Friday, 11.27.20 @ 9am EST, join me for a free virtual workout to celebrate my lap around the sun.
As always- includes a 🔥 playlist and modifications/advancements for all levels. If you feel inclined to CashApp ($SayHuyen) or Venmo (Huyen) me, I’ll donate to The Loveland Foundation on your behalf, and match your donation using my work benefits. The Loveland Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy.
After you sign up below, I’ll send a link for you to join the class :)
Sweater weather is upon us in Atlanta. This Saturday we will be collecting cold-weather clothes for those in need with a special Sweat for Sweaters workout. We’ll have cover to stay dry from any rain. Any moisture will be coming from your own pores!
Bring a friend and any cold weather clothes you can live without!
Long sleeve wear
Sweaters
Jackets
Pants
Blankets
Scarves
Gloves
Exercise modifications will be provided to accommodate all fitness levels!
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
The people we work to show up for can be the same people we show up with! Bring a loved one with you this Saturday!
Exercise modifications will be provided to accommodate all fitness levels!
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
This weekend we will be collecting donated supplies this Sunday on behalf of those in the Bahamas still recovering from the devastations of Hurricane Dorian. *Please see below for items most needed, monetary donations can be sent to Venmo: Huyen or Cashapp: $SayHuyen* Thank you!
baby items (diapers, baby wipes)
female hygiene products
deodorant
toothbrushes
toothpaste
soap
toilet paper
adult diapers
hand sanitizer
non-perishable food items (canned foods, baby milk, etc)
disposable cutlery, cups, plates
first aid kits
flashlights
blankets/towels
insect repellent
batteries (D, AA, AAA, etc.)
life jackets/ponchos
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
We can help ensure students begin the school year prepared to succeed!
Each year, The Agape Center collects and distributes new backpacks filled with school supplies for 2,000+ under-served students in the community.
We hope to team up with them to make this event a huge success. Feel free to bring school supplies or send your donation to Huyen (Venmo: Huyen, Cashapp: $SayHuyen)
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself.
Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (USE GOOGLE MAPS navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself. Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Address: Maddox Park (navigate to Maddox Park Pool), 1142 Bankhead Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Expect a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself. Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Hosea Helps (fka Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless) is hosting a Christmas event next week & you can not only get a great work out in as usual, but you can also help make sure the kids have plenty of presents. If you’re able- you’re welcome to bring cash/ an unwrapped gift to give to the kids! You can also Venmo donations to @huyen at any time before the Christmas Party on the 25th!
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Saturday Dec. 22 @ 11am
Address: HX Fitness, 1356 English St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
BOUNCE is a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself. Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
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Saturday Nov. 17 @ 11am
Address: HX Fitness, 1356 English St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
BOUNCE is a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself. Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Space is limited. Sign up to reserve your spot.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
If you’re using Chrome, Click “Advanced”, “Proceed to site”. Still having issue? Use the form submission below.
Saturday Nov. 3 @ 11am
Address: HX Fitness, 1356 English St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
BOUNCE is a high energy, high intensity interval training class that will push you and ask you to push yourself. Guaranteed to make you sweat and burn calories while building strength, endurance and power- all to a dope soundtrack.
Space is limited. Sign up to reserve your spot.
Huyen “Win” has been teaching her signature HIIT classes in Atlanta and across the country in California. Partner exercises integrated into the class also guarantee you a new friend at the end. Come and leave better than you arrived.
Let's start this post by reminding you not to read this post with your shoulders pulled forward and your head tilted down! Whether we're on our laptops, phones, taking notes in class- many of our lifestyles involve some form to this posture for extended periods of time. More and more clients come in telling me that they know they have bad posture from how they sit at work, and I've had some clients where their posture has resulted in full blown upper crossed syndrome. They typically complain about tightness around the neck and back pain.
http://hohasheville.com/using-integrative-massage-treat-upper-cross-syndrome/
If this looks or sounds familiar, you can use the stretches in this post throughout your day to prevent long-term effects of the posture. While it can be natural for some, for many the posture was developed out of habit- causing aches, pains, and immobility.
Let's start with the big muscles. Sitting with your shoulders forward gets your chest all settled into a compressed position, making them tight.
On the other side of your chest, those rhomboids and traps (upper back muscles) have been getting no action.
This stretch is for your traps, which also become tight with a static, forward shoulder posture.
Your neck is designed to rotate like a pivot, and it may not do this is you're only looking forward all day.
There are muscles deep in your neck that you can exercise, too!
These may take just a couple minutes to do, and I recommend doing them at least every 2 hours if you're sitting through most of your day. These brief periods of stretching/activity can help save you a lifetime of discomfort!
I've gotten this question a lot. And like many questions where people are looking for a “yes" or “no" answer- the annoying answer to this is: it depends. In this post, I'll share my first CrossFit and some reasons why people have concerns about participating.
Every Saturday, Grassroots holds a Community Workout of the Day (WOD), aka, a free workout open to everybody! Actually, many advanced lifters also came through to get their heart rates up. The workout was a high-intensity partner routine- that you could make as challenging as you needed to by increasing the weights or increasing your pace.
I was excited even though I knew coming in that we weren't going to be doing power lifts. It made sense that a class open to everyone would keep it simple and time-efficient. But I was still got a bit nervous when I saw "90 burpees" on the board.
When I found out we were going to partner up and get timed, the friendly competition got me excited again.
After a thorough and coordination-testing warm-up (it doesn’t take much but a ladder and simple footwork to test my coordination), we were filled in on the WOD. It included*:
*Apologies for not remembering the exact numbers and not taking a photo of the workout.
