Abby Cain health and fitness

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About Abby

I have travelled a long and winding path from investment banking analyst to gym owner! Below you can learn more about the stops along the way. Mine has not been the most conventional path to be sure! That said, my experiences and lessons learned have indelibly shaped my approach to healthy living. Buy Healthy Live Healthy is a unique expression and outgrowth of those experiences and lessons. Thank you for being a part of my journey, and I hope you will allow Buy Healthy Live Healthy to be a part of yours!

Abby is originally from Wilmington, NC. She played softball while working on her undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech. Graduating in 1997 with a BS in international affairs and minors in finance and economics, she launched her career in investment banking, working first in Atlanta and then Portland, OR.

In 2001 she moved to New York to get an MBA with a concentration in finance from NYU. She began interning with the J.P. Morgan Private Bank and joined full-time upon graduation. Now fully immersed in the working world, she struggled to maintain the fitness regimens that had sustained her in college.

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“I was waking up at 4 a.m. three to five times a week to exercise before work, but I was putting on weight, exhausted, sleep deprived and did not feel as though I was achieving any significant results.”

A colleague suggested she try SuperSlow® strength training, a form of resistance training that involves the combination of very slow speeds of lifting and lowering weight for a time-efficient total body workout. She found the experience so transformative that she became SuperSlow certified in 2006.

After five years in New York, she transferred to the J.P. Morgan Private Banking office in Los Angeles. After her first son was born, she returned to North Carolina working for a local bank before she opened Rock Bottoms in 2010, a one on one personal fitness studio that exclusively uses the SuperSlow protocol for strength training.

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Abby could see that her Rock Bottoms clients were very committed and dedicated to achieving better health outcomes as demonstrated by their workouts. She could also see how their eating behaviors and lifestyle choices outside of the gym were preventing them from achieving optimal health.

As a result, she became a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and began sharing tips and ideas on how to change behaviors outside the gym to better support the work clients were doing inside the gym. She also began introducing clients to her favorite products often sending them links so they could purchase those products for themselves. That’s when Abby realized she needed one central place to share with clients where they could learn about and purchase products she had discovered over the years to support her own health journey. Thus Buy Healthy Live Healthy was born.

“What works for one person does not work for all. You are a unique bio individual creature and will surely also have a unique journey to wellness. Never give up hope that you can find your own path to optimal wellbeing.

Mission & Values

At Buy Healthy Live Healthy our MISSSION is to inspire healthier lifestyle choices through buying decisions.

Be a force for good in the world.

Each of us has tools to change the world for the better. Live your passion with inspiring persistence. Give others something to believe in. Practice compassion and kindness. If we help others, we heal ourselves and build a better world.

Health and healing is the body’s natural state.

Your body is naturally a self-healing machine! It is designed with internal systems to maintain homeostasis, which is health, not disease! Supporting the body’s innate ability to heal is a powerful tool to achieve optimal health and wellness.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth.

Science is a process of examination and exploration and rarely ever settled. Honest debate promotes problem solving and innovative thinking. We must seek to continually increase our understanding and be willing to replace paradigms that no longer align with current data, observations, and interpretations.
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Explore, learn and grow.

To explore is to discover new information and inspire new perspectives. Exploration leads to learning which nourishes the mind and prepares us for new opportunities. This paves the way for personal growth so that we may reach our highest potential.

Stay humble.

What we thought we knew, we debunk, create new understandings, and then realize what we thought we knew was never actually wrong in the first place, or it wasn’t the whole story. We must not fall into the trap of dogma. It is critical that we continuously revisit our understanding with an open mind and a fervor for ferreting out Truth.

Challenge the status quo; embrace the better way.

No one person or entity, authoritative or otherwise, has all the answers for what is necessary to achieve health. Buy Healthy Live Healthy is about sharing experiences, knowledge and ideas. Each person should feel empowered to make their own decisions about what best supports their own health journey.

Laugh. Be grateful, positive, and kind.

This is the best medicine for optimal health and wellbeing.