Coffee & Kettlebells

Parenting always feels like such a hot button topic because everyone has their own opinions + experiences that they bring to the table. It's safe to say that all parents experience unsolicited advice and even judgment at some point. If we let that in, it's so easy to find ourselves down a rabbit hole of mom guilt.  But, there's hope yet! We've been given the gift of being parents, and we have the power to control how we navigate through the world with our kiddos. At the end of the day, we all need to do what is best for our kids, which we know better than anybody else. Today I'm sharing some of my favorite tools for dealing with this:  Take a look at the source of the advice. Build out a trusted network of resources.  Have confidence in yourself.  Let the negativity roll off your back.  Don't put judgment out there.  There's no one size fits all approach to parenting, and we all need the space to figure out what works for us. Let's shower each other with more support

Today we’re joined by a badass, mom of 3, personal trainer, and CrossFit athlete – Emily Breeze. Emily’s built her career up around this motto: you don’t have to be fit to start, but you have to start to be fit. Her followers love her for her authentic and honest take on how to incorporate fitness into your everyday life. As a mom of two with one on the way, I’m super passionate about what it looks like to stay fit as a mom. Emily shares that for her to be a happy mother and wife, she needs that 30 - 60 minutes to sweat every day. But, Emily also believes that the world is our playground when it comes to working out. She shares inspiration on how you can fit that workout in nearly anywhere. It’s so easy to forget that working out is simply moving your body. Emily reminds us how important it is to find the movement that works for you. With three kids under three, Emily also has a lot of perspective on motherhood, pregnancy, and where fitness fits. We chat about the fitness shaming that too often goes on when w

Significant changes in our lives can make us feel lost, maybe even unrecognizable, both physically, mentally. Today, I am encouraging you to be proud of the person you are every day.  The decade challenge has been floating around social media. I participated in the challenge by posting a picture of Devan and me from the present-day and ten years ago. I read so many captions on other people's decade challenge posts that read something like:  "This is what kids will do to you."  or...  "10 years ago and 10 pounds thinner, too!"  Stop focusing on the things that you miss from your past life, focus on what you have gained! It takes a concerted effort to reconnect with yourself, make time for yourself, and take care of yourself.  I want you to stop feeling guilty about your 45-minute workout, lunch by yourself, heading to bed early to read, or even watching an hour of your favorite show!  Today I am giving you some of my best practices that I try to integrate into my life to keep myself a

Today we're joined by cardiologist and best-selling author of the Plant Paradox – Dr. Steven Gundry. Dr. Gundry shares with us some of the hidden dangers of so-called "healthy" food and what we should be looking out for in our diets.    We chat about one of the most talked-about items in healthy food culture – gluten. Dr. Gundry shares that gluten is a type of lectin, which is simply a plant protein that can actually be found in lots of foods. But, while lots of people have started adopting a gluten-free diet, that doesn't mean that they're avoiding lectins altogether and these proteins can be associated with inflammation and a variety of other health issues.    Dr. Gundry shares about how lectins affect people differently and how so many diseases begin in the gut. He shares that by simply eating and eliminating the right foods, many people are seeing a reverse in inflammation, symptoms, and conditions. We also chat about the seven deadly disruptors that Dr. Gundry shares in his book

In today’s episode, we’re talking about taking risks and my personal experience in how stepping out of our comfort zone completely changed the course of my life.  When I look back on my story, I realized that I’ve been taking risks for the past 10+ years throughout my entire career. First, I had to step out of my norm and move to Naples for my first job with Kellogg's. Then just as we were settling into life in Naples, I was offered a promotion to head to Charlotte. Eventually, I came to one of the biggest crossroads in my life. Do I continue climbing the corporate ladder or do I move my efforts full-time to Burn Boot Camp? You guys may know where we landed on that one, but it was SUCH a tough decision to make.  Each and every time these opportunities came up in my life, I asked myself “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” Most of the time, the worst thing is simply that we fail and then we move forward in a new direction. It’s so easy for us to fixate on what could go wrong when we start taking ri

