Yewande Olabumuyi

They say not all heroes wear capes🦸🏾‍♀️. Happy Belated Mother’s Day to the super women and sheroes. To the step mom’s, mother figures, mentors and guardians! Happy Belated Mother's Day to you all. I do hope you had a fabulous day celebrating YOU 💐💕 This past Mother’s Day was an extra special one for me as it was my first Mothers Day as a mother of 2️⃣ and as I am typing and reading the words ‘mother of 2’ it still feels so surreal to me. I am so thankful to God for blessing me with two beautiful daughters 👧🏾👧🏾. I am thankful to God for blessing me with the most incredible motherhood journey, and an amazing village of family and friends who have stood in gap for me and supported me every step of the way! I thank you all soo much!! 🙏🏾 To any woman out there who is praying for a child, I stand in prayer with you and pray that in due time the lord blesses you with your miracle baby! Stay strong and begin to walk in faith! Swipe left for a few photos and videos from my Mother’s Day Celebration featuring some of my favorites 💕 Food - plantains 🍌 💕Snacks - gummy bears 🐻 💕Movement & weights 🏋️‍♀️ I look forward to having you all come along with me as I enter in this new chapter of my life and begin my second post partum recovery and fitness journey. As always, remember to follow @yofitnesshealth on instagram or Facebook for your dose of workout videos, fitness motivation, nutrition tips, mindfulness, life hacks and more. Much love ❤️ #mothersday #girlmom #momlife #movement #postpartum #postpartumfitness #postpartumjourney #7weekspostpartum #fitspo #blessed #wellness #health Music: Dancing In The Moonlight Musician: Jeff Kaale

Happy Women’s History Month! I have spent the last 9 months in quiet and working to cultivate self- discipline. I challenged myself in so many different ways as I have navigated life, health, fitness, nutrition, growth, development, mindfulness and wellness in all its dimensions. Swipe left ⬅️to see a few results I have came out with, as well as some pictures and videos Going through the process of writing down your wins, success, mistakes and shortcomings is a great habit that fuels further success. At times we are so fixated on the ‘finish line’ 🏁that we lose sight of the fact that ‘what we get by achieving our goals is not as important as what we become on our journey to achieving our goals.” - Zig Ziglar LADIES, as we celebrate us through out the month of March and beyond remember to start with YOU👈🏾. Take stock of your ‘own’ accomplishments, write them down and sit back in your chair 🪑and take it all in. Acknowledge how much you have accomplished and allow yourself to be PROUD! Give yourself yourself permission to celebrate, give yourself those flowers 💐 and while you are at it pick a couple other flowers for the amazing QUEEN’s👸🏾 in your life. Happy Womens History Month to all the incredible women! I am proud of you all and the woman I am becoming. #womenshistorymonth #women #fitmoms #runnersofinstagram #momrunner #running #36weekspregnant #community #fitspo #health #family

Today I’ll be picking things up from where I left them a couple months back with sharing my struggle story. I’ll be focusing on self- sabotaging and self - limiting behaviors. We all want to be better and do more but many times change is so hard. Last year, I ran in my first track and field masters meet and it was incredible. On Saturday June 4th, I competed in another meet. My first event - the mile, was NOT a strong showing. As I waited for my next event - the 800m, I was mad at myself for my lack of commitment to training this season. Swipe ⬅️ for photos and videos. But in that moment, I had to make a conscious effort not to dwell on the past. Although I know there’s plenty of room for improvement, I ended up having a stronger showing at the 800m and a PR, shaving 10 secs off my time from last year. Now, I don’t share this to say if you just believe in yourself things will work out because we only get out what we put in. We can not expect more when we haven’t done the work for more. As I reflect on this season my biggest take- aways have been (swipe ⬅️ for more): 1. Shifting from Setting Results to Identity Based Goals: Many days I skipped my training runs because I was too terrified to find out what my baseline performance would be. Whenever I had a feeling I would be unable to hold the required pace or achieve the expected result for my workout I just chose not to do it. 2. Cultivating Identity Based Habits: My goal is to improve my endurance and speed. My IDENTITY is to become the person who never misses a training workout regardless of my pace. According to @jamesclear author of Atomic Habits ‘many of us set performance and results based goals in hopes that it will force us to do things differently.’ But it does NOT. When we start focusing on building identity based habits the results will come later. Decide the type of person you want to be today and live up to the identity, and watch change happen. Have you struggled with self limiting and self sabotaging behaviors? What have you done to overcome them? Comment down below⬇️ #fitnessmotivation #fitspo #running #runner #healthyhabits #identity. #sundayvibes #change #momrunner

Happy Mother’s Day to the amazing, moms, mother figures and caregivers. Thank you for making a difference! Thank you for all that you do! Thank you for your care, support, guidance and prayers! We love and appreciate you on this day and everyday! As an aside my daughter and I 👩‍👧kicked off Mother’s Day with our first official Mother’s Day walk! 🚶🏿‍♀️She walked a mile and this runner mom is one proud momma!! Swipe ⬅️for a few 📸 from the weekend. Here’s wishing you all had a fabulous mother’s day! ❤️ From all of us at YOFitness and Health #mothersday #mother #morherhood #mothernature #motherlove #motherdaughter #motherrunner #girlmom #girlmomlife #runnersofinstagram #runnersworld

