What is Erin Simmons Fitness?
My name is Erin Simmons and I am dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyles through proper diet and exercise. I am a former member of the Florida State University Track and Field team where I started as a triple jumper, then competed in the heptathlon (7 events: long jump, high jump, shot put, javelin, 100m hurdles, 200m sprint, and 800m run). I then decided I liked javelin best and converted to a thrower.
I am currently trying to get into fitness modeling, but I also set up this site to help people with their fitness goals as well. This blog is the current “hub” of ErinSimmonsFitness, so be sure to check me out on Facebook and Twitter, as well as continuing to check back for current news on this page! I’ll be posting events, competitions, meal plans, videos, and exercises, to name a few.
If you have any questions, leave me a comment, send me a message, or email me! I’d love to talk to you about anything fitness related! And as always, thanks for your support!
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Erin:
You are my biggest fitness inspiration. Im a lab need too and used to be very athletic. I’ve recently started working out again but fail at eating clean. How can I drop body fat and build my non existent calves?
Erin:
You are my biggest fitness inspiration I even have your picture up as my phone’s wall paper (in a very non creepy way). I’d love to drop body fat and most importantly build calve muscles which are pretty much non existent. Any pointers?
I m having the HARDEST time getting my thighs slimmer n firm. I can not get rid of the fat. Please help!!!!
Thank you
Hi my names RJ and Im a college football player for A&M and i just ended my career as a college player. My question for you is I’m good on working out and knowing what to do there but I’m lacking in nutrition knowledge due to my football diet (eat anything and everything). I’m 6’8 and 255 pounds and want to get down to 230. I can’t seem to loss any weight no matter what I do so I’m thinking it’s my eating habits or “diet”. What diet would you suggest for a fit lean muscular form without lossing a lot of muscle? Sorry to bother but I’m really curious and you’re one of 8 or 9 people I’ve emailed today! Thank you and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
I believe you emailed me about this…if you didn’t, shoot me an email at erinsimmonsfitness@gmail.com
Hi,
You look incredible and are a true inspiration to me.
I was wondering if you could help me with nutrition. I have recently lost 40lbs on a very restricted calorie diet but I still weigh 220lbs. I would now like to up my calories as I have really got into training. I have researched bodybuilding and weight training diets and they recommend eating clean but huge amounts of calories. Is there a way of eating to fuel my body for lifting weights whilst maintaining a healthy loss? Also I’m a vegetarian (I have found loads of info on vegan training diets but not veggie).
Thanks for any help x
Chloe,
If you are still trying to lose weight, you will need to continue eating less calories than you burn. What is your current calorie intake? You can fuel your body without eating tons of calories. I would suggest Orgain protein shakes (find it on Amazon) for great nutritional value plus protein, and with low fat and zero saturated fat. That is, of course, vegetarian friendly and a great relatively low calorie supplement. If you are still trying to lose weight, I would stay away from protein shakes such as Muscle Milk or Monster Milk as those will be higher calorie. Also, pick complex carbs such as whole grain cereals and breads, quinoa, and brown rice instead of other carbs, as these will better fuel your workouts. Pick other power foods such as eggs (if you eat them), chickpeas, sweet potatoes, black beans, greek yogurt, and natural almond butter. Just don’t overeat them and spread them out during the day. Hope this helps!
-Erin
Thank you for sharing Erin. Being a former athlete myself (many moons ago
) I love’d to have that athletic physique again. I look forward to learning about your training and diet!
Hi Erin..your body is amazing..congratulations ! I have a question, I do crossfit about 5 times a week and I’ve been seing good results in terms of building muscle and losing fat but I’d for sure like to speed up my fat loss, do you think I need to incorporate some cardio sessions to my workout ? Thank you very much
!
CrossFit is pretty high intensity cardio as well as strength training, so if you’re wanting to do more to increase fat loss, then try supplementing it with longer but lower intensity cardio workouts (check out my other post on here: ). Let me throw one warning out there about CrossFit: please be careful to do the exercises with correct form. Unfortunately, CrossFit has some great exercises but it tends to stress a time or a number of exercises instead of good form which sets you up for injury. So be careful and good luck!
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Do you know of any sprint training drills? specifically to be comfortable at multiple 50m sprints throughout an 80 minute game? thanks
Hey! I absolutely do. Can you email me? erinsimmonsfitness@gmail.com. Let me know the sport specifically, though I’m guessing soccer or lacross? Anyway, shoot me an email and I’ll come up with some drills for you. Thanks!
how do you stay motivated during the offseason? i tend to only be active when around my teammates..but i need to start being motivated by myself.
While teammates are great motivators, you don’t want them to be your sole source of motivation because, as you point out, they are not always around! But you do always have yourself, so it’s important to find that drive within yourself. I usually set multiple goals to be working toward. When I ran track, we would have short term, day to day goals that supported our long term competition goals. This can help you in the offseason to continue to work toward those larger goals, whether you set offseason maxes in the Weightroom or daily nutrition goals. I also used to take about a month off during summers right after track season would wrap up and just take some time to recover. This always helped me not to get burnt out because after a month of not working out I was just itching to get back into the Weightroom or back on the track! So I think you just need to reevaluate yor goals and decide what you’re going to work toward in the offseason that will help you accomplish your goals during competition. Don’t be afraid to take short breaks to give your body and mind both a rest. Good luck!
thank you
Thank you for your advices on sport