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Arina Hunter

I help women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health.

So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body. I help you enjoy life and feel confident, comfortable, and capable in your body by overcoming mindset, fitness, and nutrition struggles. Online, virtual and in person fitness, nutrition, mindset, health and wellness coaching. In person sessions and personal training offered in San Francisco. Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Pre and Post Natal Coach, Women's Fitness, Corrective Exercise, and Online Personal Trainer. Qualified in Pilates, TRX, mobility, strength, and functional training. In Progress: Master Health Coach and National Board Certified Health Coach

04/11/2026

Third trimester this is for you!
Hip, low back, deep glute, SI joint pain stiffness, discomfort, feeling wonky.
Especially for those throughout pregnancy and early postpartum.
Sitting on an exercise/stability/yoga ball is a wonderful way to get intentional motion, release, and refresh.
Here today, your going to shift side to side, front to back, and draw little circles with your pelvis and by shifting your weight.
Bonus! Try a little gentle bouncing!
Wonderful on talkative joints and muscles/connective tissues.
My clients have loved these little moments on the ball for supported release, refresh, and blood flow.
Through pregnancy and postpartum,your hormones are changing, your center of gravity, where and how your body is carrying itself, along with the stability of your joints especially through your hips.
Take a quick minute and give things a little motion.
An exercise ball is a wonderful investment through pregnancy and beyond!
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

I have a coaching program that helps women through the stages of pregnancy, birth, recovery, preparation, and postpartum health (even years postpartum). To build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body through each stage and shift.

04/08/2026

Mom life requires strength, resilience, adaptability, and you to show up in your health and self. The most powerful thing you can do for your child’s and family’s health is to prioritize your own health.
You will be lifting, carrying, holding, picking up, supporting throughout motherhood. So we got to start to get you ready now!
Common questions that I get asked,
Can I lift weights through pregnancy? Postpartum? Start to workout? How much weight can I lift? How hard can I push?
You can still lift and start to lift! And you can lift heavy if you feel safe.
You can workout and start to workout -through conception, pregnancy, and all stages of postpartum with guidance.
A good general check in to make sure you are safely lifting and working hard in your workout:
-Do you still have a little bit left in you? Could you walk home? Have energy for the next tasks in your day?
-Can you stop when you could still do 2-6 more reps?
-Are you able to breathe comfortably without strain? Could you say a full sentence without gasping for air?
-Do you feel challenged? Yes you can still feel challenged and be working at a safe level of push.
A coach is a wonderful resource to find your safe push; take away the stress of what to do, how, and what is safe; and to help you to challenge yourself in ways that adapt and support each stage of your unique pregnancy and postpartum experience.
For my early postpartum clients, their workouts are one of the few moments that focus specifically on them. A real grounding piece within everything that is new and shifting.
For my pregnant clients, there is great relief in knowing that they are supported in how to care for their body and feel strong, capable, and as pain free as possible throughout pregnancy. There are endless things telling them what they should or should not be doing, it is such a relief to take one thing off of that research and decision list.
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

04/05/2026

Health, fitness, nutrition, wellbeing can feel so overwhelming, frustrating, confusing.
You try the thing that everyone is saying is working, that it made all the difference, that you just have to do,
yet it doesn’t work for you.
You feel like you failed, like there’s something wrong with you, that it’s your fault that it didn’t work.
You just want to finally feel better. To be in less pain. To feel like you can do the things you want to. To feel good in your clothes and self.
Social media is full of options, opinions, ideas, possibilities.
Some may seem exciting, some overwhelming, and some crazy.

Let’s make it a little bit simple.

5 things that will make a big difference for your health:
Strength train -This builds strength, stability, support, endurance for daily and future life.
Muscle mass and density. Bone density. Resilience.
There are endless possibilities, which means there are ones that you will enjoy and feel good while doing!

Walk - walking is amazing for your mobility, heart health, strength, and body sustainability.
Walking is also one of the best things for fat/weight loss!

