesthetics of white masculinity hurt just as much as when I used to let myself be coerced into chasing constructed aesthetics of white femininity. I just need to chase... being under (and...over? deadlifts yo) heavy barbells, because I fucking love it. For me. Because I deserve things. Dammit. #powerlifting #powerlifter #oneweekout #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypositivity #nonbinarypowerlifting #personaltrainer #liftinglife #queerlifting #writerswholift #equinoxmademedoit #poweredbypride #team #sundaythoughts https://www.instagram.com/p/BoWVj_jgotL5sKcwdct71wOeeXP7u7d_1jJpN80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dxisvtz7g44x

About 8 weeks out from my first #powerlifting meet with @ftmfitnessworld!! Enby and trans folks -- including wonderful and powerful transfemme folks, of course -- who need some training community and/or guidance, hit me up! I have online personal training packages but also, we all need community so like ;) #personaltrainer #transpowerlifting #nonbinarypowerlifting #nonbinarycommunity #transcommunity #writerswholift #squatsfordays #poweredbypride (at Atlanta, Georgia)

I'm embarking on a hella exciting and emotional new career path -- personal training (alongside, of course, my writing and teaching) -- and the sheer amount of energy and guts it takes to come out fifteen billion times a day in an overwhelmingly cishet industry is... tough and exhausting and, to be honest, lonely. But I have a feeling it's going to be very, very worth it. Being able to be visible in my gym is an honor and a privilege, and @equinox has made me feel very welcome so far. #transmasc #pride for the win. #trans #nonbinary #lesbian #nonbinarypositivity #transpositivity #transpowerlifting #transfitness #nonbinaryfitness #writerswholift #trainingday #personaltrainer #poweredbypride