Does weight loss consume you? This one is for you. It’s time for you to step outside of the mindset that you need to lose weight. So many of us have fallen victim to diets that strip us of our energy and our happiness. They leave us feeling burnt out and resentful. It’s time to stop focusing on losing weight and focus on building the happiest, healthiest, and strongest version of yourself!  There is so much more to life than restricting diets and workouts that make you unhappy. That’s what I am here to remind you.. It’s time to be empowered by your diet choices and choose progress over perfection. The new year is right around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to reset your mindset, set realistic goals, and enjoy your life with the people you love! For daily fitness, nutrition, and life inspiration, as well as a glimpse into my everyday life, follow me on Instagram and Facebook! Want more? Listen to my episode, where I discuss why you should ditch the scale for good and how you can replace it with healthie

I’m going to be 100% honest with you, I don’t believe in cheat meals. I don’t believe it is the best strategy for developing a healthy and happy relationship with food and your body. Why? Cheat meals make us label food as good or bad. In turn we relate this “good and bad” mentality to ourselves. When we eat good food, we are good and when we eat bad food, we are bad. This leads us to constantly judge and punish ourselves for our bad choices.  It gives us the mentality that our cheat meal is a reward for eating healthy all week long, so when we eat something unhealthy outside of our cheat meal, we feel like we need to punish ourselves. This can either be mental punishment, where we are beating ourselves up on the inside. Or this can be a physical punishment where we think we need to work out extra hard, or do double workouts for a few days to “make up for” the “damage” we did. We should never live a life where we are always judging or punishing ourselves. We deserve better than that. Plus, this mentality will

I love bringing you the information you are looking for to ensure I am helping you live your happiest life. That’s why I love asking you on my Instagram what your top questions are when it comes to maximizing the quality of your life. Questions I answer in this episode…  What’s your best general life advice to someone in their late 20s?  What do you do when you feel really self-conscious?  How do you and your husband keep the romance alive with two kids?   What’s your best advice for adjusting from one kid to two kids?   How do you balance being a boss bass/mom/wife and your social life?  

In this episode of Coffee & Kettlebells, my guest Stephanie Middleberg and I chat about all things baby food: Organic and homemade, smoothies and purees, tips and tricks. This episode is going to give you a step-by-step guide for feeding your baby at every stage: 6 months, 6-8 months, 9-12 months and 10 months and up.  Stephanie Middleberg is the best-selling author of The Big Book of Organic Baby Food as well as The Big Book of Organic Toddler Food. So if you listened to episode 101, all about baby-led weaning and you know it just isn’t for you and your baby, Stephanie is here to share with us another route we can take with our baby to ensure we are feeding them the best foods possible.  This episode is for all the new and expecting mothers out there. But, if you aren’t one of those two, I know there will be valuable information in this episode you won’t want to miss!  Read more on our blog! Find more from Stephanie:   Instagram: @middlebergnutrition  Website: middlebergnutrition.com  Buy S

I love bringing you the information you are looking for to ensure I am helping you reach your goals. That’s why I love asking my listeners and followers on my Instagram what your top questions are when it comes to nutrition and fitness.   Questions I answer in this episode…    You talk about the importance of vegetables a lot but what is your view on fruits?   How do you stick to healthy eating?   What does a regular day of eating look like for you?   How can I lower my body fat percentage?   What’s the difference between using heavy weights and light weights? I don’t always want to use heavy weights because after five days of Burn, my body is just so tired.   Can I use lighter weights and still get toned?   What is your opinion of sugar alcohols?   Why do I always feel hungry? How many rest days do you take a week?    Read more on our blog! Find more from me: Instagram: @morgan.a.kline Facebook: @coffee&kettlebells If Coffee & Kettlebells has made a positive impa

