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

After a four-year hiatus, the Match Bottomed Ladies are again! As a well-established OG fitness blog for girls, it could 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 way in which and forces us to take a step again and re-evaluate.

Identical to a lot of you who’ve needed to put your personal 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 vitality and function. We invite all girls, particularly these over 35, to affix us on this comeback period by reinvesting in yourselves.

Again to Our Health Weblog for Girls Roots

Greater than 16 years in the past when FBG was created, the ladies’s well being and health area was all about consuming 1200-1500 energy per day and exercising purely for optimum calorie burn. However it was clear to us that the perpetual pursuit of weight reduction and making an attempt to be skinny at any value typically 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 grew to become to interrupt the cycle, disrupt the diet-culture narrative, and introduce a contemporary perspective—one the place girls educated and fueled to be sturdy, 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, consequently, the business started to shift and alter. Physique-positive messaging started to pop up all over the place. An alternative choice to food regimen tradition appeared and girls have been searching for it out.

As stoked as we have been to see that imaginative and prescient turn out to be actuality, we have been confronted with a brand new problem—what to do subsequent? We discovered ourselves feeling that we’d stated every part we would have liked to say, achieved what we got down to do. And because the Covid pandemic hit, life had begun to tug us in several instructions towards futures that didn’t embody 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 filled with twists and turns that may finally distract us and transfer our focus away from our personal private objectives. It’s not all the time straightforward to prioritize well being and health when every part else will get in the way in which. However as we’ve discovered throughout our break, by no means depend your self out for good—a well-timed comeback might be fairly candy!

Whereas life has pulled former homeowners Jenn and Kristen away from the helm of Match Bottomed Ladies, 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 Ladies have been disrupting the poisonous diet-culture narrative and introducing a contemporary 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 sturdy, assured, and badass.

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

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

Our mission has all the time been to teach and empower girls to coach and gasoline for a greater high quality of life, specializing in power, confidence, and being unapologetically badass.

Our values will proceed to information us, together with:

• Simplicity: Providing easy, uncomplicated, approachable recommendation for busy girls.
• Autonomy: Encouraging girls to train their very own physique autonomy with out judgment.
• Integrity: Committing to sincere, 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 way of life, well being, and health content material for energetic, athletic, and adventurous girls (and those that aspire to be) by way of each period of life.

This week, we’re kicking off with a collection of thrilling content material to welcome again our beloved neighborhood. After that, you’ll be able to count on contemporary 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 homeowners, Jenn and Kristen, to Alison, our new proprietor and Editor-in-Chief. Alison’s management assures us that we’re in nice arms, persevering with the legacy with integrity and belief. Read more about our new editorial team and see why Alison is the right match to guide us ahead.

Be a part of Us on This Journey

In case you’ve skilled a time whenever 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 a part of us as we proceed our 16-year legacy of empowering girls by way of health. Sign up for our weekly emails and be a part of a neighborhood that celebrates girls of all ages, power of every kind, and match bottoms of any and each sort. Whether or not you’re returning to your health objectives or beginning contemporary, the Match Bottomed Ladies are again—and we’re able to assist you each step of the way in which.

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