"OH wow look, Joy is working at another gym!" It's no secret to me that people wonder why I "gym-hop" - it doesn't bother me that people...

... ONE YEAR LATER OKK so life has been wild.. an update on all of that later. Right now, I just want to get into gyms across Nova Scotia...

I have an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology from Acadia. Acadia is #blessed, because we actually learned how to train multiple...

*fanfare plays* I, Joy Chiekwe tried SPINCOOOOOO This review has been a long time coming. I am literally smiling while writing this...

I asked Instagram what they want to read about, and a good chunk of the responses asked about my motivation. I get this question a lot...

About 6 weeks ago I handed in my weeks’ notice to World Gym Dartmouth. I was so scared, so nervous and, so unsure while my fingers typed...

I actually don’t know how to start this review; I tried a few times to get the right words and none do this place justice. I guess to...

In my experience, too many people are going through life moving without intention. They wake up each morning, do their morning routine,...

Hot Take: It's hard! The summer has always been a tough time for me to stay dedicated to the gym. The gym has always been a fun hobby I...

What is the value of your quality of life? My job revolves around doing my best to improve someone’s quality of life, whether they know...

When I first got into exercising, it was pretty much just to look a certain way. Quickly that shifted into performing better in sports...

Yo, If you read my last blog, you’d know I said there really isn’t an excuse for me taking a two-month hiatus from writing for this blog....

It’s been two months since I posted on this blog and I don’t really have a valid excuse (work got busy, blah blah blah). But I am back...

Okay, I know most people in the fitness industry right now are jobless and probably just applied for EI but hear me out. When you’re a...

To be honest, I’m writing this while eating Doritos and drinking a bottle of wine – yes, a bottle, but Nova Scotia is in a state of...

When people ask about my job, I usually get the ‘awe, that must be hard’ or ‘wow, that is so rewarding’; which are correct. But I also...

Last October I ran one mile every day for the whole month. I originally got the idea when I saw @MegSquats post about how she was going...

Unilateral training (training one side at a time), is my favorite thing to do. Depending on my training block I would almost always pick...

Welcome back! In this one I want to give a bit more of a background of #MoveWithJoy, what this blog means to me and why I think it’s...

Back in the day I played varsity basketball for a whole year in university (I’m only 23, but that one year seemed like an eternity I wont...