Here are 3 hacks that will make your workout easier, keep you from kneeling down to the ground to set up your equipment, or hurting yourself in a heavy lift.

I LOVE me some Instagram, and what I love even more is when I find other San Francisco fitness professionals who are breaking the mold and making my day with their fitness inspired feeds.

I feel like people must think I’m doing a lame workout, or that I could go harder or faster, or wondering why I always seem to be doing the same exercises over and over.  The other people in the gym may or may not actually think this about me, because most of those judgements are in my head.  But it does make me self-conscious at times.  I’m judging myself based on standards I either hold myself to, or standards I think others believe in.