About Annie Shapiro, founder of The Strong Girl Guide

Hey! I’m Annie, founder of The Strong Girl Guide. I’m here to help you reach your health and fitness goals.

Health and wellness has always been a huge part of my life. As a D1 athlete, I knew that everything I did would impact my athletic performance. I studied endlessly how nutrition, sleep, hydration, gut health, mobility, and more would impact my body in order to be the best athlete possible.

Over time, I realized that everyone should be just as invested in prioritizing their health - so that they can live a long and healthy life. This sparked my passion for helping others become the fittest, strongest, and most importantly - healthiest - versions of themselves.

Like most people, I haven’t always treated my body right. As an athlete in a weight class sport, I struggled to make weight for races and tried many different strategies to lose weight. I did endless amounts of cardio and counted my calories, but I still barely made weight at every race.

After years of dieting and cutting weight for races I developed an autoimmune disease. My body was attacking itself, leading to systematic inflammation. It was obvious that I had to make some major changes to heal myself.

After seeing the best doctors and dietitians in the field, I learned about the microbiome and how it connects to disease. As I optimized my lifestyle to help my microbes, my inflammation slowly went away.

I learned how to use nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, and more to heal my body. My passion is to help others do the same and to feel their best while reaching their fitness goals.