Meet Sara

Meet Sara Rufener– Inspiration and Perspiration behind Real Women Have Muscles.

Sara Rufener has a full-time training business in Bend, Oregon for fabulous people!

For questions or information about training, please contact Sara @ 541-390-5557, email me at sara@realwomenhavemuscles.com

To empower women to be strong and beautiful by being healthy and fit is my mission!

As a pre-adolescent, there were only two things I wanted in life: one was to have pretty skin, the other was to be skinny. I remember as a young girl, I was always the stocky one with the athletic build and my sister was the skinny one. To everyone that knew us, my sister had the model-type body. I was the girl with the bad skin, and the athletic body. Not quite the ideal situation when you are young and highly impressionable. Furthermore, to correct curvature in my bones, I had to wear a leg brace on my left leg. At the time, I didn’t know what it meant to be a strong, confident woman or that I had it in me at all.

I was shy, and I often found myself using school, as an outlet to the issues I had surrounding my body. I think as women we never lose those feelings we have surrounding our bodies, but as we get older, we get better at hiding them. I remember days I would cry because I hated how I looked. I had trouble looking people in the eyes when I spoke to them because I didn’t want them to look at my skin. As a young woman, I thought that this was all everyone could see because this was all I could see. I think my lack of confidence sometimes came across as unfriendliness, yet, inside I was dying.

It wasn’t until my third year in college, that things began to change for me. Although I had set many goals, and accomplished many things along the way, it was not until I began running, and going to the gym, that I found a new inner strength. I took a mandatory health class, and the professor required that we set a goal for the term. Still feeling body conscious, I decided my goal would be to exercise for 15 minutes, three times a week. For years, I had blown off the notion of physical activity because of my own lack of confidence. In that time, I worked up to being able to run for a solid fifteen minutes along the canal by our house. I also joined a gym, and began working out regularly. My confidence soared! Not only did the athletic body I had so desperately wanted to get rid of as a girl begin to transform, I began to transform and take on a healthier view of myself and my body. With exercise, I became a smaller version of myself, and began to embrace and love my athletic build. 15 minutes of running turned into a life long goal of running a marathon in every state, and a full-time training business!

Through exercise and being fit, I have learned to Live the Beauty of Being Strong! Does this mean I have it all figured out? Of course not and at times, I find myself wishing I were skinnier, prettier and sexier. Sometimes I still see myself as that girl with the bad skin, and the stocky build. My shoulders aren’t dainty, nor are they proportional to my hips, but they are mine. Will I ever look like the models on the front of beauty magazines? No. But I have learned to embrace my strengths, and use them to follow my passion. The struggle to be skinnier, prettier and sexier will always persist, but if we can take this motivation, and use it to live healthier, more active lives, then we have prevailed.

Teaching women to flex their muscles from the inside out is my passion. I hope that through this site, and with my clothes, I can influence young girls and women to become stronger and more confident about who they are. I want to use these products to promote walks and events that better the health and well being of women. I think back to all the people who have influenced my life, and made me who I am today, and most of these people are women. I am thankful to them; my grandma, my mom, my professors, my clients, and girlfriends. Real Women Have Muscles because of other women who have helped them along the way.

Live it! Feel it! Be it! Live the Beauty of Being Strong!

For questions or information about training, please contact Sara @ 541-390-5557, email me at sara@realwomenhavemuscles.com.