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Axe Thembro

Axe Thembro

@axethembro.bsky.social

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Personal Trainer for Trans Folks in Vancouver BC. Aspiring Bodybuilder. Magic Nerd.

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Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hi, I’m Axe (they/them) and I’m a nonbinary personal trainer working to help trans folks (and other queer ppl) build strength and confidence. I work in person in Vancouver and online around the world. More info at www.thembro.fit, book a chat at forms.gle/KsuyW6oPVToo...

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 1d

I did 2 photoshoots this week to document where my body is at before my bodybuilding competition this weekend. I’ve been so stressed about not achieving “enough” that I haven’t been able to enjoy being at my “peak.” Got the first set last night and haven’t even dug deep but I’m blown away

Axe posing shirtless with cow print shorts sitting on a cement wall

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 9d

I thought my parents were coming to my first bodybuilding show next weekend but I sent the info yesterday and they said they’re not sure. I truly just want one person to actually show up for me, and I don’t really just mean next weekend, I mean ever. I’m so tired.

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 11d

ah yes my gender

alice @alice.mosphere.at · 12d

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

Anyway I fucking rule and even if that’s not always clear to me, even if not everyone sees it, enough folks do and enough folks will, and at base level I’m secure in my own power 💪🥰

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

key, because especially on my first show I can’t expect anywhere close to perfection. My dad asked the other day what I want to get out of it and truly the answer is just to prove that I can do something hard. And regardless of anything else I will have done that and it’s something to be proud of.

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

openly and honestly and I know what I can’t accept. People respect me and are eager to offer help when needed. I treat myself with love and compassion and know that my best really is my best. If I could do better I would and I’m always trying to figure out how to improve. On the bodybuilding this is

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

not despite me or because they think I’m something I’m not, but exactly because I am who I am - my difference that I’ve always felt has made me wrong actually makes me right.

More than ever I know what I’m looking for and what I need in all kinds of relationship. I can communicate where I’m at

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

Just reminding myself that I realized my life wasn’t enough for me and made huge moves to fix that. I established myself in a new city and am getting along socially. I started a new career and it’s supporting me. My clients routinely tell me how they’re stoked on their progress and on me, and that’s

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 13d

Just gotta gas myself up bc between a relationship failure to launch, an abusive doctor acting like I don’t deserve care, and a bodybuilding show in 2 weeks where I will be fine but just don’t have the discipline required for extreme success - I’m really stunlocked this week…

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 15d

Grossssss sorry to hear! One time I made a burner account and posted in there trying to understand in good faith what they were so mad about and it took about 2 responses before they got to white genocide

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 17d

I don’t think I can take this test. I can’t have this kind of relationship with a doctor. So I guess I’m losing my meds, because one way or another she’ll take them. I am not struggling on them, they have helped me make huge changes, but apparently I don’t deserve them. I give up.

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 17d

There is some conflict, to my understanding weed can make it less effective, potentially cause anxiety, and both aren’t great on the cardiovascular system. Despite basically everyone I know being on adhd meds and weed, she is determined that i not use both of the substances that make me functional.

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 17d

Yesterday on Thanksgiving my doctor sent over an order for a drug test she wants done within 48 hours, and had her office call (again on the holiday) to make sure I know to do it. She’s trying to catch me smoking weed so she can take my vyvanse away. I have not lied to her, I do smoke weed.

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 18d

whyyyyyyyy do you have 8 dates with someone you don’t wanna date

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 18d

lol well that didn’t go my way

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 23d

I’m like one serious conversation away from actually having a partner for the first time in 7 years and i just know in December Spotify is going to expose me for how much i’m replaying lizzo am I ready 2b loved and dua lipa end of an era 😅

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 23d

I’m like one serious conversation away from actually having a partner for the first time in 7 years and i just know in December Spotify is going to expose me for how much i’m replaying lizzo am I ready 2b loved and dua lipa end of an era 😅

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 27d

I seem to recall it being a little under $30 recently, must be UB premium on this one, but that's still half the sets going forward and even 30 is too much

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 27d

Sometimes I get the urge to get back into the weekly FNM draft vibe like I did pre-2020 but then I see the price. Store drafts were always $15, I can’t spend more than triple that weekly

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · 29d

still thinking about the mtg post going around calling old school players humans and universes beyond players pigs, and the Reddit comment that was like “hey that dehumanizing rhetoric is a little extreme, let’s use a racial metaphor instead” and everyone clapped

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Sep 30

woof

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Sep 26

Missing Magic Cons real bad. Maybe Amsterdam next summer but feels out of realistic financial reach 😩

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Sep 22

6 weeks out from my first bodybuilding competition! I’ve got to finish strong but at this point I’m pretty confident I won’t completely embarrass myself 💪😅

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Sep 1

All the previous surviving knights were only wounded on their arms so…

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Aug 30

Back in the 90s it would probably have been Vesuvan Doppelganger. After coming back it was Hymn of the Wilds. Currently an Avon Forest

Axe Thembro @axethembro.bsky.social · Aug 23

I need to find a song to pose to at my bodybuilding show - it needs to be strong and confident and something I love and preferably something gender fucky. I had kind of settled on Charli XCX Von Dutch but coach says it’s gotta be slower and more dramatic help meeeeeeee