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2022 Arnold Classic Winner Lauralie Chapados on Contest Prep and Leg-Day Musts
Read More: 2022 Arnold Classic Winner Lauralie Chapados on Contest Prep and Leg-Day MustsLauralie Chapados was in shock after winning The Arnold Classic 2022 Bikini International competition. In fact, it didn’t exactly hit her until days later during media interviews when people addressed her as Ms. Bikini International. “I was like, ‘Who?’” Chapados says, laughing. “In the moment I won, it was relief and redemption.” Chapados is an…
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Teresa Burkett on Why Silver Is the New Strong
Read More: Teresa Burkett on Why Silver Is the New StrongTeresa Burkett lives just outside Columbus, Ohio in a little cabin in the woods with her husband. She has her own home gym, 123k followers on Instagram and an ever-growing motivation to prove that strength can come at any age. After her children had grown up and moved out, Burkett went through a divorce and…
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How Ashley Horner Found Empowerment in Fitness
Read More: How Ashley Horner Found Empowerment in FitnessAshley Horner does all the things. Given her track record as an influencer, athletic powerhouse, motivator, coach, mother, wife and business owner, it’s safe to say Horner could move mountains if she felt it would benefit other people. One of her biggest influences in the fitness world is as a coach, reaching people across the…
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Noel Arevalo’s Journey from Bikini Competitions to Powerlifting
Read More: Noel Arevalo’s Journey from Bikini Competitions to PowerliftingYou may not be able to tell from her upbeat Instagram posts or cheery attitude on her YouTube channel, but Southern California native Noel Arevalo had a tough upbringing. At 13, she was already taking care of herself independently. Spending years on her own took a toll on her, and the results showed up in…
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Anna Victoria on Her Postpartum Fitness Journey
Read More: Anna Victoria on Her Postpartum Fitness JourneyAnna Victoria has 1.1 million followers on Instagram, a thriving fitness career and a brand new baby. Women from across the country look to her for advice, inspiration and as a “superhero” fit mom. But you don’t always see the trials and tribulations that come before the end result. Victoria began her fitness journey in…
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How Lindsay Raynne Balances Weight Loss With Self-Love
Read More: How Lindsay Raynne Balances Weight Loss With Self-LoveLindsay Raynne was featured in one of Oxygen’s Success Stories for her incredible transformation — not only physically, but on the inside, too. Becoming a mom is one of the most special experiences you can have, but for Raynne, it was also one of the most stressful. After her second daughter, Anna, was born, her blood…
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Jaclyn Cordeiro on Striving for Progress, Not Perfection
Read More: Jaclyn Cordeiro on Striving for Progress, Not PerfectionOur newest Oxygen Ambassador, Jaclyn Cordeiro, is a force to be reckoned with. She grew up with two older brothers and quickly learned the term “survival of the fittest” in her household. Cordeiro also played every sport she could: soccer, Taekwondo, boxing and more. She attended the University of Windsor, earning a bachelor’s degree in…
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Athlete Spotlight: an Update from Skye Halliday Wilson
Read More: Athlete Spotlight: an Update from Skye Halliday WilsonWe first met Skye Halliday Wilson in June 2020 when she shared the story of how fitness changed her life. She told us her goal was to share what she knows with others and earn a ISSA group exercise certification. We’ve followed Wilson’s journey through the years; including managing the “new normal” in the midst…
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Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Transformation: Carmen Pacheco
Read More: Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Transformation: Carmen PachecoMeet Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Transformation winner, Carmen Pacheco! Age: 48 Location: Brooklyn, New York Occupation: Independent Contractor/Entrepreneur Team: Both When Carmen Pacheco signed up for The Oxygen Challenge 7, she hadn’t properly exercised in over a year. For a variety of reasons, including the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and poor nutrition habits, Pacheco had gained more…
