By ISAIAH FRIZZELL
How do you show off your wares? When you are the exemplifying advertisement for your own service, well, you do it with aplomb and, wow, Lauren Lillo has done just this!
Lillo has been in Hailey for nearly four years. She arrived from Meridian offering a cleaning service. However, as a body builder and walking fitness icon, Lillo was destined to find her passion and clients. She began cleaning and, of course, training at Bigwood Fitness. In the course of interaction with owners Ariel Audet and Jordan Baker, Lillo was inevitably invited on. “I got hired at Bigwood Fitness, cleaning. I dropped my other clients and focused on Bigwood. Jordan encouraged me to do it and basically gave me the opportunity to start training there and also training people while advertising. Amazing. He and Ariel, just wow! I mean, if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be able to do what I love and reach people in the community.”
It’s Never Too Early To Start
“Fitness is something I’ve always practiced,” said Lillo, “as a teenager, you know, training, working out and bodybuilding. Then in my early 20s I started doing actual personal training, but kind of backed off when I had kids. Bigwood gave me the ultimate opportunity. I’ve been training clients now for a year and a half there and it’s been really good.”
All in stride. Kids are a huge deal. Lillo has managed with her unique Transformation Challenges to completely change lives. “In the middle of raising my kids and working, I trained a young lady for a bikini competition that only took her six weeks, which is unheard of. Usually it takes anywhere from 14 to 16 weeks. It was our very first show and so, I mean she did really well, but yeah, that was kind of like in the middle and I’m like doing my competitions as well, you know, it’s been a little bit since I’ve competed but that was probably one of my best transformations.”
Lillo pushes people, challenging self-limiting beliefs, and so takes training beyond the gym with her Transformation Challenges, using an app, in-person and video training to keep everyone on track.
Healthy Competition
The app helps Lillo create a small community, with a timed—generally monthly—limit to generate measurable physical and mental change. “You can track your workouts in the app.
Track your your meals. It’s fitness power. You log all your food and it creates a community so I can set up a challenge and they have this graph, who’s hitting all their goals, nutrition for the day, they get points based off of that, part of the challenge. Then I’ll have rewards for whoever wins but it’s nice having this so that they can push each other and I know they all check the scoreboard, you know!” Lillo laughs. People need to be encouraged and by signing up and showing up they find a way to make it work with healthy competition and complete access to Lillo.
Life Challenges
Hurdles happen. It’s in how we deal with them. “I actually tore my labrum five months ago. I don’t even know how. I woke up one day, thought I’d tore my groin and, the timing! It was a month before a competition.” An MRI showed torn cartilage. Surgery was recommended. I’m just navigating this injury and finding natural ways, not surgery or drugs, to do it myself.”
Fiercely individual, friendly, clever and heavily focused on connecting women, Lillo’s photos speak a million words. Lillo is healing, helping and having recently finished up her last Transformation Challenge, currently planning the next one for spring. WIth five cats, one adopted at Paw Prints by Atkinsons’, Lillo is making it happen. We need people like this in our community and the proof is in the pudding… but just one spoon, now!
Find Lauren Lillo on instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/laurenlillo_fit/
Email her at laurenlillo@myyahoo.com
Book a session by phone: 208-813-2931
