Match Bottomed Women 2.0: A Comeback to Empower Ladies Over 35

After a four-year hiatus, the Match Bottomed Women are again! As a well-established OG fitness blog for girls, it might have appeared odd that we seemingly fell off the face of the earth for some time there. However what can we are saying? Typically life will get in the best way and forces us to take a step again and re-evaluate.

Identical to a lot of you who’ve needed to put your individual well being and health objectives on maintain to prioritize different issues for some time, we’re in a spot the place it’s time to bounce again with renewed power and function. We invite all girls, particularly these over 35, to hitch us on this comeback period by reinvesting in yourselves.

Again to Our Health Weblog for Ladies Roots

Greater than 16 years in the past when FBG was created, the ladies’s well being and health house was all about consuming 1200-1500 energy per day and exercising purely for max calorie burn. But it surely was clear to us that the perpetual pursuit of weight reduction and making an attempt to be skinny at any value usually felt like we have been making an attempt to “hate ourselves wholesome” and when that inevitably failed, it led us right into a downward spiral of self-loathing.

Our mission turned to interrupt the cycle, disrupt the diet-culture narrative, and introduce a recent perspective—one the place girls educated and fueled to be robust, assured, and badass. We wished one thing higher for future generations of girls. We wished a future the place girls didn’t look to the dimensions for validation of their value.

Within the years that adopted, we labored tirelessly towards that mission and, in consequence, the trade started to shift and alter. Physique-positive messaging started to pop up in every single place. An alternative choice to food regimen tradition appeared and ladies have been in search of it out.

As stoked as we have been to see that imaginative and prescient change into actuality, we have been confronted with a brand new problem—what to do subsequent? We discovered ourselves feeling that we’d mentioned all the pieces we wanted to say, achieved what we got down to do. And because the Covid pandemic hit, life had begun to tug us in numerous instructions towards futures that didn’t embrace the continuation of the FBG model.

So in 2020, we put the weblog on maintain, hung up the mic, and wrestled with the way forward for FBG.

The Comeback Story

Life is stuffed with twists and turns that may finally distract us and transfer our focus away from our personal private objectives. It’s not at all times straightforward to prioritize well being and health when all the pieces else will get in the best way. However as we’ve discovered throughout our break, by no means depend your self out for good—a well-timed comeback will be fairly candy!

Whereas life has pulled former house owners Jenn and Kristen away from the helm of Match Bottomed Women, they hand-picked Alison to take over—which they speak candidly about in this podcast episode (you can watch the interview on YouTube here). Alison, a long-time FBG contributor, was chosen due to her in depth experience in girls’s well being and health, particularly for girls in peri- and post-menopause, which implies that the FBG model is now fully-equipped to proceed to assist girls of all ages and thru each period of life.

We’ve grown, we’ve modified, and now we’re able to increase and reignite our mission.

Our Mission and Values

Since 2008, The Match Bottomed Women have been disrupting the poisonous diet-culture narrative and introducing a recent perspective — one the place girls ditched the food regimen drama, stopped seeking to the dimensions for validation of their value, and as a substitute educated and fueled for higher high quality of life and to be robust, assured, and badass.

We consider that higher well being and health needs to be extra enjoyable, accessible, and attainable for everyone. And we’re right here that can assist you get stronger, go longer, really feel higher, and be taught to understand your match backside — regardless of the place you’re in your journey. As a result of, in spite of everything, match bottoms are available in all shapes, sizes, and ages! Our new tagline, completely encapsulates this philosophy: “Your backside. Your life. Your method.”

We’re right here to assist athletic, energetic, and adventurous girls (and people who aspire to be) of all shapes, sizes, and ages.

Our mission has at all times been to coach and empower girls to coach and gas for a greater high quality of life, specializing in energy, confidence, and being unapologetically badass.

Our values will proceed to information us, together with:

• Simplicity: Providing simple, uncomplicated, approachable recommendation for busy girls.
• Autonomy: Encouraging girls to train their very own physique autonomy with out judgment.
• Integrity: Committing to trustworthy, moral, and evidence-based content material.
• Inclusion: Welcoming all ranges, shapes, sizes, ages, and backgrounds.

What to Anticipate from the Re-launch

After greater than 16 years, we stay dedicated to creating compelling, empowering, and academic life-style, well being, and health content material for energetic, athletic, and adventurous girls (and people who aspire to be) by means of each period of life.

This week, we’re kicking off with a collection of thrilling content material to welcome again our beloved group. After that, you may anticipate recent weblog posts each Tuesday and new podcast episodes each Thursday. Don’t miss an FBG beat—sign up for our weekly email newsletter to have all of the week’s content material delivered straight to your inbox.

Meet the New Staff

The torch has been handed from our former house owners, Jenn and Kristen, to Alison, our new proprietor and Editor-in-Chief. Alison’s management assures us that we’re in nice palms, persevering with the legacy with integrity and belief. Read more about our new editorial team and see why Alison is the proper match to steer us ahead.

Be part of Us on This Journey

Should you’ve skilled a time while you needed to step away out of your well being objectives, know that you simply’re not alone. It’s by no means too late to make a change and get again on observe. We’re proper there with you!

Be part of us as we proceed our 16-year legacy of empowering girls by means of health. Sign up for our weekly emails and be a part of a group that celebrates girls of all ages, energy of every kind, and match bottoms of any and each sort. Whether or not you’re returning to your health objectives or beginning recent, the Match Bottomed Women are again—and we’re able to assist you each step of the best way.

Welcome again, FBGs!! We’re so comfortable you’re right here. —Alison