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It’s Monday – In March. Get Fit NOW!

Posted on March 22, 2010 by admin

It takes on average, about 8 weeks to reach or be well on your way to reaching your fitness goals. So if you want to look good for the summer ya gotta start today!! I’m going to help you. Here are your tools for this week:

1. Take a before picture.

2. If you’d like, also take circumference measurements with a flexible tape measure. Here are the sites:
Measurement sites:
Pull tightly but comfortably around body part

Chest- around your back and middle of your chest
Thigh- around thickest part of the thigh (the inner thigh)
calf- around the belly or thickest part of the calf
hips- stand with feet together and around the widest part of the hips
abs- around waist at belly button
arms- around the belly of the bicep or mid arm

3. Start keeping a food/exercise log.

4. EVERYDAY this week do at least 10 minutes of cardio (you can do more but it has to be at least 10). I don’t care what it is as long as you time it and it is continuous. Walking, running, biking, ellyptical, dancing to music, jumping jacks. Whatever, as long as your heartrate is up for those 10 minutes.

5. On Wednesday you’re going to start strength training and I’ll give you the quickie program.

6. Replace one meal a day with a shake. I put a scoop of protein powder (I like the brand “Whey To Go”), 8 oz of skim or soy milk and 1 T of ground flax seeds with lots of ice. That’s my favorite. If you don’t have protein powder use 1 C of vanilla or plain or lemon or coffee yogurt. You can add 1/2 C of frozen berries if you’d like. I definitely recommend the flax seed though. Try to add it if you can. If you can’t make your own shake you can drink Myoplex Lite Ready to Drink shakes, Stonyfield Smoothie or Special K Protein Shakes. It doesn’t matter which meal you choose it for, just pick one!

I’ll be in touch. Good luck and post any questions!!

Yours in Health and Buffness,
Larysa