On this episode of our Behind the Grind interview series, we sit down with Tasha Turnbull - Author, Fitness Studio Owner, Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Group Fitness Instructor, Motivational Speaker, 100lb Weight Loss Winner! She's doing all the things!
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Tasha started as a personal trainer in 2009 and opened T2 Fitness Studios in 2011 after she realized her calling of impacting lives through her own personal testimony - successfully losing 100 pounds on her own. T2 Fitness has been the motivation behind over 6000 men and women in Hampton Roads making health and fitness a priority in their own lives via their personal training, fitness bootcamps, motivational speaking talks across the country, and the annual fitness events Tasha’s company puts on in the Coastal Virginia area of the state. Tasha has been featured on several weight loss blogs, local, regional, and national radio and television news segments, national fitness social media campaigns, and fitness-related news publications including Sister Circle TV, Shape Magazine, Xo Necole, Black Girls Run, The American Council on Exercise, Fox Baltimore, and BlackDoctor.Org, etc. She was featured this year as a Women To Watch in STRONG Fitness Magazine’s print magazine for their April/May 2019 Issue. Tasha was on tour with Black Girls Run’s in 2018 for their Sweat With Your Sole 10-city tour stop across the country. The nutrition workshops Tasha lead, had a profound impact on participants from Seattle, Washington to Washington, D.C., giving them insight into her previous negative relationship with food. Tasha lead participants on a journey revealing how to improve their relationship with food while empowering themselves to create a stronger foundation of self in order to improve their relationship with food.. Tasha is the author of The Last 10lbs: How the Last 10 Helped Me To Lose 100lbs!and is an extension of her commitment to finding unique and effective ways to motivate people to reach their fitness goals and live your healthiest life possible, despite leading a busy lifestyle.!Tasha offers insight in to her own pitfalls and setbacks, with regard to food and emotional eating. In!The Last 10lbs, Tasha explains page-by-page, how she lost 100 lbs and what you can do to finally live your best life. In June of this year, she received an Author of The Year Award for The Last 10lbs, from the Indie Author Legacy Awards Gala. In 2018, Tasha created the T2 Ultimate Nutrition Starter Plan as a way for individuals across the country to learn the tools needed to create a strong foundation for staying consistent along their health journey with regard to healthy eating and weight loss. This fall, Tasha created the Well Body Series, a fitness program designed to not only take care of their physical health, but also to empower them to take care of their emotional health as well. Lastly, in September 2019, Tasha was the keynote speaker of the American Diabetes Association’s Victory Over Diabetes event, held in Smithfield, Va. She discussed her journey towards weight loss, while being on a fixed income and inspired the crowd, with tips on how they can improve their lifestyle; no matter their busy schedule, income, or past failures.
