About us
Hey, hi, hello, this is an about us page, where we talk all about …well, us.
inkandfitness is our online home-away-from-home to merge our loves of writing and drawing and fitness.
A brief history of inkandfitness … in the third person.
Inkandfitness started back in 2013 when tattoos and fitness weren’t as synonymous with each other as they are now. Especially for women. It was simply Marzena’s way to share her fitness journey and love for tattoos on social media with the world.
A journey beginning with the exergaming platform, Wii Fit.
*insert drawing of wiifit*
Marzena went from being uncomfortable in her body and too embarrassed to enter a gym to being the first sponsored athlete of Kaged Muscle, endorsed by gym clothing brands and brushing elbows with the biggest names (and bodies) within the fitness industry.
*insert before and after of Marzena*
But being around elite bodybuilders with single digit body fat and bulging muscles and crazy training styles led Marzena to believe she needed to constantly strive to be leaner or bigger or train harder. To hire prep coaches. To compete in competitions. To eat one-spoonful-of-rice (no, literally. One coach listed this on her diet plan)
The dieting destroyed her relationship with food and the training tore away at her tendons and all this made her lose sight of why she started.
Something we are committed to ensuring doesn’t happen to you.
The rebirth
inkandfitness now focuses on setting itself apart from the industry – to be radically different from other fitness sites, every way imaginable: To be inclusive rather than exclusive, to deliver quality science-based information and to create content as entertaining as it is enlightening.
So the goal of this site is to push the boundaries of what you expect in terms of self-development, self-love and self-structured learning, and we’ll accomplish that by publishing whatever the hell we want. Developing every area of you to feel fitter, stronger, smarter, sexier, happier and healthier. But also more free thinking, more skeptical and not afraid to challenge the status quo. We want to help you learn. To be the resource for levelling up your life.
But, wait, who exactly are .. we?
Marzena Taylor
Hey!
So, a little about me away from fitness – I was born and raised in Poland where I also graduated from the PLSP school of art. At the age of 20 I packed my bags and flew to the big apple; to Manhattan, New York … without the ability to string a single English sentence together.
I remember my first day in NY my friend passed me $20 and asked me to order Chinese for everyone in the house.. So with my broken English and American tender in hand – with squinted eyes and eyebrows raised – I pointed out whatever looked good on the menu and swiftly realised I needed to learn English. Fast. The tip I was given was to throw myself all in and cut myself off from Polish speaking.
You know what? It worked.
From then on I’ve always had this mentality to go all in with whatever I do. This was true for both my tattoo and fitness journey. I would certainly class myself as an introvert, as I’ll always choose a night of snuggling on the sofa with my fur-baby, my furry-hubby and a tub of ice cream over a night out… actually, speaking of my husband.
Josh Taylor
Well, hey there,
I am indeed, the furry-husband.
In addition to my glorious ginger Beard, my whole life has revolved around the letter B. Not sure how, nor why – yet alas, here we are.
My fitness journey began with the sweet science of Boxing. A sport I succeeded in for nearly a decade, with aspirations for punching and getting punched to be my profession. To go “all the way.” However, this was cut short due to too much partying and frequent back injuries.
I kept Boxing in my life, but pursued a less … damaging career. Although, possessing just as powerful an impact. Personal training. Sparking a new passion to slab on strong, dense muscle and then prance about in tiny pants on stage covered in wood-varnish tan. Aka, Bodybuilding.
Winning a handful of shows and pro-cards and sponsorships, which was nice. Plus it is in this industry I met my now wonderful wife.
However, this extrinsic, superficial test of aesthetics sparked an intrinsic motivation inside me to venture deeper into the cave of expertness. Igniting a thirst for knowledge which I was lacking, due to having zero high school grades at the age of 21.
This long journey led me to achieving a first class honours Bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry, with an aim to make all this complicated shit for you, simple, and easy to understand.
Basically, I went from meathead to bookworm. And through this metamorphosis I ventured upon a burning passion for writing. For wordmanship. Wordsmithery. This is where on this site we have combined our creative passions of both drawing and writing to help tweak your interpretation of ‘fitness.’ To go beyond the realms of mere physicality.
Because to us, fitness is more than just crunches and calories and cardio, It’s about developing your entire life.
That’s what fitness has done for us, and we invite you to experience it all the same. You can now check out our articles or see if you’d like to work with us by clicking either button below:
Pablo
Okay. These humans talk a good game. But let me tell you, if it wasn’t for me these two would become fleshy bags sinking into the sofa – it is my job to save them. I even leash themselves to me to make sure they don’t wander the earth and chase after cars, or squirrels or postmen. One thing they are good for is their super tasty salty knees that I must lick vigorously every night before the long nighttime nap.
I’m not really sure what they do work wise. But it seems to be opening and closing doors for me to go poop between staring at screens. In fact, they seem obsessed with my poop. They always bag it up and I know poop is awesome but it still seems like very strange behaviour. But hey, they give me great grub and are decent snuggle buddies. So I’ll let the weirdos stick around.