When Exercise Feels Hard

When Exercise Feels Hard

June 3, 2026 · 23 min

About this episode

Christina Prevett shares her personal experiences with training during a challenging 18-month period marked by grief, pregnancy, and parenting demands.

Your workout routine doesn’t fall apart because you’re weak, it falls apart because your life changed. I’m Christina Prevett, a strength coach, pelvic floor physical therapist, and mom, and I’m sharing a more personal look at what training has felt like through an 18 month stretch of grief, pregnancy, miscarriages, parenting demands, and big professional growth. When your stress is high and your capacity is low, “just push harder” is not a plan. A realistic mindset is. We dig into five refle...

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