Let’s chat about intermittent fasting!   There’s a lot of hype around intermittent fasting—and a lot of questions about it, too. How do you intermittent fast? What kind of intermitting fasting should you do? Do you need to intermittent fast to see the results you want?   For starters, intermittent fasting consists of intervals of fasting during which you abstain from eating for a designated period of time. The purpose is to make your body switch from burning sugar as fuel to burning body fat as fuel. So of course it’s a tool used by many to aid in weight loss and increase lean muscle mass.   Intermittent fasting has been something I’ve wanted to discuss for a very long time on Coffee & Kettlebells, although I couldn't find the right person to educate us on the topic. There are countless health and fitness experts who preach intermittent fasting and that it’s the best thing for your health and fitness. While I’m not disagreeing, we are so careful about ensuring we bring guests on the podcast th

What other people think about you has nothing to do with you at all. What they think of you is really just a reflection of what they think of themselves. In most cases, people don’t like other people because they pull insecurities out in themselves, which makes them defensive.  You need to understand that the negative comments or rude actions towards you are triggered from thoughts they feel about themselves. They are projecting their insecurities onto you, and their insecurities should not be your problem, and most definitely should not take away from your happiness.   The version of you they have created in their minds is not your responsibility, because the version they have created of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them. This means you need to stop caring what others think about you.   Ask yourself, are you overly concerned about what others think about you? Do you try to dress to impress? Do you try to live up to someone else’s standards? Do you act a certain way to try t

In this episode, the host of the Next Level podcast, CEO of Burn Boot Camp and my amazing husband, Devan Kline, shares his best tips to help us overcome our excuses and gain the motivation we need to get to where we want to be.   Just like everyone else, I sometimes find an excuse to not work out and regularly lack the motivation to get to the gym. Devan shared some amazing advice in this episode that really stuck with me. I asked him how we get ourselves to work out when we don’t have any motivation? His answer was perfect: "You need to forget about instant gratification. It may feel good in the moment to skip your workout, but when you think about next week, next month or next year, how will you feel if you continue to fall for instant gratification. Most likely you will be unhappy being stuck in the same place you were. So, when you lack motivation, just think about what your future self would want you to do.”   Do you wish you could stop starting over on your fitness journey, start seeing result

I know so many of us mother’s want our children’s diet to be filled with all the healthiest foods. And, I also know when our children’s diets don’t go as we planned and they consume foods that are less than healthy, many of us feel like we are failing as mothers.   Well, if you think it is realistic to get your child to eat healthy all the time, I’m going to be honest with you: You are holding yourself to an impossible standard.   As my husband, Devan, and I are both personal trainers and the founders of a fitness company, we originally felt this same pressure to raise children with 100% clean diets. After having children, our food philosophy for them has changed and we are completely okay with it!   Our philosophy now is more focused on educating our daughter on the basic principles of nutrition, rather than focused on forcing or restricting any foods in her diet. We try our best for her to understand the difference between “yummy” foods, as we like to call it, and healthy foods.   We want to raise

  Raise your hand if you are bloated! Keep your hand up if you always feel bloated, you have no idea what is causing it or you don’t know how to prevent it from happening in the first place. Is your hand still up? Then this episode of Coffee and Kettlebells is for you!   Did you know eating foods high in FODMAPs could be causing your bloating?  FODMAPs are types of carbohydrates found in certain foods, including wheat, beans, garlic, onion and apples. High-FODMAP foods are linked to digestive symptoms like gas, bloating, stomach pain, diarrhea and constipation. Low-FODMAP diets can provide remarkable benefits for many people with these common digestive disorders.  In this episode, I chat with well-known, functional medicine doctor, Dr. Michael Ruscio, who dives into low FODMAP diets and how they could possibly be the solution for reducing our bloating.   What You’ll Learn:  The 411 on FODMAPs  Why FODMAPs pose a problem on our health  How FODMAPs relate to bloating?  Common symptoms ca

