Dear Challengers!
I challenge YOU to get out of the house and walk/run this week! I challenge you to walk/run every single day until our next challenge (tuesdsay, April 20th). I want you to log about it on your food log and I want to hear about it throughout the week! Send me an email, post it on facebook! Share with me, and with everyone how it's going.
Its free, its a great workout, and it's always available!
Here are a few links below to help get you started!
http://walking.about.com/gi/ec/walking_1_1.htm
On this site, you can sign up for daily walking exercises and walking "homework" assignments. Its great--just like having a walking/trainer waiting for you in your inbox!
http://startwalkingnow.org/
For walkers over 50:
http://www.50plus-fitness-walking.com/fitness-walking-programs.html
http://www.prevention.com/health/fitness/walking
Four our challengers who are already seasoned walkers....let's try jogging! I challenge YOU to walk/jog for the next week!
http://running.about.com/c/ec/10.htm
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-261--9397-0,00.html
Let's try to put some walking/jogging groups together! I'd love to join the teams on a walk or walk/jog! We can do a daytime run or an evening run! Let me know what works and when, and I'll meet you there!
See you soon! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! YOU CAN DO THIS!
XO
Liz
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
To my challengers!
April 12th, 2010
Dear Challengers!
Congratulations for taking the first step towards a healthier, active, vibrant life style. The input I've had from your instructors and team captains is awesome. I can't wait to work with all of you to help you reach your health and fitness goals.
A few thoughts: Remember, this challenge is based on accountability, team effort, will power, and the desire to create a healthier and happier new you. We are not on the Biggest Loser ranch. If it's 9pm, and you find yourself eating chocolate chip cookies, the only one who will take them out of your hands is YOU. You've signed up for, and made the investment both financially and physically. It is only 12 weeks of your life. Make it happen. Don't give up. Tell yourself you are worth the time and effort, and for the next 12 weeks you are going to focus on you and make you feel good from the outside in!
No one has the power to make you succeed more than you! Remember what I tell you in my classes, 90% of the effort comes from you. You decide if you're going to do the work, you decide if you're going to "get the job done".
Weight loss is a b----, for lack of a better word. Besides moving, and child birth, it is one of the hardest things you'll have to work at. The weight did not come on over night, therefore, its not going to come off over night. The excuses and need to validate not eating well and not moving your body have caught up to you, and its now or never to make that positive change.
YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. No one will ever take as good of care of you as you do. It's time to put yourself first. Stop telling yourself that you can't do this, or that you will "start your diet tomorrow". If you've slipped on your eating plan, don't let the rest of the day go and convince yourself that you will "be better tomorrow". You'll be better the minuete you decide to "be better".
Take your sneakers out of the closet, and move your body every single day. Walking, dancing in your kitchen, trying a new class, Comcast on demand...the possibilities are endless. If your knee hurts, do yoga...if your back hurts, go swimming, if it's cold outside, jump around in your kitchen. The saying goes, "if theres a will, theres a way".
In twenty years, that episode of Nurse Jackie that you chose to watch on tv vs. taking time out for your body will make a difference.
So, let's add some years to our life. Lets make ourselves feel good from the outside in. Find a new recipe, throw out the doritos from your pantry. Take the temptation out of the house, and fill your body with good, clean, nutritious food. I tell all of my "clients"...I like to call them friends/family...that "you would'nt put trash in your house, why would you put it in your body."
"Only eat foods you can pick, gather or hunt....you can't pick a marshmallow".
Remember:
Drink 64oz or more water per day.
Move your body for at least 30-45 min every day
Get plenty of rest
Eat protein
Only eat foods you can pick, gather or hunt
Breath
This is the only body you'll ever have.
Dear Challengers!
Congratulations for taking the first step towards a healthier, active, vibrant life style. The input I've had from your instructors and team captains is awesome. I can't wait to work with all of you to help you reach your health and fitness goals.
A few thoughts: Remember, this challenge is based on accountability, team effort, will power, and the desire to create a healthier and happier new you. We are not on the Biggest Loser ranch. If it's 9pm, and you find yourself eating chocolate chip cookies, the only one who will take them out of your hands is YOU. You've signed up for, and made the investment both financially and physically. It is only 12 weeks of your life. Make it happen. Don't give up. Tell yourself you are worth the time and effort, and for the next 12 weeks you are going to focus on you and make you feel good from the outside in!
No one has the power to make you succeed more than you! Remember what I tell you in my classes, 90% of the effort comes from you. You decide if you're going to do the work, you decide if you're going to "get the job done".
Weight loss is a b----, for lack of a better word. Besides moving, and child birth, it is one of the hardest things you'll have to work at. The weight did not come on over night, therefore, its not going to come off over night. The excuses and need to validate not eating well and not moving your body have caught up to you, and its now or never to make that positive change.
YOU ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. No one will ever take as good of care of you as you do. It's time to put yourself first. Stop telling yourself that you can't do this, or that you will "start your diet tomorrow". If you've slipped on your eating plan, don't let the rest of the day go and convince yourself that you will "be better tomorrow". You'll be better the minuete you decide to "be better".
Take your sneakers out of the closet, and move your body every single day. Walking, dancing in your kitchen, trying a new class, Comcast on demand...the possibilities are endless. If your knee hurts, do yoga...if your back hurts, go swimming, if it's cold outside, jump around in your kitchen. The saying goes, "if theres a will, theres a way".
In twenty years, that episode of Nurse Jackie that you chose to watch on tv vs. taking time out for your body will make a difference.
So, let's add some years to our life. Lets make ourselves feel good from the outside in. Find a new recipe, throw out the doritos from your pantry. Take the temptation out of the house, and fill your body with good, clean, nutritious food. I tell all of my "clients"...I like to call them friends/family...that "you would'nt put trash in your house, why would you put it in your body."
"Only eat foods you can pick, gather or hunt....you can't pick a marshmallow".
Remember:
Drink 64oz or more water per day.
Move your body for at least 30-45 min every day
Get plenty of rest
Eat protein
Only eat foods you can pick, gather or hunt
Breath
This is the only body you'll ever have.
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