What is [F.I.C.], and how did two people on different continents find each other, and this idea, in the first place?
First, let me welcome you to this site and the blog. If you're reading this post, then you've both made it to the site and felt enough curiosity to read up on us, and we're excited that you are here! Now, who the heck are we?
Fitness in Context is two people:
1. Tracy

Tracy, showing off that cert.
Tracy has always been into sports, playing field hockey in the neighborhood as a kid and eventually getting into basketball, volleyball, and pole vaulting in high school. She's always been an active adult, but somewhere in her mid-thirties she decided what she wanted for her 40th birthday was to be her strongest yet. Tracy's desire to become a personal trainer arose from her continual struggle to find strength workouts designed with women in mind. 2. Seamus

Yes, I always look this serious. Except when I don't.
I was not a sports kid, unless you consider marching band a sport (and I do). My eighth and ninth grade years did feature a brief stint in the field part of track and field, throwing shot-put and discus.
My introduction to exercise as it is formally understood started after my diagnosis with type 1 diabetes when I was 20 years old. I began running in order to process my fears around the future possibilities of losing my circulation, kidney function, and sight. Over the last seventeen years, I have explored running, strength and conditioning of all kinds, and experimented with all kinds of diets in order to find the best way to manage my chronic illness. I have become a close friend and ally to my body over that time, and I have developed a deep appreciation and sense of wonder at what the body can do and the wisdom of its limits.
Massage therapy and personal training were extensions of this relationship with my body and the desire I have to share what I have learned with others.
Fitness in Context is an Idea
The idea is this: We believe fitness and access to information about fitness should be simple, easy to apply, and available to everybody. Whether you’re curious and don’t know where to start, or you’ve been active and interested in fitness and exercise for years, we want to help you find new connections with your body and increase your capacity for strength and resilience. Â
We built Fitness in Context is a fitness as a resource with people who are new to exercise or who are typically left out of fitness spaces (women, LBGTQIA+, people who aren’t interested in being a fitness model or elite athlete) in mind. We are cultivating this space in the hopes that you feel welcome, comfortable, and find workouts and plans that work for you.
We’ll be sharing our own, unfiltered experiences with health and fitness. We’re not elite athletes or fitness models—we’re two regular people who have found strength training to be medicine for our emotional, mental, and physical health. We’ve moved across the country (and world), endured heartache and job loss, live with chronic illness, work day jobs, and pay bills. Our training and guidance are offered through the context of ‘real life’. For us, the workout supports daily living and is a training ground for the demands of being human–not the other way around.Â
Fitness in Context is a Community
In addition to our training and blog, we’re building community, connection and support through F.I.C. We'll be posting regularly on social media (IG, YT: @fitnessincontext). We'll be covering everything from exercise tutorials to body maintenance to whatever thing we're nerding out about next. Be sure to follow and join in on the conversation – we'd love to hear from you! We'll also be posting workouts of the week where you can join us live or pick it up later on your own schedule. Some of these workouts will be our daily workouts, a WoW exclusive, or a workout from one of our plans. We also have a membership site here where you can connect with other members and ask us questions. We're always thinking up new ways to connect with you. Have an idea? Drop us a DM or email us at info@fitnessincontext.com.

To Sum it Up
We're Tracy and Seamus, and we're Fitness in Context. We're here to break down the hype and barriers around words like "fitness," "exercise," and "health" and put them into context; namely, the context of our real, complex, messy lives. If you've read this far, thanks for staying. We hope to see you at our Workout of the Week, on the Instagram, and in our F.I.C. forums. To stay up to date on the latest, Subscribe to our email list or Connect with us on Instagram. Until then, Seamus
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