About

Hi, I’m Neila.

I build fitness things on the internet, then I obsess over the tiny details until they behave.

Most days I’m somewhere between coach, creator, and web gremlin, working on DAREBEE. That means designing workouts people can actually stick with, writing clear, practical guidance, and also getting my hands dirty in the backend so the site stays fast, organized, and easy to use. I love the intersection where movement meets systems: training plans, smart routines, clean layouts, good UX, and the kind of structure that makes progress feel inevitable instead of dramatic.

Outside of that, I’m a plant-based human who treats nutrition tracking like a strategy game (micronutrients: collected), reads more than is socially reasonable, and will always pick a sauna over a cold plunge. I’m also a morning person in a slightly suspicious way, up at 5AM without an alarm, using the first quiet chunk of the day to train, reset, and point my brain in the right direction before the world starts emailing. This site is the simple version of me: what I’m building, what I’m refining, and the small practices that keep the whole machine humming.

My Routine

The 5AM block

I wake up at 5AM every day. It gives me about 90 minutes that are completely mine.

  • Start: 5:00 AM (no alarm)
  • Duration: ~90 minutes
  • Finish: breakfast, then the day officially starts
View current menu (Google Doc)
  1. Protein Shake
    First input, before anything else.
    start
  2. Gua Sha + Shower + Skincare
    Reset the system, then stack the day.
    warm-up
  3. Legs Workout + Mobility Matrix + Red Light Mask
    Movement and joint prep while the mask runs.
    9 min
  4. Swiss Ball Crunches
    Core work with a longer range.
    5 min
  5. Strength Training
    I use a massage gun during rest periods.
    main
  6. Freestyle Rebounder
    A quick bounce to wake up coordination.
    2 min
  7. The “lock it in” finisher.
    finish
  8. Stomach Vacuums
    Quiet core control.
    2 min
  9. Gratitude Practice
    A quick mental reframe before the day starts.
    brief
  10. Meditation + Humming
    Low-tech nervous system downshift.
    4 min
Current Project

What I’m building right now

Right now I’m building three things in parallel: darebee.com, darebeets.com, and the slightly chaotic human behind both.

DAREBEE is the big one, the main engine. I’m shaping workouts, collections, programs, and community events, and also doing the unglamorous structural work that makes everything feel smoother: organizing pages, tightening templates, cleaning up systems, and making sure the site stays fast and usable while it grows. DAREBEETS is the food side of that universe, where I’m turning plant-based recipes into a proper, organized library, one ingredient page, one clean layout, one nerdy nutrition check at a time. And then there’s me: the daily reps, the routines, the sleep experiments, the tiny upgrades that compound. I’m not chasing a reinvention, just refining what already works until it feels effortless.

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