Sabrina Parr, a former athlete turned fitness influencer and track coach, is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. Known for her empowering messages and fitness insights, Parr recently took to Instagram to share her thoughts on persistence, captioning a video of herself jumping rope with, “Learn how to stop stopping!” Whether she’s pushing through challenging workouts, recovering from knee surgeries, or motivating others to stay consistent, Parr’s dedication to self-improvement is a source of inspiration for her followers.
She Jumps Rope
As you can see from her Instagram post, Parr likes to jump rope to keep herself in shape. The Cleveland Clinic reports that this has a lot of health benefits. “Jumping rope can be a good form of cardio, which increases your heart rate and can help decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease. And when you increase your heart rate, you also burn more calories. So, how many calories does jumping rope burn? While it depends on your pace, on average, someone may burn about 100 calories jumping rope for 10 minutes.”
She Works Out With Others
Parr likes to do group exercise to keep herself in shape. She shared this video of herself and her friends doing a push-up challenge on Instagram. Parr captioned the post, “I decided to hop in with the guys on the push-up challenge last week. This week a few ladies joined the group. The object is to do as many pushups in a row until you get to 100. My pushups look terrible right now but I gotta start from somewhere. Doing challenges like this helps me get in shape a lot faster and pushes me past my limitations!”
She Does Push-Ups
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As you can see from the previous Instagram video, Parr likes to do push-ups to keep herself in shape. Push-ups have a lot of health benefits. The Cleveland Clinic states, “The basic push-up is a simple exercise — but it’s also simply one of the best things you can do for the muscles in your arms (triceps, especially), chest (pectorals or pecs) and shoulders (deltoids).”
She Does Hamstring Curls
Parr shared this video on Instagram of herself doing hamstring curls. She captioned it, “Let me be honest for a second, recovering from my 6th knee surgery (on the same knee) at my age and place in life isn’t easy! For those who don’t know, I had two knee surgeries last year (a partial reconstruction in November and an arthroscopic manipulation in March), and I was on crutches for about 11 months. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with Functional Movement Disorder (that basically means something is wrong with my nervous system)! That changed my entire life. As a mother and an active entrepreneur, not being able to do basic things weighed very heavy on me. My body changed a lot as well and I’m working to get it back. Some days, I don’t feel my best. Some days I’m discouraged. Some days I look around and see ppl able to do things I can’t do at the moment and it makes me sad. Some days my clothes just don’t fit like I want them to. Some days my knee doesn’t work the way I want it to. Some days I feel so much pain and I can’t even talk about it. Some days I feel alone in my thoughts and feel like no one understands what I’m going through. On no day do I give up though!”
She Works Hard
Parr makes sure to work hard when she exercises. She opened up about her fitness journey in the caption of this Instagram post. “Putting in some work before I put in some work!!! It feels really good to be jumping rope in Bermuda!! 🇧🇲🇧🇲🇧🇲I’ll be honest, working out is not as fun and easy for me anymore since being diagnosed with Functional Movement Disorder last year. Some days I wake up in so much pain. Some days I just can’t walk normally. Some days I’m too depressed to do anything! Then there are some days that no matter how I feel, I push through and work out anyway! This comeback I’m on is very different and very personal! I’m about 20 pounds over MY desired weight right now, and because of my situation, it’s taking me a little bit longer this time. One thing I know about situations is they can CHANGE!!!”