Breaking Muscle is team of experienced professionals dedicated to providing comprehensive strength and conditioning, and mind/body wellness programs. We draw from our education, experience, and empirical research within our community to provide full scale services to athletes, coaches and consumers. Breaking Muscle specializes in Olympic lifting, powerlifting, functional fitness, yoga, and mind/body modalities. Breaking Muscle utilizes the latest research, products, and equipment to provide services to advance human health and performance.
 
Mindith Rahmat, Co-Founder
 
Mindith is the cofounder of breakingmuscle.com. She is a health enthusiast and has extensive knowledge in mind/body wellness. Mindith and her husband are busy parents of four children ages four to fifteen. Mindith has been practicing and teaching yoga for over seventeen years.  After giving birth to her last child and searching for a focused strength and conditioning program she found CrossFit and Olympic Lifting. Mindith studied Olympic Lifting with Coach Matt Major of Akross the Middle Athletics. She holds a CrossFit Level I Certification and is a RYT-500 Certified Yoga Therapist through Integrative Yoga Therapy. Mindith also has a M.A. in Clinical Psychology and has worked extensively in mind/body health.
 
Mindith’s advanced yoga training includes, Lillian and Joseph LePage of Integrative Yoga Therapy, Sara Powers, Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, and Rod Stryker. Mindith has created a yoga program specifically for athletes that reduces the risk of injury and enhances athletic performance. Selected postures are sequenced to benefit the athlete by focusing on specific areas including shoulders, hips, hamstrings, and much more. This programming improves flexibility, mobility, and balance. Mindith specializes in Vinyasa Krama Yoga sequencing for elite athletes linking specific poses with breath.  
 
After a debilitating shoulder injury, Mindith began to study the art of Russian Kettlebells as a method of shoulder rehabilitation and recovery. She currently practices power yoga with an inspiring group of teachers, and trains with an amazing RKC II Coach in Southern California.
 
Becca Borawski, Managing Editor
 
Becca found her way to a career in health and fitness through Martial Arts and CrossFit. Originally a music editor for film and television, Becca started studying Martial Arts in 2000. Though she started with traditional Martial Arts it was not long before she discovered Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and her path was forever altered. She began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and Muay Thai and started working with professional MMA fighters, building websites, working on fight promotions, and producing videos.
 
As a competitor in BJJ herself, Becca wanted to get stronger and fitter. In 2006 she discovered CrossFit and became a student at CrossFit Los Angeles. In only a couple of years she became CrossFit Level III Certified, left her career in the film industry, and dedicated herself full time to coaching. She has since been certified through CrossFit in Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Nutrition, Endurance and Kids coaching. She also held an NSCA-CSCS from 2006-2008 and is a certified IndoRow instructor. In addition to coaching adults, she founded the CrossFit LA Kids program in 2010 and teaches children ages 5-17.
 
Becca regularly takes on new sports and activities, which have included indoor rowing, rock climbing, hip-hop dance, fencing, and most recently, cycling and Forrest Yoga. She believes taking on new things makes her both a better athlete and a better coach.
 
In order to reach more people with her coaching, Becca also created ModernAthena.com – a website dedicated to women in pursuit of physical fitness and self-improvement.
 
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