Coach Fowler, Edmond, OK (2025)

02/03/2023

This gym, these humans 💚

07/03/2021

First, refrain from any comments on my body. Positive, negative, or ones containing neutrality - just don’t.

This post, this message - is simply one about “showing up and being seen anyway”.

This is the first time I’ve been in any swimwear in quite some time. I’m headed to a simple family function, and once I put the suit on I looked in the mirror and thought “ohhhhh, there’s noticeably more of me right now!”

In that moment I grossly ignored everything that my body CAN do (performatively in the gym), and everything that my body has been through during a traumatizing pandemic. I prioritized image over action. Ughhhhhhh.

Why do we allow ourselves to endure this personal judgement?

It’s NONE OF MY BUSINESS what you think about my body in this moment. What IS MY BUSINESS is how I showed up after these mirror thoughts:

🔥 I’m going to the party because I refuse to miss out on life and connection and fun because of extra belly fat
🔥 It’s 90°, hotAF, I’m wearing this suit
🔥 My body is strong, it can do amazing things, and it’s in a season of fluctuation right now and THAT IS OKAY

I hope you still go to the party.
I hope you wear the suit.
I hope you dance.
🖤🔥💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾

06/09/2021

We can care about it, but we don’t have to carry it, too.

In the middle of this shoot with Heather Wi******er, I decided to sit on the ground and lean my back up against this wall in the Paseo. They turned out to be some of my favorite shots.

In this picture I can see myself letting go... putting the weight down and choosing to care instead of carry. I’m also staring ahead at one of my favorite people, too 🖤

05/20/2021

Social media gets a bad rap. And so does vulnerability & sharing your story.

Can it be a time suck? Sure.

Can it be misleading? You bet.

Can sharing your story make you a target for others to throw stones your direction? Unfortunately.

But social media has been a learning avenue for me. It’s connected me to some of my favorite people. It allowed me to open a business. It allows me to journal my successes and failures and traumas and then share those teaching moments to those that want them.

There are nuggets every day where I find myself saying “oh, I love this!” or “oh, this is so good”.

AND. AND. AND.

There also lies a responsibility in me to hit unfollow when things no longer serve me. That’s a healthy move.

Let social media help you, and if you find that it’s doing the opposite, well, then do your part and take the action that you need to take.

We overcomplicate things. Our brains, er, our egos, have a way of doing that. In what ways do you find this platform beneficial?

📸 Alexandrea Delgado Photography

03/25/2021

SEVEN. Research says that it takes seven positive words to balance out a negative one. We talked about this topic during a teacher meeting yesterday and about how badly our students need positive reinforcement.

So think about the times in which you've spoken negative words toward someone in your life - be it a friend, a partner, a family member. This means that they needed to hear something positive seven times more in order to cancel out the negativity you threw toward them.

WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF? How often do we stumble upon negative self talk?

"Ugh, this outfit looks like s**t on me."

"I'm an idiot."

"I'm fat."

I went to my first reiki session a couple of weeks ago, and toward the end she asked me when the last time was that I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "I love you."

Tears filled my eyes. I don't know that I'd ever done that.

7:1. This is for you. This is for me. I hope you see yourself in a positive light today. I hope you are able to look in the mirror with love. We all deserve that.

02/25/2021

it’s 💯 okay to look back at a time and wish for those specific moments again. It doesn’t mean you haven’t grown. It doesn’t mean you haven’t moved on. It’s just that life has been throwing out “gotchas” left and right for the past 18 months, and it’s okay in those moments to take a deep breath, feel the moment, and utter “remember when?”

I don’t stay there long. I’ve got s**t to do here.

📸 Alexandrea Delgado

02/11/2021

ME - “I don’t want to!” 😭

Annie - “too bad, you’re already here.” 🙄

It’s 16° here in OKC and I had 53,267 reasons to sleep in and not workout. But today, I showed up.

You won’t always be pumped for your workout and you won’t always be motivated either. There IS a time for rest and recovery, but today wasn’t that. I just needed to crawl my ass outta bed because nobody is gonna do it for me. There’s a time for grace, but there’s also a time to tell yourself to quit bitching and get s**t done. That was my speech to myself this morning at the 5AM hour. Didn’t love it, but I don’t regret it.

