Meet your Coach
I’m Karly, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach who knows what it’s like to work hard and still feel frustrated with your body.
I combine science, strength training, and real-life experience to help clients build something sustainable — not just follow another plan.
I want you to understand the why
not just follow the plan.
I DIDN’T BECOME A COACH BECAUSE FITNESS WAS ALWAYS EASY FOR ME.
For years, I thought I was doing all the “right” things. I ate healthy, did a ton of cardio — I was an absolute cardio queen — and still watched my weight continue to climb.
I know how frustrating it is to work hard —literally busting my ASS—, feel like you’re doing what you’re supposed to do, and still not understand why your body isn’t responding the way you expected. That experience is a huge part of why I care so much about helping people understand the why, instead of just handing them another set of rules to follow.
Strength training changed the way I thought about fitness. My background in biology, anatomy and physiology, and education gave me the tools to dig deeper into what was actually happening instead of assuming the answer was always eat less, move more, try harder.
WHAT FINALLY CHANGED
Eventually, I realized that working harder wasn’t what I was missing. I needed someone who could look at the whole picture, understand me as an individual, and help me stop treating fitness like a problem I could solve by simply doing more.
Working with a coach who truly listened, paid attention to how my body was responding, and adjusted the plan around me changed the way everything clicked. It also shaped the kind of coach I wanted to become.
Good coaching isn’t about knowing less than your coach. It’s about having someone objective in your corner who can see what you can’t always see for yourself.
THIS ISN’T THE RESULT OF TRYING HARDER. IT’S THE RESULT OF A BETTER APPROACH.
THE “HEAVY METAL” PART ISN’T JUST BRANDING.
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My dad encouraged that love early — teaching me about classic rock, taking me to concerts, and giving me an appreciation for music that eventually grew into a love of hard rock and heavy metal.
It followed me everywhere. I worked hard rock into my competition cheer routines, and later into the routines I created for the dance team I coached.
So when HMB started taking shape, the hard-rock edge wasn’t something I added because it looked cool. It was already part of me.
Perfection Used to be the standard.
GROWING UP, PEOPLE CALLED ME BARBIE — A NICKNAME THAT FIT BECAUSE I SEEMED TO CHECK ALL THE BOXES. I WAS A HIGH ACHIEVER. I DID WELL IN SCHOOL, COMPETED, PERFORMED, AND GOT USED TO BEING THE PERSON WHO COULD HANDLE THINGS — AND HANDLE THEM WELL.
I liked things polished, put together, and done right. Some things came naturally to me, but a lot of it came from working hard — and somewhere along the way, being exceptional became part of what I expected from myself.
I don’t think that part of me has disappeared. I’ve just changed what the standard means.
I’m less interested in being perfect at everything and more interested in being strong, capable, disciplined, confident, and fully myself.
I’ve always had high standards. NOW THEY’RE BUILT AROUND STRENGTH, NOT PERFECTION.
PERFECTION ISN’T THE STANDARD.
YOU ARE.
THE BACKGROUND
SCIENCE MATTERS. SO DOES KNOWING HOW TO COACH A HUMAN.
My education taught me how the body works. Years in the classroom taught me how people learn. Coaching taught me how to meet people where they are. HMB brings all three together.
THE SCIENCE
NASM Certified Personal Trainer | Nutrition Coach
Evidence-based training, assessment, programming, and progression.
B.S. in Biology
A strong foundation in physiology, human biology, and the science behind adaptation.
M.A. in Education — Curriculum & Instruction
Because knowing something and knowing how to teach it are two very different skills.
Anatomy & Physiology Educator
I spent five years teaching dual-credit Anatomy & Physiology, helping students understand not just what the body does, but why.
THE COACHING
15 years in education
Years of communicating, teaching, adjusting, problem-solving, and working with very different people.
Several years coaching competitive athletes and performers
From competition cheer to coaching a dance team, I learned early that good coaching requires structure, accountability, adaptability, and trust.
A coach who still believes in being coached
I know what it feels like to be on the client side—to need objectivity, feedback, and someone who sees the bigger picture.