@stephysquats

out here kicking social anxiety’s butt 😛 I love dancing my butt off wherever I go and I encourage everyone to do the same - it’s liberating 💓! I know there are people who just need a little permission to dance or feel too shy to dance in public, but you can give yourself permission 🫶🏼 I get a lot of questions about how I balance everything from working at Google to lifting, shuffling, and pole dancing. I’m really intentional with how I spend my time outside of work, because I want my experiences to be enriching, rather than spend all my time recovering from the mental exhaustion of work. The hobbies I pursue outside of work give me so much energy so I show up to work really grateful that I get to do what I love in my free time. This allows me to be super present with my job, and also fully let loose outside of the office. I like to fully experience and embrace all facets of my personality. The ambitious and responsible, and adventurous and playful ☯️ thanks to my good friend Greg for having me and my friend Dolli at 😍 Ty for the great set!

Dance feels like the cheat code to life 🤍 so lucky I found something I look forward to that gets me moving, in my body, and in community. ✨ go take that dance class!!! Choreo: 🦋 ily! 🎶: #shuffledance #cardio #shuffling #progress #fitnessgirl

I can’t help myself 😅 Stopped by today and the pull up bar was calling to me 👀 #fitnesswomen #chinups #womenwholift

This song was on repeat this entire lift, love me some time 💛🔁 crushed it!!! Full Glute day for the ladies and gents (except I was waiting to do belt squats and then forgot 😂）: 3x6 Hip thrusts 3x8 Belt Squats (I skipped but you shouldn’t 😛) 3x6 RDLs 3x8 Smith machine split squats 3x8 Abduction machine 3x6 Lying hamstring curl Save this for a solid glute day!! And don’t forget to go to failure 👀 Also, I’ve been looking for the best protein hydration drink out there - anyone have suggestions? I love drinking my protein like it’s water #goldsgymvenice #goldsgym #gluteday #lowerbody #glutegains

A friend recently asked what I’m looking forward to most this year, and I realized… I’m already living it. 😭🫶🏼 Between heavy lifts, pole, shuffling, and work, my routine feels locked in and I’m proud of how I spend my time every day! I’ve been testing and loving my Adizero Dropset Pros with . Instead of stuffing 3 pairs of shoes into my gym bag, I can just bring 1 pair! The soles are flat and stable enough to drive through my heels on glute days, and also have enough structure so that my toes don’t slide when I shuffle. 💗 #adidastraining #createdwithadidas

Posting as I lay here with Bali belly, but still worth it! 😂 #bali #havenswing #baliswing #balitrip #balitravels

We take ourselves very seriously over here at Venice 🫡 What should we do next?! Originally and came to do the challenge with me and then everyone hopped in! 👏 Original challenge by #goldsgym #goldsgymvenice #onlyatgolds #gymchallenge #fitnesschallenge

Finally uploading this hair style I did for my Vegas trip (not sponsored). I wanted to share before the holidays for the ladies who want big bouncy curls for Xmas or NYE 😍 I used the Dyson air wrap for this, but I’m going to experiment with using a wand to see how the curls turn out too. A few tips for longer-lasting curls on fine & flat Asian hair that I’ve learned since this video: 🌹 use a mousse on roots! I used to think that this would weigh down my hair, but it actually keeps the roots lifted. Apply a big dollop to damp roots and blow dry fully 🌹 spray each piece with hairspray before curling, and spray again generously after removing the curlers 🌹 allow your hair to fully cool before removing curlers 🌹 resist the temptation to run your fingers through your hair!! Let your hair look crazy and curly and you’ll get your desired look in a few hours. Whenever I run my fingers through my hair too early it falls flat by the time I get to whatever function im going to 😂 I used: - Walgreens curlers - extra hold hairspray - not used in video but recommended: mousse bouffant Try this out and let me know how it goes, and share your favorite products below! 🤩 #asianhair #finehair #bouncycurls #blowouttutorial #hairtutorial

Weighted chin ups at the Mecca 💛 118lb with a 45lb weight. Excited to bring these back into the mix. Follow for more 🫶🏼 #goldsgymvenice #goldsgym #weightedchinups #chinup #progress #womenwholift #strongwomen #asianfitness

