Shoop Fitness
About Me
Hi! My name is Emilie Shoop. My family consists of my husband, Scott; 12-year-old stepson, Andrew; and brand new baby boy as of April 25, 2007, Joey. Currently, my full time job is a manager of Network Engineers at a University. Although that work is interesting, I’ve always been fascinated by the human body and how nutrition and exercise affects it. For fun, I learned how to teach several different exercise classes over the past 7 years. I started out with Deep Water Aerobics and fell in love. My FAVORITE class to teach is spinning. I’m always amazed at how great that workout is!
In my fitness roll, I have become certified in Group Exercise, Spinning, and CPR. I have also taken many additional classes, and done a ton of research on anything that I find interesting. You can imagine how much I wanted to learn about pregnancy and childbirth when I became pregnant with Joey. I was on a mission to know everything there was to know! Unfortunately, that information is HARD to find.
So, I came up with the idea to start a fitness website focusing on the already fit woman who is getting ready for childbirth and after childbirth. There is a lot of advice for those who haven’t worked out at all before they got pregnant, and very vague advice for the already fit. After childbirth is barely covered in most areas (like you are just going to jump right back into what you were doing). One hot topic I plan to cover is c-sections. There is VERY vague information out there on how to recover from that. The old “listen to your body” advice is just about as frustrating as it gets! I hated hearing “You’ll know when to stop” when I asked my doctor or other fitness professionals about my pregnancy workouts.
It took extensive searches for me to find bits and pieces of all the information that I was looking for. Pregnant women are too exhausted to do all of this research on their own, and new moms are too busy. You need a one-stop shop for all the information you need. Since I have been through it myself, I hope to know what you are looking for and can give you a glimpse into my experience with what you are going through.
I hope you will find my website useful! Please feel free to send me any questions you may have. If I don’t know the answer I will gladly research it!