Eat the food that makes you feel good -having an awareness and plan around your eating can make all the difference. Without giving up everything that you enjoy.
Yep, you can eat the foods that you enjoy, food that makes you feel good, delicious food -and be prioritizing your health and goals!

Make it doable, simple, and manageable - small things make the big things reality. It does not have to be complicated, long or huge changes all at once.
Let’s be real, you have to be able to do it.
And do it consistently over time. Not just today and not just this week.
Some flexible version of it, ongoing.

Find the support, accountability, and guidance that works for you - having a coach is key to finally making the changes you have been longing for. It takes you past the stuck point, the struggle bust, and out of confusion into I got this, I can do this, I know how to do this within my day to day.
Sometimes you just need someone to show up for you as you show up for yourself!

04/02/2026

Let’s talk about functional breathing!
I have found taking moments to explore how the body breaths and supports functionally,
how the breath can connect to your core and pelvic floor,
and to explore intentional moments of breathing reset,
are powerful tools and skills for my clients.
Breathing is one of those subconscious things that we can actually help to reset our patterns within!
For many, they have done funky breathing patterns.
Such as thinking suck it in on the inhale.
Or breathing up into their shoulders and neck.
Or not breathing through certain things like moves in their workout, or moments in their workday, or times when things feel stressful.
You can learn a lot about your body through intentional breathing.
And this is a magic tool for actually feeling your core working!
I have had clients who hadn’t truly felt their core in years, finally say yes I feel it! Through intentional breathing and exploring the muscles involved.
This is also an incredible tool if you experience pelvic floor pain or discomfort.
Fantastic if you are pregnant, postpartum, perimenopausal, menopausal, stressed and overwhelmed, or simply hoping to be in less pain.
Your core and breathing are your foundation for movement in daily life (and in your workouts).

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

Pop back to explore deeper how to connect your breathing to your core!

03/31/2026

Quick and effective release for your pecs, shoulder, armpit muscles, and a little bit up the side of the neck.
This is a wonderful tool if you hold tension in the front of your chest, in your armpits, or if your shoulders are feeling stiff.
The key here is to keep that active press of the wall arm the whole time.
That press helps to activate the stretch and motion.
Your body is your guide. Go slow. Give it time to tell you how deep into the motion to go.
These muscles play big roles in your posture, alignment, ability to sit tall and open up your chest/shoulders.
Taking 30 seconds or so to give them a little love and release can have big impact on the way your body feels.
These tiny moments can be used as a cool down from a workout, as a little moment of mobility and self love, and as little ways to get more motion into your day.
A fantastic way to get started is to start with little moments (even 1 minute) that build into the bigger foundation blocks of your health and wellbeing.
Yep, a one minute action repeated over time is powerful! One minute a day for a year is 365 minutes! That all adds up into building you towards your goals, the change you want to feel, and to living the life you want to be experiencing.
Tiny is mighty!

Save this for when you have pec, front of chest, armpit, shoulder blade, or top of your shoulders to your neck pain or discomfort.

Great for if you have been sitting lots, feeling stressed, did a big upper body workout, or just get stiff shoulders.

03/30/2026

One of the most powerful tools to use and feel your core:
Connect your core to your breathing.
Yep! Intentional breathing can engage, stabilize, strengthen, and use your core in your workout, in functional daily life, and in intentional breathwork.
Everything is a core move if you do it with intention!
Let’s get functional for a second,
When you inhale, you are bringing air into your body. Into your lungs, filling down into the diaphragm, sending intraabdominal pressure down through your torso to your pelvic floor.
And when you exhale, that air releases out. Air leaves the lungs, releasing the diaphragm, and releasing that pressure -a wonderful opportunity for the core to engage!
A great general rule of thumb: exhale through the challenge.
For many moves this is exhaling through the lift and inhaling on the down/inbetween.
Such as exhaling as you stand up, and inhaling as you sit/squat.
Or exhaling as you lift the weight/item.
Pop back for a breathing exercise you can use to truly dive into this and feel your core with your breath!