Throwback to competing days 💜 Time to start a mini cut and see what I’ve built after changing up my training methodology and traveling so much 👀 what I love about transformations is it really is a science, so as long as you stick to the plan, you’ll achieve your goal. The hard part is sticking to the plan, but once my mind is set, there’s no stopping me 😬

Does this count? 🫡 Loved this challenge from 🫶🏼 DM me more and I’ll try them 🤩 #pullup #pullupchallenge #fitnessgirl #goldsgymvenice #goldsgym

I just wanna hide my stories 😤😂 #dating #singlelifeproblems #datinglife #datingapps

I just returned from Costa Rica and spent 7 days exploring the beaches, coffee and cheese farms, and rainforests with a nonprofit supporting an afterschool basketball program. If it were me even 2 years ago, I would’ve felt some level of panic over the fact that I would be thrown off of my routine and feel that I would “lose progress”. So I was thinking and wanted to share 2 things I wish I knew when I first started lifting: 🩷 Hitting 1 rep maxes aren’t the only way to achieve true failure. • In fact, it wasn’t the most sustainable way for me to build muscle and stay lean. It was super motivating when I first started lifting, but I found other ways to do so, including increasing reps or sets, controlling the tempo, pause reps or isometric holds, and reducing rest time. 🩷 Play the long game • Unless you’re competing as a bodybuilder, following the 80/20 rule is a much more sustainable lifestyle and increases adherence to a program or plan compared to extreme cuts and bulks. Keep in mind that if you’re prioritizing your health and not just aesthetics, it’s important to make steady, incremental progress over time to promote longevity 🫶🏼 #sustainable #fitgirl #womenwholift #asiangirlswholift #asianfitness #longevity #goldsgym #goldsgymvenice #costaricabeach

Obsessed with this Barbie pink set :) and yes Asian girls can grow booties and get strong too! 🩷 let’s grow this thang together🫶🏼

I just wanna be close to you (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎) ‘s choreo 😮‍💨 the class that keeps me on my toes every single week 🫶🏼 Oh and for friends who have wanted to learn how to shuffle, I started a community page and also my own personal journey because what’s another IG handle to manage?!😂💜 🎶 close 2 u #shuffledance #shuffledancer #womenwholift #shuffling #fitnesslife

WHAT A DREAM. 🤯 I’m still reveling over last Thursday, where I had the honor of planning and hosting the HAPAM Entrepreneurship Panel & Market at Google. 🥹 & invited 3 incredible panelists to share their wisdom and 13 AAPI-owned businesses to showcase their products, and it was truly one of the most meaningful experiences I’ve ever had at Google. THANK YOU and michellephan HAPAM = “Honoring Asian Pasifika Ancenstry Month”and one of the biggest themes was prioritizing in-person connections and sharing stories and traditions that the digital space cannot replace. There was something so intangibly special about 120+ people coming together under one roof to prioritize connection, collective wisdom, and lifting each other up. It was the ultimate display of community and I believe everyone who attended in person felt the energy. ✨⚡️ As one of the Leads and having grown up bicultural myself, I try my best to leverage the resources and privilege I have to uplift the communities that shaped me, so this event was a dream come true. Cannot thank this group of organizers enough. To be surrounded by coworkers whose values align makes me feel so proud to work at Google💜: Moonlit Beshimov, Jaymon Hung, Caitlin Chen, Tommy Truong, Jeremy Ong, Paul Valencia 🫶🏼 Check out the tagged vendors (I discovered a ton through this and am obsessed!!) thank you for capturing the event SO beautifully! If you guys are looking for a photographer/videographer/editor all in one for corporate events, this is your guy! #aapi #HAPAM #womenatgoogle #asiansatgoogle #communitysupport

The only bar I’m going to on a Friday night 🍸🤭 New hip thrust PR unlocked! 🫶🏼 #womenwholift #strongwomen #pr #fitnessgirl #fitness

