Dirty Divas Training

Happy Monday!!! 💖✨

FOUR DAYS TO GO! 😭🔥

I leave bright and early tomorrow morning to drive to my coach’s house, then we fly from Birmingham to Pittsburgh Wednesday morning!

I would truly appreciate all the prayers for safe travels and travel mercies—especially as I make the drive by myself tomorrow. 🙏🏼

Going on this trip without Mike will be a HUGE step outside my comfort zone. But I feel like this is something I need to experience for myself—a chance to challenge myself, trust God, grow, and level up.

I’ve worked incredibly hard for this moment, and now it’s time to embrace every part of it. Pittsburgh, here I come! 💪🏼💖✨

Book your session with Carol McElya and ask about the Diva discount!!

ASSISTED STRETCHING ≠ MASSAGE

As a stretch coach, sometimes I'm asked how assisted stretching differs from massage.

Massage primarily focuses on soft-tissue techniques. Assisted stretching focuses on movement by helping improve flexibility, mobility, and range of motion.

During a session, I guide you through controlled stretches while you relax and allow me to assist with the movement.

* Personalized to your individual needs
* Gentle and controlled
* Designed to support mobility and flexibility
* Beneficial for areas that may be difficult to stretch independently
* Relaxing, with a movement-focused purpose

As a certified stretch coach, I do not provide massage services. My goal is simple:

To help you move more comfortably, feel better, and safely stretch beyond what you may be able to achieve on your own.

Assisted stretching and massage are different services with different purposes, and both can be valuable components of a wellness routine.

As someone who values health and wellness, both stretching and massage are part of my fitness routine!

📸👑 DIRTY DIVAS GYM SHOOT — ROUND 3 IS OFFICIALLY BOOKING!

It’s time for another Dirty Divas Gym Photo Shoot with the incredibly talented Ashley of ARP Photography — and if you’ve seen our previous shoots, you already know these are 🔥🔥🔥.

📅 Sunday, September 20, 2026
📍 PT Fitness Zone — Bartlett, TN

This isn’t about being a fitness model. It isn’t about having the “perfect” body.

It’s about celebrating YOUR strength, YOUR progress and the work YOU have put in. Strong. Confident. Unapologetic. THAT is a Dirty Diva. 💪👑

💎 CURRENT DIRTY DIVAS CLIENTS — $99

Your special client rate includes:

📸 30-minute gym photo session
💎ALL digital downloads included
📷 Option to purchase additional images
🔥 Professional gym lighting, smoke & the whole Diva experience!

And I’ll be there helping you with posing, outfits, ideas and putting your entire look together. You do NOT need to know how to pose. That’s what we’re there for!

👑 FALL FIT & FABULOUS LADIES — PAY ATTENTION!

One woman from our current Fall Fit & Fabulous Challenge 2.0 is going to WIN HER DIVA SHOOT!

So when you’re tired, tempted to skip that workout, or thinking that cardio suddenly became optional…remember what we’re working toward. 😂

You could be our next Diva Shoot winner!

🖤 NOT A CURRENT DIRTY DIVA?

You can still participate! The $99 rate is an exclusive Dirty Divas client discount, but non-clients can contact Ashley about booking at her regular rate.

These sessions are always an absolute BLAST. Women cheering for women, music going, confidence through the roof, and Ashley working her magic behind the camera.

Spots are LIMITED, so don’t wait until the last minute.

🔥 BOOK YOUR DIVA GYM SHOOT HERE:
Reserve Your Gym Shoot Session⁠

https://book.usesession.com/s/f45YC8AHiA

Come ready to have fun, feel strong and get some BADASS pictures of the body you’ve been working for. 💪📸👑

💗 OUT OF OFFICE REMINDER 💗

Hey everyone! Just a reminder that I am officially out of the office through Monday, September 7th while I’m traveling and competing.

I will return to in-person training with clients on Tuesday, September 8th.

📲 PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR REGULAR CHECK-INS NEXT WEEK!

