Today we’d like to introduce you to Julia Lemmens
Julia, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Everyone knows they should exercise, but the reality is, it can be really difficult to figure out what that means for you.
Early in grade school, I started running. At recess. Myself and two other friends would run the mile every day at recess and eventually, it just wasn’t a problem. We would run together and then when it came time to run the mile for the fitness test, it was a piece of cake.
But in high school, without knowing how to properly strength train, recover, and eat to fuel and repair my body, I got weaker and weaker despite my hours of training and multiple daily runs. I didn’t know why I couldn’t push past this barrier and why I couldn’t build the endurance. And then I developed shin splints… and that was the end of my running carrier.
I was devastated. I didn’t know what else I could do. I was talking to a friend one day explaining my woes on a walk together, feeling my shins ache with every step, and she suggested we try to do an YOUTUBE pilates class together.
I started doing pilates every day and discovered a way I could make myself stronger, feel better, be happier, and boost my confidence without hurting my body: strength training. And I never turned back.
Cassie Ho, my youtube pilates guru, talked about fueling your body, breathing to engage your core, working each muscle group with intentionality, and I fell in love. Both with exercise and the way that I felt when I was done and the fact that I could do it at home without having to pay for a gym membership I didn’t want.
Fast forward 4-5 years, add a sedentary job and 2 pregnancies into the mix and I started struggling more and more as an adult with back pain, knee pain, headaches, and fatigue and I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
I was reading so much and trying so hard to find answers for myself when I finally decided that I wanted to know how to really understand and decipher the research I wanted to read, but to help myself, my family, and my friends. So I went back to school to get a pre-med degree.
When that was complete (one month AFTER my second child was born), I decided I wanted to pursue wellness coaching and personal training. Exercise and nutrition had changed my life and I wanted to learn even more and share the power of wellness with others.
So I started my nutrition and fitness business, opened my LLC, started taking clients, developed an app-based training system, and it kept growing and growing into amazing, full-time work with happy clients who told their friends, who told their friends, who told their friends, who are still telling their friends.
People losing 10, 20, 30, 40 lbs throughout their programs, falling in love with exercise, watching their A1C drop, reversing pre diabetes, lowering blood pressure naturally, watching ovarian cysts disappear, increasing strength, elderly clients leaving their walkers behind, middle-aged clients getting their energy back, and more and more. All virtually through my app with 1-1 support, customized programs, and personal encouragements at accessible price points.
And we’re still reaching more and more people even today.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Four years ago, my husband quit his full time job and I started working full time on my business. Getting new certifications, learning about running a business, building websites, developing programs, implementing new types of training, researching each clients individual needs, learning how to make the most of each minute to give my clients the absolute best outcome possible.
It was a fun and life-giving experience that taught me that I didn’t just need to know *how* to train people? I needed to know *what motivated them* to do the training. I took ivy-league psychology courses, nutrition courses, and more and started learning that the key was providing the emotional support and mental clarity to stick to a program that works for your real life.
Along the way I had my third baby and found myself struggling to heal my core. I couldn’t figure it out no matter how much research I did on my own. So, in classic form, to help myself heal my core and pelvic floor after pregnancy, labor, and deliver, I decided to become certified as a Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist. 3 months later my core was healed and I was starting to help other women AND men heal their cores as well.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Julia Lemmens L.L.C.?
Julia Lemmens Fitness is a small sole-proprietor LLC that serves individuals with personalized nutrition and fitness programs to help individuals accomplish their health goals. Those goals could span from weight loss, to improving metabolic health, to getting better results on your next annual physical.
I create programs that work for YOU, set manageable goals along the way, and utilize systems, check ins, and support to help keep you on track in your fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle journey.
I specialize in whole-body wellness, implementing nutrition to empower your fitness, and fitness to maximize your nutrition. Whether you’re trying to see improvement in your PCOS, recover postpartum, or improve your annual labs, or love your body composition, here, you can get the support you need to help realize those changes starting today.
I offer a range of services from 1-1 coaching programs that implement weekly call-based support, to generalized programs that capitalize on what is most common in your demographic to provide tailored guidance in your wellness plan but keeps your price point manageable. To discover what works best for you, consultations are free. Schedule on at www.julialemmensfitness.com by clicking on the banner, downloading the app, fill out the consultation form, and schedule your 1-1 call.
Every program offering includes course content to help you learn how to set goals, manage your wellness schedule, meal plan, meal prep, grocery shop, identify nutritional deficiencies without even getting a single lab drawn, and more. All included in the price of your program.
All of this is genuinely because want to see your life start changing, your body feeling amazing, and you, truly thriving.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
Implementing nutrition and fitness programs always come with low levels of risk. Telling someone that they need to change their mindset or habits can feel like a risk. Picking up the phone to reach out to an old client to see how they’re doing can feel like a risk. But every risk, if the potential benefit is high enough, is worth taking.
In your nutrition and fitness, it can feel risky to spending money on yourself. To commit to something new. To open yourself up to accountability. To truly start walking toward change. It all feels risky, but the benefits massively outweigh the risks. If you really can do it, you truly will be able to look in the mirror next year and see someone you’re really proud of.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.julialemmensfitness.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julia.lemmens.fitness/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julia.grace.lemmens
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@julialemmensfitness631
