Felicia Lee-White is your cheerleader – and she’s waiting for you to enter the playing field

No matter why you’re on a health and fitness journey, Felicia Lee-White knows the real work is inside.

 

“I have a calendar with focus words in my gym,” says Felicia Lee-White, Wellness Manager of Legacy’s Body Positive program. “This month’s words are ‘Find It’. Find that it that keeps you going and keep your focus there, not on someone else.

“That gets you off track,” she continues. “If you’re looking at someone else, you don’t know their process and their program; how long they’ve been in the gym, or what their experience is. They’re all in the gym for different reasons.”

In other terms, think of a subject you’re interested in and consider how much you know about it. If someone else began to discover an interest in that subject and didn’t know as much as you do, would it be fair to compare their knowledge on that subject when they’ve been studying for a week, but you’ve been reading up on it since childhood? Of course not.

Hitting the gym is just the same: As you embark on a journey like this, it does no good to compare yourself to others of varying experience levels. “When training bodybuilders, I instruct them to stay off social for a few months,” Lee-White laughs.

Lee-White, who also owns and operates a popular all-women gym in Humble, has implemented the Silver Sneakers program for seniors right here at Legacy, too. No matter your fitness level or age, she knows how to unlock potential in you and turn out the best of your abilities, partly because she understands that she, too, is a work in progress. “Personally, I just celebrated 31 years clean and sober on June 16th and without working out, I would not have made it.”

“I encourage and challenge everyone to start a journey to wholeness via health and wellness,” she continues. “If we take our power back by starting to eat better and moving our bodies, we are all winners. Slow and steady wins the race.”

Sage advice that the novice gym-goer should hold dear. There will be that one thing, that one exercise where you realize that you can do that one next thing you used to not be able to do, and that moment changes everything – Lee-White describes it like “unlocking a door,” “and the whole way, I’m gonna love you until you love yourself. I’ll hug you, squeeze your hands, and cheer you on.”

Lee-White’s best advice to anyone beginning a workout regimen or a fitness journey is as simple as it is smart: Be realistic. Be realistic about the outcomes, the results, and the time that it takes. “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” she says. “There’s such a spiritual heat to a health journey. If you focus on what motivates you, you’ll achieve that change. But it’s one day at a time. At the end of the day, whatever the results are, they’ll be there because of you.”

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