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October 07, 2022

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Why “Can’t” You Wear White After Labor Day?

My Inspiration Behind the Terrain Collection

Today, do something nice for yourself | Day 19 of 20

It took me six years to find a solution….

8 Things Only Girls Who Wear Activewear Will Understand

Help. Need bride squads who want free activewear!

Win a $250 POPFLEX Shopping Spree!

My Dark Bloom Photoshoot.

Dark Bloom is out and I’m barely alive.

Dec 7. #DarkBloom.

Fit Gifts Under $11 for the Workout Girl

How to Earn FREE Activewear!

Joshua Tree Adventures & Photoshoot!

What size do you wear?

POPFLEX POP UP SHOP!

Best Workout Socks + How I Style Them

How to Properly Wash your Activewear

POPFLEX Mermaids Giveaway!

POPFLEX, 100 Years of Workout Style & Ronda Rousey

The Debut POPFLEX Lookbook: Peony Garden 2016.

An Activewear Collection Dedicated to YOU.

Blogilates Cyber Monday Sale + 3 Day Workout & Meal Plan!

BLOGILATES BLACK FRIDAY 2015 SALE PRICES LEAKED!

How to make Vegan Ice Cream aka “Nice Cream!”

Blogilates Fit Planner 2016, Best Yoga Mat ever & Perfect 10 ABS!

Happy 30% off weekend sale!!

POPFLEX Mermaid Lookbook!

10 Min Abs + Little Red Romper

Blogilates National Tour!? + POP Pilates Certification dates!

August Announcements!! POP Pilates Party at IDEA World & BODYPOP

#giveityourALLGUST Workout Calendar! Get the password by signing up for my free newsletter!

Lower Belly Flattening Moves!

Perfect Summer Salad + White Crops

Happy Fourth of July!

DIY Twist Back Muscle Tank + I’m in PEOPLE Magazine!

Mondays Don’t Suck + 5 Best Butt Lifting Exercises

Neon Fitness Fashion, Lean Arms, and Hi-Protein Taquitos Recipe!

5 Best Muffintop Melting Moves

Red Carpet Fashion Lookin’ Fit & Fabulous!

Late night blogging…werkin’ werkin’

The Most Provocative Blogilates Posts of 2013

The Official ShopBlogilates.com Black Friday Deals!

DIY Grocery Bag + Blogilates App Update 1.2!

Dogilates: The Best Workout for your Pet!

DIY Farmer’s Market Tote – No Sew Reusable Bag!!

My Metabolic Supercharge Smoothie w/ 1 CRAZY Ingredient + Something You Have Been Waiting For!

Butt on Fire! BEAST MODE Style

Happy National Donut Day! Here’s a Healthy Swap :)

GRAND OPENING! New Store, New Sale!

Picking a Dress for Fashion Week!

DIY Muscle Tank Workout Shirt!

VS Sexy Supermodel Stiletto Workout!

The Body Achieves What the Mind Believes

Bikini Kickoff Video! Crazy fat burning workout!

Primadonna Pushups. Go draw a <3 on your face!

Vegan Oatmeal Craisin Cookies & The Quickest Easiest Way to Steam Veggies EVER

Call Me Gangnam! And my fitness idols!

I love you POPsters!

Miley Cyrus Ab Workout Printable!

Live Passionately! + Coconut Flour Pancakes Recipe

Waist Slimming Workout to “Wings” by Little Mix

Back To School Motivation – Staying Fit through Fall

Crazy Brights for Summer Fitness Fashion

My Obsession with COLORS! Neon Colors.

New Blogilates Stuff + Chicago Time

Summer 2012 Fitness Fashion!

Blogilates Workout Wear Winners + Exclusive Coupon!

New Cute ‘n Affordable Activewear!

Mother’s Day at Pamper Me Fabulous!

New TRAIN INSANES are in! Finally.

Bridal Bootcamp for Sexy Shoulders & Beautiful Back!

DIY Workout Racerback T-shirt Video Tutorial

UHH I forgot one

New Blogilates Fitness Fashion!

Winner of the Lorna Jane Giveaway!

DIY Racerback Workout Shirt Tutorial

Cute Lifting Gloves Flash Giveaway!

Lorna Jane Makeover, POP Pilates Meetup in Australia, & DVD Update!

New Yoga Sling Family Member + Crazy Hard Workout

China Recap + Official Week #8 Challenge Video

OMG CUTE ACTIVEWEAR ON SALE!

Sequined Booty Shorts for a Happy New REAR!

