I've come up with a great new (very personal) challenge for myself! As most of you know I am training to compete at a fitness competition in April, but now I've decided to challenge myself further with this on my way to the competition!
At my studio, FIERCE Fitness, I teach fun, but totally gruelling and sweaty workout classes made up of plyometrics, agility training, HITT intervals, weights, and more as well as bellydance classes which can be a workout of their own. I teach 11 group classes/week. I also tend to workout on my own in the early morning just because I love gyms (I know, I'm weird) and I like to start my day that way to set the tone for the rest of it. I also run a 12-week body transformation program at my studio. Students and 12-weekers often tell me they enjoy my honesty about how much work it can take to look a certain way and whenever I have a really bad cheat I'll always come clean with it (my students know all to well about my weakness for butter tarts - lol) - I'm definitely not one of those people who say they eat anything they want and hardly workout and they magically look like a fitness model. When I eat too many butter tarts (or holidays treats recently), you can tell! Often people will say " you look fit, but you workout sooooo much - I don't have time for that"... True, I do workout a lot - but it's not usually so much to lose weight or gain more muscle - it's mainly becasue I LOVE WORKING OUT!!! It's a hobby to me as well as my job, it is my life passion! You really only need to do so much with working out to burn fat, get muscle tone, and rev your metabolism. I know all too well that once you go past a point it can actually become detrimental to your progress!
I am going to be super-busy (aren't we all?) over the next few months with moving, the student showcase, my 12-weekers who I always put my whole heart and soul into, the last issue of MID-BITS Magazine, and many other exciting goals I have set for myself, plus with moving to a house I won't have my super-convenient condo-gym for the morning workouts anymore.
SOOOOOO... My new challenge is to really do the 12-week program with my 12-weekers this time - eat what they eat, do all the same workouts, before/mid-point/after pics and measurements, the whole nine yards! I won't be working out all the time in the morning on my own anymore, I will just be teaching my classes and doing the super-efficient workouts that all my awesome students do, and that's it! When you see me getting super-fit this winter and spring, you'll know it is do-able and if you put your mind to it you can do the same thing! What great promo for my studio, my classes, and my 12-week program! Of course I will keep you posted on the whole exciting process here. Can't wait to get started tomorrow - woo-hoo!
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