Mackenzie Ludwig Program Design

Hi, it’s been a min 🤍
Someone on insta posted a few weeks ago and said “it’s okay to take a break if something isn’t serving you in the moment” so I took a hiatus from snapping tons of pics and posting on here every day 👏🏽
The first pic—I’m pregnant and don’t know it yet. And that’s is my favorite physique I’ve ever had. I worked hard as a m**o through an 8 month bulk, and then an almost 5 month slowwww cut and was ~pumped~ to consider competing next year
The second picture is this week—24 weeks pregnant with my leeeetle girl! While I am over the moon excited, there are still days I mourn the fact that some of that physique *must* drastically change to be a healthy home for a little human to grow big and strong.
Also, the hormones make my type 8 exterior a little more emotional than I’m comfortable with so it’s been a WEEK 😂
Our bodies can do incredible things, I’ll be the first to tell that to anyone that will listen.
It’s also okay that it’s really hard to see them change so rapidly.
Pregnancy has been hard 🤷🏽‍♀️ my whole mindset in the gym had to shift a bit, I really miss sprinting and pick up soccer, my pelvis straight up feels like a pile of broken Legos most days, my belly button is just something else entirely at this point lol, and mentally we’re preparing for a humongous life change.
It doesn’t have to be pregnancy—whatever big life decisions and shifts you have going on might cause a mindset shift. Or an “off” week. Or a good cry when you reach max capacity for stress 😂
Find a way to fill your cup this weekend. Get a good latte, go outside (if it’s not sub zero and snowing), find a way to pay it forward.
Make your soul feel good 🖤 @ Cincinnati

The female body is bananas 🍌
Women get fed subliminal messaging daily about all the ways we need to fix our bodies and make ourselves look.
Sometimes those messages aren’t subliminal, and they’re straight up on the covers of magazines or being spewed from another undereducated celebrity cashing in on a paycheck.
We don’t spend enough time admiring the things our bodies can do, have done, & will do.
This body played year-round sports for nearly two decades.
This body crushed fitness tests, scored goals, and played division 1 college soccer for four years—all while coping with the pain of a golf ball sized mass stuck under my knee cap
This body recovered from two knee surgeries & a torn ligament in my ankle when I kept playing soccer after college.
This body has been all around the world.
✨It has surfed on the Gold Coast
🌟It has swam in the Great Barrier Reef
⚡️It has walked the streets of London
✨It has felt the magic of a Broadway show
🌟It has been beaten, and bruised, and broken and healed every damn time when I told it that I had to keep going
⚡️It has done double unders till I swore I would faint
✨it has fallen in love and walked down an aisle
This body is literally growing a full-ass human being. I mean sometimes I can’t wrap my head around it, and then I FEEL her tap-tap-tapping inside my belly reminding me she’s there.
We spend a whole lot of time wishing our bodies would change, look a certain way, lift a heavier weight.
Today, spend some time thanking it and remembering all the crazy, awesome, borderline magical things it does, has done, and will do.

Coffee & sunshine & fresh air was good for the soul this past week 🙌🏼
Do something that makes you feel good, take a deep breath, and relax today 🤍
That is all

Probably my favorite body comp I’ve ever worked toward, and didn’t even know I was pregnant 😂
When I told my coach there was a baby on the way, she was like hell yeah it’s growing season 😈
It’s funny, I had just ordered my stage heels and started practicing my posing when life threw me a curve ball
The timeline may have been pushed back, but the comeback is going to be so much sweeter with my little angel on my hip 🤍

What’s it mean to be gritty?
It means you GET 👏🏽 BACK 👏🏽 UP 👏🏽
One of my clients told me in her check in today that she absolutely failed one of her sets of squats. But the next set she hit all TEN reps 🙌🏼
She failed. But she got back up. Because she’s gritty.
That’s what sets her apart. Her willingness to look failure in the eye and then try it again.
Her willingness to get back up 👏🏽
So, go out and get gritty this week. @ Cincinnati