Fitness Fashion: Lorna Jane Photostory

Holiday Dazzle Time…Jewelry Giveaway with Kallisti Designs!

ANOTHER Killer Thigh Workout just for you!

New bags and a journey that’s come full circle

Getting to know the people behind the brands

Veggie Breakfast Sausage, a Contest & Aerie Trunk Show

And the Winners of the FitActivewear Giveaway are…

Giveaway Time! Fit Activewear Booty Shorts, Bra and $100 shopping spree!

DEAL ALERT! NUX Sale on IDEELI! Ends soon

Cute, Cheap and Affordable Workout Clothes for Under $25? YES!

And the winner is…

GRAND REVEAL OF NEW BLOG! Cute Workout Clothes Giveaway!

How to Dress like Jillian Michaels

I need an X-ACTO knife now!!! Gorgeous!!!

Fitness Fashion Friday!

Bebe trench

Missoni for Target

Cute little wristlet

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Ok I’m nervous. This is my first foray into des

Ok I’m nervous.

This is my first foray into designing something outside of the activewear space. Look I’m a fitness girl always, but I’m also a major fashion girl and I love love love clothes. I feel like I don’t just buy clothes, I collect them! I look at clothes like art, and I see the thought and detail that goes into a piece…beyond just the pretty but the engineering that had to go into construction to make it a real, wearable product.

Today is the launch of my first ever, official Outerwear. Meet the @popflex_active ✨Cocoon Coat✨

She’s the softest, fluffiest, WARMEST, most luxurious piece I’ve ever created. With thumbholes, pockets, and the most enchanted hood everrrrrr, I mean, even though it’s fashion, it’s still got that POPFLEX functional touch.

It would be my dream and absolute honor to dress you not just at the gym but to and from the gym as well. If this goes well (deep breath), I’m hoping I can design more things for you outside of the activewear space.

What do you think!??

♥️Cassey

Ps: The Cocoon Coat comes is xxs/xs, s/m, l/xl, and 1x/3x. I’m wearing the s/m! Popflexactive.com bio link

Started working on this a year ago and now we’re

Started working on this a year ago and now we’re finally here! My first @popflex_active windbreaker!

I grew up watching Disney movies. Yes, the love stories and adventures were fun but I was really in it for the clothes. Ballgowns, capes, and corsets? Umm yes.

Weirdly (but maybe not so weird) my choice of entertainment these days is watching, reading or listening to historical non-fiction…specifically centered around royal women in history. I think I have a odd affinity for European history around the 1500-1700s because of how the fashion then was used to inspire the Disney princess costumes.

(Side note: You know, when I was a kid I used to think I wanted to be a princess, but after learning about court politics and how women were just pawns and child bearing vehicles, I think being as far away from the castle would be best 😅)

Anyway, I digress.

Even though Disney princess are just a fantasy, the fairytales still inspire me to this day. I love all things romantic, feminine, and enchanted. You can see it in almost all of my designs.

I think the really cool thing about being a fashion designer, specifically an activewear designer is that I have to create things that not only make me feel beautiful but have to make me perform better too. It’s like this constant push and pull between art and science. It’s a challenge but I LOVE IT.

The ✨Whimsical Breeze Windbreaker✨ is my latest creation and I loooove wearing it on my outdoor runs!

✔️adjustable hem so you can wear it loose, cinched or cropped
✔️ enchanted hood that’s adjustable
✔️ double ruched sleeves for extra dramatic sleeves
✔️ princess seams
✔️ high collar to keep your neck warm
✔️ lightweight and compact

Hope you love! I’m wearing the s/m! This design comes in xxs all the way to 3x!

♥️Cassey

Ps: you can get this now on popflexactive.com bio link @popflex_active

It’s true. I haven’t posted a workout video in

It’s true. I haven’t posted a workout video in a long time. And you know what? It’s been nice. Nice because it’s the first time in 13 years of being online that no one has said something mean about my body.

Posting that first video in 2009, I was so scared that someone would comment on my form. But it wasn’t my technique they were after, it was the way I looked. It’s sad that what started out as me very simply teaching Pilates to my students turned into an open forum for body shaming.

Why don’t you have abs?
Why is your butt flat?
Why do you have hip dips?
You’re getting fat.
You’re too skinny.
You don’t look like other trainers.
Where’s your muscle?
Now you look like a man.
Your workouts must not work if you look like that.
If you cared about your career, you’d lose weight.

Stepping away momentarily from the fitness industry has made me realize what a toxic environment I had been living in daily. No more people pushing their ideologies down my throat and telling me how I should look or how I should eat or how stupid I am for not listening to them. In fact, this hiatus has given me the space and breathing room to renurture my relationship with food, fitness, and my body. With the negative chatter silenced, I can now focus on what my body is telling me I need. Not what other people are yelling at me about.

