Personal Training Here I Come (and at 1/2 PRICE!)

I am currently offering Personal Training at 1/2 price ($20/hr) whilst I complete my Certificate IV training, building on my existing Cert III in Fitness qualifications.  I have sessions available in the mornings at 6am and 7am Monday - Friday at my personal BFIT gym, 70 Brandis St Crystal Brook.

I have experience in weight loss, running, cycling and training for events, as well as being able to offer general cardio and weight training but even better - specialty sessions in boxing, kettlebells and suspension training (think of the rings in mens gymnastics - you can use this sort of system with pushups, squats etc to really get ripped).

I encourage you to buy a 10 Pack of sessions and pay up front as it helps with your commitment, and to ease the pain I have credit card facilities available.

Summer is coming, the mornings are beautiful - why not start off your day well?

Introducing Carpe Diem - my motivational book about exercise, healthy eating and weight loss

 

Ever wanted to pick my brains about exercise, food and nutrition?  Ever wondered what I learnt when I lost 40 kgs all those years ago, and more importantly, how I kept it off?  Well its now all in a book, that I hope may motivate and inspire you in your own journey.  But its not about how to be skinny, fitness and healthy weight is all about a means to an end - about how to live life to the max, and to seize the day (which in Latin is translated as Carpe Diem).

At the moment I'm offering this e-book FREE to anyone who donates $20 to Go The Distance for Heart and Cancer.  This is a fundraiser for the Heart Foundation, and Cancer Council, and I've written this book specifically as a way of encouraging people to donate.  You can donate by clicking on the link below, all of your money goes to this cause, in return you get my book and hopefully some ideas and motivation, I get closer to my fundraising target of $2,000, and at the end will run a 1/2 marathon in the Go The Distance Event. Its a win win situation for everyone.

http://gothedistance.org.au/fundraisers/418

Dont forget to leave me a message at the site (or any where really) to let me know your email address so I can send it to you.  You can read it on your e-reader, your computer, or print it and read it the old fashioned way!

Lisa B - Winner of our Fat Loss Challenge - Talks about how (and why) she did It! (and is still doing it)

Short story today about living, I have just read a thought provoking story about dying, doesn’t seem to be much of a way to start a blog, but bear with me….you see being a nurse I have had the opportunity to see many people in their terminal journey and the story resounded to me things I already new but had never really thought about. I’m sure you have all heard the cliché about how near death experiences are a pivotal change for a person’s life & they begin living better or caring better or being a better person, but that’s not quite what I mean, I am talking about the people who know they are dying, they have a terminal condition and decide to make the best of every single moment they have to live with & love the people that matter most. They live like they are dying, in the best way, cherishing the things that are worth living for.

What has this got to do with fitness or fat loss? Well ask yourself a serious question…. Are you healthy? Really healthy, I don’t mean the excuse “well I’m a bit overweight for my size (actually BMI says you are obese), I can’t do exercise cos I have bad knees (well they are worse cos you are carrying so much weight & your muscles haven’t been challenged in so long they have disappeared into the fatness), It’s cold today, I’ll burn off that maccas in no time (no hope, the amount of calories you just consumed could feed you for days), doing weights makes you look like some muscle bound freak” (do you know how much effort it takes to look like that? Those people train for hours everyday, have the most ridiculously strict diets & strip down fluids on the day to look so ripped, anally dedicated). And my special favourite “I’m just putting on my winter coat to keep me warm over winter, and I’ll get it all off when spring hits” (uh, no, very likely not, and really, with our level of living when are you really ever cold, cold, really cold to the bone, which is the only time you will really burn up those excessive calories). So are you living like you are dying, or could you do more to better yourself, your life, you family & those you love? Ask the question….are you happy with how you are?

 

And if you want some help…here’s some of the things I have been doing lately for fitness & fat loss that have me feeling pretty good about the journey into low body fat.

 

Lets start with diet, I found out about this woman by accident, but love what she has to say about dieting (well, non dieting really) she talks about lifestyle changes and what food can do to you & for you, so very simple to implement her strategies, and I have not looked back. Her name is Isabel and below is a link to her website, obviously if you want the details you have to pay, but seriously, how much have you shelled out for crap food over the years? Worth it, I guarantee…

 

http://the-non-diet.com

Now if you buy her product (and this isn’t a plug) you will likely then link to many of her colleagues with similar ideals & great trainers that have some awesome workout ideas & fat loss tricks, which I have also done, and have found numerous ways to cut my fat percentage all without once going to the gym…all I have at home is a fit ball, hand weights (started with just a set of 5kgs) and good shoes. Colleagues that I have sourced from Isabel include Mike Geary, Shaun Hadsall, Craig Ballantyne, Joel Marion, to name a few, each have online training books you can buy & all have great science behind their programs.