03/28/2026

This is among the most powerful tools that my clients start to craft, develop, and build in our work together.
Whether for their fitness, nutrition, health, sleep, stress management, injury recovery, pregnancy, postpartum, hormone shifts, perimenopause, menopause, aging, and just general wellbeing.
This skill is one that we start together and that they will hold and use through each and every stage and chapter of life, their health, and their body to come.
Your body will change over time.
The way your health looks will shift.
Your schedule will adjust.
Your priorities will change and refocus.
Through it all, listening to your unique body and self will guide you.
This skill is especially useful through moments of change.
I have this new pain and am unsure if I can still workout, this tool aids in adjusting.
I am newly postpartum and unsure how much I can start doing now, listening to your body will be a big piece of guiding you.
My hormones are shifting and funky, hello new body experience to explore and adjust with.
My job as your coach, your support, your guide,
is to aid you in listening to what your body tells us, to make adjustments accordingly, and to learn how and when things might need to shift.
”It is has been so much easier to note when I can keep pushing myself and when I need to stop”
“I feel confident in how to move safely and not hurt myself in my workouts and daily life”
These are revelations my clients have brought up throughout our work together.
It is empowering to know that you can listen, adjust, and respond to your unique body and self.
Your health and wellness is yours.
And listening to your body will be a strong guide in discovering yours.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

03/26/2026

Been sitting all day?
Feeling tense, stiff, funky, stressed?
Deal with shoulder, neck, upper back pain or discomfort?

Three ways to release your shoulders, neck, and upper back.
Quick, simple, easy.
You can do them right here and now with me.
Stand, sit, just sit up from the couch for a second.

Your upper shoulders tend to hold a lot,
If you find yourself rounding forward while sitting, working, focusing, walking,
If you feel constant tightness, upset, pain in the base of your neck, the tops of your shoulders, between your shoulder blades,
If you have been feeling stressed, anxious, hectic, rushed, worried, overwhelmed,
Take this little moment to give your body and yourself love, release, and thank you’s for all you are doing.

Let’s shift from just accepting daily aches and pains to doing something to help alleviate them.

You can reduce your pain and discomfort with intentional movement, strength, and stretching!

Tiny little moments like this can make huge impact in the way your body and mind feel.
Doing these tiny little moments for your health make huge differences as you continue over time.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

Let’s explore tiny moments of intentional health!

03/21/2026

Powerful tool to reset your breathing from your shoulders to your ribcage.
If you have been feeling rushed, anxious, tense, frantic, like you are taking shallow breaths, or haven’t thought about your breathing, this one is for you.
Use it to relax your breathing out of your shoulders and neck,
and bring grounding, expansion, and reset to your system.
When we breathe shallow and up into our shoulders and upper chest, it activates your sympathetic nervous system. That one that triggers fight or flight. That builds tension, stress, anxiety.
Dropping your breath back down into its functional system of the ribcage, diaphragm, belly helps to connect back to your parasympathetic nervous system, to grounding, calm, and release the unneeded.
Keep that press the whole time.
Take a nice long inhale,
letting air fill into your lungs, ribcage, belly, back, and pelvic floor.
Exhale let that air release, deflate, and wrap your core.
Inhale expands and fills.
Exhale release, deflates, and allows your core to engage.
By keeping that strong press with your arms into the wall, it helps to stabilize your shoulders. A great way to help yourself not breathe up into your upper shoulders and neck!
My clients really enjoy taking a moment in this one as I guide them through a couple versions of breath focus. A longer inhale or exhale. Feeling their core give them a hug. Really focusing on a strong press into the wall and feet into the floor. Taking a moment to be present in this moment here and now.
I love seeing (and feeling for myself!) how powerful even 20 seconds of intentional breathing can be to reset your energy, mood, focus, thoughts, and system.
Test this one out with me, and let me know what you experience.

Hi! I’m Arina, your Whole Health, Nutrition, Stress, Sleep, Mindset, and Habit Coach. Empowering women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body and wellbeing. Including PreNatal and PostPartum. Pain Mitigation. Injury Recovery and Rehabilitation. Breathing and Core Specialist. And Holistic Personal Training.