01/21/2021

I gained 13 pounds after having Covid. I’m not sure if telling you this makes me a good coach, a bad coach, a safe coach, a vulnerable coach, or just a “listen to this wild ass story” coach. But whatever, there’s a lesson in it for me.

I was working hard toward something this past fall and had ALL OF THE MOMENTUM going for me, then I got Covid at the very beginning of November and it changed absolutely everything. Not only was I simultaneously without electricity for 13 days, but it harshly impacted my business and my mental stability. After picking up a lot of broken pieces in mid November, I went into a depression that I’ve never experienced. I’ve honestly only ever experienced anxiety, and this wasn’t that. Needless to say, my therapist has been pivotal for me over the last 12 weeks.

I’m not repulsed by a 13 pound weight gain. I am not defined by it either. I also know that trading wine for water and cake pops for veggies probably has me down a few of those pounds. I haven’t checked or weighed recently. Right now it’s just where I’m at, until I’m not.

I’m a gym owner that experienced emotional trauma at 18 years older and 260 pounds, 30 years old and 159 pounds, and at 37 years old and 185 pounds. Fitness and health are much more than discipline and motivation. It’s more than “if I can do it so can you.” It’s sitting with our s**t, recognizing our coping mechanisms, and then navigating our way back to what feels good for us. Lifting weights feels good. Healthy nutrition feels good, too. And here I am.

I have started to see my clients in this light, too. They may not be body aware because of trauma. They may be nutritionally triggered because of trauma, too. This awareness has allowed me to be more than a “just show up” or a “just lift this” kind of coach. I see them. They know it, too.

12/12/2020

What item do you immediately open once you get back to your car from the grocery store and why is it peanut butter filled pretzels from Trader Joe’s? 😜

Whew. I hit a wall yesterday. I crashed head on, actually. I began to think about how stressed I was at the end of 2019 and how I fully believed that I would be in a much better place 1 year later. The reality of a worse off situation slapped me across the face, and tears turned into that damn double breathing/acute ventilation thing (I always called this snubbing but idk) and I reached out to my friends and let them hold space for me as I sat paralyzed in my house and cried all afternoon. I finally left my house in the early evening for a TJ run. These pretzels helped. So did the champs 😂🍾

This year is devastating on so many levels. I have watched friends shut the doors to their small gyms and I’ve seen other friends fight for their breath in ICU. I’m overwhelmed at the unprecedented changes in our lives and the different hardships we’ve all faced. I’m alarmed at the racism that continues to pe*****te this country. Dating in this world is laughable, running a small business is really fu***ng terrifying, and teaching high school is devastating.

Le sigh. I felt it all yesterday - the raw helplessness while simultaneously feeling guilt wondering if I’m doing enough.

Less than 24 hours later I’m up drinking coffee on this Saturday AM while the world sits still for a moment longer. I just want to remind you that we are still in a pandemic and if you have a crumbling moment(s), one where you might need pretzels as soon as you get to your car, then that’s okay. And if you open the pretzels right when you get to your car EVEN when we’re not even in a pandemic, you are my people 😂🖤

Breathe today. We’ve got this. We’re not done.

12/08/2020

EMOM workouts. Sometimes you just crawl into a tire and hang out for recovery.

11/25/2020

My advice? Eat the damn pie (if that’s what you wanna do). I am not a fan of the “food is fuel” slogan. I DO believe that the better our nutrition is overall, the better our bodies perform for us.

But food is also an experience. I felt that in Italy. I felt that when I lost sense of taste with Covid. And I feel it every time I gather with my large family around a meal made with love and intention.

Things are different this year, but there will still be pie and imma eat it guilt free.
Pumpkin > Pecan. Don’t @ me.

While I’m at it, I’m still gonna move my body that morning, too. Not to play defense for a holiday meal, but to work on getting stronger because 🍑

Happy Thanksgiving ✌🏼🦃🍁

10/09/2020

Lifting weights, healthy eating, fat loss, healing, communication, relationships, owning a plant, cooking... every damn thing we do requires consistent practice in order to get better at it. Don’t fall into the “success overnight” trap.

Achievement takes time, and it might even require a few failures along the way. And that’s ok. It’s part of the growth process.

I’m consistent and intentional with 2 things right now: chin-ups and sustainable fat loss. Are you working toward something specific right now? I wanna know! Tell me below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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