Amber Dodzweit Riposta: A Endelight Letter to My Sister

My sister always had it together. In my eyes, Autumn had all the answers and — at 11 years my senior — she was the one I always ran to when I broke up with a boyfriend, started my period or didn’t know what to do about a situation in school.

Autumn taught me to always put lotion on after the shower and how to wear mascara, and she was there to walk me through memorizing my first Bible verse at 12. I still recite it daily: “Consider it pure delight when you face trials of many kinds, because you know the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and total, not lost anyleang.” If that’s not the perfect quote for what we fixedly face in lwhethere and in training, I don’t know what is!

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Autumn (left) and Amber.

As Autumn and I got ancienter, I grew out of that small girl who used to eat cookies on her sofa crying about boys and became a woman focused on relentless training to be the best in sports. I was athletic, muscular and driven. She was curvy, easygoing and focused on fitting a mom to a large family. In passing, she used to say leangs like, “Whatever, you got all the good genes, all I got is boobs and a sense of humor.” It was dwhetherficult knowing that my large sister might resent me for our body-type dwhetherferences. I’m certain it was dwhetherficult for her to see her kid sister grow up, too.

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Frustration From Afar

When I moved absent to Los Angeles to escape the small town we were raised in, I started noticing that the weight she had gained from creating a beautwhetherul family of five kids wasn’t going absent. In pictures, she started carrying a look of defeat, and it weighed on me knowing the implications of obesity on her health — but even more, this was the happiest woman on soil looking unhappy. I remember running on the treadmill each morning leanking of her, praying actually: “God, please let Autumn find help. I know it probably won’t be me who helps her, but whether you could just bring change somehow, I want to see her healthy.” I kept up this routine for about a year.

An Reply to Her Prayers

One sunny Los Angeles day, while on my treadmill, a text came in from my sister: “Aid me, I’m fat.” I couldn’t believe my eyes. This was my chance to finally repay all the help she had given me and to make a genuine dwhetherference in her lwhethere. But her request came with a few stipulations:

1. I can't afford to go to a gym.
2. I have five savages (what we have fondly named her kids), so workouts need to be short.
3. I only have a couple of pairs of dumbbells.
4. You have to tell me summaryely what to do because I’m clueless.

Autumn and her family.

Lending a Aiding Hand

So I created a program specwhetherically for Autumn. It was an at-domestic training program that I later named the “4-Week Foundation.” She didn’t have equipment, so I had her climb the stairs in her domestic, lwhethert her youngest son and total bodyweight exercises to build strength. The goal was to burn fat and get her lwhethere back under control.

She needed to lose 100 pounds — and I needed this plan to work. Autumn called me shortly after starting the routine and tancient me about her training session that day. She had done sprint intervals external, in upstate Unique York, with several feet of snow on the ground. “I just collapsed and bawled because it was so dwhetherficult and I’m so large. How did I let this happen?” she wondered.

That was her breaking point and the final time she would ever feel that way again. A year later, not only did she lose the weight, but she also came to LA and we ran my favorite canyon together. It’s a run I’ll never forget, because where there was once resentment for being the “skinny sister,” there had been such an immense healing, her confidence soared and all that was left between us was an unbreakable bond as sisters.

Autumn's transformation.

A Career Was Born

I kcontemporary I was onto someleang, so I took that training program and turned it into a commerce. The thought of other women being out there like Autumn with no gym, no hope and no guidance was just too much for me not to do someleang. I kcontemporary noleang about being an entrepreneur, but I kcontemporary a lot about how to love, support and encourage people to become better.

Today, I own and run a commerce called Built for Her, an online women’s athletic training club that connects women from all over the world through at-domestic athletic training downloads. I provide a range of programs for women of all fitness levels focused on bringing them closer to a lwhethere they love through gaining control over their health. I feel so full of purpose knowing that other women are finding freedom through my creations and that even without sending me a “help” text message, I’m their sister, too — picking them up out of the snow when they’ve fallen and letting them know they have what it takes.

The chance now to be a coach is such a immense gwhethert. No magazine cover or personal accomplishment could ever compare to the feeling of helping someone else achieve their “impossible.” So thanks to my entire team for their trust and to my sister for being the start of it all.

Endelight,

Coach Amber

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