Real talk: Who else is confused about what to buy at the grocery store? With so many different labels found on food packages, from grass-fed, organic and free-range, to cage-free, pasture-raised and all-natural, grocery shopping can be so overwhelming.   What do these labels mean? Which labels should we be looking for? Which labels matter and which don’t? Navigating labels makes figuring out what to buy at the grocery store so confusing. Should you pay extra for grass-fed? Is free-range better than cage-free? Do you want all-natural or organic?   If you haven’t listened to episode 121: Exactly What to Buy at the Grocery Store with Kevin Curry, he decoded many food labels for us, including high-protein, low-fat, gluten-free, and many more. I know how helpful this episode was for many of you and that’s why I decided to expand on the topic and explain more food labels I didn’t have a chance to discuss with Kevin.   In this episode of Coffee & Kettlebells, I decode the labels organic, all-natural, gra

What are your thoughts on kids going on diets?   If you were to put your child on a diet, how would you do it?  Do you think we should leave it up to an app to make nutrition choices for our kids?  Weight Watchers has put out a new app specifically for kids and, in this episode, my guest and I explore the topic of kids and diets and whether it’s something parents should be doing.  Guest Katherine Hake has a dual degree in Dietetics and Nutrition, Fitness and Health from Purdue University, and is also a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, a Certified Personal Trainer, a Beachbody LIVE Master Trainer, and the host of the amazing podcast, Fit Friends Happy Hour.  Katherine had previously reached out to her following to ask them if they were put on diets by their parents when they were younger and, if so, if it still affects them today. The majority of  women who responded saying they were put on diets as kids now struggle with body-image issues today.   Many also said, when they were kids, they never t

When we are trying to live a healthier, more active lifestyle, one of the biggest obstacles, one that is the hardest to overcome, is having people in our lives who aren’t trying to live the same lifestyle.   When I say that, I know you all have people in your life that pop instantly into your mind. Whether it be the person who tries to make you skip your workout, the person who makes you feel silly for ordering a salad, or the person who tries to guilt you into making unhealthy choices with them. We all have people in our lives who unintentionally make us feel bad for making the choices that make us feel good, and that is why we need to learn how to navigate these relationships if we want to live our healthiest, happiest lives.   Dealing with these relationships that don’t support our lifestyle can be difficult because many of these relationships are with our best friends, our family or our significant other. Of course, we aren’t going to remove these people from our lives, and that is why I am here to s

Do you experience regular bloating, gas or other digestive issues? Are you annoyed with constant aches and pains? Or, are you “tired” of battling constant fatigue and brain fog? Maybe you are often finding yourself feeling down, anxious or depressed? Or perhaps you are frustrated with having constant highs and lows of blood sugar and insulin levels?   If you said yes to any of these symptoms, you could be battling inflammation.   With countless people struggling with inflammation without even realizing it, I’m so excited for today’s guest to heighten our awareness and empower us with the knowledge we need to return to feeling like our best selves.  Dr. Will Cole is one of the leading functional-medicine experts who specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems. Dr. Cole was named one of the top 50 functional-medicine and integrative do

  Guess what?! I have the secret to feeling more comfortable and confident in your own skin and developing a healthier relationship with your body! I promise you, it’s nothing extreme and is something you are completely capable of doing now.  The secret? Just buy the jeans that fit–or shirt, or whatever piece of clothing it may be.  I know it’s so common for us to want to cram ourselves into a certain size of jeans, but I truly believe this is so unhealthy for the relationship we have with our bodies and here are three reasons I think this...   - Buying jeans that are too small is a constant reminder that our body isn’t where we want it to be.  - When we buy a pair of jeans that are too small for us, we are convincing ourselves we need to be a certain size. - When we buy that pair of jeans that are a size too small, it causes us to feel uncomfortable in our own skin.   When you buy the jeans that fit, they will hit you at all the right places, be flattering on your body, making you look smaller, re