Blog - Melissa Traynor

23Sep

10 Jabs to Your Chin

It has been shown that habit change comes from awareness followed by repeated actions, but it is also important to start that process with repeated exposures of, as I like to call them, [...]

16Sep

Hormetic Exercise Promotes Human Health and Resilience

I will warn (?!?) you in advance that this is not a typical blog post of mine but as I keep streamlining, you will get these on occasion when you might be expecting something more actionable and [...]

01Sep

#MPOWERment Workout Playlist 81

Here is your #MPOWERment workout playlist 81 Ciara – Rooted A Tribe Called Red feat. Black Bear- Stadium Pow Wow 3. Guns N Roses – Civil War 4. Madonna – Human Nature 5. Marilyn [...]

24Aug

Training Tool Hierarchy

VS We have but 30 minutes x days per week to fit in what we can in terms of teaching, learning, coaching, and most importantly making strides towards the goal. To complicate matters further there [...]

16Aug

A Resilient Road

I put a LOT into what getting far in this competition meant for my next steps in life…. UPDATE: So I made the first few cuts which I suppose says a lot since it was an international [...]

05Aug

#MPOWERment Workout Playlist 80

So many years of these #MPOWERment workout playlists…. JOYRYDE – Hot Drum 2. Jully Black – Until I Stay (remix) 3. SNBR feat Kaleena Zanders, Chris Lake & Matroda Remix [...]

20Jul

Snappy ‘Slam Dunk’ Eats

Disclaimer: Snappy Grains reached out to me about their product, and after I reviewed it and what they stand for, I did accept and that’s why you are reading this. We like to ‘colour [...]

08Jul

#MPOWERment Workout Playlist 79

Is this pandemic over yet?!? I hope you are all staying smart and taking care of each other. I hope to get back to blogging more next month when the time will at least moderately allow. Until [...]

01Jun

#MPOWERment Workout Playlist 78

Here it is, you’re June 2020 #MPOWERment workout playlist: Marie Davidson – Work It 2. Nelly – Heart of a Champion 3. Lupe Fiasco – Little Weapon 4. Disclosure feat. Eko [...]

01May

#MPOWERment Workout Playlist 77

While many have lost their already dwindled resolution motivation, I will be that the pandemic sure didn’t help! Keep hanging in there as this will pass and my hope for you is that this [...]