Brandon was my partner. We had worked out together before, and both wanted to have the best time out of the group. We had a rough strategy in terms of splitting up the wall balls into sets of 15, and pushed each other to move quickly to the next exercises. We ended up finishing first. Well, technically 2nd behind a man who didn’t have a partner.
We definitely broke a great sweat (per the photo) and felt energized after. If you feel like your level of fitness is intermediate-advanced, you could probably do the workout at least twice! If you really give your all and challenge yourself with the weights and pace, then one time through is definitely sufficient. The coaches walked around as we worked to check on our form and make sure we were not cutting corners in order to get more speed. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend to others!
For my Atlanta people, Nike Trainer Jamar Robinson M.S. has heard good things about Peachtree CrossFit!
CrossFit wouldn't have become a national phenomenon if it was all bad. There's over 7,000 CrossFit-affiliated boxes in the US, and tens of thousands of athletes that kip and clean on a regular basis. So what leads some to warn about potential injuries as a result of cross fit participation?
1. Poor Technique
This could be because of the coach, or because of the participants. The issues are magnified when a lack of proper technique is combined with inappropriately fast progression. This is why many facilities start their participants out using broomsticks, or don’t even focus on lifts for beginners- because in most cases, you need to have the fundamentals of the exercises down before adding load.
One of my clients explained that when she got injured after doing CrossFit, the coaches did start her off with a broomstick, but kept telling her to toss on more load even though she had just gotten the broomstick down. This quick load progression combined with the often fast pace and explosive nature of exercises/workouts- are an injury time bomb.
2. Under-recovery
I had one client who was super ambitious. He was doing CrossFit at Iron Tribe, and then asked me to provide him with high intensity personal training sessions in addition. I asked him to do split days- separating our sessions from the cross fit by at least 24 hours.
He didn’t listen to my advice, and he got injured. This wasn't necessarily Iron Tribe’s fault or my fault. As his trainer, I advised him of the risks of overtraining, and Iron Tribe should have done similarly. In the same way that fitness professionals should be Participants, themselves also have the responsibility to listen to their bodies and heed the advice of fitness professionals, the professionals also need to provide the advice.
After Grassroots, I’d say I had a great, although still limited, experience with CrossFit. If you try it out, enjoy the fun, community feel- but continue to be careful and listen to your bodies!
The only part I don't like about going back to Atlanta, is sitting on a plane for 4 hours.
Don't get me wrong- I'm thankful I don't have to walk, but sitting for prolonged periods can do a number on your posture, mobility, and neglect the activation of key muscles like your glutes, back, and core.
This workout aims to undo all that! Try it after your flight, or even if you just have a job/classes that require you to sit for a long time!
You can do 15 repetitions for each exercise, and hold stretches for 30 seconds.
You should definitely walk and stretch during your flights (and at work) intermittently, too!
Rotate through 20 repetitions of each exercise - Repeat as many times as you can!
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This is what happens when a bare-foot stranger in tights approaches you in a crowded park and asks: “Do you want to join us?"
Okay, so I’m sure this isn’t what always happens- but being the mild germaphobe that I am, I’m glad I assessed his feet, my tights, and concluded that I would be sufficiently protected from any serious germs.
It started when Chantal, Sarem and I were awkwardly attempting to record workout videos in Dolores Park. We noticed a group of people nearby doing much less awkward- actually impressive, partner poses. Overestimating ourselves, we started to mimic the poses on our own. Nick, the kind bare-footed man, saw our struggle and invited us over.
He demonstrated with his partner, how easy the poses were once you had the proper positioning, and how posture and trust were key to ensuring the physics of the poses worked.
While my friends and I were successful in completing the poses with each other, there was still some nervous laughing, shaking, and spotting (support from experienced people in case we fell) necessary. Nick offered to “base” us. This meant it would be time for his feet and the front of my hips to make contact.
I left my friend go first. 😅
She was visibly and audibly excited at the ease of her lift-off, and immediately let her hands go to extend her torso into full “flying" position. Now I was ready.
Getting into the start position, I immediately felt the difference between my friends little feet digging into my hips creases, and Nick’s feet feeling like comfy pads. After the super smooth liftoff, I felt so comfortable that I extended my back more and reached for my feet to get into “bow" pose.
The initial joy of achieving the pose, combined with an intuitive desire to maintain the pose- caused an increased awareness of your body’s stabilizing muscles, and trust in your base. The result was a very unique mental calm and serenity that was intimately connected with your physical positioning.
I had never been happier to be making contact with a stranger’s bare feet before!
He asked if we wanted to hang upside-down, and at this point we were much less hesitant. This position involved more steps, so I still let my friends go first to make sure I was still avoiding flesh to foot contact.
This was also dope! The simultaneous joy and peace from flying, could also be found in “bat” position. I had a newfound appreciation for acroyoga, and its ability to leverage physics to enable human body to achieve new physical and mental elevations.
The next day, my friend’s back muscles were sore from being worked out by the extensions, and I got an amazing stretch for my hip flexors and quads.
Our wonderful instructor, Nick, is looking to go on the road with his partner to formally teach acroyoga across the nation. I got his contact number and hope to follow his progress. In the meantime, I definitely recommend you trying out acroyoga! It’s easy if you can get to Dolores Park in San Francisco- the people practicing are super friendly, so all you have to do is ask! If you’re in Georgia or just want to mitigate any barefoot fears, try an acroyoga studio, or very carefully try in your home using online tutorials!
