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Celebrating Empowerment Through National Women’s Health Week

May 15, 2013 By Kasey 2 Comments

Good morning everyone! Happy Friday! Today for Feature Friday I have a guest post that goes right along with my Tosca Reno Inspires video from yesterday! Did you know that this week was National Women’s Health week? I’ll let Michelle share her post with you today! __________________________ Celebrating Empowerment Through National Women's Health Week via Michelle Pino Michelle is a Spa Manager at a spa inn Verona, NY. Michelle has provided these tips in hopes to educate others on how to lead a more motivating and less stressful life. She enjoys cooking, DIY projects and learning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, FitFluential, Friday Feature Tagged With: Empowerment, guest post, Michelle Pino, National Women's Health Week

#WhatsBeautiful Highlight Video & Close Grip Pull-Downs

May 15, 2013 By Kasey 1 Comment

Hey everyone! I hope you’re having a great Wednesday! Half way through the week – are you working on achieving a weekly goal? You totally got this! Today I’m very excited to share with you a video that I’ve been putting together the last few days for the What’s Beautiful campaign that I’m working on with FitFluential & Under Armour Women! Prepare to be inspired by these beautiful ladies from #teamTRUETOYOU. #WHATSBEAUTIFUL via @POWERCAKES & #TEAMTRUETOYOU When the campaign started again, I knew that I wanted to make a video highlighting some of the girls I workout … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential, Fitness, Whats Beautiful Tagged With: Clients, exercise, FitFluential, personal training, POWERCAKES, Powercakes Trained, under armour, whats beautiful, workout

Weekend Recap & What’s Beautiful Core Challenge!

May 13, 2013 By Kasey 7 Comments

Good morning everyone! Hope you had a great weekend! I was able to spend mine with my family, friends, boyfriend, & his family! I’m going to start off today with some rare photo opps from this weekend with the boy. Rare because we only see each other once a week or every other so usually we’re just relaxing and not camera ready! but you’ll see even with a camera around we still aren’t camera ready. are we cute or what!? #sarcasm I know this looks like I got engaged, but I promise I would have already flipped out via twitter! haha Finally got a good one! We spent the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential Tagged With: boyfriend, campaign, challenge, core, FitFluential, fitness, I WILL, POWERCAKES, under armour, whats beautiful, workout

Saturday Sports Edition: Thrive Forward Recovery

May 11, 2013 By Kasey 3 Comments

Happy Saturday everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend! Today I wanted to share with you some more information from one of my favorite programs {Thrive Forward} I’ve blogged about this program before [here] & [here] where I spoke about the new Sports Edition component to the Thrive movement! I am loving all of this information especially geared towards sports training, endurance, plant based proteins, & recovery. Recovery is a topic that I often research because there really is so much information out there. What I like to do is act like a sponge and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential, plantPOWER, Recipe, Thrive Forward Tagged With: Brendan Brazier, electrolytes, fitfluenetial, POWERCAKES, recovery, thrive forward, vega

Lemon Carrot Poppy Seed Cookies!

May 10, 2013 By Kasey 2 Comments

TGIF everyone! I hope you had a good week & were able to reach some of your weekly goals that you set! Speaking of goals, have you declared your #WHATSBEAUTIFUL goal & joined #TEAMTRUETOYOU? I am so excited to be working with FitFluential & Under Armour Women throughout [this campaign]! On Monday be ready for the first challenge! Don’t forget that you can upload anything to the site to show your progress. Can’t wait to see what we all can achieve! Details on yesterdays [post] #IWILL ___________________________________ Today I wanted to shared a new recipe just in time … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential, Fitness, plantPOWER, Recipe, The Eat Clean Diet, Thrive Forward Tagged With: be true to you, boyfriend, cookies, Corey, FitFluential, Poppy seed, power cookies, POWERCAKES, powerfoods, superfoods, under armour, whats beautiful

Join me in the What’s Beautiful Campaign!

May 9, 2013 By Kasey 7 Comments

Good morning everyone! This week has been quite a blur so I apologize for missing in action BUT today I am back with some much needed positive news! I am so excited to be working on a campaign with FitFluential and Under Armour Women to help redefine What's Beautiful. You can watch the demo video [here] for some more info! Under Armour states, “This is for women who want to push past where they have been before. To put a goal out to the world and go after it in a big way. But we're also opening up our site to teams of women who want to complete goals together.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential Tagged With: I WILL, under armour, whats beautiful

New Exercise: Pin Party Plate Lifts!

May 2, 2013 By Kasey 7 Comments

Hi all! So glad you enjoyed the [Roasted Eggplant & Zucchini Tortilla Pizza] from yesterday’s post! Who says gluten free plant based recipes have to be boring? Not this girl! It’s all about taking the time to experiment & find what flavor combos you like best. Earlier in the week I posted about my [Weekend Recap] where the boy & I hit the gym with some new exercises to share! Being a personal trainer I love to learn new workouts & exercises, not only for myself, but for my clients as well! When I work out in the gym with Corey, he becomes the personal trainer in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, CrossFit, FitFluential, Fitness, plantPOWER, Recipe, The Eat Clean Diet, Thrive Forward Tagged With: exercise, FitFluential, fitness, pin party, pinterest, plant based, POWERCAKES, Recipe, the lean green bean, workout

Roasted Eggplant & Zucchini Tortilla Pizza

May 1, 2013 By Kasey 4 Comments

hey all! I hope you’re enjoying your Wednesday! I’ve been a busy bee this week with meetings, clients, workouts, & being a driver/nurse for papacakes who recently just got knee surgery. He actually tore his meniscus on a job so I’ve been helping out by going to the doctors appointments & such with him. He’s doing well & was just going over the exercises he needs to do while rehabbing that I can totally help him with! Today I wanted to share with you a new recipe that I’ve been wanting to for a while now! Recently I’ve been craving pizza but [surprisingly] didn’t feel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential, plantPOWER, Recipe, The Eat Clean Diet, Thrive Forward Tagged With: brown rice tortilla, Eat Clean Diet, eggplant, pizza, plant based, powermeal, tortilla pizza, zucchini

Friday Features: Embracing Our Different Food Choices!

April 26, 2013 By Kasey 5 Comments

Good Afternoon everyone! Happy Friday! Don’t forget that you have until Saturday at midnight to enter the Headbands Of Hope Giveaway! I’ve already been told by a handful of people that they’ve purchased some headbands & that made my day! You are making a difference in this beautiful cause. ______________________________ I wanted to start today’s Feature Friday by highlighting a post from FitFluential where they asked… For those who have followed my blog, you all know that I constantly say #BETRUETOYOU – why? Because everyone's body is different & works … [Read more...]

Filed Under: beTRUEtoYOU, Blog, FitFluential, Fitness, Friday Feature, Recipe, The Eat Clean Diet, Thrive Forward Tagged With: be true to you, eat a rainbow, eat clean, embrace, FitFluential, friday feature, Headbands of hope, inspire, POWERCAKES, recipes

Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

April 25, 2013 By Kasey 5 Comments

Happy Thursday all! If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Headbands Of Hope Giveaway – check it out [here] & prepare to be inspired by this beautiful cause. Even though I post a lot of meal ideas on Instagram & on here, I feel like I haven’t shared a cookie recipe in a while! This is one of those recipes where I literally through everything into a bowl & it worked! Trust me, many recipes go unshared based on these experiments not always working BUT this one is a winner! What makes these even more awesome is that I made them at 7am on a Saturday which is not … [Read more...]