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These Podcasters Are Changing the Conversation Around Women’s Health
Read More: These Podcasters Are Changing the Conversation Around Women’s HealthUtah natives Nicolette Paige Fratto and Julie Dykstra have a talent for chatting and storytelling. For them, the conversation never seems to dull. And so, two years ago when their husbands joked, “Just put a microphone between you two, already!” it was like a lightbulb went off in their heads. Fast forward to the present…
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Emily Schromm on Her “Meathead Hippie” Style of Fitness
Read More: Emily Schromm on Her “Meathead Hippie” Style of FitnessEmily Schromm is a rarity — part meathead, part hippie. A nutritional therapy practitioner, entrepreneur and coach, Schromm has a unique approach to fitness that’s more centered on translating movement into everyday life and appreciating the environment in which you’re active. She began working out seriously when she found an old-school bodybuilding program and stuck with…
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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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Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Team Player: Jana Redwine-Landfried
Read More: Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Team Player: Jana Redwine-LandfriedMeet your Oxygen Challenge 7 Biggest Team Player winner: Jana Redwine-Landfried! Age: 41 Location: Lubbock, Texas Occupation: Physician Assistant Team: Venus Lau Redwine-Landfried entered this challenge tired, both mentally and physically. She’s been active her whole life, but was feeling drained from her “all in, all the time” mentality. This challenge came as she’s settling…
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Scary Tough Workouts with Hannah Dawson
Read More: Scary Tough Workouts with Hannah DawsonBOO! ‘Tis the season for all things scary, spooky and downright ‘EEEK worthy. So we asked a few of our ambassadors to show us the workouts that are SCARY hard. Hannah Dawson comes to us first with this nail-biting EMOM (every minute on the minute) workout. Do push-ups make you quiver in your gym shoes? Well,…
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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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What I Eat in a Day with Noel Davis
Read More: What I Eat in a Day with Noel DavisWelcome to another What I Eat in a Day! Today, Noel Davis leads us through a few of her favorite meals, snacks and go-tos. As always, we want to stress that there is no one perfect nutrition plan, but we love giving you a sneak peek into the lives of our awesome athletes for inspiration,…
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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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How Diana Mirgon Overcame a Toxic Relationship with Fitness and Food
Read More: How Diana Mirgon Overcame a Toxic Relationship with Fitness and FoodDiana Mirgon is honest, real and raw. An avid proponent for body positivity, eating for better health and sharing unfiltered social media photos, she knows what it feels like to battle a toxic relationship with food. She’d always been thin growing up, but after Mirgon had kids, she gained weight and couldn’t seem to lose…
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How One Woman Beat Cancer and Resolved to Get Fit
Read More: How One Woman Beat Cancer and Resolved to Get FitAfter her mastectomy in 2019, April Capil was at a weigh-in for reconstructive surgery. She watched in disbelief as she saw the nurse add more weight to the arm of the scale until it read 204. “Here I was having major surgery to reduce my risk of a cancer recurrence, but it turned out that…
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What I Eat in a Day with Lisa Maximus
Read More: What I Eat in a Day with Lisa MaximusLisa Maximus, Oxygen Brand Ambassador and overall badass, is a big proponent on eating for your goals. She stresses that her meal plan is based on the fact that she’s always on her feet training and coaching. Tracking macros is very important to her, especially since she has to keep her fuel levels high in…
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Olympics Update: Where Do the Women of Team USA Stand?
Read More: Olympics Update: Where Do the Women of Team USA Stand?If you’re enjoying The 2020 Tokyo Olympics as much as we are, you’ve probably seen quite a few shining (gold) moments from our U.S. athletes. Overall, 339 medals will be awarded across 33 sports. The medal count as of today is as follows: USA Olympic medal count 2021 (as of August 5, 2021) Gold: 29 Silver:…
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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.…
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5 Inspiring Fit Women to Watch
Read More: 5 Inspiring Fit Women to WatchThese five women, from all different walks of life, share inspiring stories of their fitness journey and triumphs. Reba Floto Hunt Valley, Maryland Stats: 56 • 121 lb • 5’5” Gig: Certified fitness professional, real estate agent, former NASA software engineer Jackie-of-All-Trades Though working as a NASA software engineer for 20 years was rewarding, Reba Floto…
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Skye Halliday Wilson’s Pandemic Progress
Read More: Skye Halliday Wilson’s Pandemic ProgressSkye Halliday Wilson prepares to go from taking to teaching group fitness classes as she continues her journey toward an ISSA certification — despite the odds. There is definitely irony in the fact that Skye Halliday Wilson is working on her group fitness certification as (at this writing) the COVID-19 quarantine plugs on. Yes, there’s…
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Overcoming Depression Through Fitness, Nutrition and Mindfulness
Read More: Overcoming Depression Through Fitness, Nutrition and MindfulnessAmanda Webster went from nearly committing suicide to transforming her body, mind and spirit. Here is her story. Trigger warning: This piece contains descriptions of attempted suicide. It took being on the ledge of a foreign hotel room, ready to end my life, to catapult me into taking action against something that mental health professionals…
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How One Woman Turned Her Passion for Fitness Into a Career
Read More: How One Woman Turned Her Passion for Fitness Into a CareerSkye Halliday Wilson found physical and emotional strength through fitness. Now she’s determined to pay it forward. Most before-and-after stories focus on the outward changes in a person, but for Skye Halliday Wilson, the transformation was as emotional as it was physical. “I was in an abusive relationship that put me in a black hole…
