In this episode, I’m joined by my client Carlyn Rubin, who shares her journey navigating fitness and nutrition with symptomatic hypermobility.

What makes her story so powerful is that Carlyn came to me with a body composition and weight loss goal, but through strength training, she discovered so many unexpected benefits along the way.

We talk about:

• How EDS and spinal fusion shaped Carlyn’s relationship with her body and movement.
• What surprised her most about strength training and how she built the confidence to walk into the gym and get started.
• Her experience with low-calorie diets, weight cycling, and what changed when we increased her calories and let go of rigid food rules
• What she wishes more hypermobile people knew about strength training

Carlyn’s experience is a reminder that with the right approach, it’s not just possible to get stronger. It’s possible to feel better and more at home in your body while doing it.

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You had a plan to track your food, get your steps in, knock out two workouts. But then life happened, and you didn’t do any of it. Which would be fine except it keeps happening and you’re starting to feel stuck.

In this episode, Nikki breaks down what’s actually going on when motivation disappears and how to follow through on the things you want to do, when you’re just not feeling it.

Topics covered:

• The science of motivation.
• The different kinds of motivation and why it matters.
• 3 practical tools to generate motivation when we feel stuck or overwhelmed.

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In this episode of Results Not Typical, Nikki speaks with personal trainer and nutrition coach Sahara Coleman about the realities of living and training with symptomatic hypermobility.

They explore how these conditions affect daily life, movement, identity and what it means to show up for yourself when your body doesn’t always cooperate.

Topics covered:

• Training and daily life with hypermobility including chronic pain and injury
• Naviagting POTS and low blood pressure
• Hypermobolity comorbidities beyond the joints
• How identity, mindset, and autonomy play into managing chronic conditions
• Strength training and fitness with hypermobility

Connect with Sahara

• Instagram: @saharathenutritioncoach
• Work with Sahara in person at BodySTRONG Burien

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