Another addictive choreo by 🧚🏼!!! trying to keep up with my own feet with this one!! I can’t believe I found a fun and sustainable way to do cardio that I look forward to 🤩 dance >>>> treadmill forever! If you’ve ever wanted to shuffle or dance, just do it! Go take some lessons - all it takes is practice 💙 #shuffleprogress #funcardio #cardiosesh #shuffledance #womenwholift

Tracking my solo shuffle sessions at the gym makes me realize how little I dance by myself in the studio, but want to make it a habit! Apparently I’ve only done 7 solo gym sessions in 1+ years of shuffling 😦, but i think it’s because I love the community aspect of shuffle beyond the physical benefits. It definitely requires an idgaf mindset when the room is see through and everyone at the gym can see me bouncing around, but it’s the best, and most FUN cardio ever!! I’d recommend it to anyone who loves music and prefers not to be on a treadmill 😬 I’ll be dancing to this choreo for a while 👀 I’m heading to at the end of this month!! It’s a shuffle convention where my favorite instructors will be teaching 3 consecutive days of classes. I just know it’ll one of the most rewarding, connective, and beautiful experiences I’ll have this year! If you’ve been wanting to learn how to shuffle, tried to follow YouTube tutorials 😂, or want to get back into it from your years of shuffling in the 2010s, come!!! I’d love to see you there 🫶🏼 DC: 🦋 with the amazingly fun choreo as always!! #shuffleprogress #shuffledance #shufflegirl #shuffledancer #m

Sometimes it looks like I live a double life given how much I prioritize work and my life outside of work. I get asked a lot how I find time to be consistent with the gym when I have a demanding full time job or think I’m a full time content creator. 😂 But what’s interesting is the traits required to be great in the workplace are the same traits required to be consistent in the gym and vice versa. I can’t emphasize enough how much overlap there is between work & the gym! I personally treat it the way I prioritize my job, which takes the mental load of daily decision-making out of it. It’s part of who I am, so I make it a priority to add it to my schedule just like how I show up for work. When identity shifts, behavior follows! Both require: • strong work ethic • resilience • consistency • growth mindset (compounding interest) • data driven decision making You can do it all! 🫶🏼 Anyone else feel like Hannah Montana out here with a 9-5 and your hobbies?! It’s funny that I don’t know anyone’s jobs but we all met through fitness 😂 tell me what you do and what your double life looks like!! 😛 #hannahmontana #doublelife #workvsgym #fitnessgirl

We’re BACK with dedicated shuffle cardio days! I started a little challenge a while ago to replace treadmill cardio with shuffle and ending up just taking a ton of classes. I’m going to count the days I have dedicated shuffle sessions just to get my cardio in. This was a short little session where I drilled the choreo a few times and laid on the ground gasping for air in between takes 😂 Shuffle is nooo joke as cardio and the best part is that at no point do I ever think “how much more time do I have left?😩” I always want to dance more and that’s what make it so sustainable. I also can’t believe that I’m a year into my shuffle journey!! I’ll be tracking my progress with body scans and will share my results after consistently doing shuffle cardio sessions 2x/week for at least a month! is where I’ll add most of my shuffle progress and is where I’ll post my dedicated cardio sessions Wearing my 🤝 shirt 💛 Choreo: #shuffle #shuffleprogress #progress #fitnesslife #fitgirl

HERE GOES NOTHING 👠dancing in heels is HARD and many people may think I’d be good at it but dancing on a pole where my feet barely touch the ground is so different😅 I took ‘s int/advanced heels class because I’ve always wanted to get more into heels choreo and fun fact, I love Michael Jackson. I was intimidated - I could not keep up AT ALL, but I slowly reviewed class footage and worked on it little by little. I can already see all the parts I can improve over time and am getting the itch I got when I first started bodybuilding to keep practicing. I’ve accepted that I’m someone who just loves exploring and mastering different apparatuses. 😬 When I fall in love with something, I become obsessed with mastering it because I know it’s possible - I’ve done it before. I’m so grateful to have this curious mindset and desire to figure things out, because it’s led me to so many hobbies that have brought me SO much joy and opportunities for self expression. I’ll keep working on this choreo to get all the little details down but here it is today! 🫶🏼 so excited to progress!!! #heels #ciscochoreography #heelsclass #danceclass #heelschoreo #dancersofig #purrmovement #beginnerheels #beginnerheelsclass #michaeljackson

