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Power and Plate poster: Barbara holding a 45 pound plate and a salmon bowl

Strength & nutrition coaching

POWERPLATE

175pounds lost.
Kept off since 2018.

Strong body. Full plate. Real life.

Coaching with Barbara Michele Card: online everywhere, in person in Hudson, Florida. She will not ask you for anything she has not already done herself.

CrossFit L2 Coach · ISSA Elite Trainer · ISSA Certified Pilates Instructor

Start your consult (it takes 2 minutes)Meet your coach

The coach

She’s been where
you’re starting.

Your coach isn’t someone fitness came easy to.

pounds lost.
Kept off since 2018.

Barbara built Power & Plate out of the work she did in her own kitchen and her own living room: over 175 pounds lost, kept off in real life since 2018, with a full plate and a family and a job. She won’t ask you for anything she hasn’t done on her own hardest days: one plate, one rep, one honest week at a time.

Personal trainer, nutrition and life coach. Her words, her story.

Barbara smiling outdoors by pink azaleas
Barbara before her weight loss, standing in a basementBefore
Close-up of Barbara smiling, before her weight lossBefore
Barbara before her weight loss, standing on a lawn in a patterned sundressBefore
Barbara now, back squatting a loaded barbellNow
175 pounds lost. Kept off since 2018.
Barbara Card in a back squat at a gym, wearing knee sleeves and a lifting belt

Credentials

Trained, certified, still learning.

CrossFit

  • L2 CrossFit Coach

ISSA certifications

  • Personal Trainer
  • Glute Specialist
  • Nutrition Coaching
  • Exercise Recovery Specialist
  • Strength & Conditioning
  • Transformation Specialist
  • Elite Trainer
  • Certified Pilates Instructor

Working on now

  • Corrective Exercise certification In progress

Services

Ways to work with Barbara

No prices on this page. Tell Barbara what you need through the form and she will answer herself.

Barbara stretching on a mat in the gym

1:1 personal training

45-minute sessions, one on one with Barbara.

  • A 10-pack of sessions, used over 60 days
  • Monthly packages (3 month minimum) at 1x, 2x, or 3x per week
Ask about personal training

Remote training

Nutrition and workouts custom tailored for you, with the free Trainerize app, weekly Zoom check-ins and more.

Ask about remote training

Shopping for and with you

Barbara can do the shopping for you, or shop with you.

Ask about shopping

Recipe book Pre-sale

10 recipes covering breakfast, snacks, lunch/dinner, and dessert. Pre-order your interest below. No payment on this site yet.

Pre-order interest

Start here

Your first session starts
with two minutes.

No commitment, no sales script. Fill this in and it lands with Barbara. She reads every one and answers herself.

How do you want to train?
What are you interested in? pick any
If in person, where works best?

Goes straight to Barbara. No account, no newsletter, just a reply from a real coach.

Sheet-pan pizza with tomato, mozzarella and basil

From the kitchen

Recipe book: pre-sale

Power & Plate recipes

Recipes
10
Covers
breakfast, snacks, lunch/dinner, dessert
Status
pre-sale

Pre-order interest only. No payment and no fake checkout on this site.

Tell Barbara you want the book. She will follow up when it is ready to send.

Pre-order interest

Interest only. No charge, no card, no checkout.

Or tick the recipe book box on the consult form.

Grilled chicken meal prep containers with broccoli
Spaghetti squash meal prep with cottage cheese, salsa and guacamole
Pasta and meatballs meal prep

Also from Barb

Message Barb to order

From the log

A light journal

Weekly notes and new recipes, when she’s ready. Empty slots on purpose. Nothing fake is published here.

This week

Slot for Barbara’s note

A short update from the gym or the kitchen.

From the kitchen

Slot for a new recipe

Not a shop. One recipe, when she has one she’s willing to share.

On her shelf

What’s already on her shelf

Brands she already talks about. Referral links wait until she sends them.

The first plate is
the heaviest one.

Pick it up with a coach who’s carried it herself since 2018.

Start your consult

In person in Hudson, Florida · Online everywhere