My Insanity Certification

Wow! Its been ages since I've blogged. Being a mother of 5, full time job, and being a group fitness instructor...well it seems like that takes up a lot of my time :) I have some exciting news! Yesterday, Sunday June 2nd 2013, I attended the 1st Insanity Group Fitness Certification in Northern California!

During the master class, I was like..."yeah, its tough, but I am doing it, I've got this!" then there was lecture, and I was like, wow, this wasn't too bad, and I got a false sense of being on easy street. Well let me tell you, after lunch we broke down into groups and did "group work" We broke down the 3 blocks of the master class...we did each one like a BAZILLION TIMES! I am not exaggerating. Anyway, I learned there is a reason why its called Insanity. By the end, I was a walking zombie!

I am super excited to be able to bring this format to my students. Its also a new way to bring people who feel that they are not dancy or feel choreography challenged into the group fitness world. Doing the home dvd's of insanity, is tough, especially as you have to be really self motivated to keep pushing play everyday and following the program; But with the group fitness format, its a new ball game. You get energy from your neighbor. In the middle of the class, the people on the side would cheer me on, and I would cheer them on. We gave each other positive energy. I was just not following the motions, but giving it MY ALL, MY BEST.

So stay tuned, I'll be teaching Insanity soon! This summer is going to be HOT!

Goals!

So I've totally dropped the ball  on keeping up with my Blog and way of communication with my followers :) However, if you follow on me facebook you know I've been on top of fitness and health.  I did the Ultimate Reset at the beginning of January.  Now I have to say that I am glad I did it, and I will do it again (God Willing January 2014) I am not a fan of becoming a true Vegan.  Reason being is that I like my animal protein.  It fuels my body for the type of workouts and lifestyle that I carry on.   Now while I will strive to add more of a vegetable variety to my nutrition I will not be eliminating animal protein.  Now I do eat less red meat overall since about 3 years ago, but I still eat it, as well as lean chicken, turkey, and fish.  


I also have exciting news to share!   I am starting to teach more group fitness classes!   I will add Turbo Kick on Sunday's at 11:35am starting this upcoming Sunday (2/10/13) at Underground Fitness II  in their Newark location!  Your 1st class is only $1, $10 Drop in fees, and they also have exercises/monthly packages available.  

Now for the DRUM ROLL!!! I am opening my OWN zumba hours!  I will be teaching Zumba on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7:15pm and Saturday's at 8am!  address is 29300 Kohoutek Way. Suite 170.  I will start on Tuesday 2/12/13.  Check out the Zumba button in home page, there is a free pass, print it out and come and check me out!

And of Course I still teach Turbo Kick at M&M Fitness at Futsol Republic in Hayward (21615 Hesperian Blvd, Haywad, CA) - $6 Drop in fee or its included in their monthly card.  

In my own personal fitness, I started a 2nd round of Chalean Extreme.  Last week I completed the 1st week of the Burn Phase!  I am also participating in M&M Fitness Weight Challenge! Official Starting Weight 137 -- in April challenge ends, my goal is to reach 130! do able? o I believe so!

Out with Bad Habits!

Howdy friends!

So its the start of a new month.  I am in the middle of the Push Phase for Chalean Extreme - 2 more weeks of push before I move into the Lean Phase. I am also going to start Insanity on September 10th, so for  5 weeks I am going to be doing both programs.  So NEW GOALS! actually this month I am not going to work towards a goal per se, I am going to reverse it.  I am going to work to break some of my bad habits.  Here are my bad habits that I will break:

1.  When I see that the number on the scale is coming down, and people around tell me I am looking good, for some reason I tend to think "YAY" in my mind that gives me a green light to eat bigger portions, or have more way dessert than what I intended. That stops now, otherwise I will take me a long time to see 130lbs.

2.  When I have an opportunity to go for a quick walk at my lunch hour, I tend to stay sitting down at my desk, I should take advantage of those moments when I can go for a quick walk.

3.  Stop munching when I am not really hungry, just because I am enjoying the "flavor"

With my group fitness - I am doing great! I am meeting my goals :) I am going to be teaching Turbo kick 4x a week pretty soon!  on September 18th I start teaching TK in Newark and Union City, so thats pretty exciting to me!  I am also looking for a zumba class! and best of all I signed up for Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace university, now that has nothing to do with my fitness journey, but its exciting to take active steps into getting my finances/spending habits in order, all in all things are falling into place very nicely!  

Here are some of my zumba videos, so you guys can get a feel for my "style"