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Aura Conejos, M.A. | Army Vet | ARCON Human Performance

@aura.elise

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📖 Writing memoir. Shaping generations.
🇺🇸🇵🇭 Raising 3 little tisoys.
🏋🏽‍♀️USAW L1 - Pregnancy/PP
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The little things in between. 🖤 by @aura.elise

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2 months ago

Words that often come out of my mouth are … “but it’s the principle!”

If you stand convicted in anything, stand convicted for the future of your family. Generational impact. 🧬

Make it useful means to me: dancing in my bedroom, and alternating between hiking with my boys and cheering them on the sidelines. Living for my great-grandkids to play with.

Train like an athlete (and for fun). Eat like an athlete (and for fun). Live long! by @aura.elise

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2 months ago

Darling.
Something I've always dreamed of being called.
Adored in such a way.
Likening me to a bloomed rose.
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But, darling, you can't show your beauty if you don't take time to blossom. by @aura.elise

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4 years ago

It doesn’t have to feel like a cage to evolve. by @aura.elise

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9 days ago

Training hasn’t gone to plan. I’m showing up anyway.

This year’s MCM is about more than the miles. I’m running for Stop Soldier Suicide because the mission matters. 🫶 by @aura.elise

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23 days ago

I’ve spent the last few years training for performance: marathons, Olympic lifting, sprinting, and a whole lot of strength work. I still train for hypertrophy because I like having muscle and, frankly, I’d like to keep the glutes I worked for.

And even as a natural athlete, I still catch myself comparing my body to bodybuilders online, or to myself from a different year, under completely different lighting. This lighting is terrible, by the way.

But performance, being lean, and looking stage-ready are not the same thing.

You can be strong, fast, conditioned, and muscular without looking like a bodybuilder. If you aren’t clear on what you’re actually training for, comparison can have you self-sabotaging a body that is doing exactly what you asked it to do.

Be clear on the goal before you decide you’re not good enough at it.

And if you need help goal setting or reaching your goals, we’re here for you when you’re ready.

#performance #bodybuilding #goals #performancetraining #naturalathlete taken in Maryland by @aura.elise

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I’ve written so many versions of this piece, and it was one of my top in my M.A. thesis.
I’ve submitted to numerous publications.
Denial. Rejection.
But I know the message here needs to be shared.
So I pulled it from my archives and pushed my ego aside.
It will live on my Substack for now — for free.
All I ask is for every person who reads it, to promise to pass nature on to the next generation.
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🔗 https://auraconejos.substack.com/p/a-barrier-to-entry?r=5x7b07&utm_medium=ios by @aura.elise

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a month ago

Here’s a little listicle of three things I refuse to restrict while still staying relatively lean year-round.
What’s something you learned from this piece? by @aura.elise

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a month ago

Three things nobody tells you about training as a mom. I tried to be witty, but there’s truth and depth here. AND solutions to mitigate these while still actually moving the needle in the desired direction.
Which one do you resonate most with?

https://auraconejos.substack.com/p/i-had-a-plan-her-famous-last-words?r=5x7b07&utm_medium=ios by @aura.elise

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a month ago

A piece of Bisbee AZ.

@scrl #scrl #scrlgallery by @aura.elise

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a month ago

Involve them.
Let them see you take care of yourself.
Let them lift, run, and play with you in your environment.
Imprint.

Shoutout to @oneractive for making me feel like 💰 while I 🏋🏽‍♀️ & @tyrsport for making the healthiest lifters out there! 🦶

#motherhood #boymom #bodybuilding #weightlifting #postpartum by @aura.elise

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