I’ve been having so much fun spending my time driving the product development forward as both @popflex_active and Blogilates brands are growing rapidly. I’m in a major design groove and feel so in alignment. These days, it feels weird to not be afraid to open my comments. Before I’d have to take a deep breath and brace my body for the hurtful and sometimes hateful comments.

Anyway, here’s my first workout video in a looooong time. Let’s see how this goes.

♥️Cassey

Ps: My sliders are the new Blogilates ones at Target! You can get ‘em online at target.com or in store! If you don’t have sliders, use towels on hardwood or paper plates on carpet!

Middle school PE. Ugh I can vividly remember how m

Middle school PE. Ugh I can vividly remember how much anxiety I got when it was time for the “captains” (aka the fastest, most athletic boys in class) to pick teams. I prayed so hard that I wouldn’t be picked last, but it didn’t help. No one wanted me. I know it’s just PE, but being last pick made me feel ashamed, unworthy and like I didn’t belong.

Then mile days. I dreaded “The Mile” so much. Again, the competitive nature of the activity (which honestly was a race) gave me so much anxiety. You know, it’s all fun for the ones who are naturally fast, but for me - I can still remember struggling to finish my mile while feeling like hot soup was boiling in my lungs as my classmates were looking on and judging.

And of course, we can’t forget to talk about PE clothes. Eeewwwww. I do not like being told what to wear, especially when the thing I’m forced to wear I’m also being forced to pay for ANDDDD it looks so bad because it’s not made with my (female) body in mind.

All of this combined made me hate PE and associate all exercise in general with negative feelings.

It wasn’t until high school that I discovered Pilates through an informercial (who remembers Mari Windsor Pilates DVDs!?) and had the realization that fitness wasn’t about competing with others, it was about being better than who you were yesterday. The competition was only between you and yourself!

From there, I decided to get certified as a Pilates instructor in college, I began teaching at gyms, and then started a YT channel all based around making fitness fun!

You know, I strongly believe that if PE could offer group exercise and allow students to wear whatever made them feel confident to move, a lot more girls would have a healthier, more positive relationship with exercise earlier on in life. I know for me it would have made all the difference.

♥️Cassey

Ps: I’m wearing the @popflex_active shruggie, peekaboo shortsie, and that’s the Belladonna gym bag!

Looks like I need to go back to the drawing board

Looks like I need to go back to the drawing board and dial up the motivation 🫠

I dragged @samlivits out from his meetings and forced him to do this TikTok with me. Luckily he obliged. We redid that last shot like 20 times and I’m proud to report he was a trooper and kept going until I was happy 🙂

Do you guys wanna see more of Sam and how we work together as business partners but also as husband and wife? What are you interested in knowing?

♥️Cassey

Ps: This is the new Ready Set Glow Gallon Timer Bottle from @popflex_active! It comes in 3 colors and is avail now on popflexactive.com (bio link)

Wait til the end… For those of you who have bee

Wait til the end…

For those of you who have been following me since 2013, you know that I’ve been designing water bottles for almost a decade. I am obsessed with hydration, and I drink a lot of water because it helps my digestion and also keeps my skin looking healthy.

I know drinking water can be hard because it can taste “boring“. To make it easier for myself, I love adding fruit to give it some flavor. But also what I find really helpful is turning drinking water into a game!

ARE YOU READY TO EXPERIENCE THE BIGGEST FRUIT INFUSER GIANT GALLON BOTTLE OF YOUR LIFE!??

✨Ready Set Glow Gallon Timer Bottle✨ @popflex_active

✔️ motivational time stamps from 7am to 9pm
✔️ fruit infuser
✔️1 gallon (128 fl oz) capacity
✔️ flip top cap
✔️ silicone terrazzo bumper that also TRANSFORMS into a dog water bowl!? 🐾 🐶

But honestly what I’m even more excited about…is it’s matching bottle bag! YOU KNOW I LOVE BAGS! 😭😭😭

Guys it fits the gallon bottle perfectly and it has a:

✔️ phone pocket
✔️ zip pocket
✔️ key ring clip
✔️ wear crossbody or as a mini backpack

Omggggg I can’t even handle myself right now. I think my entire identity is this. THIS IS ME. So specific and SO INTENSE!!!

What do you think!??

♥️Cassey

Ps: You can get this bottle (3 colors) and bag right now at popflexactive.com (bio link) @popflex_active