Want to know more about Slim in 6®? Here ya go!

The below info is from the Beachbody® Coach training manuals and website.  

What is Slim in 6®? 
Slim in 6® is an in-home workout program that helps you melt away fat and sculpt a leaner, sexier body in just 6 weeks. Because the moves are so easy to follow, Slim in 6® can work for just about anyone, even people who have never exercised regularly. Trainer Debbie Siebers combines cardio and light resistance exercise to burn calories and tone your whole body without creating bulky muscles.

How does Slim in 6® work? 
• Debbie’s Slim Training® technique combines cardio with light resistance moves to create fast weight loss and body-shaping results.

• You gradually increase your strength, endurance, and energy over three phases of intensity. And because you train the same muscles 6 days a week, your body becomes lean and toned, rather than bulky.

• You can lose up to 25 pounds in just 6 weeks. Guaranteed or your money back!


Who can benefit from Slim in 6®?
• People who want to lose weight and get toned without bulking up

• Fitness beginners

• People who want a low impact or non-extreme workout

• People who want to lose weight fast


Tips for success:
• Follow the workout calendar that’s included in your program.

• Do Slim & Limber and Slim & 6-Pack after your regular workout 3 to 4 times per week (you can alternate these by doing Slim & Limber one day and Slim & 6-Pack the next day, or you can do them both on the same day if you have time).

• To jump-start your results, begin your 6-week transformation with the 6-Day Express Plan, which can help you lose up to 6 pounds and 6 inches in your first 6 days.

• Push Play every single day.

• Make sure you’re getting the nutrients you need for healthy weight loss by supplementing your diet with ActiVit®, Slimming Formula, and the 2-Day Fast Formula®.


What’s included in Slim in 6®?
• 3 body-slimming workouts on 3 DVDs

• Workout Calendar

• Tools to help you succeed, including the 6-Day Express Plan, a weight loss eating plan, and a guidebook

• 2 bonus workouts: Slim & Limber and Slim & 6-Pack

• Plus 3 FREE bonus gifts: Slim Training Resistance Band*, 24/7 online support, Cardio Core! Express workout


What tools are available to challenge advanced users?
• Heavier resistance bands*

• Slim Series® workout program

• Slim Series Express workout program


Who is Debbie Siebers?
• A real person who has had her own struggles with weight. She lost more than 40 pounds with her Slim Training method and has kept the weight off.

• She’s been a leading fitness expert for more than 20 years.

• Her signature Slim Training technique has made Slim in 6 into one of the best-selling home-fitness programs in the U.S.

• Debbie has been featured on TV many times, including Fit TV’s health and fitness show Fitting It In, CNN, E! Entertainment Television, and various network TV stations. Debbie thrives on helping motivate people to find discipline, and balance mind, body, and spirit to achieve their healthy living goals.

*Resistance Bands contain natural rubber latex which may cause allergic reactions.

No limits!

This is me & my cat working out...well, I'm working out.

Just when you think you can't do more with your workout, you realize that you CAN do chair dips with extra weight on your lap.  If you would have tried to put a 20 pound weight on my lap (hey, that cat of mine weighs 17 pounds!!), I would have told you 'no way'.  It's amazing what you can achieve when you don't put limitations on yourself!!  :)

Insanity: The Asylum, Volume 2

Oh yeah, here we go again!!  Insanity:  The Asylum, Volume 2...coming soon...!!!  


Hey look, there's Apolo Ohno!!

New TurboFire Workouts - A Message From Chalene Johnson

Ooooooo - I can't wait to get the new videos!!!!  Turbo Fire is LITERALLY my favorite workout program.  If you have any questions about it - let me know and once you are ready to buy -- go to my coaching website and click SHOP (please?). :)

Why Strength Train?

Okay, so I keep getting questions about whether or not women will "bulk up" if they start strength training.  The answer to that is no (because we're women - bulkiness is basically testosterone-related). YOU MUST STRENGTH TRAIN (yep, I said MUST) and the article below tells you exactly why.  I couldn't put it in better words, so I thought I would just copy the article "as is".


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Why Strength Train?
By Kathy Smith


Still not convinced you should strength train? Here's a good reason. After the age of 30, we all lose a quarter pound of muscle mass each year. Yikes! With less muscle, our metabolism slows down and we gain fat—averaging about 15 pounds a decade. While muscle is metabolically active (each pound of muscle burns approximately 35 to 50 calories per day), stored fat is not, burning far fewer calories. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn throughout the day, whether you're walking, vacuuming . . . even sleeping! What's more, while aerobic activity burns fat during exercise, weight training utilizes fat hours after exercising, so your metabolism stays slightly elevated for a longer period of time following a strength-training session than following an aerobic workout.

Les Mills PUMP is in the HOUSE (literally)

It's official all of my gym rat friends (and I use that term endearingly)...  :)

Les Mills PUMP is available for purchase at www.mycoachforfitness.com - just click on the word SHOP and you'll find it.  Do some browsing while you're there --- why not?

So, this program is based on the ever-so-popular Body Pump that we all do at the gym.  So, when you're snowed in and can't get to the gym or maybe you feel like doing your own thing for a while, you can do it at home ---just press play on that DVD player--- SWEET!!!

And I'm back in the game!