Let’s explore tiny moments of intentional health!

03/20/2026

Take a tiny little moment and check in here,
When was the last time you checked where your shoulders are?
Are they tense? Riding up near your ears? Stiff? Heavy?
Are you sitting or standing rounded forward?
Could you bring your ribcage over your pelvis and your shoulders to head stacked above that?
What is your jaw doing?
Is it clenched? Tight? Stiff?
Could you give it a little wiggle, some release?
Feel your feet on the floor.
Take a nice big breath.
Can you ease your breath a little bigger, longer,
Can you fill air down into your ribcage and belly?
And let that air sigh and release out.
Taking this tiny moment to check in with yourself, your body,
And send some thank yous to yourself,
For showing up,
For taking this little moment,
For doing what you can do,
And for taking this moment to reset and check in.

The world is whirling, time is slow and fast,
there are endless things on your to do list, to feel list, want to do list,
Things might feel heavy, or funky, or overwhelming, or what is even happening.
Find your little moments of personal health and wellbeing within it all.

Give yourself a moment to sit or stand tall, to release unneeded tension, to be present in this little moment, to finally take a nice big breath.
And to just be here right now.

Tiny moments like this can create powerful resets and revitalizations within your day and week.
Taking a little moment to actually listen and check in with your body and self is powerful.
And all these tiny little things add up into the big change that you make happen.
Start with a little minute here and now.

What did you feel as you followed with today?

03/14/2026

One of the most powerful ways to feel your workout is satisfying, to make it feel worth the challenge, to feel you are getting something out of your effort is to connect it to what you are doing and want to do in daily life.
Your workout supports the things you need to do and do without thinking about in living daily life.
And the things you want to be able to do now and to do 5, 10, 30 years from now.

Connecting your workout to functional daily life is a great motivator.
You need strength to live everyday life.
To pick things up.
Lift and carry.
The groceries, laundry, items, cats or dogs, kids.
Pushing or opening doors.
Getting up and down from the floor.
Sitting onto a chair or the toilet.
Getting up and down the stairs.
Walking to and from the car, the store, around the block.
Putting on your socks and shoes.
Washing the dishes and putting them away.
Getting on and off the bed.
Sit on the chair at the restaurant and be able to stand back up.
Lift the items without pain or discomfort.
Get in and out of the car.
Walk up the hill.

In daily life you use squats, deadlifts, lunges, bicep curls, chest presses, rows, balance and stability, and more to do the thing that you do all the time without even thinking about it.
The things that you take for granted now, can become more difficult later in life in you do not work to maintain the strength, stability, range of motion, and confidence.

Have you thought about your workout connecting to your everyday life -and to future you being able to do daily things?

11/16/2025

Small is mighty.
Little things are powerful in your workout, in life, in going after your goals, in building routine, in making change happen.
It is often the little things, the small and mighty that get you to show up, that make big change happen.
My clients often hear me repeat small is mighty.
Because small and intentional exercise motions are so mighty.
Because the little actions that you take are truly powerful in showing up and continuing to.
Many of the things you do will be tiny things that build into your health now and the future, into reducing pain, into feeling strong and capable, into building your health and wellness routine now and through each stage of life that will come.
Such as:
-Getting more movement in your day. Standing up. Walking. Stretching. A quick workout.
-Eating with more intention. Listening to your body’s cues and signals.
-Allowing yourself to actually ease into sleep. Turning off screens. Breathing. Mind dump journaling. Gentle mobility and stretching.
-Core exercises that are about your hips staying still, or your ribcage moving, a little twist, or small support.
-Continuing to show up and do 1, 5, 10 minute actions consistently even when it is harder, even after a funky week, even when you have lost momentum and motivation.
A one minute action done 5 times a week is still over 250 minutes closer to your goals.
Small is mighty!
Tiny actions can make huge impact.
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in injury recovery, corrective exercise, prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.
I empower women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body.
I have a coaching program that helps women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can finally feel the change they have longed for.
I have two spots opening up this November. Comment 🌻to see if it is the right fit for you.

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
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