Thursday, December 22, 2005

core training


Well, it's been researched, reported and hyped non-stop in all of 2005, but Core Training is going to stay on the forefront of fitness for awhile.
And with good reason. How many people over 40 do you know who don't have low back pain? or tight hips and hamstrings? or weak abdominals?
Health magazine recently featured a piece of fitness equipment that does all this and more - the Versa Ball. I recommend it to all my clients for their home workouts, for their husbands (especially for their husbands!) and for their kids who play sports (sooooo many injuries could be prevented with a little flexibility and core strength!).

Saturday, December 03, 2005

amazing weight loss -- one more time

I got to talk outside of class to my "poster student" Laura this week. As some of you know, I've been outta-my-mind excited about Laura getting a call from the staff of the Oprah show. They are as impressed as everybody else with Laura's amazing weight loss.
Well, they called her back AGAIN this week. So we are closer and closer to Laura being somewhere or in something of Oprahs (show? magazine? any of it would be great!). They wanted a photo of her in a tighter shirt -- the "after" picture I took was in a regular old t-shirt. Good for them for encouraging her to "live" in her new body.
Here's what's really cool...Laura told the Harpo staff that she now weighed less than she lost -- and she' s lost over 130 pounds.
This gal who drives from Kearney to Liberty at 4:45 in the morning five days a week to workout continues to just amaze me.
Monday we are starting a new Equilibrium session for December. And I look at Laura's photos from a year ago (at 268 pounds) and read the letter she wrote me and still nearly come to tears. Raising four kids of her own (and for most of the year, her brothers four kids as well -- eight children!) and working and still making it to her workouts.
I am so blessed to have a student who is an example for ME personally and for all my exercise students and clients.