Monica N.

Monica has been part of Stacked Fitness Hydration since the very beginning, one of the small group of people in the room before there was a formula, a flavor, or a bottle with the name on it. She is also the person behind a lot of what you read here: a New York City-based fitness enthusiast who has spent years turning training into a genuine, ongoing habit rather than something that shows up around New Year's.

Running and lifting have been constants for her for years, not phases, and she's raced multiple HYROX events along the way. That same drive turned into a habit of actually reading the research behind her own training: what builds muscle efficiently, what it actually takes to lose fat without losing the muscle you worked for, and how all of that shifts as the body ages. She brings that same instinct, chase the evidence instead of the trend, to what she writes for Stacked.

That mix of hands-on training experience and a healthy stubbornness about wanting to know why something works is what shapes the voice behind Stacked's research posts: practical, a little skeptical of easy answers, and written by someone who is doing the training herself, not just writing about it.