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4 Effective Medicine-Ball Movements with Jeanette Chandler
Read More: 4 Effective Medicine-Ball Movements with Jeanette ChandlerThere’s almost always a set of medicine balls at the gym; personally, we think they’re one of the most under-utilized fitness tools in the game. Oxygen Ambassador, trainer and owner of Fit with Jeanette, Jeanette Chandler, shows us four unique movements that can be done anywhere with just a 10-pound medicine ball. When you feel…
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Michelle Carvalho Proves It’s Never Too Late for Fitness
Read More: Michelle Carvalho Proves It’s Never Too Late for FitnessMichelle Carvalho had never been satisfied with her physique, and as her 40th birthday approached, she did the only thing she knew of to lose weight: She went on a diet. “I have been on and off diets my whole life,” Carvalho says. “In fact, I think [I started] my first diet when I was…
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3 Kids and a Goal to Get Healthy
Read More: 3 Kids and a Goal to Get HealthyGrowing up, Lindsay Raynne relied on food for emotional support. “I came from a broken family, and eating was my constant,” she says. “Stability in caloric intake, you could say. I could always count on the joys of taste.” Low income living meant poor food quality for Raynne and her family, and she lived off…
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My Morning Routine with MC Hernandez
Read More: My Morning Routine with MC HernandezIn high school, Maricarmen (MC) Hernandez participated and excelled in team sports and upon graduation, fell in love with lifting weights and regularly going to the gym. She graduated with a BA in business administration and management and a minor in biology from Florida International University. After a long career in hospitality, marketing and the…
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How Van Lifer Claire P. Thomas Stays Fit and Healthy on the Road
Read More: How Van Lifer Claire P. Thomas Stays Fit and Healthy on the RoadWe chose a location on a random stretch of beach just off the Honoapi‘ilani Highway on Maui — a place where we could pull Claire P. Thomas’ converted Sprinter van through the kiawe trees and onto the sand. The only other people around were a few environmental volunteers taking water samples down the way. We…
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Welcome To My Gym with Hannah Dawson
Read More: Welcome To My Gym with Hannah DawsonHannah Dawson is a certified personal trainer, transformation coach, nutrition coach, former bodybuilding competitor and the owner and creator of the Fit Club. Areas of Expertise: Personal training and nutrition coaching. Today, she takes us on a tour of her home gym and shows us the ropes! The post Welcome To My Gym…
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Ellie Manacchio Goes From Bullied to Bikini Model
Read More: Ellie Manacchio Goes From Bullied to Bikini ModelGrowing up, Ellie Marie Manacchio realized that she didn’t look like her peers. “I was always the heavy kid in a room of super-thin friends,” she remembers. “My dad told me I was ‘big boned’ and that it was just our family’s genetics.” Manacchio came from a big Italian family — with big Italian appetites…
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What I Eat in a Day With Danielle Duffy
Read More: What I Eat in a Day With Danielle DuffyDanielle Duffy is a personal trainer, group fitness instructor, NPC figure coach and the owner of Danielle Fitness. She has over 12 years of experience teaching, training, managing and directing in the fitness industry.Duffy obtained her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from San José State University in 2010 and has been involved in fitness ever…
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What I Eat in a Day With Hannah Dawson
Read More: What I Eat in a Day With Hannah DawsonHannah Dawson has been a certified personal trainer for the past 15 years and a nutrition and mindset coach for the past seven, so it’s safe to say she knows what she’s doing when it comes to fitness and nutrition. “I flexible eat,” Dawson says. “I track my macros and calories. This is what I…
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Angela Gargano: From Gymnast to Accidental Ninja
Read More: Angela Gargano: From Gymnast to Accidental NinjaThe first time I met Angela Gargano was in a small, cluttered basement room of a massive televangelical church just outside Orange, Connecticut. I was shooting for the September/October 2017 issue of Oxygen with a photographer I had never used before and a random girl from Rhode Island who had pitched herself as a fitness model.…
