There are some amazingly smart, strong, and talented people on the world wide web with great fitness and lifestyle blogs. Just take a look at my list of “people who know their sh*t” there on the right.

So why am I blogging? What can I offer?

The truth is, I don’t know. I can’t dissect medical publications like Robb Wolf. I haven’t overcome an eating disorder to become strong and spunky like Melissa Urban. I’m certainly not a long-time professional coach like Mike Burgener or have a Phd in kicking ass like Krista. I can’t make fitness sound mystically zen and esoteric like Chip either. I have all of these icons, these heroes that I don’t come close to measuring up to, yet I’ve decided to step into the world-wide ring with them. Why?

I guess I feel or hope that I have the potential to be like them, but in my own way. I feel that the voice of a slightly overweight mom who spends eighty percent of my waking hours in front of a computer screen can add something to the online fitness community. Yes, seriously.

I might hate running and love eating, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also love the feeling I get when I hit a new personal record on deadlifts. I might always be trying to work off that last ten pounds, but by God I’m doing it with kettlebells and red meat instead of aerobesize and grapefruit!

I want a tribe. I want to surround myself with other kickass ladies who bring it to the gym every day, even if they’ll never be competition-strong or model-thin. I want to talk about more than that too. I want to talk about living, eating, playing, fun, stress, and everything else. I have this vision of a modern tribe of warrior women, and I am looking for recruits.