Even though I will be unavailable during our normal check-in time, I still need you to submit your check-in as usual. Please send your:

✅ Fasted progress photos
✅ Fasted scale weight
✅ Completed check-in form

Do not skip your check-in simply because I am away. Continue following your current meal plan, training program, and cardio until you receive an update from me.

I will be unavailable for the majority of the week and will have very limited access to the app, messages, and email. If you need me, you are absolutely welcome to leave me a message. Just understand that I will respond when I have the opportunity to do so rather than on my normal schedule.

I plan to have messages, emails, and check-ins addressed by September 7th, and then it’s back to business and back to training my clients beginning September 8th! 💪

Thank you all for respecting this time away and for your patience and support.

And remember—I’m out of the office. YOU are not out of your program. 😉

Keep following the plan. Keep training. Keep doing your cardio. Keep logging your food. And SEND THOSE CHECK-INS!

I’ll see everyone when I get back! 💗💪

WHY I’M NOT JUST A PERSONAL TRAINER

Yes, I’m a certified personal trainer—but getting you through a workout is only one small part of what I do.

A personal trainer can give you a great workout for 30 or 60 minutes. But your results are also determined by what happens during the other 23 hours of your day.

That’s why I consider myself your coach.

I don’t simply stand beside you, count reps, and send you home. I look at the whole picture:

🔥 Your personalized workouts
🥗 Your nutrition and meal plan
💧 Your water intake
🚶‍♀️ Your cardio and daily activity
😴 Your sleep and recovery
🧠 Your mindset, habits, and relationship with food
📊 Your weekly check-ins and progress
🔄 The adjustments needed when life—or your body—throws us a curveball

I want to know why you’re struggling. I want to teach you how to prepare, how to make better choices, how to train correctly, and how to keep going when motivation has packed its little suitcase and left town.

My job isn’t to make you dependent on me forever. My job is to educate you, empower you, and help you understand the process so you can eventually walk into any gym—or face any difficult season of life—and know exactly what to do.

Whether you train with me in person, virtually, or through a hybrid program, you’re not simply purchasing workouts.

You’re receiving structure. Education. Accountability. Support. Strategy. And someone who is genuinely invested in seeing you succeed.

I don’t just want to help you complete a workout.

I want to help you change your life.

That’s the difference between having someone count your reps and having a coach in your corner.

And around here, we build strong, confident women—not lifelong dependence. 💪🏼👑

Y’ALL HELP ME CELEBRATE THIS DIVA!!! 🖤🔥

Chance hit her weight goal TODAY—and you know what that means…

We celebrate this one, and then we set the next one. 🎯

But the number she hit today isn’t even the biggest part of this story.

CHANCE IS OFFICIALLY DOWN 30 POUNDS! 👏🔥

She has been working with me for a little less than two years, and I’m going to tell you something about her journey: it has not been fast.

There were stops. Starts. Hard seasons. Stress. Life changes. Days when nutrition wasn’t perfect. Days when motivation wasn’t there.

But she kept showing up.

And then something changed.

Chance started choosing Chance.

She began focusing on herself.
She started making herself a priority.
She became more consistent with her training.
She tightened up her nutrition.
She got serious about her cardio.
And slowly but surely, our little turtle 🐢 started MOVING.

Now here we are—30 POUNDS DOWN.

But if you ask me what her greatest transformation has been, I’m not going to tell you it’s the weight.

It’s HER.

It’s the confidence she exudes now.

It’s the happiness radiating from her.

It’s the strength she has discovered in herself.

And it’s that brightness that’s back in her smile. ❤️

I’ve had the privilege of watching this woman walk through one hell of a season and come out on the other side discovering an entirely different version of herself.

THAT is why I coach.

Chance, I am SUPER, SUPER PROUD OF YOU. Thank you for trusting me enough to be part of this journey with you.

Thirty pounds deserves to be celebrated BIG.

So y’all help me congratulate one of my fiercest Dirty Divas on her 30-POUND VICTORY! 🎉💪🖤

Enjoy this milestone, girl.

Then we keep moving.

Next goal loading… 🎯🐢

More is yet to come. 🔥