To use a trainer or not to use a trainer?... that is the question! Well lucky for you, I have the answer.
Back when I started all this training and was offered the AMAZING opportunity to partake in the 12 week challenge, a lot of people said that I couldn't fail when I had a trainer by my side through the entire process... I'm not gonna lie a little part of me took offence to that statement. I felt like they were discrediting the work I'd be putting in. I mean yeah, I have a trainer, but I'm doing the work so how could anyone think this was "in the bag", right? Well now I see that statement from an entirely different point of view...
Could I go to the gym everyday and work out, eat healthy and loose weight and maintain a healthy weight? Sure, I probably could! So why use a trainer? I'll tell you why, because if I hadn't I would NEVER get the body I want! I definately would not have put a bikini on this past summer and truth be told I would have quit 3 months in... lets face it we want fast results... one word "TRAINER"!!!
My experience with a trainer (and I've used 2) has been all positive, I'm pretty sure I got the best of the best in that department. There is a lot to be said for pushing and encouraging and being held accountable. That part of a trainers job is invaluable. Those are the things that get you through each and every session. I promise you if Sam and Lisa didn't push, encourage and call bullshit on me each and every time I worked with them I would have stopped at the first sign of fatigue, who wouldn't??? And now that I'm on my own (physically) in the gym there are times when I can still hear Lisa in my ear saying "C'mon Jenna, you got this" or Sam yelling "PUSH! DO NOT GIVE UP ON YOURSELF" and THAT will drive me through that last set, sometimes with tears in my eyes! But I fight because I know I can, they taught me that.
Here's the important thing though... they TAUGHT me. Yeah sure they showed me how to use weights, and machines and cardio. Anyone could have done that I suppose, but they TAUGHT me how to use ALL that equipment properly and understand WHY I'm doing what I'm doing. When I train I am 100% focused on the muscle group I'm training. I won't say hi to you at the gym (unless I'm between sets) I won't answer a text message (well unless I'm doing cardio, or talking to my trainer... lol) and I won't get discouraged because I've been taught that way.
So now when people say "well of course you lost that weight and got in shape, you had a trainer" I'll say you're damn right and you should get one too!
I train online now so I am physically at the gym alone, but Sam is with me 24/7, she will never give up on me and will kick my ass whenever I need it. How could I possibly fail when my trainer believes in me to that extent??? With or Without you? Always with, Always!
Sunday 30 October 2011
Thursday 20 October 2011
AB DAY!!!
Everyone has that part of the body they wanna focus on... and while it's true you can't really "spot train" you can still have a favourite work out. In my case it's ABS!! I love love love working abdominal muscles! It's also the work out that causes me the most pain about a day and a half later, but I don't care... I still freakin' LOVE training my abs!
You may not know this but having conditioned abdominal muscles isn't just "pretty", I mean yeah we all want that flat tummy, but it's also hugely beneficial to your health to have a lean middle! Seriously! Did you know that getting rid of that spare tire also lessens your risk for cancer? Yep! True story!! That's not it either... how many of you suffer from poor balance, sore back or less than desirable stamina? Tighten that TUMMY! For real this is no joke, once you strengthen your core the world is your oyster!
There are a ton of ways to work your abs too, it's sooo easy to get a good ab workout, but I'll share mine with you because it's wicked awesome, and like Sam of BeautyFit alwasy says... "pay it forward"... Check it out, and give it a try>>>
I've included some pics for you as demo, which I took at home because I am not yet ready to ask random strangers at the gym to take my picture while in strange positions... hee hee!
First let me tell you that I do abs twice a week, on Monday (with my Back workout) and on Wednesday on it's own, AND I always do it with my cardio burn 500!
I have 4 different exercises that I do in sets of 20 (bicycles and hip dips I do 20 on each side totalling 40) 3 times. I do not break between each exercise, I do all for consecutively and rest between the 3 sets.
Leg raises: lay flat on your back place your hands under your bum or lower back and raise your feet up perpendicular to the floor then lower but don't let your heels touch the floor, they should be about 2 inches off the floor.
Bicycles: lay flat pull up into the crunch position bringing the knees up in a 90 degree angle. Put hands behind your head and alternate touching elbows to opposing knees.
Hip Dips: lay in a side plank position and lower hip to floor, than raise up, keeping the core tight and controlled, back straight!
