{"id":29,"date":"2025-11-13T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:18:58","slug":"gyms-and-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/gyms-and-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyms and hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black is the colour of my soul. Not in a sick kinda way, but in a metalhead kinda way. I\u2019ve wrote before about how I don\u2019t always fit in, especially with other doula websites. But for always and forever I\u2019ve felt uncomfortable with strongly expressed femininity. I guess that\u2019s why this vibe fits me so well. Give me motorcycles, give me manual labour, give me metalheads\u2026 those are my people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So do you know where else I sometimes have trouble fitting in? Gyms. And I don\u2019t want to sound like a hater, that girl boss babes or the baddies I inherently don\u2019t like. Bu maybe it\u2019s a self-confidence thing? Maybe I can remember my high school\u2019s bully too vividly. Or maybe I can remember the unique pain of not \u2018fitting\u2019 in with all the girlie-girls. But some gyms I do not fit in at all. But I have found two. One is Fortis Fitness<\/a> is Toronto, the other is Beyond Fitness, a gym in Victoria BC.<\/a> These two were my absolute favourite experiences I\u2019ve had recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Embrace the pain!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I\u2019ve always been athletic and before I got pregnant I was running, biking, and doing yoga. I was fit, happy, and healthy. But once I conceived it all stopped. I remember trying to go for a jog but I had a funny feeling in my lower abdomen and it did not feel good at all bouncy around. I was able to bike for a long time and I think my previous condition really helped in healing from birth. But I\u2019ve had some strong feelings afterward which has led me to try to get as strong as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t like really talking about it, but I had an urgent C-section and the following recovery just really sucked. I can remember having the hardest time trying to sit up in bed. I simply could not. Mind you, nine months prior I was doing inversions for fun and now in order to get up I had to so this weird sort of roll thing to get up from sleeping. It sucked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So at about nine months postpartum I decided I wanted to get as strong as possible. Never again would I struggle to get out of bed. Never again would I need my body to do a thing, and then it fails. So I called Sarah-Jane at Beyond Fitness when I was out in Victoria visiting a friend and she mentioned that Fortis Fitness was a good place back in Toronto. But also she was so kind to help alleviate my fears that I was only going to be a weakling for the rest of my days. Apparently having a baby is hard on a body and the cultural narrative about \u2018bouncing\u2019 back is a false one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, maybe I\u2019ll be a baddie after all. Or maybe I\u2019ll go for a muscle mommy who knows\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black is the colour of my soul. Not in a sick kinda way, but in a metalhead kinda way. I\u2019ve wrote before about how I don\u2019t always fit in, especially with other doula websites. But for always and forever I\u2019ve felt uncomfortable with strongly expressed femininity. I guess that\u2019s why this vibe fits me so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanesplitterpizza.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}