Day in the life of a gym bro 💪🏼 I think I accidentally found my new persona on Halloween at 👻💛 Thanks to for filming, 👑for being the ms. To my Mr. Olympia, and for being gym bros with me 😂 #goldsgym #gymbro #goldsgymvenice #halloween #bro #gymrat #gymhumor #gymtok

This was living in drafts for so long!! I’ve always found it difficult to fully capture everything I want to share in an Instagram post, but if there’s one person who decides to pursue something they’ve wanted to do because they saw me do 102874 things at once, it’s worth just putting it out there. I’m a huge proponent of not giving a f*ck about what people think and living my life for me. Working at Google AND pole dancing? And being open about it? WHY YES, and I proudly share because I think everyone should be proud to be creative and have passions. The key is to not let any one thing define you. It’s not about the hobbies, it’s about who you are at your core. I’ve learned through pursuing my hobbies that I value community, connection, work ethic, and self expression, and that can be found in many different ways. I’ve had so many magical and impactful moments that I wouldn’t have experienced if I moved through life afraid of what people might think. So here’s your sign to do whatever youve been too afraid to do. Post it, book it, say it, record it, whatever it is for you, just know that you have 1 person (me) who believes in you, so just dooo it bitchhh (with love) 🌹😛 #worklife #google #corporate #corporatelife #richlife #mindset #passions #progress #fitnesslife #fitnessjourney #danceislife

Little change of scenery! I haven’t shuffled on my own in a while, but here’s day 5 of my solo sessions 🫶🏼 Okay but ALSOOO, you guys, I lost 6% of body fat since February and I haven’t stepped foot on a treadmill 😳 soo my plan is working as intended 😬 I found my cardio hack 😍! I can’t wait to shuffle my butt off at Splashhouse this weekend 💦💦💦 Choreo: 🦋 #progress #shuffledance #cardiohack #shufflegirl #cardioday #dancecardio #transformation #danceislife

YAYYYY, handstands here I come 🥰 everything I do athletically is conducive to building a strong foundation for handstands, so naturally it’s the next thing I want to master, in addition to lifting, shuffling, and pole 😂 call me crazy but having a strong foundations opens up so many options to learn new skills quickly and I’m exploring them all! I’ve been having so much fun with handstands and intentionally with building good habits, more to come on my progress! 💛 Also it helps to have a gal pal to celebrate your every little win 🫶🏼

Hi, I’m Stephenie and I’m a addict Since I prioritize protein and minimal ingredients, especially oils and sugars, but get bored eating at home, Yama is my favorite spot to grab a high quality, healthy meal. I typically stop by right after the gym to stock up on sashimi, kaisen rolls, and salmon makis before heading home. They recently came out with bento boxes, so I had to tap them to cater a team lunch 🥰 This past week was such a dream, because Yama catered my team lunch at Google and went above and beyond with the spread and service 😍 loved seeing my two worlds collide! If you’re in LA, go check out this little family-owned gem 🥰

I was a little too excited for this transition 😛 when I tell you I didn’t sleep last night because I was so anxious about getting my hair done after 11 years of growing out my virgin hair, I’m not kidding 🫩 BUT I was brave and finally did it 🥹 I loved my black virgin hair, but was always curious about adding some brown. It’s subtle, but it’s a HUGE step for me given I haven’t let anyone touch my hair for over a decade other than for a mini trim. I used to even trim it myself since I had trust issues 😂 I’m still getting used to it and it changes depending on the lighting, but here it is :)! I’ll show some pics of my traumatic salon experience from 11 years ago soon so you can see how far I’ve come with my hair. Thankful for my stylist for being so patient and holding my hand through the process🫶🏼 Now my next challenge is learning how to not wash my hair every day when I’m active almost every day. Ladies, send tips!!