Captain'sChair with a medicine ball: - side note, when Sam sent me this training program and I read this, I laughed, sent a text message to my cousin telling her what I was going to do, she laughed... really hard, then I asked Sam if she was trying to kill me and she replied... "no breaks between sets" and I'm sure she was laughing too... you really should have seen Jim when he took this photo... he laughed too... Jerks! - okay so you're going to get into the captain's Chair and raise your knees up so you're in a seated position, with a medicine ball between your knees... you decide the weight, my advice don't be a hero!
So there you have it folks... that is my Ab work out and it's my fave... but remember, The great Jimmy Mentis once posted on facebook (quoted from somebody smart) "Great Abs are made in the kitchen", so keep your meals clean too!
You may not know this but having conditioned abdominal muscles isn't just "pretty", I mean yeah we all want that flat tummy, but it's also hugely beneficial to your health to have a lean middle! Seriously! Did you know that getting rid of that spare tire also lessens your risk for cancer? Yep! True story!! That's not it either... how many of you suffer from poor balance, sore back or less than desirable stamina? Tighten that TUMMY! For real this is no joke, once you strengthen your core the world is your oyster!
There are a ton of ways to work your abs too, it's sooo easy to get a good ab workout, but I'll share mine with you because it's wicked awesome, and like Sam of BeautyFit alwasy says... "pay it forward"... Check it out, and give it a try>>>
I've included some pics for you as demo, which I took at home because I am not yet ready to ask random strangers at the gym to take my picture while in strange positions... hee hee!
First let me tell you that I do abs twice a week, on Monday (with my Back workout) and on Wednesday on it's own, AND I always do it with my cardio burn 500!
I have 4 different exercises that I do in sets of 20 (bicycles and hip dips I do 20 on each side totalling 40) 3 times. I do not break between each exercise, I do all for consecutively and rest between the 3 sets.
Leg raises: lay flat on your back place your hands under your bum or lower back and raise your feet up perpendicular to the floor then lower but don't let your heels touch the floor, they should be about 2 inches off the floor.
Bicycles: lay flat pull up into the crunch position bringing the knees up in a 90 degree angle. Put hands behind your head and alternate touching elbows to opposing knees.
Hip Dips: lay in a side plank position and lower hip to floor, than raise up, keeping the core tight and controlled, back straight!
Captain'sChair with a medicine ball: - side note, when Sam sent me this training program and I read this, I laughed, sent a text message to my cousin telling her what I was going to do, she laughed... really hard, then I asked Sam if she was trying to kill me and she replied... "no breaks between sets" and I'm sure she was laughing too... you really should have seen Jim when he took this photo... he laughed too... Jerks! - okay so you're going to get into the captain's Chair and raise your knees up so you're in a seated position, with a medicine ball between your knees... you decide the weight, my advice don't be a hero!
So there you have it folks... that is my Ab work out and it's my fave... but remember, The great Jimmy Mentis once posted on facebook (quoted from somebody smart) "Great Abs are made in the kitchen", so keep your meals clean too!
Sunday 2 October 2011
RUN Beauties... or Walk with purpose
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| BeautyFit Beauties READY SET AND GO! |
Today was a really big day for us BeautyFit Beauties! Over the last few months we've been raising money in support of the CIBC Run for the Cure. We, as a team raised over Five thousand dollars... YEP WE DID!!
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| Me, Amanda Weiss, Jacqueline Figueiredo and Crystal Cox |
Some of us ran, like Jacqueline Figueiredo who ran her very first 5 KM, Kira Walker who came into KW from Toronto and Sam's mom who was here in KW all the way from Newfoundland!! Many more Beauties ran, and finished in great time!!
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| Sandra (Sam) Compton and her beautiful Mother all the way from Newfoundland |
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| Kira Walker in the pink vest |
Some of us walked, like me, Crystal Cox and Pam Roth, we walked with our children. We weren't alone either, we had some other Beauties walking by our sides! It was an amazing day, full of so many emotions and so much LOVE!
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| Me, Pam and Sarah Roth |
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| Sidney Cox, Crystal Cox, Me (in the carrier are Kerrigan Inglis and Sarah Roth), Pam Roth and Ben Roth in the stroller |
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| Crystal and Sidney Cox, me and Kerrigan |
My family at BeautyFit gets involved in lots of important fitness events, but we also do our part for out community! I'm so proud to be a part of the team... Way to go gurrrlz! We did it!
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