How to Survive the Athletic Time-out Chair
Guest post by Liis Windischmann, plus size model, world traveller and body acceptance advocate. What happens when the athlete in you is forced to take a time out? Whether through injury or illness,...
View ArticleRaising Body Diversity Awareness in Sports Advertising
Photo credit: Norma Gonzalez, Plus Size Triathlete In a recent Plus Model Mag article, it was declared Year of the Plus Size Athlete. Perhaps they read my blog from January 2015, when I declared it....
View ArticleSend Holiday Love to Your Friends in Athletic Style
The Holidays are upon us, and if you’re like me, you may enjoy bringing your personal passions into other areas of life, such as sending out sports-theme holiday cards to all your training friends,...
View ArticleSelf Trusting Strategy, Have You Got One?
Over the last few days I had been reflecting on 2015, like so many people. I look at all aspects of my personal and professional life which encompasses the efforts of Born to Reign Athletics. Last...
View ArticleTrail to Couch and Back Again
I live in Arizona where the seasons are reversed, it is hotter than Hades in the Summer and Winter is our play time. So even though Spring has sprung and many of you may be starting to train outside,...
View ArticleSquash, It’s More Than a Vegetable
Squash. It’s more than a vegetable. The sport doesn’t get the same fan-fare like other sports. You don’t see it in the Olympics, it’s doesn’t receive mainstream TV coverage for World Championships and...
View ArticleThe Freyathlon
The Rio Olympics is just around the corner and in anticipation of 2 glorious weeks of watching all the amazing athletes from around the world, we wanted to introduce you to another amazing athlete who...
View ArticleBaby Got Back – Body Positivity in Roller Derby
Photo credit: Terri Frew aka I Love Skatin’, #666 Guest post by Terri Frew, a Keweenaw Roller Girls ‘blocker’, wife and mom. In the summer of 2015, my husband, our five month-old son Alistair, and...
View ArticleShe Shoots, She Scores
Guest post from Marie Sawa, a hockey and ringette athlete from Toronto, ON. Nothing breaks the ice (pun intended) with strangers than letting them know you are a badass hockey player. The questions and...
View ArticleHard Hitting Curves in Hip Hop
Earlier in the Fall, I had a chance to meet Jessie Diaz, a powerful and sassy 29-year old plus size dancer and choreographer from The Bronx, New York and Founder of Curves with Moves. We both have a...
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