Training with depression. You are not alone.
“Depression is a physical illness.” —Terry Bradshaw In June of 2011, I was on top of the world. I had discovered Starting Strength a year ago that month thanks to my husband, Diego. I was out of back pain. I had joined a dance company again. I opened my business, Fivex3 Training, and was slowly gaining […]
Client Profile of the Month: Juliana Molina
Juliana joined us in September of 2018. She started training twice a week, as that was all her schedule would allow at the time. And she stuck with it as best she could. However, in December of 2018, she got pretty sick (it was that time of year for a lot of our members!!) and […]
Meet Fivex3 Member, Kelly Adams: Strongwoman Competitor
Kelly is an all around bad ass woman. Lawyer, strongwoman competitor, powerlifter, hiker, dog lover, wife, daughter. She joined Fivex3 in 2014, a few months after her first Charm City Strongwoman Contest. We have had the privilege to coach her for the past five years and look forward to many, many more years of gainzzzz.. […]
Meet Jamien: Fivex3 Client Profile
Jamien began training with us in 2017. Check out his video below to learn more about his experience here at Fivex3 Training.
Client Profile: Meet Mackenzie: Strength as a Back Pain Cure
Mackenzie joined us about a year ago after training on her own. I will let her tell her story in her own words. 😉
What happens when you break your wrist? You keep training.
On Monday, September 10, 2018, one of my clients sent me a text with some bad news: “Hi Emily. So I have some bad news. I was in a car accident this morning and I broke my arm. I am totally okay otherwise but honestly my first reaction was just being angry that I won’t […]
Get Down and Get Up. You should know how to do it. It could save your life.
Lie down. And get up. Every day. We do a lot of getting up and down here at Fivex3 Training. It’s just routine by now. We don’t really think about this too often, but being able to get down and get up is a very important skill for health and longevity. Over the past several […]
Re-cap of the 7th Annual Charm City Strongwoman Contest 2018
On Sunday, September 16, 2018, Fivex3 Training hosted the 7th Annual Charm City Strongwoman Contest in Baltimore to benefit the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, specifically for Ulman’s new and exciting project, the Ulman House. My sister, Charlotte, was diagnosed in September 2011 with Stage 3 Colon Cancer. She was pretty lost for about a […]
Client Profile of the Month: Meet Jen Trout: Teacher, mother and happiest woman on Earth. ;)
Jen joined us the end of December 2017. Her daughter, Sally, trained with us during the summer of 2016 and encouraged her mother to start working with us a year ago. Jen put it off until the end of 2017 (a decision she says she now regrets.) I could tell she was hooked by the […]
Meet our 2018 Charm City Strongwoman Sponsors!!!
We have some AMAZING sponsors again this year! Please make sure to check them out and thank them for their sponsorship!!!! 😉 Meet our 2018 Charm City Strongwoman Sponsors!!! Charm City Strongwoman Title Sponsor!!! ($2000) Solid System Construction Platinum Special Sponsor ($1000) Goddard Companies, LLC Platinum Sponsors ($500) H & S Bakery East Coast […]