As we wrap up women’s history month a few thoughts have continued to drop in my heart around maintaining a posture of gratitude and counting our blessings. Today, I will focus on the growth I have experienced in embracing my body after baby and how grateful I am for where I am in my motherhood journey. I have battled with embracing the permanent changes that have come with pregnancy. The three biggest permanent changes for me have been: stretch marks, Diastatis Recti, and Umbilical Hernia. But I have also felt guilty sharing my permanent changes because it seems so trivial and I know other women who have had to deal with bigger and life threatening changes in their motherhood journey. With all three permanent changes I have listed above 👆🏾 I can quite honestly hide them with my clothes so I have always felt who am I to complain. But these permanent changes however small are my own TRUTH and they have impacted my confidence and how I look at my body. After having my daughter I thought to myself ‘well I will NEVER be able to do another fitness photo shoot until I can get my body particularly my midriff and core area back to the way it looked pre pregnancy.’ #throwback to last year as I celebrated my 30th birthday and with encouragement from family, friends and an amazing photographer @tarfphotography I worked up the courage to pose for another fitness photo shoot. It’s all a work in progress as you will notice I am still sporting a high waist short in my photo shoot. Swipe ⬅️ for photos. But I am choosing a posture of gratitude today and I invite you to do the same. I am grateful for how far I have come and maybe one day I won’t feel so self conscious about my stretch marks or feel like I need to suck my stomach in to shrink the appearance of my outie belly button and umbilical hernia. Take stock of how far you have come and begin practicing a posture of gratitude. Much love ❤️ Psalm 118:1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever #womenshistorymonth #womenempowerment #postpartumbody #postpartum #fitnessjourney #gratitude #grace #blessed #healing #fitnessmotivation #throwback

Today March 8 marks International Women’s day. The earliest Women's Day Observance was held on February 28, 1909 in New York. Since 1909, the world has come a long way and witnessed a significant change in both women's and society's thoughts about women's equality and emancipation.  However, I would be remiss if I did not mention the geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine that we have watched unfold over these last couple weeks and how that is weighing heavily on my heart in addition to news about discrimination raring its ugly head even during a period of war. At times like this when I do feel like there's nothing I can do, I take comfort in knowing that I can help by raising my voice and bringing awareness to the humanity of our daughters, our daughters children, our black and brown sisters, indigenous sisters and sister of colors. Happy International Women’s day! Let’s keep breaking the bias!

As the situation of things continue to escalate with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and as we usher in a new month my heart is heavy 💔. Whether or not you know someone from Ukraine or have a personal connection or tie, it’s hard to turn a blind eye and go on about your day. Through our cell phones and the internet we are watching a geopolitical invasion unfold before our eyes in the 21st century. I am praying for peace in Ukraine and for God’s protection over everyone as they flee and seek refuge in neighboring countries. It’s also truly sad to see how flawed humanity is and even in times of war,racism continues to rare it’s ugly head as some of our BIPOC brothers and sisters have faced additional challenges trying to cross the border. I have personally struggled with feeling like there’s nothing I can do to support as I also work to vet out credible donation pages which I will share as soon as I have more information. However, there are other little ways for us to support. Swipe ⬅️ to see some ways in which you can support. For transportation, evacuation and accommodation support please continue to visit and follow @hakierka. Thank you so much to @hakierka for curating real time information and updates. Share. Spread. Tag

As Black History Month (BHM) 2022 comes to a close, I have spent the entire month pondering on what this years Black History Month means to me. Since the start of the year the theme that has continued to come up for me is ‘passing down history and legacy from generation to generation.’ This is what I jotted down in my journal and now as I type it still rings true for me. Celebrating BHM has been quite incredible as this year my daughter is actually able to say the words ‘Black History Month’ ‘Nigerian’ , ‘African’, ‘American.’ The other night she asked if her baby sister 👶🏽was African too, I guess our daughter knows something we don’t 😂. We act out every page of the book to truly bring the words and meaning to life for her. We have spent time reading some of her favorite black and female empowerment books like: Little leaders: Bold Women in Black History by @vashtiharrison Vashti Harrison , Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renée Watson and Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by @amandascgorman Amanda Gorman . Swipe ⬅️for book📚 covers. I am so grateful for the lovely authors and illustrators that help our children connect to their African American roots. As a Nigerian raising a Nigerian American daughter my heart longs to be able to share stories about my Nigerian roots with my daughter but this longing has also forced me to realize I do not know enough about my Nigerian and Yoruba roots. This year to begin my quest to pass down history and legacy from generation to generation I’ll be working to put together a docu series of interviews with family members. I hope to be able to report back on my progress as I embark on this new journey. I am excited to uncover my families life stories and untold stories. What does black history month mean to you this year? Comment down below 👇🏾and drop a heart 🖤 if you made it past our daughter’s joke in my long post.

