Celebrating our April Client of the Month.- Melissa Wedge

This month we are excited to be celebrating Melissa Wedge as our Client of the Month. 

Melissa first began training with Wilcox Wellness & Fitness in Bangor where Mike & Paige Wilcox originally started the business.  In 2019 Allison Hopkins opened the Brunswick location of Wilcox Wellness & Fitness with the support of Mike & Paige.  Coincidentally, the opening of the Brunswick location coincided with Melissa and her husband Will’s move to the Brunswick area to be closer to their grandchildren.  At first Melissa split her time between Brunswick and Bangor, and after their home was built in Brunswick she joined the Brunswick Wilcox Community full time.  

Moving can be an incredibly stressful time, and to add an extra twist to Melissa’s move, she and her husband were also building a house and managing a business in the Bangor region.  The commitment that Melissa made to herself, and to her overall health & fitness was admired by the Wilcox team right from the start!  

Melissa remembers getting started at Wilcox in Bangor and feeling like she was just getting established when she and Will began their transition to Brunswick.  Despite how hectic it was commuting back and forth Melissa knew that regular training was the key to her success.

Melissa has found that caring for her five grandchildren, all of whom are under 5 years old, is so much easier when she challenges herself in her training sessions.  

​“I have the confidence to run and play with them and feel confident in my balance.  The last thing I want to do is injure myself and be unable to care for them.  Every day, I'm moving in ways that have me thinking about the correct posture to lift, turn, etc.  In addition to that, I'm thinking more about my food and water intake and how to treat my body well so I can live to be a healthy and vibrant 104 year old”.

There’s a lot to look forward to at camp this summer, knowing that she has the energy to play with her grandchildren and most importantly….keep up!

Over the past three years it has been so much fun supporting Melissa in her overall health & fitness journey, and observing her build her confidence, strength and technique inside the gym and how that benefits her outside of the gym.  Her commitment is an inspiration to all of us including her husband Will who has followed Melissa into the Wilcox Community and provides support, motivation, and a little humor to keep us all on our toes.

At Wilcox Wellness & Fitness our mission is to inspire you to enhance your life by forming healthy habits that you can sustain for a lifetime.  Sustainability is key to lifestyle change and Melissa, like many of us, has experienced that first hand.  For her it can be easy to slip into an all or nothing mindset.  She has done well in the past following strict nutrition and training programs, but hasn’t found them to be sustainable long term.  Melissa continues to work on her biggest obstacle of feeling confident in relaxing her expectations and embracing a mindset around making good healthy choices the majority of the time, and not allowing the less frequent choices to indulge to slide into additional “bad choices”.  Melissa works on this area by continuing to be gentle with herself, reminding herself that fitness is a journey and a lifestyle, and continuing to practice mindful indulgences without feeling like these occasional choices have ruined her progress.  

​We just love how honest Melissa is with herself and with us!  Lifestyle change is a journey and it takes a lot of practice.  It’s not easy committing to health & fitness habits, but it’s also not easy to face chronic health issues, lack of balance and stability, or worrying about injuring yourself when you play with your kids or grandkids. 

Our biggest expectation of our clients is that they commit to getting 1% better each day, and Melissa has done just that!  She has committed time for herself, shows up to each and every training session to work hard and to learn about how her body moves, and to getting a little bit better with every training session.  Like James Clear talks about in his book "Atomic Habits", the commitment to getting a little bit better each day is like compounding interest.  It grows little by little and before you know it you have a nice nest egg in the bank.  There is no doubt that Melissa’s commitment to continual improvement is adding up and benefiting her in so many ways. 

We are so proud of you Melissa!  Thank you for being a part of the Wilcox Community and for being such an inspiration to us all.  Keep up the great work!