So, I've been "off" in my workout routine for about the last month due to a shoulder injury. I kept avoiding visiting a doctor, though I know I should have. If someone in one of my classes would have come up to me and said, "my shoulder hurts when I lift my arm", I would have said, "have you talked to your doctor?". I know, shame on me for not listening to my own advice. Anyway, I figured it was some sort of overuse injury since I had just increased my weights in my upper body routine. I scaled the weights back, did more cardio for a while, and it seems to be about 95% now. To say the least, I'm pleased :). Sadly, when these things happen, I have a tendency to think...they will want to do surgery on me!...and I'm just not up for that right now (I know, I'm dramatic).



But now I get to say, I'm back in the game!! I'm able to do my shoulder routine with my weights and I'm able to chaturanga in yoga class again - woohooo!

This leads me to the fact that I want to give some advice to those people who are new to the world of working out.  When you first start out, don't get super-crazy-extreme right off the bat. It's very likely you will be so sore the next day that you will determine that working out must be the work of the devil and therefore you should never do it again. That's not the goal! You want to stick with it. Persistence is key!! Ease into your routine and have a plan of attack. Day 1, you start at x level and you see how you feel on day 2. If you feel like you could do more, then you do more on your next workout, and then determine how you feel on day 3, and etc.


It's very important to keep a log of your exercises, so you don't have to try to remember what you did (that's just way too hard). If it's cardio, you write 'elliptical, 20 minutes, level 9 resistence' - or something to that effect. If it's weights, you write 'bicep curl, 15 pounds, 10 reps'. You get my drift. When you're done, put a date on it. I also like to write in there how I felt, like "great energy today" or "I was really tired". That always gives me some insight on why I did what I did that day. When you start progressing you can look back and you will feel so proud of how far you've come! That, in turn, is motivation to keep going!!
 
Good luck!!

PiYo VIP

I'm so psyched!  I just got this in the mail, isn't it cute?  The round silver things are magnets...yes, I hung it up on my bulletin board.  What can I say, I'm a proud PiYo VIP!! 

What is PiYo?  It's a class that I currently teach.  It's a combination of Pilates and Yoga.  It is made by the same creator of Turbo Kick, Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, ChaLean Extreme, and Hip Hop Hustle.  I LOVE it.  I've been teaching it for about 7 years-ish.  Just wanted to share!!!

Be nice to your knees...

Did you know, research says that for every pound of weight you lose, you release the equivalent of 4 pounds of pressure from each knee? So, when you lose 2 pounds in a week and you're mad at yourself because you think it should be more...don't be! You're knees are quite happy with you - that's 8 pounds of pressure off of them! (I'm good at math, aren't I? ;) )

Remember, when you're on your weight loss journey --- every victory counts! Stay positive and persistant, you can do it!

ZOMBIE jeans!

Zombie Jeans???

YES, I have zombie jeans!! I’M PSYCHED ABOUT HAVING ZOMBIE JEANS!! It’s taken a while, but persistence pays off. What are zombie jeans you ask? You know how you have those jeans that you can no longer fit into anymore…but you keep them with the hopes that you will resurrect them from the dead? Well, I had FIVE pair of ‘dead’ jeans which are now ‘undead’ = ZOMBIE JEANS! Now you understand why I am so excited about having them. (You probably thought I was excited about having old, ugly, torn up jeans, didn’t you? – I’m not quite that literal.)

If you’re wondering how I did it, well, here it is: Shakeology*, one time per day, EVERYDAY, and a TurboFire/Chalean Extreme** hybrid workout. I’m not doing the hybrid listed on the official website, more of my own thing. Here's how it went down...

I started out doing the TurboFire program. I completed the full 12 weeks! I felt so accomplished! It REALLY got me going, but unfortunately my body is slow to respond to things (I blame my hypothyroidism, it makes me feel better to blame something ;) ). I knew I was doing it right though. My cardiovascular endurance was off the charts! Also note I have asthma, so this is really saying something.

Beginning in week 13, I started Chalean Extreme. I’m still in “Burn Circuit” currently, which is phase 1 of 3, and I plan to do this program for the full 12 weeks like I did with TurboFire. However, to kick it up a notch, I am adding some of the HIIT workouts from TurboFire to my program.

HIIT = High Intensity Interval Training, in case you were wondering. This is the super-high intensity, training like an athlete, type of workout. This is serious stuff…but it is fun to do!  It has taken me about 15 weeks, but it is paying off and now, I have zombie jeans!! Where I was teetering on needing to go up a size (UGH), those jeans are almost too big. My old ones fit perfectly again. Feels good to be back on my game!

*visit my nutrition page for more information on Shakeology
**visit my fitness programs page for more information on both TurboFire and Chalean Extreme

TurboKick!

The TurboKickers are stuck with me for at least two more years!!

...burn it up!!!

I personally LOVE Turbo Fire!! I started out with Turbo Jam and then moved to Turbo Fire. Since I teach Turbo Kick at the gym, it is great to see what people can do -at home- for themselves!! If you want SUPER high intensity cardio drills, you gotta go with Turbo Fire...they are NOT playin' around! I'm currently doing the 'Advanced' portion of the program and it's for real! I actually look forward to my workouts and seeing how hard I can PUSH!

How it all started...

So, after teaching Turbo Kick for a while at the gym, I saw a commercial for Turbo Jam.  I had to know more, so I ordered it.  I finally had something to do at home without my having to "think" the whole time.  I know, you're thinking, you teach this stuff, why not just do what you do in class, at home?.  Well, sometimes it's much more fun and motivating to have someone else telling you what to do (you know how that is) - I LOVED it!