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💪🏽You can find me at the gym💪🏽
👑 Gymqueen 👑
•Certified Personal Trainer (ISSA)
• Breast Cancer Survivor 💗

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First day at the gym? I got you. 💪💕

Walking onto the gym floor for the first time can feel intimidating as hell when you don’t know where to start.

So I made you a starting point.

This is a simple full-body workout built around the same basic movements I use and teach — nothing fancy, nothing complicated. Start light, learn the movements, take your time and build from there.

You do not have to know everything before you walk through those doors. You belong there while you’re learning too.

Save this for your next workout — or send it to the woman who keeps saying she wants to start but doesn’t know how. ❤️

Strong starts messy.
@justmessyapril

#BeginnerWorkout #WomenWhoLift #StrengthTrainingForWomen #GymConfidence #JustMessyApril taken in Crunch Fitness by @justmessyapril

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17 days ago

Creative juices are flowing today!!

Creating (or REcreating) my old YouTube channel, tossing ideas for future business plans onto paper- including a podcast-and reading again.

#startmeup #gymqueen #businessplans #hamont #gymlife taken in Hamilton, Ontario by @justmessyapril

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12 days ago

Well, holy shit. I DID A THING. 😂🎙️

After a whole lot of figuring shit out, swearing at technology, and wondering what the hell I was getting myself into…

I OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED MY PODCAST! 🥳

Welcome to the JUST MESSY PODCAST— where life isn’t polished, nobody has their shit completely together, and we’re not pretending otherwise.

My very first episode, “Welcome to the Shitshow,” is officially LIVE on YouTube!

We’re talking life, fitness, getting older, the unexpected shit life throws at us, and everything in between. No scripts. No filters. Just me being me.

Is it perfect? Fuck no. 😂

Is it real? ABSOLUTELY.

And that’s kind of the whole point. ❤️

🎧 Episode 1 is LIVE!

I’ll drop the YouTube link in the comments! 👇

#JustMessyPodcast #JustMessyApril #gymqueen #PodcastLaunch #WelcomeToTheShitshow by @justmessyapril

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4 days ago

Last upper-body workout before a few days of forced rest. 💪😂

A couple of nagging injuries need some attention, so we’re keeping things lighter, getting some controlled reps in, and giving the body a chance to recover.

Do I want to take time off? Absolutely fucking not. 😂

But even trainers need to practice what they preach.

🎥 More workouts, gym chaos, and the Just Messy Podcast over on YouTube!

Subscribe to JustMessyApril — help a girl grow her channel! 🖤

🔗 YouTube link in bio

#JustMessyApril #StrengthTraining #Gymqueen #WomenWhoLift #hamont taken in Crunch Fitness by @justmessyapril

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5 hours ago

HOE OR NO? 👀😂

Apparently, what women wear to the gym is everybody’s business.

Shorts too short? Too much skin? Too much confidence?

Well, I’ve got a few things to say about THAT. 😏

🎙️ Episode 2 of the Just Messy Podcast is coming!

#JustMessyApril #JustMessyPodcast #HoeOrNo #GymCulture #WomenWhoLift by @justmessyapril

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a day ago

Sometimes you just gotta know when to sit the fuck out.

Between a messed-up delt, an angry glute, feet that won’t cooperate, and JUST finishing radiation yesterday, my body’s had enough.

And mentally? Gym Crush and all these fucking feelings I thought I’d healed are hitting harder the more I see him. Some days it’s exhausting. Yesterday proved it by my storming out of the gym as he watched prob thinking wtf is wrong with her now?

So after Saturday, I’m taking a few days away from the gym. No weights, no PRs, no FOMO, no emotional gymnastics.

Just me, my little creative bubble, my growing Podcast & YouTube channel and some much-needed peace.

Not quitting. Just unplugging. Just a few days-because you know I’ll lose it mentally if I take more than that.

Even this stubborn gymqueen needs a reset sometimes. ❤️

#JustMessyApril #GymCrush #Podcast #Recovery #Fullsend taken in Hamilton, Ontario by @justmessyapril

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2 days ago

Some days, the heaviest thing you carry out of the gym isn’t a weight.

Today, it was my heart.

Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes and, for a split second, felt completely safe? Comfortable? Like you’re standing somewhere familiar, somewhere you belong? Like you’ve known them a lifetime and yet don’t know them at all?

And then reality comes crashing back.

You don’t talk anymore. You don’t laugh together anymore. You’re standing just a few feet apart, but somehow there’s this fucking enormous distance between you. He refuses to engage even as friends. I’m trying. To reconnect. He won’t. He just looks at me.

And the worst part? You still feel that comfort when you look at them. Until you remember what you’ve lost.

Lately, I’ve been trying to stop hiding. Today, I allowed myself to look. To feel. To be vulnerable instead of pretending I didn’t give a shit.

And there we were. Just a few feet apart. Looking directly at one another. Eye contact.

Again and again.

And suddenly, I couldn’t fucking take it anymore.

I still had time left on my treadmill. I wasn’t finished. But while we were looking at each other, I slammed the treadmill keys, stopped the machine, and stormed off.

Because I was about to cry.

I went into the change room, gathered myself as best I could, and headed for the exit.

And then, one last glance back. He saw me.

And I just fucking left.

It almost sounds like something out of a movie, except there was nothing romantic about how much it hurt.

I’m strong. I’m independent. I lift heavy shit. I’ve survived things I never imagined I’d have to face.

But apparently, I can still be brought to tears by a pair of familiar eyes.

I don’t know how to stop feeling safe with someone whose absence hurts me so fucking much.

And maybe that’s the hardest part of all.

Some days, strength looks like lifting the weight.

Other days, it looks like walking away before you completely fall apart.

Today was the second kind. 💔

#GymCrush #GymQueen #fuckfeelings #fullsend taken in Crunch Fitness by @justmessyapril

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3 days ago

I actually fucking did it. 😂🎙️

Started a podcast. Because apparently I didn’t have enough going on already.

Episode 1 of Just Messy Podcast — Welcome to the Shitshow — is officially up on YouTube!

Here’s a little taste of what you’re getting yourself into. 😂

Go watch, give a like, subscribe, and come along for whatever the hell this turns into. 💗

🎥 YouTube: JustMessyApril — link in bio!

#JustMessyPodcast #JustMessyApril #podcast #gymqueen by @justmessyapril

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3 days ago

Final blast of radiation this morning. We are done!

Thank you to the amazing staff at Juravinski. Oddly enough it is hard to leave them. You truly do connect and get attached to your medical teams.

Onwards in the fight to keep this fucking cancer from ever returning.

#fuckcancer #radiation #hamont #Juravinski #gymqueen taken in Juravinski Cancer Centre by @justmessyapril

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3 days ago

KILLER LEG DAY 🍑🔥 | My Full Lower Body Workout 💪

Leg day isn’t for the weak, but damn, I love it! 😂🔥

Here’s one of my favourite lower-body workouts! We’re hitting glutes, quads, hamstrings and everything in between.

🍑 MY KILLER LEG DAY ROUTINE

💪 Romanian Deadlifts (RDLs) — 5 sets × 8–10 reps

💪 Single-Leg Hip Thrusts — 5 sets × 8–10 reps per leg

💪 Hack Squats — 5 sets × 8–10 reps

💪 Horizontal/Seated Leg Press — 5 sets × 8–10 reps

🔥 8-8-8 Leg Extensions — One brutal drop set! 8 heavy reps, drop the weight for 8 more, then drop again for the final 8 singles. No rest between drops!

💪 Weighted Back Extensions — 5 sets × 8–10 reps, holding a 45 lb plate.

🚶‍♀️ Incline Treadmill Finisher — 30–35 minutes, incline 3-5, speed 2.5 -3.5mph.

I love lifting heavy, challenging myself and seeing what my body can do. Strong legs, strong glutes, and a whole lot of determination.

Train at your own level, focus on good form, and build from there. 💗

Strong starts messy. 💗

#GymCrush #LegDay #GymQueen #JustMessyApril #hamont taken in Hamilton, Ontario by @justmessyapril

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4 days ago

#SNL #fuckyou #gymqueen #womenwholift taken in Crunch Fitness by @justmessyapril

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4 days ago

Happy Thanksgiving ♥️🦃

#grateful #thankful #blessed #thanksgiving #hamont taken in Hamilton, Ontario by @justmessyapril

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