Today February 23, 2022 marks two years since the untimely death of Ahmaud Arbery whose life was taken while jogging in his neighborhood. Although justice has now been served, his death still hurts and as a runner myself it’s one that hits home for me. As I ran 2.23 miles today in honor of Ahmaud Arbery, I ran with a heavy heart knowing that on that day when Ahmaud laced up to go for a jog like I was doing he never expected for those to be his final miles. At times we may feel like there’s nothing we can do when events like this occur but I want to invite us to continue to work to dismantle the systems and constructs that make a murder like Ahmaud’s possible and ordinary. Let’s raise our voices and bring awareness to the humanity of our black and brown brothers and sisters, indigenous people and other people of color. #ahmaudarbery #ahmaudarberyday #223milesforahmaud #runningforahmaud #justice #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #running #runnerscommunity #runnersofinstagram

For the past 6 months I have struggled with being able to consistently complete my training runs. Bear with me for a moment as I share a quick look back story from year 2021. Last year I had the incredible opportunity of competing in my first masters and track meet in the U.S. During the 3 months leading up to my meet, I was in the best shape of my life physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. My meets went well and I placed in both my events (800m & 1500m) to my surprise 😊. Swipe ⬅️ for📸. Fast forward to 6 months post my track meet in June of 2021 and I have found myself in a bit of funk with running and staying motivated. Simply put I have been on the struggle bus 🚌with many weeks of logging zero miles of running. So when I had my break through week this week and completed all my runs for the first time in months I felt the Lord laid it in my heart to share my struggle story. I am still a work in progress and trying to get back on the saddle . Swipe ⬅️ to see a few tips on how to rediscover your fitness motivation. Have you been in a bit of funk lately? know that you are not alone. Share your struggle story? What has helped you? I would love to hear from you. Comment down below 👇🏾

Happy New year family🎉!! Here’s 🥂 to another year of growth and finishing what we started. I am so grateful to God ✝️to be alive and well and blessed to bring you all along in this new season of my life. #happynewyear #newyear #growth #newyears #newyears2022 #finishwhatyoustarted #finishwhatyoustart

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Wondeful New Year 2022! Despite the many personal pivots I have had to make this year I cannot thank you all enough for your incredible support and for being a huge part of another amazing year. I pray the holidays fill every corner of your home and your heart with joy. Love, your YOFitness and Health Family #merrychristmas #holidayseason #holidays #holiday #fitmom #fitspo #firspiration #latepost #saturdaynight #grateful #thankful

It is always a blessing when I can wrap up my week celebrating four way wins. What are four way wins you might ask? According to Stewart Friedman author of Total Leadership " it’s possible to create value for the different parts — for work, home, community and your private self, the domain of mind, body and spirit — in ways that you probably didn’t think about before." Although I have still yet to read the book in its entirety the section on four way wins and finding ways to integrate work, home, community and self is one that has resonated and resonates more with me now that I am a mother. I don't always do a good job finding ways to integrate all four domains of my life but when I do my heart is so full. This past weekend I kicked off my Friday by speaking about my career and career development to a group of wonderful high performing sophomores at my alma mater - the Eller College of Management. Following that, I got to spend time with my daughter on Saturday while serving in the community at my church's harvest festival. I volunteered in the Totland area as my daughter got the Guinness book of world record for the most number of times🎢🎡 to go in and out of the bounce house that I was supervising . We were there for about 2 hours and that’s all she did. Let’s just say she slept well last night🤣 Moments and weekends like this make me overjoyed and make me believe that although some circumstances may call for trade offs and sacrifices, we don't always have to give up on something in one area of our life in order to achieve or do something in another area of our life. If you have yet to read Total Leadership I encourage you to grab yourself a copy, or audio book it. Finally, as you go about your week, find those opportunities to bring one, two, three, four way you name it wins and successes in to your life. Make it a great week! Much love! ❤️ #totalleadership #work #home #community #self #fitspiration #selfcaresunday #sundaymornings

Happy Friday Beautiful people!! Permit me to interrupt your timelines as I am still basking in joy from my incredible birthday celebration this past Friday. I am so grateful to God 🙏🏾for allowing me to see another year, a milestone birthday and to begin a new chapter of my life. I am so grateful to God for my amazing friends and family that took time out of their weekend to celebrate with me and surprise me. I am grateful to my husband for going above and beyond to make sure my day and birthday weekend in its entirety was spectacular. My day was filled with so much fun and for the first time in years I wasn’t even able to get in a birthday run 🏃🏾‍♀️or workout 💪🏾 so I had to settle for a post birthday weekend run on Monday. Swipe ⬅️for a few photos and videos. I couldn’t have had an amazing celebration without the thoughtful contribution of everyone both remotely and in person. Thank you all for your prayers and best wishes. I truly appreciate you and I am so blessed to have you all in my life. Make it a great weekend! Much love ❤️ Make up by @toniaoartistry #flashbackfriday #julybabiesrock #julybirthday #julybaby #julybabies #family #familyiseverything #familytime #bestfriends #friendship #friends #friendshipgoals #friendsreunion #fitmoms #runnersofinstagram #momrunner #running #postpartum #postpartumfitnessjourney #blessed